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This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition, through the study of major figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. You will get to grips with questions that have been significant to philosophy from its beginnings: questions about the nature of the mind or soul, the existence of God, the foundation
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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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- supervenience
- decision theory
- prisoners? dilemma
- newcomb problem
- free will
- determinism
- plurality of worlds
- possible worlds
- time travel
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The seminar will explore the phenomenon of a priori knowledge. We'll consider some notable attempts to account for a priori knowledge in the history of philosophy (e.g., by Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Kant), some influential critiques of the notion; we will end by considering some contemporary approaches to the a priori.
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- linguistics and philosophy
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- 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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- 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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