printer friendly pagePHIL 194H: Explanation and Justification
We will discuss the nature of epistemic justification¿in particular, whether it's "internal" or "external" and how, if at all, justification can explain belief. Assignments include a term paper + an oral presentation
Last offered: Winter 2014
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
PHIL 194J: Capstone Seminar: The Possibility of Philosophy
We will read two recent books: Raymond Guess, World without Why; and Timothy Williamson, The Philosophy of Philosophy. This will be a seminar that will allow for extensive discussion and focussed work on a single long seminar paper. Prerequisites
PHIL 80, one course from
PHIL 170-176, one course from
PHIL 180-189, and
PHIL 102.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Hussain, N. (PI)
PHIL 194L: Montaigne
Preference to Philosophy seniors. Philosophical and literary aspects of Montaigne's
Essays including the nature of the self and self-fashioning, skepticism, fideism, and the nature of Montaigne's philosophical project. Montaigne's development of the essay as a literary genre.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
PHIL 194N: Philosophical Issues in Cognitive Science
Philosophers generally do not perform systematic empirical observations or construct computational models. But philosophy remains important to cognitive science because it deals with fundamental issues that underlie the experimental and computational approach to mind. Abstract questions such as the nature of representation and computation. Relation of mind and body and methodological questions such as the nature of explanations found in cognitive science. Normative questions about how people should think as well as with descriptive ones about how they do. In addition to the theoretical goal of understanding human thinking, cognitive science can have the practical goal of improving it, which requires normative reflection on what we want thinking to be. Philosophy of mind does not have a distinct method, but should share with the best theoretical work in other fields a concern with empirical results.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 194P: Naming and Necessity
Saul Kripke's lectures on reference, modal metaphysics, and the mind/body problem.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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?
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 194S: Skepticism
Modern arguments for skepticism are hard to combat, but also curiously inert in ordinary life. We will look at a variety of contemporary attempts to come to terms with skepticism about the external world, each of which seeks to exploit the curious inertness of skeptical hypotheses.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
PHIL 194T: Practical Reason
Contemporary research on practical reason, practical rationality, and reasons for action. Enrollment limited to 12. Priority given to undergraduate Philosophy majors.
Last offered: Autumn 2011
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?
Last offered: Autumn 2007
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