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An examination of some texts of philosophical aesthetics from the 18th and 19th centuries, texts which either represent or anticipate the Romantic period. Themes include the role of emotion in art, the nature of expression and its relation to the will, problems of sincerity, and art or poetry as sources of knowledge. Readings will include some, but probably not all, of the following authors: Diderot, Schiller, Burke, Kant, Hume, Hegel, Lessing, Rousseau.
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An intensive study-in small, informal seminars-of selected problems in contemporary philosophy.
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Continuation of Philosophy 300a.
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A detailed study of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy.
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Examination of Dewey's epistemology, metaphysics, metaphilosophy, and theory of value.
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When is economic inequality morally objectionable, and why? What kind of equality is required by just political institutions? A critical examination of some answers to these questions offered by contemporary philosophers, with special attention to the work of John Rawls.
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An approach to some of Hegel's central philosophical ideas through a consideration of his reactions to the work of his great predecessor, Immanuel Kant. Themes to include: the contributions of reason and the senses to human congnition, the relation between logic and metaphysics, the contrast between "transcendental" and "absolute" idealism, the idea of life.
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A careful reading of Martin Heidegger's magnum opus Being and Time.
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Graded independent study under faculty supervision. Interested students need approval of head tutor for their topic and must propose a detailed syllabus before the beginning of term.
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Graded independent study under faculty supervision. Interested students need approval of head tutor for their topic and must propose a detailed syllabus before the beginning of term.
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Course is required for graduate students in their first year of teaching; optional for students in their second year of teaching.
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A survey of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy with a focus on the major metaphysical and epistemological writings of Descartes, Locke, Hume, and Kant. Topics include the natures of mind and body, the physical world, freedom, and human knowledge. Special attention to the rise of mechanistic science (i.e. the "Scientific Revolution").
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This course offers an introduction to philosophy. We will focus on the three main areas of concern: epistemology (the theory of knowledge), metphaphysics (the theory of the nature of reality), and ethics (the theory of what we ought to do). You'll be exposed to philosophical modes of argument and inquiry. The course aims as much at developing the skills involved in pursuing these and other philosophical concerns as to acquaint you with particular positions.
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A study of Kant's moral philosophy, based primarily on the Groundwork of Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of Practical Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals.
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Three philosophically important results of modern logic: Godel's incompleteness theorems; Turing's definition of mechanical computability; Tarski's theory of truth for formalized languages. Discusses both mathematical content and philosophical significance of these results.
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An investigation of central topics in moral psychology, including promising, love, and honor. Historical and contemporary readings, including Hume, Rousseau, Rawls, Anscombe, Nagel, Frankfurt.
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This is the first in a two-part series of courses dealing with the history of the relationship between philosophy and the exact sciences. We shall begin with a brief tour of philosophy and science from Aristotle to Copernicus. Our focus will then be on the major achievements of the seventeenth century. The principle figures will be Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Huygens, Leibniz, and Newton.
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A close reading of philosophical texts in their original German language with the aim of developing reading and translation skills.
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