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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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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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- philosophy
- ancient
- greek western
- philosophical
- scientific
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- nature
- law
- justice
- knowledge
- virtue
- happiness
- death
- analysis
- arguments
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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
- a priori knowledge
- plato
- descartes
- hume
- kant
- leibniz
- locke
- hume and the positivists
- history of philosophy
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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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