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4.00 Credits
Interns work with elementary school children, usually in the fourth and fifth grade, on thinking and writing strategies. Specific projects taken up in classes include organizing debates among students on contemporary issues, writing argumentative essays, and analyzing the persuasive techniques used in advertising. Interns spend several hours per week in their classes and attend biweekly internship meetings. Meetings will be scheduled at a mutually convenient time. Academic credit for the internship is based on a satisfactory report from the supervising teacher, participation in internship meetings, and a final paper which describes and reflects on the intern's classroom activities and examines the connections between those activities and selected readings.
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4.00 Credits
The central goal of this course is to study some of the most surprising and important results about the inherent limitations of logic, including Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem, Tarski’s theorem on the indefinability of truth, and Church’s theorem on the undecidability of logic. Topics covered along the way include Turing computability and Gödel’s completeness theorem for first-order logic. The focus throughout will be on developing an understanding of the relations between truth, validity, provability, and computability.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the nature of law in common law legal systems. It will proceed historically, beginning with Aquinas, mentioning Blackstone, examining Bentham and Austin, mentioning Gray, examining Holmes, Hart, and Dworkin. Topics emphasized will include the relation between Law and Morality, the nature of legal interpretation, with emphasis on the role of precedent in common law, the nature of legal rules, and the issue of the completeness of law.
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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
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
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