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PHIL 1 (section 3) Introduction to Philosophy Is there one truth or many? Does science tell us everything there is to know? Can our minds be purely physical? Do we have free will? Is faith rational? Should we always... |
2015-2016 Spring | |||
PHIL 2 (section 7) Introduction to Moral Philosophy (ETHICSOC 20) A survey of moral philosophy in the Western tradition. What makes right actions right and wrong actions wrong? What is it to have a virtuous rather than a vicious... |
2015-2016 Winter | |||
PHIL 8N (section 1) Free Will and Responsibility In what sense are we, or might we be free agents? Is our freedom compatible with our being fully a part of the same natural, causal order that includes other physical and... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Tuesday Thursday 3:00pm - 4:20pm 420-286 |
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PHIL 11N (section 1) Skepticism Preference to freshmen. Historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives on the limits of human knowledge of a mind-independent world and causal laws of nature. The... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 3:00pm - 4:20pm 70-72A1 |
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PHIL 23Q (section 1) Tutorial: Selves The course focuses on the nature of the self. Is the self an object among other objects in the world, or something real but not spatial or temporal -- an extensionless... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Thursday 4:30pm - 6:20pm 240-201 |
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PHIL 23D (section 1) Principia as Paradigm: Mechanics After Newton Newton's Principia is widely and rightly acknowledged as a landmark achievement in physics that has had a profound impact on the subsequent development of science. This... |
2015-2016 Winter | |||
PHIL 23U (section 1) Death and What Comes After Is it irrational to fear death? Is death bad for you? Does it make sense to want to be immortal? How does what happens after our deaths matter to us?nAncient and... |
2015-2016 Winter | |||
PHIL 23O (section 1) Tutorial: Origins of the Infinite Aristotle claims in the Physics that, "the student of Nature must contemplate of the infinite, with a view to determining whether it exists at all, and, if so, what is its... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Thursday 4:30pm - 6:20pm 120-414 |
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PHIL 23Z (section 1) Tutorial: Motivation, Obligation, and the Self This tutorial will explore the relationship between one's desires, one's reasons for action, and one's self. Readings to include selections from Bernard Williams, Harry... |
2015-2016 Spring | |||
PHIL 49 (section 1) Survey of Formal Methods Survey of important formal methods used in philosophy. The course covers the basics of propositional and elementary predicate logic, probability and decision theory, game... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Monday Wednesday Friday 10:30am - 11:20am 380-381T |
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PHIL 49 (section 1) Survey of Formal Methods Survey of important formal methods used in philosophy. The course covers the basics of propositional and elementary predicate logic, probability and decision theory, game... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Monday Wednesday Friday 10:30am - 11:20am 380-381T |
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PHIL 60 (section 1) Introduction to Philosophy of Science (HPS 60) The nature of scientific knowledge: evidence and confirmation; scientific explanation; models and theories; objectivity; science, society, and values. |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 9:00am - 10:20am Ceras 300 |
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PHIL 60 (section 1) Introduction to Philosophy of Science (HPS 60) The nature of scientific knowledge: evidence and confirmation; scientific explanation; models and theories; objectivity; science, society, and values. |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 9:00am - 10:20am Ceras 300 |
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PHIL 60 (section 2) Introduction to Philosophy of Science (HPS 60) The nature of scientific knowledge: evidence and confirmation; scientific explanation; models and theories; objectivity; science, society, and values. |
2015-2016 Winter |
Monday 12:30pm - 1:20pm 380-381T |
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PHIL 60 (section 2) Introduction to Philosophy of Science (HPS 60) The nature of scientific knowledge: evidence and confirmation; scientific explanation; models and theories; objectivity; science, society, and values. |
2015-2016 Winter |
Monday 12:30pm - 1:20pm 380-381T |
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PHIL 60 (section 3) Introduction to Philosophy of Science (HPS 60) The nature of scientific knowledge: evidence and confirmation; scientific explanation; models and theories; objectivity; science, society, and values. |
2015-2016 Winter |
Monday 5:30pm - 6:20pm 380-381U |
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PHIL 60 (section 3) Introduction to Philosophy of Science (HPS 60) The nature of scientific knowledge: evidence and confirmation; scientific explanation; models and theories; objectivity; science, society, and values. |
2015-2016 Winter |
Monday 5:30pm - 6:20pm 380-381U |
