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Aristotle's views about substance and the nature and possibility of metaphysics. Focus is on 'Categories' and 'Metaphysics' Book Zeta. The 2 unit option is only for Philosophy PhD students beyond the second year.

Hume's theoretical philosophy emphasizing skepticism and naturalism, the theory of ideas and belief, space and time, causation and necessity, induction and laws of nature, miracles, a priori reasoning, the external world, and the identity of the self. 2 unit option only for Philosophy PhD students beyond the relevant PhD distribution requirements. Prerequisites: Undergraduates wishing to take this course must have previously taken History of Modern Philosophy or the equivalent, and may only enroll with permission from the instructor.

2 unit option only for Philosophy PhD students beyond the second year.

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. Prerequisite: Phil 225 (Kant's First Critique) or equivalent. 2 unit option is only for Philosophy PhD students beyond the second year.

Grad seminar. 2 unit option only for Philosophy PhD students beyond the second year.

Grad seminar. 2 unit option only for Philosophy PhD students beyond the second year.

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. 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. In this year's installment, 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. May be repeated for credit.

This grad seminar will discuss a variety of topics in contemporary research into philosophical aesthetics, including but not limited to: aesthetic value; aesthetic normativity; aesthetic permissions and obligations; aesthetic particularism; and the nature of art. Assignments include an oral presentation and an original research paper (15-20 pages). Students who are not currently graduate students in philosophy may enroll only with instructor permission.

Graduate seminar. 2 unit option only for Philosophy PhDs beyond their second year.