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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The course has two goals. First, to give you a sense of what philosophers think about and why. Here we look at a number of perennial philosophical problems, including some or all of: how knowledge differs from "mere opinion," the objectivity (or not) of moral judgment, logical paradoxes, mind/body relations, the nature and possibility of fr
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- existence
- god
- reason
- faith
- mind-body
- free will
- identity
- deontology
- morality
- moral responsibility
- materialism
- functionalism
- argument
- pascal's wager
- compatibilism
- determinism
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This course is an examination of philosophical theories of action and motivation in the light of empirical findings from social psychology, sociology, and neuroscience. Topics include belief, desire, and moral motivation; sympathy and empathy; intentions and other committing states; strength of will and weakness of will; free will; addictio
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- linguistics and philosophy
- action
- motivation
- social psychology
- sociology
- belief
- desire
- moral motivation
- sympathy
- empathy
- intention
- will
- addiction
- resolution
- rationality
- identification
- autonomy
- egoism
- altruism
- intentions
- humean theory of motivation
- willing
- wanting
- waiting
- weakness
- akrasia
- self-control
- temptation
- self-regulation
- free will
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This course is a study of free will. It explores the main topic through the lenses of the consequence argument, unavoidability, law breaking, libertarianism, the concept of the person, moral responsibility, action, intention, choice, social psychology, and addiction.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- free will
- mind-body problem
- personal identity
- causation
- modal metaphysics
- libertarianism
- time travel
- choice
- freedom
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In this introductory course on the philosophy of language, we examine views on the nature of meaning, reference, truth, and their relationships. Other topics may include relationships between language and logic, language and knowledge, language and reality, language and acts performed through its use. No knowledge of logic or linguistics pr
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy of language
- nature of meaning
- nature of reference
- nature of truth
- language and logic
- language and knowledge
- language and reality
- language and acts performed through its use
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