METHDS/PROB OF PHILOS THOUGHT
Critical introduction to philosophical problems, ideas and methods.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer McDonald
Info - 3 points
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I
PRESOCRATICS TO AUGUSTINE
Corequisites: PHIL V2111 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Exposition and analysis of the positions of the major philosophers from the pre-Socratics through Augustine. This course has unrestricted enrollment.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Info - 4 points
HIST-PHIL:PRE-SOCRATCS-AUGUSTN
- M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
- T 11:10 a.m.-noon
- 0 points
EUROPEAN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
Prerequisites: one philosophy course. A survey of Eurpoean social philosophy from the 18th to the 20th century, with special attention to theories of capitalism and the normative concepts (freedom, alienation, human flourishing) that inform them. Also: the relationship between civil society and the state.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Axel Honneth
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SYMBOLIC LOGIC
SYMBOLIC LOGIC: FORMAL INTRO
Corequisites: PHILV3413 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tamar A Lando
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
SYMBOLIC LOGIC - REC
Required discussion section for UN3411 Symbolic Logic
- T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- F 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- F 8:10 a.m.-9 a.m.
- 0 points
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries. Sample problems: causation and scientific explanation; induction and real kinds; verification and falsification; models, analogies and simulations; the historical origins of the modern sciences; scientific revolutions; reductionism and supervenience; differences between physics, biology and the social sciences; the nature of life; cultural evolution; human nature; philosophical issues in cosmology.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Albert
CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info - 3 points
METAPHYSICS
Corequisites: PHIL V3611 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Systematic treatment of some major topics in metaphysics (e.g. modality, causation, identity through time, particulars and universals). Readings from contemporary authors.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Clarke-Doane
h-index: 10 Info - 4 points
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN ETHICS
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carol Rovane
CULPA: 13 Info - 3 points
IF I WERE YOU: IDENTITY, ESSENCE, LIMITS
IF I WERE YOU: LIMITS OF
This course will be devoted to the topic of being other than oneself and the metaphysical debate surrounding questions like: What does the possibility of being different from who we are amount to? What does it mean to be someone else? How different from ourselves can we be? Students will be offered analytical and philosophical tools that will help them to rigorously formulate those and related questions, and to think through the nature of modal variation and its boundaries. In the final weeks of the semester, we will explore the application of those theoretical tools to relevant themes in metaphysics of gender. Throughout the seminar, students will be encouraged to think of the implications of our discussion for related debates in philosophy, especially in the epistemology of the modal and counterfactual claims at issue. This course will be most suitable for students who have some background in analytical metaphysics, e.g. Philosophy 3601, “Metaphysics."
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Martina Botti
Info - 3 points
SEMINAR
SEM: Dissent, Protest, Disobed
Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michele Moody-Adams
CULPA: 20
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
SEMINAR
MAJOR SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY
Required of senior majors, but also open to junior majors, and junior and senior concentrators who have taken at least four philosophy courses. This exploration will typically involve writing a substantial research paper. Capped at 20 students with preference to philosophy majors.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Allison Aitken
Info - 3 points
AESTHETICS: MODERN SURVEY
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lydia Goehr
CULPA: 26
Wikipedia
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- 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO SET THEORY
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tamar A Lando
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
PROBABILITY & DECISION THEORY
Examines interpretations and applications of the calculus of probability including applications as a measure of degree of belief, degree of confirmation, relative frequency, a theoretical property of systems, and other notions of objective probability or chance. Attention to epistimological questions such as Hume's problem of induction, Goodman's problem of projectibility, and the paradox of confirmation.
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jessica Collins
Info - 3 points
ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Souleymane B Diagne
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
SYMBOLIC LOGIC
Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses: PHIL UN3411, UN3415, GR5415.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tamar A Lando
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
1ST YEAR PROSEMINAR IN PHIL
Required of all first-year Ph.D. candidates. Each faculty member addresses the proseminar in order to acquaint students with the interests and areas of expertise on the faculty. Through discussion and the dissemination of readings the student learns about possible areas of doctoral research.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Clarke-Doane
h-index: 10 Info - 3 points
TPCS IN PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
This course focuses on an advanced topic in the philosophy of language.
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPACE & TIME
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Albert
CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info - 3-6 points
ADV TPCS IN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
The first third of this Seminar will introduce a framework and theory for addressing the nature of intentional content, and apply it to such classical issues as the structure of justification, the a priori, and logical inference. The remainder of the Seminar will apply the theory to develop an account of intentional content in the perception of music. I will use the resulting account to explain the significance and interest of music, musical communication, the mental representation of music, and the relation of music to other art forms, especially poetry.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Peacocke
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
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- 3 points
AESTHETICS & PHILOS OF ART II
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Axel Honneth
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 3-6 points