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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment in the African world and those of western bio-medicine. It examines how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and have also offered alternative notions of mora
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- anthropology
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- politics africa
- african diaspora
- colonial
- postcolonial clashes
- theories of healing
- embodiment
- western
- bio-medicine
- afro-atlantic
- traditions
- illness
- healing
- body
- alternative
- morality
- rationality
- kinship
- gender
- sexuality
- imperial
- power
- global
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Students are exposed to the range of theoretical perspectives including biological, evolutionary, cognitive, and psyc
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- brain and cognitive sciences
- human behavior
- brain
- perception
- memory
- motivation
- emotion
- learning
- senses
- sensation
- cognition
- thinking
- language
- intelligence
- love
- evolution
- attitude
- behavior
- self
- dissociation
- repression
- morality
- freud
- sleep
- dreams
- mental illness
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Advances in cognitive science have resolved, clarified, and sometimes complicated some of the great questions of Western philosophy: what is the structure of the world and how do we come to know it; does everyone represent the world the same way; what is the best way for us to act in the world. Specific topics include color, objects, number
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- brain and cognitive sciences
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- western philosophy
- structure
- color
- objects
- number
- similarity
- inductive inference
- space
- time
- reasoning
- decision-making
- morality
- consciousness
- development
- psychology
- computation
- neuroscience
- philosophy
- linguistics
- artificial intelligence
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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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 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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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The aim of this subject is to acquaint the student with some important works of systematic ethical philosophy and to bring to bear the viewpoint of those works on the study of classic works of literature. This subject will trace the history of ethical speculation in systematic philosophy by identifying four major positions: two from the anc
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- literature
- ethics
- values
- literature
- morality
- justice
- virtue
- literary theory
- responsibility
- politics
- plato
- aristotle
- machiavelli
- hobbes
- sophocles
- euripides
- shapkespeare
- swift
- ibsen
- shaw
- dostoyevsky
- conrad
- bible
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This course focuses on a range of theories of gender in modern life. In recent years feminist scholars in a range of disciplines have challenged previously accepted notions of political theory such as the distinctions between public and private, the definitions of politics itself, the nature of citizenship, and the roles of women in civil s
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- political science
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- political theory
- modern society
- citizenship
- women
- sexuality
- race
- class
- poverty
- welfare
- power
- culture
- morality
- gender
- modern life
- feminist scholarship
- public
- private
- roles
- civil society
- political culture
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This course explores the social relevance of neuroscience, considering how emerging areas of brain research at once reflect and reshape social attitudes and agendas. Topics include brain imaging and popular media; neuroscience of empathy, trust, and moral reasoning; new fields of neuroeconomics and neuromarketing; ethical implications of ne
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- science technology and society
- cognitive science
- evolutionary psychology
- neurobiology
- brain imaging
- mri
- ct scan
- fmri
- brain
- mind
- morality
- moral reasoning
- decision making
- intelligence
- empathy
- trust
- religion
- love
- emotion
- gender differences
- sexuality
- stress
- prejudice
- attention
- psychopharmaceuticals
- antidepressant
- neuroeconomics
- neuromarketing
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This course focuses on a range of theories of gender in modern life. In recent years, feminist scholars in a range of disciplines have challenged previously accepted notions of political theory such as the distinctions between public and private, the definitions of politics itself, the nature of citizenship, and the roles of women in civil society.
In this course, we will examine different aspects of women's lives through the life cycle as seen from the vantage point of feminist theory. In addition, we will consider different ways of looking at power and political culture in modern societies, issues of race and class, poverty and welfare, and sexuality and morality.
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- special programs
- men
- women
- gender
- feminists
- feminist theory
- prostitution
- morality
- chromosomes
- gender identification
- work and family
- welfare reform
- paternity
- maternity
- divorce
- globalization of women's labor
- pornography
- internet
- military service
- race
- class
- 2008 election campaigns
- body image
- discrimination
- date rape
- rape
- domestic viole
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Published by: University of Notre Dame | Language: English
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This course explores the nature of modern morality through an examination of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor. We will read MacIntyre's groundbreaking account of emergence of modern morality, After Virtue, and compare his interpretation of the morality of modernity with that offered by Charles Taylor in The Ethics of Authenticity. We will also read works by Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, two thinkers whose ideas have powerfully shaped the moral culture of the modern world.
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- philosophy
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- open
- ocw
- philosophy
- ethics
- nietzsche
- alasdair macintyre
- philosophy
- morality and modernity
- immanuel kant
- history of morality
- after virtue
- ethics
- notre dame
- morality
- modernity
- charles taylor
- friedrich nietzsche
- aristotle
- ethics of authenticity
- kant
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- thinking
- language
- intelligence
- love
- evolution
- attitude
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- self
- dissociation
- repression
- morality
- freud
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- morality
- consciousness
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File: 24-00-fall-2010.zip
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- 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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- sophocles
- euripides
- shapkespeare
- swift
- ibsen
- shaw
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- bible
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