2008-2009 Curriculum
Fall 2008
Philosophy C1010
METHODS/PROBS OF PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT
Critical introduction to philosophical problems, ideas and methods.
Call Number: 13004 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 9:10am-10:25am Location: 517 Hamilton
Instructor: John D. Collins
Philosophy V2003
INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY OF ART
This is a lecture discussion class divided into 5 parts comprising historical and contemporary readings: (1) 'What is art?' and the problem of taste and judgment? (2) Fakes and Forgeries (3) The artworld (4) The debate over public art (5) Art and technology.
Call Number: 12996 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 10:35am-11:50am Location: TBA
Instructor: Lydia Goehr
Philosophy V2101
HIST-PHIL:PRE-SOCRATCS-AUGUSTN
Exposition and analysis of the positions of the major philosophers from the pre-Socratics through Augustine.
Call Number: 16498 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 11:00am-12:15pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Katja Vogt
Philosophy V2301
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: KANT-NIETZSCHE
Exposition and analysis of major texts in 18th- and 19th-century European philosophy. Authors include Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. No prerequisites, though PHIL V2201 or one 1000-level course in Philosophy would be helpful.
Call Number: 09531 Points: 3
Day/ Time: MW 9:10 am-10:25am Location: TBA
Instructor: Fred Neuhouser
English W3230
JOYCE
This course will focus on Joyce's prose fiction. In the first weeks, we shall read and discuss Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The greater part of the semester will be devoted to close reading of Ulysses. At the end, as time permits, we shall explore some sections from Finnegans Wake (I anticipate spending four or five classes on parts of Joyce's final masterpiece). Although I suspect that most students will already have read Portrait, no previous knowledge of Joyce's writing is required.
Call Number: 82196 Points: 3
Day/ Time: MW 2:40 pm-3:55 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Philip Kitcher
Philosophy V3237
EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Prerequisites: One philosophy course or permission of the instructor. A study of one or more topics or major philosophers from the Renaissance through the 18th century. Sample topics: substance and matter; space, time, and motion; bodies, minds and spirits; liberty and necessity; causation; identity and individuation; knowledge and skepticism; philosophy and science; philosophy and theology; issues in moral and political philosophy. Sample philosophers: Bacon, Berkeley, Conway, Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, Newton, Pascal. Topics and Philosophers for Fall 2008: Minds, Bodies, Causality (Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza). Liberty and Necessity (Descartes, Spinoza, Hume). Miracles (Spinoza, Hume). Space, time and motion (Descartes, Newton, Huygens, Berkeley, Leibniz, Kant).
Call Number: 09034 Points: 3
Day/ Time: TR 10:35am-11:50am Location: TBA
Instructor: Alan Gabbey
Philosophy V3301
TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
The founders and precursors of the major movements of 20th-century analytical philosophy including Pragmatism, Logical Positivism, and Linguistic Analysis are confronted by the opposing traditions of phenomenology and existentialism. Examines the internal development of these movements and their criticism by more recent post modernist philosophers. Philosophers include James, Moore, Russell, Bergson, Husserl, Carnap, Heidegger, Ryle, Wittgenstein, Austin, Sartre, Foucault, and Berlin.
Call Number: 62279 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 2:40pm-3:55pm Location: TBA
Instructor: David Sidorsky
Philosophy V3411
INTRO TO SYMBOLIC LOGIC
Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable. Discussion Section Required.
Call Number: 56046 Points: 4
Day/Time: MW 10:35am-11:50am Location: 207 Mathematics
Notes: UNDERGRAD STUDENTS REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS ONLY
Instructor: Achille Varzi
Philosophy W3551
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries. Sample problems: space, time, and motion; causes and forces; scientific explanation; theory, law, and hypothesis; induction; verification and falsification; models and analogies; scientific realism; scientific revolutions.
Call Number: 92396 Points: 3
Day/ Time: TR 2:40pm-3:55pm Location: TBA
Instructor: David Albert
Philosophy V3653
MIND AND MORALS
Prerequisite: One course in Philosophy. Examines theories of normative ethics against the background of studies in cognitive and social psychology. How important are empathy, self-knowledge, and cultural norms to determining what is the right thing to do? Topics include moral cognition, the rationality of certain ethical intuitions, and the possibility of altruism.
Call Number: 03742 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 11:00am-12:15pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Stephanie Beardman
Philosophy V3654
PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY
The course looks at problems at the intersection of philosophy and psychology, including the nature of consciousness, representation, self-knowledge, and the emotion. It also considers issues of explanation and reductionism.
