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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 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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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
- free speech
- hat
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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 does not seek to provide answers to ethical questions. Instead, the course hopes to teach students two things. First, how do you recognize ethical or moral problems in science and medicine? When something does not feel right (whether cloning, or failing to clone) — what exactly is the nature of the discomfort? What kind of tensi
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- linguistics and philosophy
- medical ethics
- ethics
- genetics
- life support
- stem cell
- gm
- genetically modified
- genetic engineering
- risk
- biomedical
- medicine
- cloning
- euthanasia
- enhancing or cheating
- abortion
- eugenics
- slippery slope
- organ transplant
- organ donor
- disease
- public health
- health care
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This course provides an introduction to important philosophical questions about the mind, specifically those that are intimately connected with contemporary psychology and neuroscience. Are our concepts innate, or are they acquired by experience? (And what does it even mean to call a concept 'innate'?) Are 'mental images' pictures in the he
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- linguistics and philosophy
- brain
- philosophy
- science
- holism
- cultural object
- contemporary media
- society
- cultural assumptions
- neuroscience
- anthropology
- history
- semiotics
- cognitive sciences
- historical views
- digital images
- psychopharmacology
- mental illness
- neurotransmitters
- brain science
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This course is an introduction to many of the central issues in a branch of philosophy called philosophy of mind. Some of the questions we will discuss include the following. Can computers think? Is the mind an immaterial thing? Or is the mind the brain? Or does the mind stand to the brain as a computer program stands to the hardware? How c
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- linguistics and philosophy
- searle; ai
- dualism
- behaviorism
- identity theory
- functionalism
- intentionality
- externalism
- self-knowledge
- knowledge argument
- chalmer
- panprotopsychism
- mysterianism
- conciousness
- rene descartes
- mind
- brain
- causal theory
- pain
- relief
- meaning
- individualism
- qualia
- mind-body problem
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Quantum mechanics--even in the ordinary, non-relativistic, "particle" formulation that will be the primary focus of this course--has been a staggeringly successful physical theory, surely one of the crowning achievements of 20th century science. It's also rather bizarre--bizarre enough to lead very intelligent and otherwise sensible people
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- linguistics and philosophy
- relativity
- particle
- approximation technique
- scientific inquiry
- experiment
- observation
- quantum theory
- quantum mechanics
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In this class we will study a cluster of puzzles, paradoxes and intellectual wonders - from Zeno's Paradox to Godel's Theorem - and discuss their philosophical implications.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- paradox
- infinity
- zeno
- higher infinite
- set theory
- vagueness
- newcomb's puzzle
- liar paradox
- computability
- backward induction
- common knowledge
- godel's theorem
- puzzle
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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
- s
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This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and scientific tradition. We will examine a broad range of central philosophical themes concerning: nature, law, justice, knowledge, virtue, happiness, and death. There will be a strong emphasis on analyses of arguments found in t
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- ancient
- greek western
- philosophical
- scientific
- tradition
- themes
- nature
- law
- justice
- knowledge
- virtue
- happiness
- death
- analysis
- arguments
- text
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In this course we shall study the Critique of Pure Reason with special focus on questions about idealism, about our ignorance of things in themselves, and about what, if anything, idealism has to do with this kind of ignorance. Along the way we shall consider Kant's distinctive account of space, matter, and force, all of which had a signifi
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This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in other arts, particularly literature and opera. Emphasis is put on film's ability to represent and express feeling as well as cognition. Both written and cinematic works by Sturges, Shaw, Cocteau, Hitchcock, Joyce, and Bergman, am
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- film
- cinema
- narrative
- linguistics
- literature
- opera
- feeling
- cognition
- arts
- thematic
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This course focuses on the study of problems concerning our concept of knowledge, our knowledge of the past, our knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of ourselves and others, and our knowledge of the existence and properties of physical objects in our immediate environment.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- knowledge
- belief
- foundationalism
- reliabilism
- epistemology
- ontology
- theory
- reliable
- thoughts
- feelings
- existence
- objects
- properties
- physical
- noumenal
- environment
- partial
- external
- world
- skepticism
- empirical
- a priori
- truth
- justified
- justification
- true
- false
- probability
- externalist
- logic
- decision
- choice
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This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which it creates meaning through techniques that define a formal structure. There is a particular focus on aesthetic problems about appearance and reality, literary and visual effects, communication and alienation through film technology.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- seminar
- analysis
- film
- art
- meaning
- formal structure
- aesthetic
- problems
- appearance
- reality
- literary
- visual effects
- communication
- alienation
- technology
- beauty and the beast
- welles
- orson
- citizen kane
- allen
- woody
- the purple rose of cairo
- visconti
- luchino
- death in venice
- renoir
- jean
- the rules of the game
- hi
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This course focuses on the study of basic metaphysical issues concerning existence, the mind-body problem, personal identity, and causation plus its implications for freedom. The course explores classical as well as contemporary readings.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- metaphysics
- metaphysician
- world
- ontology
- properties
- mind
- body
- philosophy
- appearance
- reality
- universals
- existence
- causal networks
- indiscernibility
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