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PHIL 155: Topics in Mathematical Logic: Non-Classical Logic (PHIL 255)

This year's topic is Non-Classical Logic. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Briggs, R. (PI)

PHIL 171: Justice (ETHICSOC 171, POLISCI 103, POLISCI 336S, PUBLPOL 103C)

Justice, as we use the term in this class, is a question about social cooperation. People can produce much more cooperatively than the sum of what they could produce as individuals, and these gains from cooperation are what makes civilization possible. But on what terms should we cooperate? How should we divide, as the philosopher John Rawls puts it, "the benefits and burdens of social cooperation"? Working primarily within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, we'll discuss different answers to this big question as a way to bring together some of the most prominent debates in modern political philosophy. We'll study theories including utilitarianism, libertarianism, classical liberalism, and egalitarian liberalism, and we'll take on complex current issues like reparations for racial injustice, the gender pay gap, and responses to climate change. This class is meant to be an accessible entry point to political philosophy. No experience with political science or philosophy is required or assumed, and we will spend time on the strategy of philosophy as well: understanding how our authors make their arguments to better respond to them and make our own.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER

PHIL 176M: Collective Responsibility and Social Change (PHIL 276M)

Grad students enroll in 276M. What is social change, and how does it work? What, if anything, is our responsibility to contribute to change? Are each of us, as individuals, responsible for contributing to the changes we would like to see (e.g., regarding climate change, inequality, oppression, etc.)? How can that be, if the problems are so huge and our individual contributions so tiny? Are groups (e.g., states, corporations, social classes, racial groups, etc.), as such, responsible for change? How can that be, if responsibility only attaches to agents? Can groups themselves be agents? That seems to require that groups themselves have beliefs and desires. How is that possible? Must groups be agents in order to be responsible for their (collective) behavior, or is group responsibility fundamentally different from individual, personal responsibility? If groups can be responsible (e.g., for climate change), what implications follow for the individuals that comprise the group? How, if at all, is responsibility for what a group does distributed to group members? Can individuals have a duty to create a group, where creating a group is what is required to bring about social change? In this class we will discuss these and related questions.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4
Instructors: Madigan, T. (PI)

PHIL 177R: Philosophy of Social Science (PHIL 277R)

The philosophy of social science is both descriptive and prescriptive. It describes the philosophical assumptions that form the basis of the practice of social inquiry and criticizes them for securing their ability to explain and predict social phenomena. This course provides an extended overview of the central debates in the philosophy of social sciences. First, we will discuss whether there is an epistemological import difference between natural and social sciences. Second, we will discuss what is the method (or methods) in social sciences, what type of knowledge social inquiry produces, and discuss the ontology of social kinds. Finally, we will discuss whether research in the social sciences can be objective and value-free.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4
Instructors: Ruiz, N. (PI)

PHIL 180: Metaphysics (PHIL 280)

Intensive introduction to core topics in contemporary metaphysics. What is the fundamental structure of reality? Is it objective? What's the difference between concrete and abstract entities? How can there be truths about what is possible or necessary, if only the actual exists? What is it for an event to be determined by its causes? Is the world purely physical? Does science answer all of these questions? If not, is there some other way to answer them? Prerequisites: PHIL 80, PHIL 150, and one course in contemporary theoretical philosophy ( PHIL 181 to PHIL 189).
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Hussain, N. (PI)

PHIL 181: Philosophy of Language (PHIL 281)

The study of conceptual questions about language as a focus of contemporary philosophy for its inherent interest and because philosophers see questions about language as behind perennial questions in other areas of philosophy including epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and ethics. Key concepts and debates about the notions of meaning, truth, reference, and language use, with relations to psycholinguistics and formal semantics. Readings from philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Grice, and Kripke. Prerequisites: 80 and background in logic.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Crimmins, M. (PI) ; Lawrence, P. (TA)

PHIL 187: Philosophy of Action (PHIL 287)

This course will explore foundational issues about individual agency, explanation of action, reasons and causes, agency in the natural world, practical rationality, interpretation, teleological explanation, intention and intentional action, agency and time, intention and belief, knowledge of one's own actions, identification and hierarchy, and shared agency. Prerequisite: graduate student standing in philosophy or, for others, prior course work in philosophy that includes Philosophy 80.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Bratman, M. (PI) ; Gottlieb, D. (TA) ; Tan, J. (TA)

PHIL 194Y: Capstone seminar: Metaphilosophy

Capstone seminar for Philosophy majors. What should we aim to do in doing philosophy, and how should we aim to do it? The idea that philosophy involves some sort of analysis has a long pedigree, with a continuing grip on us. In the first half of the term, we will explore different ideas about analysis, and criticisms of the so-called Linguistic and Conceptual Turns in 20th century Anglo-American philosophy. In the second half of the term, we will explore reformed conceptions of analytic philosophy, with special emphasis on Timothy Williamson?s view.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4
Instructors: Lawlor, K. (PI)

PHIL 196: Tutorial, Senior Year

(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 15 units total)

PHIL 197: Individual Work, Undergraduate

May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-15 | Repeatable for credit
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