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PHIL 61 (section 1) Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution (HPS 61) Galileo's defense of the Copernican world-system that initiated the scientific revolution of the 17th century, led to conflict between science and religion, and influenced... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 1:30pm - 2:50pm 200-030 |
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PHIL 71Q (section 1) Emerging Issues in Neuroethics What is the mind? Today, most philosophers and neuroscientists believe it is, in one way or another, just the brain. Brain research is progressing at a staggering pace.... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Tuesday Thursday 3:00pm - 4:20pm 110-114 |
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PHIL 72 (section 1) Contemporary Moral Problems (ETHICSOC 185M, POLISCI 134P) This course addresses moral issues that play a major role in contemporary public discourse. The course aims to encourage students to consider moral problems in a... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 10:30am - 11:50am 60-120 |
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PHIL 73 (section 1) Collective Action Problems: Ethics, Politics, & Culture (ETHICSOC 180M, POLISCI 131A, PUBLPOL 304A) Collective action problems arise when actions that are individually rational give rise to results that are collectively irrational. Scholars have used such a framework to... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Monday Wednesday 1:30pm - 2:50pm School of Education 207 |
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PHIL 76 (section 1) Introduction to Global Justice (ETHICSOC 136R, INTNLREL 136R, POLISCI 136R, POLISCI 336) This course provides an overview of core ethical problems in international politics, with special emphasis on the question of what demands justice imposes on institutions... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Tuesday Thursday 10:30am - 11:50am Thornt110 |
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PHIL 80 (section 2) Mind, Matter, and Meaning Intensive study of central topics in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind in preparation for advanced courses in philosophy. Emphasis on development... |
2015-2016 Spring | |||
PHIL 80 (section 2) Mind, Matter, and Meaning Intensive study of central topics in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind in preparation for advanced courses in philosophy. Emphasis on development... |
2015-2016 Spring | |||
PHIL 80 (section 8) Mind, Matter, and Meaning Intensive study of central topics in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind in preparation for advanced courses in philosophy. Emphasis on development... |
2015-2016 Spring | |||
PHIL 80 (section 8) Mind, Matter, and Meaning Intensive study of central topics in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind in preparation for advanced courses in philosophy. Emphasis on development... |
2015-2016 Spring | |||
PHIL 81 (section 1) Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ITALIAN 181, SLAVIC 181) Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track. Majors should register in their... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Monday Wednesday 2:30pm - 4:20pm 200-002 |
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PHIL 90P (section 1) Is logic a source of metaphysical knowledge? The most characteristic feature of analytic metaphysics is the prominent role that it assigns to logic, and analytic philosophy owes its existence to the revolutionary... |
2015-2016 Winter | |||
PHIL 90K (section 1) REALISM The purpose of this course is to explore questions concerning Scientific and Mathematical Realism. We ask, do entities to which scientific theories refer REALLY exist? For... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 4:30pm - 5:50pm 110-101 |
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PHIL 90K (section 1) REALISM The purpose of this course is to explore questions concerning Scientific and Mathematical Realism. We ask, do entities to which scientific theories refer REALLY exist? For... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 4:30pm - 5:50pm 110-101 |
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PHIL 90P (section 1) Is logic a source of metaphysical knowledge? The most characteristic feature of analytic metaphysics is the prominent role that it assigns to logic, and analytic philosophy owes its existence to the revolutionary... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Tuesday Thursday 3:00pm - 4:20pm 120-414 |
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PHIL 100 (section 2) Greek Philosophy We shall cover the major developments in Greek philosophical thought, focusing on Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools (the Epicureans, the Stoics, and the... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Wednesday 10:30am - 11:20am 20-21G |
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PHIL 102 (section 1) Modern Philosophy, Descartes to Kant Major figures in early modern philosophy in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Writings by Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant. |
2015-2016 Spring |
Tuesday Thursday 3:00pm - 4:20pm 200-030 |
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PHIL 110 (section 1) Plato's Republic (PHIL 210) The Republic is one most famous and influential texts in the history of Western philosophy. We shall read in its entirety closely (along with some other related Platonic... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 10:30am - 11:50am Thornt211 |
