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An introduction to modern mathematical logic, including the most important results in the subject. Topics include propositional and predicate logic; models, formal deductions and the G?el Completeness Theorem; applications to algebra, analysis and number theory; decidability and the G?el Incompleteness Theorem. Treatment of the subject matter is rigorous, but historical and philosophical aspects are discussed. Prerequisite: Mathematics 280. Also offered as Computer Science 317 and Mathematics 317.
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Several of the most striking and important results of Western philosophy and science are findings about what we cannot know. Can we definitively draw lines beyond which it is impossible to know? If we do so, are we not claiming to know at least a little about what lies beyond these lines? How could this be possible? In this course, we study various examples of running into the limits of knowability: from medieval ruminations on the unknowability of God to G?el's Incompleteness Theorem,Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the philosophical implications of chaos theory. Prerequisite: Philosophy 204 or permission of the instructor.
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Freedom, responsibility, the nature of being, the individual, community and communication are all themes of existential philosophy. Taking a comparative approach, students investigate existential philosophy as it appears in the Western tradition with, for example, Heidegger and Sartre, and also examine Asian philosophical approaches to existential questions. What are the different ways of approaching basic questions about human existence? Are these basic questions the same across traditions? Students are encouraged to explore critically both the commonalities and differences across traditions to begin to develop their own views of what it means to be human. Prerequisite: Philosophy 203, 204 or permission of the instructor. Also offered through European Studies and Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
In most cases we believe that a person is responsible for an action only if he or she has acted "of his or her own free will." But whatdo we mean by free will? If everything that happens is caused by previous things that have happened (as the thesis of determinism claims), so that all our choices are caused by previous events, would that imply that no one ever has free will? Would it show that no one is ever really responsible? What picture or concept of a person (as distinct from an animal or an inanimate object) is implied by the answers we might give to these questions? These are among the issues addressed in this course. Prerequisite: Philosophy 203, 204 or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar engages two interrelated bodies of philosophic literature, drawn from contemporary work within and about African philosophy, and one, sometimes called "Black philosophy," thatconcerns questions of epistemology, ethics and politics arising from the African diaspora. First, we read African thinkers on the question "What is African philosophy?" Next we read severalphilosophers of the African diaspora. We end with a section devoted specifically to African-American philosophy. Also offered through African Studies and Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This research seminar is designed to address, from a philosophical perspective, some of the difficult ethical questions arising from the global organization of the world. Readings include classical, non-western and alternative theories of justice and peace. The course interrogates the discourses surrounding patriotism and cosmopolitanism, peace and violence, terrorism and war, justice and retribution, and the debates surrounding relativism versus universalism, especially with regard to the claims for human rights. Students undertake research projects dealing with the ways these issues are being negotiated in countries where they studied abroad, and develop ethical positions on their own responsibilities toward global citizenship. Also offered as Global Studies 333.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to some of the questions that shape feminist philosophy today. What connections are there between feminist philosophy and feminist writing in other disciplines and feminist movements inside and outside the academy? Does feminist philosophy transform traditional philosophical discourse and the academy? The course focuses on how an awareness of intersections of race, class, sexuality, gender and ethnicity is vital for disciplinary and interdisciplinary study in feminist philosophy. Also offered as Gender Studies 334.
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4.00 Credits
Discussion of works by Kafka, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Brecht, Orwell, Camus, Pynchon, Kosinski and others that bear on the problem of alienation from self, work, society and nature in the modern world. Also offered as Government 341.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of many important thinkers from the Renaissance to the present, but with a special emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Syllabus may include works by Voltaire, Tocqueville, Burke, Hegel, Mill, Freud, Fromm and Arendt. Whenever appropriate, students assess modern political developments in light of the assigned texts. Prerequisite: Philosophy 206. Also offered as Government 344 and through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces a distinct way of organizing literary study, substituting for the study of national traditions the notion of postcoloniality as a global condition affecting not only literature but also categories we use to think about human experience: relations between colonizers and colonized and between culture and power; identity, authenticity and hybridity; roots, motherland, mother tongue; nationality. Readings include contemporary literature produced in the Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, as well as important theoretical texts about postcoloniality. Also offered as English 357 and Global Studies 357.
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