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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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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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- properties
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- external
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This course is an introduction to the philosophy of language. It examines different views on the nature of meaning, truth and reference, with special focus on the problem of understanding how linguistic communication works.
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- reference
- truth
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- relationships between language and logic
- language and knowledge
- language and reality
- language and acts performed through its use
- logic
- linguistics
- language
- philosophy
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An intensive seminar on the foundations of analytic philosophy for first-year graduate students. A large selection of classic texts, from Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, is covered in this course.
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- frege
- russell
- wittgenstein
- moore
- ayer
- tarski
- austin
- analytic philosophy
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- language
- logic
- logical positivism
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The objective of the graduate-level course is to give people a sense of what "accounting for vagueness" is all about, why it's hard, and why it's important. This will involve surveying some prominent accounts of vagueness.
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- vagueness
- sorites paradox
- truth
- supervaluationism
- epistemicism
- contextualism
- nihilism
- relativism
- logical revisionism
- interdeterminacy
- language
- inexact knowledge
- logic
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- logic
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File: 24-211-fall-2003.zip
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- feelings
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- properties
- physical
- noumenal
- environment
- partial
- external
- world
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File: 24-251-spring-2006.zip
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- logical revisionism
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- inexact knowledge
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File: 24-03-spring-2005.zip
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- derek parfit
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- thoughts
- feelings
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- objects
- properties
- physical
- noumenal
- environment
- partial
- external
- world
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- thoughts
- feelings
- existence
- objects
- properties
- physical
- noumenal
- environment
- partial
- external
- world
- skepticism
- empirical
- a priori
- truth
- justified
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- decision
- choice
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- feelings
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- properties
- physical
- noumenal
- environment
- partial
- external
- world
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- empirical
- a priori
- truth
- justified
- justification
- true
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- probability
- externalist
- logic
- decision
- choice
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