printer friendly pagePHIL 194A: Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
Priority to majors. 20th-century analytic and early modern philosophy of mind and epistemology. Main text is Wilfrid Sellars's
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind; source materials and commentary. Enrollment limited to 12.
PHIL 194B: The Ethics of Belief
Priority to majors. Are beliefs subject to moral evaluation? Can it be right or wrong to believe or disbelieve something? Are people morally required to believe only that for which there is sufficient evidence; or can the good consequences of believing something justify the belief, irrespective of the evidence? Contemporary and historical sources. Enrollment limited to 12.
PHIL 194R: Epistemic Paradoxes
Paradoxes that arise from concepts of knowledge and rational belief, such as the skeptical paradox, the preface paradox, and Moore¿s paradox. Can one lose knowledge without forgetting anything? Can one change one's mind in a reasonable way without gaining new evidence?
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 195A: Unity of Science
Primarily for seniors.
PHIL 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 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 218: British Empiricism, 1660s-1730s (PHIL 118)
PHIL 219: Rationalists (PHIL 119)
(Formerly 143/243.) 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.
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