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HU K. Wright This course will focus on the topic of language and its subject in phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty), exostentailism (heidegger and Sartre), structuralism (Saussure), post-structuralism (Derrida and Foucault), and French Feminism (Irigaray, Kristeva, and Cixous). Prerequisite: Phil 101 or consent of the instructor.
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HU D.Macbeth The focus of this course is the question of the place of mind in nature, in the world. What sort of thing is a mind What is it to be conscious Can there be freedom of the will in a physical world Could a computer ever be correctly described as thinking Do animals have minds Our aim is to clarify what we are asking when we ask such questions, and to begin at least to formulate answers.
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3.00 Credits
HU A.Gangadean A comparative exploration of alternative paradigms of logic, language and meaning from a logical and philosophical point of view. Special attention is given to the classical Aristotelian grammar of thought and the modern grammars developed by Frege, Wittgenstein, Quine, Heidegger, Sommers, Derrida and others. Focus is on the quest for the fundamental logic of natural language.
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HU D.Macbeth A close study of seminal essays by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, and others focussing on questions of meaning, reference, and truth. An overarching aim of the course is to understand how one can approach fundamental issues in philosophy through a critical reflection on how language works. Prerequisite: One 100 level course or equiv or consent.
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3.00 Credits
HU A.Gangadean A critical examination of philosophical accounts of reality and being. Special attention is given to how world views are formed and transformed: an ontological exploration of diverse alternative categorical frameworks for experience. Metaphysical narratives of diverse thinkers in the evolution of the European tradition are explored in global context. Prerequisite: One 100 level course or its equivalent, or consent.
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3.00 Credits
HU D.Macbeth A study of recent work on the issue of the relationship between truth and knowledge, both arguments aiming to show that truth has nothing to do with knowledge, and arguments aiming to show that knowledge is incoherent without truth. The possibility of steering a middle path between these views will also be explored. Prerequisite: One 100 level course or its equivalent, or consent.
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3.00 Credits
HU J.Miller Following Hegel's critique of Kantian morality, some theorists have abandoned the search for the holy grail of ethics - a transcendental and universal formula for determining good and evil. Instead they have attempted to revalue the nature of value. This course examines these pragmatist, psychoanalytic, and poststructuralist efforts to redefine ethics as irreducibly inflected through history, subjectivity, and language. In tracing the conditions for and limitations of ethics, we shall think deeply about concepts such as community, agency, and responsibility. Authors include, Rorty, Freud, Derrida, Lyotard, and Irigaray.
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HU D.Macbeth Our aim is two-fold: first, to understand - in the sense of having a working knowledge of - both traditional Aristotelean and modern quantificational logic (translating sentences into logical notation, assessing the validity of arguments, constructing proofs, and so on); and second, to understand logic, why it matters, what it can teach us (both as philosophers and as thinkers more generally), and how it "works" in the broadest sense.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Religion) K.Koltun-Fromm
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