Bachelor's degree

In Maynard (USA)

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  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Maynard (USA)

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This major is designed to provide familiarity with the history and current status of the main problems in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics; mastery of some of the technical skills requisite for advanced work in philosophy; facility at independent philosophical study; and work at an advanced level in an allied field. A relatively large amount of unrestricted elective time is available so that students can devise programs suited to individual needs and interests. This major, also known as the Program in Language and Mind, aims to provide students with a working knowledge of a variety of issues that currently occupy the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science. Central among these topics are the nature of language, of those mental representations that we call "knowledge" and "belief," and of the innate basis for the acquisition of certain types of knowledge (especially linguistic knowledge). Students have the option of pursuing either a philosophy track or a linguistics track. Both require a core set of subjects drawn from both fields and are designed to teach students the central facts and issues in the study of language and the representation of knowledge. Each track requires, in addition, a set of subjects drawn primarily from its discipline and is designed to prepare students for graduate study either in philosophy/cognitive science or in linguistics. A coherent program of three restricted electives (drawn from one or two of the following three areas: linguistics, philosophy, or a related area) rounds out the major. Note that students are prohibited from majoring in both 24-1 and 24-2. The goal of the Minor in Philosophy is to introduce students to the methods of analytic philosophy and then to have them study a broad range of philosophers and philosophical issues at a more sophisticated level, culminating in an advanced seminar . The minor consists of six subjects arranged into three levels of study as follows: The...

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Subjects

  • Cognitive Science
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy

Course programme

Units
12
12
Classics of Western Philosophy
Topics in the History of Philosophy (CI-M)
12
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophical Issues in Brain Science
Minds and Machines
Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Theory of Knowledge
Philosophy of Perception
Topics in the Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics (CI-M)
Introduction to Philosophy of Language (CI-M)
Philosophy of Mathematics
Foundations of Probability
12
Philosophy and the Arts
Moral Problems and the Good Life
Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food
Justice
Bioethics
The Ethics of Climate Change
Moral Psychology (CI-M)
Literature and Philosophy
Decisions, Games and Rational Choice
Meta-ethics
Ethics (CI-M)
Philosophy of Law (CI-M)
Topics in Social Theory and Practice
Feminist Thought
12
Paradox and Infinity
Logic I
Logic II
Classical Set Theory
Modal Logic
Theory of Models
Topics in Philosophy (CI-M)

60
132
84-120
(36-72)
180

Philosophy

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