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2.00 - 9.00 Credits
(Not offered 2008-09.) 2 units.
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2.00 Credits
A study of the evolution of philosophical "modernity" and of the "modern" concept of the subject or self. While the course focuses on major ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical developments from the beginning of the 17th century to the end of the 19th century, it begins by situating these issues in the history of medieval philosophy. Philosophers covered may include Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Humd, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Mill, and Nietzsche, among others. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: The West in Time requirement.) 2 units - Furtak, Hernandez-Lemus, Lee, Steck.
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3.00 Credits
Experimental and occasional courses taught by either visiting professors or permanent staff. Courses offered under this rubric will vary from year to year. Block 2: Topics in Philosopy: Greek Lyric Poetry and Philosophy. This course explores the fact that both lyric poetry and philosophy, as we know them in the West, have their roots in the culture of archaic Greece. Through close reading of texts by such poets as Archilochus, Sappho, Alcaeus (7th and 6th centuries BCE). Xenophanes (6th century BC), and Simonides (6th to 5th centuries BCE) and equally close reading of texts by such Presocratic philosophers as Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles (largely 5th century BCE), we will examine the variety of ways in which these writers articulated and constituted their individual place in the space between culture and nature. We will turn to Plato's Ion and Symposium to see how the lyric and the philosophical are explicitly united in the writing of perhaps the greatest thinker in the Western tradition. In an effort to isolate what is distinctive about the lyric impulse and the philosophical impulse, we will also read from the Iliad of Homer (8th century BCE), the Oresteia of Aeschylus (5th century BCE), and Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (ca. 200CE ). The course will conclude with close reading of several 20th century and contemporary Greek poets-including Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) and George Seferis (1900-1971), among others-whose work embodies the continuing dialogue between lyric poetry and philosophy. Exploring village life at harvest time as well as the ancient and modern polis, this course will be taught in Greece. After a short stay in Athens, we will spend roughly a week on the island of Lesbos (home of Sappho and Alcaeus, and the setting of Daphnis and Chloe), a week in the Peloponnesos, and a final week in Athens (where we expect to give our students the opportunity to meet and interact with contemporary Greek writers.) Prerequisite: Consent of instructor (taught in Greece) ~$500*. (Also listed as Comparative Literature 220 and English 280.) 1 unit - Lee, Mason. Block 6: Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy, East and West. An exploration of central issues in philosophy from a cross-cultural, comparative perspective, focusing on Classical China and the West. Includes discussion of conceptions of the self, human nature, skepticism, and ethics in Chinese and Western thought. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit - Hourdequin. Block 7: Topics in Philosophy: American Pragmatism. An introduction to the classical American tradition of pragmatism. Readings may include works by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, W. V. O. Quine, and Richard Rorty, among others 1 unit - Bayer.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
(Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
(Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor or Philosophy 100. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 Credits
In this course we will engage in a critical examination of problems concerning knowledge and belief: how beliefs are acquired and justified, the possible limits to knowledge, and the interplay between reason and experience. Readings will be from historical and contemporary sources. 1 unit - Bayer.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
This course investigates basic concepts, assumptions, structures, and methods of science, and confronts philosophical ideas about the significance, justification, and production of science. In this course we will examine some historical and contemporary case studies of scientific controversy to illustrate competing views about the nature of science. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
A study of the nature, origins, and significance of language. Discussion of various theories from such thinkers as Cassirer, Piaget, Quine, Wittgenstein, Whorf, Heidegger, Austin, Chomsky and Merleau-Ponty. regarding language's relation to thought, reality, culture, formal systems and non-verbal systems of communication. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Major philosophical trends in African thought, focusing on traditional folk thinking and contemporary elaborations of tradition, the ethnophilosophy debate, post-colonial theory (Nkrumah and Fanon), and Cheikh Anta Diop's claim that African culture unity is grounded in the philosophical ideas of ancient Egypt. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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