PHIL 126B: Kant's Ethical Theory (PHIL 226B)
(Graduate students register for 226B.) Kant's moral philosophy based primarily on the
Groundwork of Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, and
The Metaphysics of Morals.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 128: Fichte's Ethics (PHIL 228)
(Graduate students register for 228.) The founder of the German Idealist movement who adopted but revised Kant's project of transcendental philosophy basing it on the principle of awareness of free self-activity. The awareness of other selves and of ethical relations to them as a necessary condition for self-awareness. His writings from 1793-98 emphasizing the place of intersubjectivity in his theory of experience.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 130: Hegel (PHIL 230)
(Formerly 122/222; graduate students register for 230.) Introduction to Hegel's philosophy, emphasizing his moral and political philosophy, through study of his last major work (1821). May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: course in the history of modern philosophy.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
| Repeatable for credit
PHIL 134: Phenomenology and Intersubjectivity (PHIL 234)
(Graduate students register for 234.) Readings from Husserl, Stein, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty on subjects related to awareness of others. Topics include solipsism, collective experience, empathy, and objectification of the other.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 136: History of Analytic Philosophy (PHIL 236)
(Formerly 147/247; graduate students register for 236.) Theories of knowledge in Frege, Carnap, and Quine. Emphasis is on conceptions of analyticity and treatment of logic and mathematics. Prerequisite: 50 and one course numbered 150-165 or 181-90.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 138: Recent European Philosophy: Between Nature and History (PHIL 238)
A critical introduction to the novel understandings of time, language, and cultural power developed by 20th-century continental thinkers, with close attention to work by Heidegger, Saussure, Benjamin, and Foucault.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 143: Quine (PHIL 243)
(Formerly 183/283; graduate students register for 243.) The philosophy of Quine: meaning and communication; analyticity, modality, reference, and ontology; theory and evidence; naturalism; mind and the mental.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 160A: Newtonian Revolution (PHIL 260A)
(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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 160B: Newtonian Revolution (PHIL 260B)
(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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 163: Significant Figures in Philosophy of Science (PHIL 263)
(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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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