Call Number: 12797 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 1:25pm-2:40pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Patricia Kitcher
Philosophy V3751
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
An introduction to social and political philosophy through the examination of six of its major concepts: authority, rights, equality, justice, liberty, and democracy. Each of these concepts is examined through a contemporary essay in conceptual analysis by such writers as Peters, Hart, Williams, Rawls, Berlin, and Schumpeter, as well as by the locus classicus texts by such traditional authors as Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Plato, Mill, and Rousseau. The exemplification of these concepts in their relevant political contexts is also developed.
Call Number: 82191 Points: 3
Day/ Time: TR 2:40pm-3:55pm Location: TBA
Instructor: David Sidorsky
Philosophy W3996
SUPERVISED SENIOR RESEARCH
Supervised research usually with the goal of writing an honors' thesis, under the direction of individual members of the department.
Call Number: See the Directory of Classes for section call numbers Points: 3
Philosophy W3997
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Call Number: See the Directory of Classes for section call numbers Points: 1-3
Philosophy W4137
NON-CLASSICAL LOGICS
An overview of the main extensions and alternatives to classical logic, including: many-valued logics, fuzzy logics, partial logics, free logics, inclusive logics, paraconsistent logics, modal logics, intuitionism. Prerequisite: One term of formal logic (V3411/G4415, Introduction to Symbolic/ Formal Logic, or G4801, Mathematical Logic I).
Call Number: 55896 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 2:10pm-4:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Achille Varzi
Philosophy G4260
KANT'S ETHICS
The course will trace (and evaluate) central themes in Kant's ethical theory through his major texts, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical Reason, the Metaphysics of Morals, and relevant parts of Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason. Themes include the role of reason in moral evaluation and decision, freedom and autonomy, moral egalitarianism, moral idealism, moral dilemmas, and Kant's idea of the good.
Call Number: 53596 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 4:10pm-6:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Patricia Kitcher
Philosophy G4415
INTRO TO SYMBOLIC LOGIC
Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable. Discussion Section Required.
Call Number: 56046 Points: 4
Day/Time: MW 10:35am-11:50am Location: 207 Mathematics
Notes: GRADUATE STUDENTS REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS ONLY
Instructor: Achille Varzi
Philosophy G4471
PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
Topics: Mathematical reasoning and intuition, as illustrated in simple problem solving and historical examples. The source of mathematical validity. Views of mathematics of some major philosophers: Kant, Mill, Frege Russell, Wittgenstein. Realism and Constructivism. Hilbert's program. Mathematics as a formal deductive activity. Formal systems and the significance of Gödel's incompleteness results. Some more recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics.
Call Number: 57946 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 2:10pm-4:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Haim Gaifman
Philosophy G4483
EVOLUTION, ALTRUISM, AND ETHICS
This seminar will elaborate and examine a naturalistic approach to ethics, one that views contemporary ethical practices as products of a long and complex history. I am currently writing a book presenting this form of naturalism, and chapters will be assigned for each meeting after the first. Using brief readings from other ethical perspectives, both historical and contemporary, we shall try to evaluate the prospects of ethical naturalism.
Open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students.
Call Number: 13152 Points: 3
Day/Time: W 11:10am-1:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Philip Kitcher
Philosophy W4501
EPISTEMOLOGY
Knowledge of the external world, of other persons, and of ourselves. Selections from traditional and modern texts will be studied.
Call Number: 63596 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 4:10pm-6:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Jeff Helzner
Philosophy G4561
PROBABILITY AND INDUCTION
Examines interpretations and applications of the calculus of probability including applications as a measure of degree of belief, degree of confirmation, relative frequency, a theoretical property of systems, and other notions of objective probability or chance. Attention to epistimological questions such as Hume's problem of induction, Goodman's problem of projectibility, and the paradox of confirmation.
Call Number: 47954 Points: 3
Day/ Time: W 9:00am-10:50am Location: TBA
Instructor: John Collins
Philosophy G4600
PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS IN GERMAN
Careful reading and translation of a classic German philosophical text to be chosen by the course participants in consultation with the instructor. Emphasis on the special problems of reading and understanding non-English philosophical texts in the original. Open to students with the equivalent of two years of college German.
