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PHIL 358: Rational Agency and Intelligent Interaction (CS 222)

For advanced undergraduates, and M.S. and beginning Ph.D. students. Logic-based methods for knowledge representation, information change, and games in artificial intelligence and philosophy. Topics: knowledge, certainty, and belief; time and action; belief dynamics; preference and social choice; games; and desire and intention. Prerequisite: propositional and first-order logic.

PHIL 360: Core Seminar in Philosophy of Science

Limited to first- and second-year Philosophy Ph.D. students.

PHIL 362: Grad Seminar on Philosophy of Science

| Repeatable 3 times (up to 12 units total)

PHIL 366: Evolution and Communication

Topics include information bottlenecks, signaling networks, information processing, invention of new signals, teamwork, evolution of complex signals, teamwork. Sources include signaling games invented by David Lewis and generalizations thereof, using evolutionary and learning dynamics.

PHIL 369: Philosophy of Linguistics (LINGUIST 204, SYMSYS 204)

Philosophical issues raised by contemporary work in linguistics. Topics include: the subject matter of linguistics (especially internalism vs. externalism), methodology and data (especially the role of quantitative methods and the reliance on intuitions), the relationship between language and thought (varieties of Whorfianism and anti-Whorfianism), nativist arguments about language acquisition, and language evolution.

PHIL 370: Core Seminar in Ethics

Limited to first- and second-year students in the Philosophy Ph.D. program.

PHIL 370A: Grad Seminar in Ethics

Conceptions of the self in practical philosophy. Graduate seminar exploring topics at the intersection of personal identity, agency, and morality. Specific topics and authors to be determined.

PHIL 371D: Graduate Seminar on Equality

This seminar will focus on ideas of equality of opportunity, with readings from political theory, as well as American constitutional law, political science, economics, and sociology. The readings will address four main questions: What is equality of opportunity? Why is equality of opportunity an important requirement of justice? What are the principal sources of inequalities of opportunity? And how might those inequalities be remedied? Readings from: Hayek, Rawls, Dworkin, Okin, Roemer, Tawney, Bourdieu, Barry, Jencks, Mazumder, Alstott, McLanahan, and Heckman.

PHIL 372: Topics in Kantian Ethics

Selected topics in ethics, considering both Kant's texts and recent writings by Kant interpreters and moral philosophers in the Kantian tradition. Among the topics covered will be: Practical reason, personal relationships, duties to oneself, evil, right and politics, lying, constructivism in ethics.

PHIL 372E: Graduate Seminar on Moral Psychology

Recent philosophical works on desire, intention, the motivation of action, valuing, and reasons for action. Readings: Williams, Korsgaard, Smith, Blackburn, Velleman, Stampe, Frankfurt.
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