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department Philosophy (X) |
TTh 1.30-2.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu An introduction to the character of philosophical thought and reasoning. Focus on five issues in philosophy, using historical and contemporary readings: skepticism; free will and determinism; laws of nature; time; and material constitution.
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WF 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills QR An introduction to formal logic. Study of the formal deductive systems and semantics for both propositional and predicate logic. Some discussion of metatheory.
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WF 1.30-2.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu An introduction to the main developments in ancient philosophy, beginning with the earliest pre-Socratics, concentrating on Plato and Aristotle, and including a brief foray into Hellenistic philosophy.
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MW 1.30-2.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas Hu Themes in philosophy of science are used to illuminate and explicate important historical examples from the physical and biological sciences. Integration of philosophical analysis with historically grounded and contingently developed science.
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TTh 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu A survey of social and political theory, beginning with Plato and continuing through modern philosophers such as Rawls, Nozick, and Cohen. Emphasis on tracing the development of political ideas; challenges to political theories.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Examination of elements that may contribute to a good life, including the question of which truly have value and why. Factors to consider in choosing a career; the significance of the decision whether to have children; the value of education; the importance of love and accomplishment.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Traditional questions about state conduct and international relations; more recent questions about intergovernmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the design of global institutional arrangements.
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MW 2.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu
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TTh 1.30-2.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu An introduction to Eastern philosophy through the study of philosophical and religious texts. Topics include reality and illusion, knowledge, self, right and wrong, nonattachment, meditation, aesthetics, meaning of life, and death.
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TTh 2.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 27) 12/17/2009 Th 2.00 Areas Hu Consideration of central questions about the nature of scientific theory and practice, including what makes a discipline a science, whether science discovers the objective truth about the world, how and why scientific theories change over time, to what extent observation and experiment determine which theories we accept, what constitutes a good scientific explanation, what laws of nature are, and whether physics has a special status compared to other sciences.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas Hu Introduction to current topics in the theory of knowledge. The analysis of knowledge, justified belief, rationality, certainty, and evidence.
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TTh 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu A survey of contemporary issues in the philosophy of mind. Topics include arguments for dualism and physicalist responses, mental causation, the nature of intentional states, and the nature of qualitative states.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Close study of Aristotle's
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A close examination of Descartes?s views on skepticism, perception, philosophy of mind, causation, and the nature of the physical world. Consideration of writings from throughout his career as well as influential secondary literature.
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T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 22) 12/12/2009 S 2.00 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Major figures in the tradition of Jewish philosophy during the twentieth century. Engagement with the Western philosophical tradition, especially in Europe and in postwar America. The impact of the Six-Day War and the Nazi Holocaust on American Jewish thinkers.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Exploration of Kant?s views on nature and its value. Readings from his work in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. Topics include the prospects for reducing all sciences to physics, limits of the scientific understanding of nature, the moral significance of nature?s beauty, and the use of nature to support claims for the existence of God.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Close reading of Adorno's
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T 7.00-8.50p Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Introduction to the emerging field of moral cognition. Focus on questions about the philosophical significance of psychological findings. Topics include the role of emotion in moral judgment; the significance of character traits in virtue ethics and personality psychology; the reliability of intuitions and the psychological processes that underlie them.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Current debates in metaphysics concerning space and time, modality, parts and wholes, and ontological dependence. Readings from the works of Lewis, Fine, van Inwagen, Sider, Schaffer, Uzquiano, and others.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An examination of the nature of definition and essence, their relation to one another and to modality, whether one of these notions is definitionally prior to the others, and whether any of them must be taken as an ultimate primitive.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A study of the concept of a person. Exploration of whether our conception of what it is to be a human being is historically conditioned and culture-relative, and whether our conception of ourselves is related to our knowledge and understanding of other people. Discussion of the problem of personal identity over time, i.e., what makes a person the same individual at different times. Implications for ethics, psychology, and the significance of mortality.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Contemporary approaches to the problem of skepticism about the external world. Focus on neo-Moorean arguments, a priori entitlement, and inference to the best explanation.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Semantic paradoxes and the theories of meaning and truth that address them. Focus on the question of whether one can give adequate accounts of propositions and of truth. Topics include varieties of possible worlds, consistent accounts of structured propositions, and languages that contain their own truth predicates.
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F 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A broad investigation into purported evolutionary and biological explanations for such cultural phenomena as language, morals, politics, and art.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Exploration of the early modern foundations of social contract theory. Close readings of works by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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