Call Number: 02507 Points: 2
Day/Time: M 6:10pm-8:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Fred Neuhouser
Philosophy G4601
PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS IN FRENCH
A close reading and translation of sections from French philosophical texts with emphasis on the special problems of translating philosophical prose. Texts for Fall 2006: Descartes, Discours de la méthode, Les Passions de l'âme, Pascal, Pensées (selections).
Call Number: 03447 Points: 2
Day/Time: M 6:10pm-8:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor:Katalin Makkai
Computer Science/PhilosophyG4801
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC I
Syntax and semantics; deductive systems; completeness and compactness theorems; first order calculi; Godel's completeness theorem; basic model theory, Skolem functions; Skolem-Lowenheim theorems.
Call Number: 26797 Points: 3
Day/Time: R 4:10pm-6:00pm Location:TBA
Instructor: Jeff Helzner
Philosophy G6801
AESTHETICS AND POLITICS
This year, the seminar will be devoted to the theme: Passion, Representation, and Repression: The Quarrel between music and painting. Readings will include (among others) Plato, Leonardo, Kristeller, Lessing, Herder, Hume, Pater, Wilde, Greenberg, Adorno, and Deleuze.
Call Number: 92193 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 4:10pm-6:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Lydia Goehr
Philosophy G6880
1st YEAR PROSEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY
This course, which meets only for the first seven weeks of term, is restricted to, and required for, first-year Columbia Ph.D. students. The course aims to promote weekly writing by each student. A paper, or section of a book, with which every philosopher ought to be familiar, will be selected each week, and one student will make a presentation on that target paper, while the others will hand in a brief essay about it. Essays will be returned, with comments, before the next meeting of the seminar. Each week a different member of the faculty, in addition to Professor Peacocke, will participate in the discussions. A second seven-week segment of the ProSeminar will be held in the Spring Semester of 2009.
Call Number: 78246 Points: 3
Day/Time: W 6:30pm-8:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Chris Peacocke
Philosophy G9001
QUODLIBETAL STUDIES
Prerequisite: high-quality work in the previous term. Arrangements must be made with the director of graduate studies. Tutorial work in specialized research topics.
Call Number: See the Directory of Classes for section call numbers Points: 3-6
Philosophy G9003
QUODLIBETAL STUDIES III
Prerequisites: High-quality work in the previous term. Arrangements must be made with the director of graduate studies. Tutorial work in specialized research topics.
Call Number: 51096 Points: 3-6
Philosophy G9131
ARISTOTLE
This course will typically be devoted to reading closely (parts of) one of Aristotle's major treatises with the aim of elucidating both the central philosophical claims that he advances, and the arguments for them that he provides. The works to be studied and the topics to be considered will be different in different years.
Topic for Fall 2008: Aristotle's Metaphysics.
Call Number: 87098 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 2:10pm-4:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Wolfgang Mann
Philosophy G9563
EXPLANATION AND INDUCTION
Selected topics in the foundations of probability and induction, and statistical inference.
Call Number: 57646 Points: 3-6
Day/Time: R 2:10pm-4:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Haim Gaifman
Philosophy G9577
TOPICS IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
The various attempts to solve the problem of measurement in Quantum Mechanics. Emphasis on theories without a collapse of the wave-function, such as non-local hidden-variables theories and the many-worlds interpretation. Related topics such as self-measurement and Quantum Cosmology.
Call Number: 63444 Points: 3-6
Day/Time: F 2:10pm-4:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: David Albert
Philosophy G9658
ADVANCED TOPICS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
This seminar will be concerned with the interactions between the theory of intentional content and thought on the one hand, and metaphysics on the other. We will first discuss the role of truth and reference in the individuation of intentional content. We will then draw on that role in discussing the following issues: the nature of rule-following and objectivity in thought; transcendental arguments and objective content in thought and in perception; the general phenomenon of relation-based thought, and its extent, nature and significance; the nature of subjects of consciousness, self-representation and first person thought.
Call Number: 61296 Points: 3
Day/Time: W 2:10pm-4:00pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Chris Peacocke
Philosophy G9750
TOPICS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Analysis of selected concepts that are central to political philosophy, including authority, rights, justice, equality, liberty, and democracy. The arguments that have been advanced in the classical tradition and in contemporary literature that have served to support and to criticize the validity of these concepts are examined.
Notes: This course is open to graduate and undergraduate students in any subject.This course will only meet for half of the semester.
Call Number: 56283 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 9:00am-10:50am Location: TBA
Instructor: Gerald Cohen
Philosophy G9901
RESEARCH IN PHILOSOPHY I
Prerequisite: director of graduate studies' permission.
