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4.00 Credits
This course is an overview of the recent history of philosophy of mind, focusing on the relationship between the mind and the physical world. The aim is to appreciate some of the central debates. Topics covered include the identity theory, functionalist theories of the mind; the prospects for integrating consciousness and mental content within a physicalist worldview; and the problem of mental causation.
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4.00 Credits
With the rise of modern logic in the early 20th Century, philosophers paid increasingly greater attention to the logical structure of language used in philosophical discourse. As a result, many traditional philosophical problems came to be seen as primarily linguistic in nature. This “linguistic turn” also focused attention on philosophical problems concerning language itself: problems concerning the nature of meaning, truth, reference, and communication. This course is an introductory survey of the results of these inquiries from their origins to the present day. The goal of the course is to examine a number of central philosophical problems about language, while exploring the relation between these problems and problems in metaphysics and epistemology.
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4.00 Credits
With the rise of modern logic in the early 20th Century, philosophers paid increasingly greater attention to the logical structure of language used in philosophical discourse. As a result, many traditional philosophical problems came to be seen as primarily linguistic in nature. This “linguistic turn” also focused attention on philosophical problems concerning language itself: problems concerning the nature of meaning, truth, reference, and communication. This course is an introductory survey of the results of these inquiries from their origins to the present day. The goal of the course is to examine a number of central philosophical problems about language, while exploring the relation between these problems and problems in metaphysics and epistemology.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a seminar with a different topic each time it is offered. For Spring 2011 the topic will be a philosophical examination of the Christians doctrines of the Trinity, Incarnation, and Atonement. We will read recent essays which attempt to formulate, defend, or object to these theses. No previous knowledge of theology is required. Members of the class will be expected to be prepared to contribute to the discussion of the seminar. Participants will write eight 2-page papers on the assigned reading for the week, due in advance, and a course paper of 8-10 pages. The final paper may be based on one or more of the short papers. The primary texts is Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, Vol. I, Trinity, Incarnation, and Atonement, supplemented by other recent or not-yet-published essays.
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4.00 Credits
The seminar will be devoted to a study of Socrates, Nietzsche, and Dewey. Opinions are divided on whether Socrates was a skeptic, a revolutionary moralist, or a philosopher we can know only as one who provokes others to self-examination. Opinions are similarly divided on Nietzsche’s engagement with Socrates and whether he was a skeptic, a committed anti-moralist, or something else. We will grapple with these questions, and see what illumination can be found in Nietzsche’s and Dewey’s diametrically opposed reactions to the democratic and socialist egalitarian movements of the nineteenth century.
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The reading of philosophical literature under guidance, for seniors majoring in philosophy.
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