printer friendly pagePHIL 195B: Donor Seminar: Practical Reasoning
Primarily for seniors. Relationships among action, deliberation, reasons, and rationality. On what basis do people decide what to do? What norms or rules structure reasoning? What constitutes rationality?
PHIL 201B: John Duns Scotus: Politics, Metaphysics & Philosophy of Mind
Life and an introduction to the difficulties of medieval biography. Franciscanism and Scotus' view on property and ownership. Proofs for the existence of God. Philosophy of mind. Metaphysics in general. Universals, Common natures, Formal Distinction, and Individuation. Formal distinction, individual forms and the precedents for Scotus' view in Richard Rufus.
PHIL 206: Ancient Skepticism (PHIL 106)
The ancient Pyrrhonian skeptics who think that for any claim there is no more reason to assert it than deny it and that a life without any beliefs is the best route to happiness. Some ancient opponents of the Pyrrhonian skeptics and some relations between ancient and modern skepticism.
PHIL 209: Topics in Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle on Art and Rhetoric (PHIL 109)
Plato's and Aristotle's views on the nature of art and rhetoric and their connections with the emotions, reason and the good life. Readings include Plato's Gorgias, Ion and parts of the Republic and the Laws and Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric.
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3 times
(up to 12 units total)
PHIL 210: Plato (PHIL 110)
Plato's
Republic.
PHIL 211: Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics (PHIL 111)
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on virtue, happiness, pleasure, practical reasoning, and particularism. Sources include the Eudemian Ethics, contemporary philosophers who have taken many of these topics up again, and contemporary material such as that by Anscombe, Foot, Hursthouse, Korsgaard, and McDowell.
PHIL 213: Hellenistic Philosophy (PHIL 113)
Epicureans, skeptics, and stoics on epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and psychology.
PHIL 219: Rationalists (PHIL 119)
Developments in 17th-century continental philosophy. Descartes's views on mind, necessity, and knowledge. Spinoza and Leibniz emphazing their own doctrines and their criticism of their predecessors. Prerequisite: 102.
PHIL 220A: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence (PHIL 120A)
Correspondence on metaphysics, theology, and science.
PHIL 222: Hume (PHIL 122)
(Formerly 120/220; graduate students enroll in 222.) Hume's theoretical philosophy, in particular, skepticism and naturalism, the theory of ideas and belief, space and time, causation and necessity, induction and laws of nature, miracles, a priori reasoning, the external world, and the identity of the self.
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