Call Number: See the Directory of Classes for section call numbers Points: 3
Spring 2009
Philosophy V1401
ELEMENTARY LOGIC
Explicit criteria for recognizing valid and fallacious arguments, together with various methods for schematizing discourse for the purpose of logical analysis. Illustrative material taken from science and everyday life.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TR 1:25 pm-2:40pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Daniel Rothschild
Philosophy V2201
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY II
PHIL V2101 is not a prerequisite for this course. Exposition and analysis of the metaphysics, epistemology, and natural philosophy of the major philosophers from Aquinas through Kant. Authors include Aquinas, Galileo, Gassendi, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: MW 1:25 pm-2:40 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Patricia Kitcher
Philosophy BC2120
EXISTENTIALISM
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TR 10:35 am-11:50 am Location: TBA
Instructor: Katalin Makkai
Philosophy V3121
PLATO
Introduction to Plato's philosophy through analysis of selected dialogues.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TR 10:35 am-11:50 am Location: TBA
Instructor: Wolfgang Mann
Philosophy V3351
PHENOMENOLOGY & EXISTENTIALISM
Reading and discussion of selected works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Topics include intentionality, consciousness and self-consciousness, phenomenological method, the question of being, authenticity and inauthenticity, bad faith, death, and the role of the body in perception.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: MW 10:35 am-11:50 am Location: TBA
Instructor: Taylor Carman
Philosophy 3411/ G4415
SYMBOLIC LOGIC
Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable. Discussion Section Required.
Call Number: TBA Points: 4
Day/ Time: MW 11:00 am-12:15 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Jeff Helzner
Philosophy V3601
METAPHYSICS
Systematic treatment of some major topics in metaphysics (e.g. modality, causation, identity through time, particulars and universals). Readings from contemporary authors.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TR 11:00 am-12:15 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: John Collins
Philosophy V3701
MORAL PHILOSOPHY
Prerequisites: One course in philosophy. Introduction to the three central theories of normative ethics: consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. Questions to be examined include: "Why be moral?" What is the relationshipof value to morality?" and "Is a Unified Theory of Ethics possible?.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TR 2:40 pm-3:55 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: David Sidorsky
PHIL C3997
SUPERVISED SENIOR RESEARCH
Call Number: See the Directory of Classes for section call numbers Points: 3
PHIL W3998
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Call Number: See the Directory of Classes for section call numbers Points: 3
Philosophy C3912
MAJORS SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY: Moral Philosophy
Theories of the Good. How should we understand the property "good"? What does it mean to say that something or someone is good? We discuss classic positions in 20th century metaethics (Moore, Hare, Pritchard, Stevenson, Foot, and others), historical positions that influence modern debates (Plato, Aristotle, Hume), and some recent contributions to the debate.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TBA Location: TBA
Instructor: Katja Vogt
Philosophy C3912
MAJORS SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY: Subjects of Consciousness, The First Person
and Self-Knowledge
What is a subject of consciousness, perception, thought and action? Is a subject something constructed from mental events, or do subjects exist in their own right? What is the nature of first person thought? When we think about ourselves in the first-person way, are we thinking about such a subject? Do we have special ways of knowing about ourselves, our properties and our relations? If so, how are such special ways possible? And how do each of these topics and plausible philosophical positions on them relate to the empirical results of psychology and neurosciences? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this Seminar.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: F 11:00 am-12:50 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Chris Peacocke
Philosophy G4XXX
PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: W 11:00 am-12:50 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: David Sidorsky
Philosophy GXXXX
PHILOSOPHY IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: W 4:10 pm-6:00 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Bashir Diagne
Philosophy G4140
HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY: Scepticism
Ancient scepticism, and ancient debates between sceptics and non-sceptical philosophers. Topics include: belief, criteria of truth, proof, concepts, Stoic theory of cognitive impressions, Epicurean claim "all sense-perceptions are true," appearances, belief and action, belief and language.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time:TBA Location: TBA
Instructor: Katja Vogt
Philosophy G4227
SPINOZA
Prerequisites: Undergraduates wishing to take this course must see the instructor beforehand or on the first day of class. A study of the Ethics, parts of the Theologico-Political Treatise and of other works. Contextual issues for consideration include Spinoza's Jewish, Scholastic and Cartesian backgrounds.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: W 9:00 am-10:50 am Location: TBA
Instructor: Alan Gabbey
Philosophy G4333
WITTGENSTEIN
The later work of Wittgenstein (centrally his Philosophical Investigations), with special attention to its influence on special debates.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: M 11:00 am-12:50 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Katalin Makkai
Philosophy G4337
FREGE, RUSSELL, WITTGENSTEIN: EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHERS
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TBA Location: TBA
Instructor: Haim Gaifman
Philosophy G4424
MODAL LOGIC
A logical treatment of necessity, possibility, and other intentional operators.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TBA Location: TBA
Instructor: Haim Gaifman
PhilosophyG4600
PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS IN GERMAN
Careful reading and translation of a classic German philosophical text to be chosen by the course participants in consultation with the instructor. Emphasis on the special problems of translating philosophical prose.
