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This class explores the interrelationship between humans and natural environments. It does so by focusing on conflict over access to and use of the environment as well as ideas about "nature" in various parts of the world.
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- regulations
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- hazardous waste
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- cultural
- european thought
- ethnographic
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- east africa
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- eastern europe
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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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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
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- foundationalism
- reliabilism
- epistemology
- ontology
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- reliable
- thoughts
- feelings
- existence
- objects
- properties
- physical
- noumenal
- environment
- partial
- external
- world
- skepticism
- empirical
- a priori
- truth
- justified
- justification
- true
- false
- probability
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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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- chance
- risk
- statistics
- history of science
- quantitative measurement
- 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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This graduate-level class explores the complex interrelationships among humans and natural environments, focusing on non-western parts of the world in addition to Europe and the United States. It uses environmental conflict to draw attention to competing understandings and uses of "nature" as well as the local, national and transnational po
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- humans
- natural environments
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- access
- land rights
- hunting
- fishing
- environmental regulations
- scientific
- popular
- knowledge
- biotechnology
- hazardous waste
- social
- economic
- political
- environmental
- stakes
- forest
- agricultural
- marine
- urban
- cultural
- historical
- power relationships
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This course surveys canonical and recent theories and methods in science studies. We will organize our discussions around the concept of "reproduction," referring variously to:
Scientific reproduction (how results are replicated in lab, field, disciplinary contexts)
Social reproduction (how social knowledge and relations are regene
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- anthropology
- feminism
- critical race theory
- post-colonial studies
- queer theory
- human culture
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- theories
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- reproduction
- social reproduction
- biological reproduction
- electroni
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As the course title suggests, this class is meant to acquaint you with the literary and rhetorical tradition of the essay, a genre which has been described by one scholar as "the meeting ground between art and philosophy," and by another as "the place where the self finds a pattern in the world, and the world finds a pattern in the self". T
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File: 21a-342-fall-2004.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Environmental Struggles
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- nature
- world
- readings
- films
- land rights
- hunting
- fishing
- regulations
- knowledge
- scientific
- popular
- hazardous waste
- social
- economic
- political
- cultural
- european thought
- ethnographic
- historical
- east africa
- south asia
- eastern europe
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File: 24-211-fall-2003.zip
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- 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
File: 24-200-fall-2004.zip
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- justice
- knowledge
- virtue
- happiness
- death
- analysis
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This OER is part of OCW: The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability
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- statistics
- 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
- knowledge
- fact
- human nature
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- scientific institutions
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- anthropology
- feminism
- critical race theory
- post-colonial studies
- queer theory
- human culture
- politics
- theories
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- natural environments
- conflict
- access
- land rights
- hunting
- fishing
- environmental regulations
- scientific
- popular
- knowledge
- biotechnology
- hazardous waste
- social
- economic
- political
- environmental
- stakes
- forest
- agricultural
- marine
- urban
- cultural
- historical
- power relationships
File: 21w-735-fall-2004.zip
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- genre
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- modern
- popular
- form
- media
- web
- functions
- commentary
- others
- textual
- numerical
- data
- discovery
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- personal experience
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- 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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