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Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses will provide an historical and cross-cultural analysis of the politics of sensory experience. The subject will address western philosophical debates about mind, brain, emotion, and the body and the historical value placed upon sight, reason, and rationality, versus smell, taste, and touch as acceptable mo
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- mind
- brain
- emotion
- body
- sight
- reason
- rationality
- smell
- taste
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- knowing
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- western philosophical
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This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment in the African world and those of western bio-medicine. It examines how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and have also offered alternative notions of mora
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- theories of healing
- embodiment
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- bio-medicine
- afro-atlantic
- traditions
- illness
- healing
- body
- alternative
- morality
- rationality
- kinship
- gender
- sexuality
- imperial
- power
- global
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Are moral standards relative to cultures and/or moral frameworks? Are there incompatible or non-comparable ways of thinking about the world that are somehow equally good? Is science getting closer to the truth? Is rationality--the notion of a good reason to believe something--relative to cultural norms? What are selves? Is there a coherent
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- linguistics and philosophy
- relativism
- moral standards
- science
- truth
- rationality
- cultural norms
- thomas kuhn
- karl popper
- gilbert harman
- judith thomson
- derek parfit
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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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- 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
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"The Art of the Probable" addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of mathematical probability. But it is neither meant to be a history of the exact sciences per se nor an annex to, say, the Course 6 curriculum in probability and statistics. Rather, our objective is to focus on the formal, thema
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- literature
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- risk
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- history of science
- quantitative measurement
- chaos
- uncertainty
- induction
- deduction
- inference
- luck
- gambling
- cause and effect
- games of chance
- fate
- prediction
- rationality
- decision making
- religion
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- fact
- human nature
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The main aims of this seminar will be to go over the classification of surfaces (Enriques-Castelnuovo for characteristic zero, Bombieri-Mumford for characteristic p), while working out plenty of examples, and treating their geometry and arithmetic as far as possible.
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- mathematics
- near equivalence
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- numerical equivalence
- birational
- rational
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- surfaces
- ruled surfaces
- rational surfaces
- linear systems
- castelnuovo's criterion
- rationality
- picard
- albanese
- classification
- k3
- elliptic
- kodaira dimension
- bielliptic
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This half-term course examines the choices that we make which affect others and the choices others make that affect us. Such situations are known as "games" and game-playing, while sounding whimsical, is serious business. Managers frequently play "games" both within the firm and outside it – with competitors, customers, regulators, and even
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- management
- game theory
- strategy games
- strategic thinking
- business strategy
- strategic reasoning
- rationality
- dominant strategies
- first-mover advantage
- conflict strategies
- strategic substitutes
- strategic complements
- dynamic pricing
- entering new markets
- new market entry
- brinksmanship
- negotiation
- negotiating
- auctions
- auction theory
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File: 21a-460j-spring-2005.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora
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- bio-medicine
- afro-atlantic
- traditions
- illness
- healing
- body
- alternative
- morality
- rationality
- kinship
- gender
- sexuality
- imperial
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File: 21a-260-fall-2005.zip
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- historical
- cross-cultural analysis
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- sensory experience
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- mind
- brain
- emotion
- body
- sight
- reason
- rationality
- smell
- taste
- touch
- knowing
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- individual physiolog
File: 24-120-spring-2009.zip
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- linguistics and philosophy
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- 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
- s
File: 24-03-spring-2005.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Relativism, Reason, and Reality
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- karl popper
- gilbert harman
- judith thomson
- derek parfit
File: 21l-017-spring-2008.zip
This OER is part of OCW: The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability
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- history of science
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- chaos
- uncertainty
- induction
- deduction
- inference
- luck
- gambling
- cause and effect
- games of chance
- fate
- prediction
- rationality
- decision making
- religion
- randomness
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- fact
- human nature
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File: 18-727-spring-2008.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Topics in Algebraic Geometry: Algebraic Surfaces
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- ruled surfaces
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- castelnuovo's criterion
- rationality
- picard
- albanese
- classification
- k3
- elliptic
- kodaira dimension
- bielliptic
File: 15-040-spring-2004.zip
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- conflict strategies
- strategic substitutes
- strategic complements
- dynamic pricing
- entering new markets
- new market entry
- brinksmanship
- negotiation
- negotiating
- auctions
- auction theory
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- brain
- emotion
- body
- sight
- reason
- rationality
- smell
- taste
- touch
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- mind
- brain
- emotion
- body
- sight
- reason
- rationality
- smell
- taste
- touch
- knowing
- knowledge production
- scientific interpretations
- western philosophical
- physiological models
- individual physiolog
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