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PHIL 110C (section 1) The Stoics on Freedom and Determinism (PHIL 210C) We will investigate ancient Stoic conceptions of causality and freedom, their arguments for causal determinism, and ancient attaches on and defenses of compatibilism. |
2015-2016 Winter | |||
PHIL 111 (section 1) Aristotle's Logic (PHIL 211) |
2015-2016 Winter |
Monday Wednesday 1:30pm - 2:50pm Gilbert Biological Science 117 |
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PHIL 112 (section 1) Causality in Ancient Greek Philosophy (PHIL 212) |
2015-2016 Spring |
Tuesday Thursday 1:30pm - 2:50pm 90-92Q |
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PHIL 116 (section 1) Aquinas (PHIL 216) This course is an introduction to the metaphysical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 ¿ 1274), one of the most important and influential philosopher-theologians of the... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Tuesday Thursday 10:30am - 11:50am 110-114 |
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PHIL 117 (section 1) Descartes (PHIL 217) (Formerly 121/221.) Descartes's philosophical writings on rules for the direction of the mind, method, innate ideas and ideas of the senses, mind, God, eternal truths, and... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Monday Wednesday Friday 10:30am - 11:20am School of Education 313 |
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PHIL 125 (section 1) Kant's First Critique (PHIL 225) (Graduate students register for 225.) The founding work of Kant's critical philosophy emphasizing his contributions to metaphysics and epistemology. His attempts to limit... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 3:00pm - 4:20pm Littlefield 107 |
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PHIL 133S (section 1) Heidegger and Daoism: Differences and Dialogue (RELIGST 181) The new paradigm for understanding Heidegger makes possible a fresh look at his long-standing interest in Daoism. Part One: a radical recasting of Heidegger's thought,... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 10:30am - 11:50am 240-110 |
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PHIL 151 (section 3) Metalogic (PHIL 251) (Formerly 160A.) The syntax and semantics of sentential and first-order logic. Concepts of model theory. Gödel's completeness theorem and its consequences: the Löwenheim-... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Thursday 10:30am - 11:20am 420-286 |
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PHIL 152 (section 1) Computability and Logic (PHIL 252) Approaches to effective computation: recursive functions, register machines, and Turing machines. Proof of their equivalence, discussion of Church's thesis. Elementary... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Monday Wednesday Friday 9:30am - 10:20am School of Education 334 |
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PHIL 153 (section 1) Feminist Theories and Methods Across the Disciplines (FEMGEN 103, FEMGEN 203, PHIL 253) (Graduate Students register for PHIL 253 or FEMGEN 203) Concepts and questions distinctive of feminist and LGBT scholarship and how they shape research: gender,... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Tuesday Thursday 9:00am - 10:20am 80-115 |
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PHIL 154 (section 2) Modal Logic (PHIL 254) (Graduate students register for 254.) Syntax and semantics of modal logic and its basic theory: including expressive power, axiomatic completeness, correspondence, and... |
2015-2016 Spring | |||
PHIL 159 (section 1) Non-Classical Logic (PHIL 259) This course surveys a range of non-classical logics. Each week, we discuss the formal rules and philosophical underpinnings of a different system. Key topics include... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Tuesday Thursday 12:00pm - 1:20pm 50-51B |
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PHIL 164 (section 1) Central Topics in the Philosophy of Science: Theory and Evidence (PHIL 264) (Graduate students register for 264.) Is reductionism opposed to emergence? Are they compatible? If so, how or in what sense? We consider methodological, epistemological... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Tuesday Thursday 3:00pm - 4:20pm 260-004 |
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PHIL 165 (section 1) Philosophy of Physics (PHIL 265) Graduate students register for 265.) Central topic alternates annually between space-time theories and philosophical issues in quantum mechanics; the latter in Winter 2013... |
2015-2016 Winter |
Monday Wednesday 3:00pm - 4:20pm 380-380W |
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PHIL 166 (section 1) Probability: Ten Great Ideas About Chance (PHIL 266, STATS 167, STATS 267) Foundational approaches to thinking about chance in matters such as gambling, the law, and everyday affairs. Topics include: chance and decisions; the mathematics of... |
2015-2016 Spring |
Thursday 4:30pm - 7:20pm Sequoia Hall 200 |
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PHIL 167B (section 1) Philosophy, Biology, and Behavior (PHIL 267B) (Graduate Students register for 267B) Philosophical study of key theoretical ideas in biology as deployed in the study of behavior. Topics to include genetic,... |
2015-2016 Winter |