Call Number: TBA Points: 2
Day/ Time: M 6:10 pm-8:00 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Fred Neuhouser
Philosophy G4601
PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS IN FRENCH
Prerequisites: Equivalent of two years of college French. A close reading and translation of sections from French philosophical texts with emphasis on the special problems of translating philosophical prose. Texts for Fall 2006: Descartes, Discours de la méthode, Les Passions de l'âme, Pascal, Pensées (selections).
Call Number: TBA Points: 2
Day/ Time: M 6:10 pm-8:00 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Katalin Makkai
Philosophy G4675
DIRECTION OF TIME
A survey of the various attempts to reconcile the macroscopic directionality of time with the time-reversibility of the fundamental laws of physics. The second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy, statistical mechanics, cosmological problems, the problems of memory, the possibility of multiple time direction.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TBA Location: TBA
Instructor: David Albert
Philosophy/ Economics G4950
PHILOSOPHY ECONOMICS SEMINAR
Explores topics in the philosophy of economics such as welfare, social choice, and the history of political economy. Sometimes the emphasis is primarily historical and sometimes on analysis of contemporary economic concepts and theories.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: T 2:10 pm-4:00 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Philip Kitcher & Ron Findlay
Philosophy G6551
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
The logic of inquiry in natural sciences: substantive as well as methodological concepts such as cause, determination, measurement, error, prediction, and reduction. The roles of theory and experiment.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: R 4:10 pm-6:00 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Jeff Helzner
Philosophy G6881
PROSEMINAR
The course aims to promote weekly writing by each student. A paper, or section of a book, wioth which every philosopher ought to be familiar, will be selected each week, adn one student will make a presentation on that target paper, while the others will hand in a brief essay about it. Essays will be returned, with comments, before the next meeting of the seminar. Each week a different member of the faculty, in addition to Professor Rovane, will participate in the discussion.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: TBA Location: TBA
Instructor: Carol Rovane
PHIL G9004 Quodlibetal Study IV
Call Number: See the Directory of Classes for section call numbers Points: 3
Philosophy G9485
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
An examination of the semantics and pragmatics of conditionals and modals. Topics include: possible-world analysis of modality, different flavors of modality, Lewis-Stalnaker analysis of counterfactual conditionals, problems with indicative conditionals, and non-truth-conditional accounts of modals and conditionals.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: R 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Daniel Rothschild
Philosophy G9509
FORMAL ONTOLOGY
Parts, wholes, and part-whole relations; extensional vs. intensional mereology; the boundary with topology; essential parts and mereological essentialism; identity and material constitution; four-dimensionalism; ontological dependence; holes, boundaries, and other entia minora; the problem of the many; vagueness.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time:TBA Location: TBA
Instructor: Achille Varzi
Philosophy G9515
TOPICS IN METAPHYSICS
This course will cover such issues as the mind-world relation, truth, the realism-relativism debate and the metaphysical status of value.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: R 9:10 am-10:50 am Location: TBA
Instructor: John Collins
Philosophy G9528
REASON & VALUE
Call Number: TBA Points: TBA
Day/ Time: W 11:00 am-12:50 pm Location: TBA
Instructor:Stephanie Beardman
Philosophy G9755
PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
Close reading of selected texts in critical theory. Texts this year include Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, and Marcuse's Eros and Civilization. Prerequisites for undergraduates: permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited; preference given to graduate students.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: T 9:00 am-10:50 am Location: TBA
Instructor: Fred Neuhouser
Philosophy G9902
RESEARCH IN PHILOSOPHY
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/ Time: Wed 4:10 pm-6:00 pm Location: TBA
Instructor: Stephanie Beardman
