Humanities Degrees in the USA

...Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780816614400. This will be supplemented with material that will be made available...

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...This will be a seminar on classic and contemporary work on central topics in ethics. The first third of the course will focus on metaethics...

...Unexcused absences will be reflected in the attendance and participation grade. Students who have missed more than two classes will be asked to write a short (1-page)... Learn about: IT Law...

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...1.5 hours / session The class will be devoted to the work of David Lewis, one of the most exciting and influential philosophers of the late twentieth century...

...one due on lecture 9 will be at least 1500 words long (as indicated by the computer word-count on the first page) and consisting of an analysis of...

...will be a factor in the final grade. One long paper will be due at the end of the course. This paper will be at least 3500 words long (as indicated...

...studied in relation to the history of philosophy as well as more recent work in philosophy, affective psychology, cognitive studies, and art theory... Learn about: History of Philosophy...

...The readings and films that are discussed in this course draw upon classic myths of the Western world. Emphasis is placed on meaning and technique as...

...2009. ISBN: 9781405159289. Moore, G. E. Principia Ethica. 2nd ed. Edited by Thomas Baldwin. Cambridge University Press, 1994. [Preview with Google Books]...

...7. Davidson. Papers from Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective. Avramides. Other Minds. Chap. 8. Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations...

...covering: (1) de se thought; (2) propositions; (3) knowing how; (4) perceptual content; (5) the knowledge argument. MIT students were required to obtain...

...and Kim Plunkett. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780199243815. Gendler, Tamar Szabó, and John Hawthorne, eds. Perceptual Experience...

...It will be useful to have a copy of Wright, C., B. C. Smith, and C. Macdonald eds. Knowing Our Own Minds. New York, NY: Oxford University Press...

...obtain permission from the instructors. Students taking this class for credit ought to: Don't show me this again This is one of over 2,200 courses on...

...and a draft must be submitted by Session 22. An important theme of the course will be that there are different perspectives from which one can view a single phenomenon... Learn about: Social Theory...

...1983. ISBN: 9780195032048. ———. Papers in Philosophical Logic. Vol. 1. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780521587884...

...and why it's important. This will involve surveying some prominent accounts of vagueness. Much of our focus will be on the following two texts...

...Students were graded on the following: In-class student presentations Final paper due 6 days after Session 13 Don't show me this again This is one of...