printer friendly pagePHIL 260A: Newtonian Revolution (PHIL 160A)
(Graduate students register for 260A.) 17th-century efforts in science including by Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and Huygens, that formed the background for and posed the problems addressed in Newton¿s
Principia.
PHIL 260B: Newtonian Revolution (PHIL 160B)
(Graduate students register for 260B.) Newton¿s
Principia in its historical context, emphasizing how it produced a revolution in the conduct of empirical research and in standards of evidence in science.
PHIL 263: Significant Figures in Philosophy of Science (PHIL 163)
(Graduate students register for 263.) Directed study of two or more thinkers, past or present, who have made a lasting impact on contemporary philosophy of science. Subjects last year were Henri Poincaré, Pierre Duhem, and Gaston Bachelard.
PHIL 264A: Central Topics in Philosophy of Science: Causation (PHIL 164A)
(Graduate Students register for 264A.) Establishing causes in science, engineering, and medicine versus establishing them in Anglo-American law, considered in the context of Hume and Mill on causation. May be repeated for credit.
| Repeatable
for credit
PHIL 274: Freedom and the Practical Standpoint (PHIL 174)
(Graduate students register for 274.) Confronted with the question of how to act, people think of themselves as freely determining their own conduct. Natural science poses a challenge to this by explaining all events, including human actions, in terms of causal processes. Are people justified in thinking of themselves as free? Major philosophical approaches to this question: incompatibilism, compatibilism, and the two-standpoint view.
PHIL 275M: Two Ethical Theories and Being a Person (PHIL 175M)
The distinction between the ethics of being a person and the ethics of rules as opposed to the distinction between Kantian ethics and utilitarianism or consequentialism consequentialism. Comparison of these two types of ethics with respect to their relationship to agency and being a good person. Relations between Western ethics and those of other continents.
PHIL 276B: The Economic Individual in the Behavioral Sciences (PHIL 176B)
(Graduate students register for 276B.)
PHIL 279S: Moral Psychology, Reasons for Action, and Moral Theory (PHIL 179S)
What sorts of considerations does an ethical agent take to be good reasons for action? Work in moral psychology to illuminate the theory of practical reasons, and the theory of practical reasons to test the prospects for systematic moral theory. Can any systematic moral theory be reconciled with the moral psychology of ordinary, morally respectable agents? Reading include Bernard Williams, Rosalind Hursthouse, Peter Railton, T.M. Scanlon, and Barbara Herman.
PHIL 284F: Feminist Theories of Knowledge (FEMST 166, PHIL 184F)
Feminist critique of traditional approaches in epistemology and alternative feminist approaches to such topics as reason and rationality, objectivity, experience, truth, the knowing subject, knowledge and values, knowledge and power.
PHIL 312: Aristotle's Psychology
De Anima and parts of
Parva Naturalia.
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