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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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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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This will be a seminar on classic and contemporary work on central topics in ethics. The first third of the course will focus on metaethics: we will examine the meaning of moral claims and ask whether there is any sense in which moral principles are objectively valid. The second third of the course will focus on normative ethics: what makes
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
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