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D. McCabe Nations increasingly come into contact with one another in a common international arena, and these encounters raise a host of important moral questions: Are there moral standards that apply across all human communities, and if so, how specific are they Do all human beings have rights, and if they do, what are they What duties do wealthy countries have to aid poor ones Are there moral constraints on how war must be conducted, and if so, what are they In this course students engage with the work of contemporary theorists exploring these and related questions. Prerequisites: at least one course in ethics or political theory is recommended. No first-year students.
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M. Thie This historical and critical study of philosophy in the United States through 1940 emphasizes classical pragmatism as well as other philosophical movements, such as idealism, process philosophy, and feminist theory. Central to this course is the role of philosophy and the philosopher in addressing contemporary social problems (e.g., peace, war, and civil disobedience; race relations; social and economic disparities) historically and today. Primary themes include the meaning and practice of democracy, social responsibility and personal identity, community, and theories of meaning and truth.
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M. Clark This course explores philosophical questions about the aims, methods, and consequences of the psychological sciences (such as social psychology, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience). What is the relationship between the kinds of explanations different disciplines give of human behavior and cognition And what is the relationship between any expert approach to human activity, and the ordinary, commonsense methods we have for understanding each other and predicting behavior Students read contemporary philosophical work that directly confronts these questions. Students critically examine potential answers, paying special attention to what each answer implies about ongoing controversies over the proper interpretation of such key concepts as "pain," "attention," "belief," and "charac
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E. Witherspoon This course seeks to bring students inside some of the problems and methods that lie at the heart of post-war American philosophy. What is the structure of knowledge Is all knowledge scientific knowledge What determines the meanings of the words in which we express knowledge claims Do speakers of radically different languages have radically different experiences of the world What is experience, and how is it related to knowledge The course places these questions in their historical context and examines a range of responses to them. Readings are drawn from Sellars, Quine, Davidson, Putnam, and Rorty. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor.
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Staff The literary creator wields the power of language to construct fictions that unfold a completeness of experience enviable to objectivists and relativists alike. Literature shapes what philosophers long for: a glance at a truth so profound that regardless of how much it challenges or aligns itself with perceptual experience, it is capable of provoking the soul's assent. The power of literature, therefore, supersedes the power of logical argumentation. Yet, what is it that the reader of literature comes to know What reality does the reader experience To what does the reader assent This course considers these questions and examines the validity of the traditional boundaries that have sought to separate literature from philosophy, fiction from truth. Through the reading of critical and fictional texts, students wrestle with the problem of knowledge as this problem is enacted in the linguistic commitment to beauty and completeness embodied in the narratives of Edgar Allan Poe, Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Italo Calvino.
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U. Meyer This course covers a selection of advanced topics in logic: computability, Turing machines, soundness and completeness theorems, undecidability of predicate logic, Skolem-L weheim theorems, nonstandard models, and G del's incompleteness theorems. Prerequisite: PHIL 225.
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J. Kawall This course involves a critical examination of selected fundamental issues and theories in environmental philosophy. Precise issues and themes vary from year to year, but may include sustainability and moral obligations to future generations; the nature of the good life for humans; the status of environmental values; recent work in environmental ethics theories including deep ecology, social ecology, and ecofeminism; the moral and metaphysical status of human modifications to the world, including environmental restoration and genetic engineering; and aesthetics of the natural world. An emphasis is placed on exploring the connections between philosophical theory and environmental policy and practice.
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J. Jacobs, J. Kawall This course examines contemporary theories of how knowledge claims are to be justified, and it also examines how these theories respond to skeptical challenges. This involves detailing fundamental strategies of epistemic justification such as foundationalism, coherentism, and naturalism. The course also inquires into what makes a body of beliefs a structure of knowledge and considers how the interpretation of rationality is related to these questions of justification. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
U. Meyer A systematic study of central issues involved in theorizing about reality at the most general level. Is the world a world of substances or a world of events What is the nature of causation Do concepts and statements refer to the world as it is in itself, or is such a notion idle or incoherent How are such things as possibility and necessity and laws of nature to be understood The topics are handled in a way that stresses the historical persistence of the debates over these issues but focuses on recent and contemporary discussions of the topics. Prerequisite: two courses in philosophy or permission of instructor.
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