printer friendly pagePHIL 324: Kant's System of Nature and Freedom
The aim is to acquire a sense of how the two main parts of Kant's philosophy, theoretical and practical, fit together. These two parts, according to the Critique of the Power of Judgment, concern the realm of nature and the realm of freedom respectively. We shall study parts of all three Critiques, along with appropriate supplementary materials. Prior acquaintance with both Kant's theoretical and his practical philosophy is presupposed.
Last offered: Spring 2013
PHIL 326: Kant's Transcendental Deduction
Last offered: Spring 2016
PHIL 327: Scientific Philosophy: From Kant to Kuhn and Beyond
Examines the development of scientific philosophy from Kant, through the Naturphilosophie of Schelling and Hegel, to the neo-Kantian scientific tradition initiated by Hermann von Helmholtz and the neo-Kantian history and philosophy of science of Ernst Cassirer and Thomas Kuhn. Proposes a post-Kuhnian approach to the history and philosophy of science in light of these developments.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Friedman, M. (PI)
PHIL 330: Social and Political Philosophy of Hegel and Marx (ETHICSOC 330R, POLISCI 330)
Last offered: Winter 2015
PHIL 332: Nietzsche
Preference to doctoral students. Nietzsche's later works emphasizing
The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and
On the Genealogy of Morals. The shape of Nietzsche's philosophical and literary projects, and his core doctrines such as eternal recurrence, will to power, and perspectivism. Problems such as the proper regulation of belief, and the roles of science, morality, art, and illusion in life.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
PHIL 333: Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (DLCL 333)
This course serves as the Core Seminar for the PhD Minor in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts. It introduces students to a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy with literary and arts criticism. In this year¿s installment of the seminar, we will focus on issues about the nature of fiction, about the experience of appreciation and what it does for us, about the ethical consequences of imaginative fictions, and about different conceptions of the importance of the arts in life more broadly. The seminar is intended for graduate students. It is suitable for theoretically ambitious students of literature and the arts, philosophers with interests in value theory, aesthetics, and topics in language and mind, and other students with strong interest in the psychological importance of engagement with the arts. May be repeat for credit
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 20 units total)
Instructors:
Anderson, R. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
PHIL 334: Habermas
Does Habermas have a distinctive account of normativity and normative judgements?
Last offered: Spring 2009
PHIL 335: Topics in Aesthetics
May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Autumn 2005
| Repeatable
for credit
PHIL 339: Marx (POLISCI 333S)
This course examines the works of a thinker who radically transformed the ways that we think about modern society. Marx saw fundamental problems with capitalist societies, including: un-freedom, alienation, inequality, and bureaucratization. He developed a theory to account for these problems. Our task will be to read his works critically and to evaluate their contributions to our understanding the relationship between politics, social structure, knowledge and human agency. We will also be especially interested in comparing his view with alternative diagnoses of the problems of modern capitalist societies, especially those of Max Weber and John Rawls.
Last offered: Autumn 2013
PHIL 340: Time and Free Will
Free will and the consequence argument of Peter van Inwagen and others. Focus is on the principle that one cannot change the past and the problem of backtracking conditionals, and less on the problem raised by determinismon. Hypotheses less drastic than determinism support backtrackers; given the backtracker, would someone¿s not having done something require that he change the past? Issues related to time, change, the phenomenology of agency, and McTaggart's argument about the reality of time.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
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