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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course will focus on issues that arise in contemporary public debate concerning matters of social justice. Topics will likely include: euthanasia, gay marriage, racism and racial profiling, free speech, hunger and global inequality. Students will be exposed to multiple points of view on the topics and will be given guidance in analyzin
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- linguistics and philosophy
- pleasure
- desire
- satisfaction
- objectivity
- environmentalism
- animal rights
- immortality
- egoism
- skepticism
- relativism
- toleration
- utilitarianism
- deontology
- virtue
- moral theory
- global justice
- equality
- social justice
- race
- gender
- poverty
- sex
- welfare
- freedom
- death penalty
- gay marriage
- sexuality
- pornography
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The class will be devoted to the work of David Lewis, one of the most exciting and influential philosophers of the late twentieth century. We will have seminar-style discussions about his work on counterfactuals, time, causation, probability, and decision-theory.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- counterfactuals
- comparative possibility
- counterfactual dependence
- time
- causation
- causal explanation
- probability
- subjectivity
- objectivity
- chance
- hume
- supervenience
- decision theory
- prisoners? dilemma
- newcomb problem
- free will
- determinism
- plurality of worlds
- possible worlds
- time travel
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This course offers an advanced survey of current debates about the ontology, methodology, and aims of the social sciences.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ontology
- methodology
- social science
- human being
- human behavior
- social structure
- practices
- norms
- institutions
- individual
- society
- mental state
- values
- theory
- objectivity
- reductionism
- individualism
- holism
- prediction
- laws
- explanation
- rational choice
- functional
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