Humanities Postgraduate Degrees

...The course will be divided into five parts, covering: (1) de se thought; (2) propositions; (3) knowing how; (4) perceptual content; (5) the knowledge argument...

...introspection, and the perception of sound. Questions raised by these topics include "In what way is imagination distinct from perception?"...

...and the rest of the time will be devoted to discussion. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This is a seminar on "self-knowledge"...

...Is there anything that you ethically ought to do, e.g., give to charity or refrain from stealing? Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This...

...play an important role in the public domain. This term we will consider the following questions: What is race? Do races exist? If so, in what sense?... Learn about: Social Theory...

...of the class will be on getting clear about the limitations of our theoretical tools. I'd like to focus on places where our theorizing runs into trouble...

...1 session / week, 3 hours / session The objective of the course is to give people a sense of what "accounting for vagueness" is all about, why it's...

...distinctively first-personal self-knowledge? Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This course is a graduate seminar surveying recent work on self-knowledge...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session The final grade will be determined using the following weights: At least one seminar presentation is required during the... Learn about: History of Philosophy...

...Core readings will address questions such as: We will consider specific topics for discussion and additional readings depending on the interests of the seminar participants... Learn about: Social Science...

...How should one go about "analyzing" the concept of race? Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session Race is a hotly contested issue in contemporary politics and medicine...

...version complete different assignments. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session We will be considering three fundamental questions...

...sentences that are used to talk about habits, tendencies, dispositions, or kinds. For instance: Capturing the meaning of generic sentences turns out...

...On a non-linguistic level, the course aims to teach you by example the virtues of formulating precise and explicit descriptive statements; and to develop...

...discoveries of the field of syntax. We will explore the hierarchical organization of language and look at a number of syntactic phenomena that are common...

...We will try to give you an understanding of the concepts of semantics and pragmatics and of some of the technical tools that we use. Lectures...

...(and typically to the instructors as well). In some ways it simulates traditional field methods research. In terms of format, we work in both group...

...the use of lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, contextual and prosodic information in language comprehension; the relationship between the computational...

...examining ways in which these disorders confront theories of language and acquisition. Seminars: 1 session / week; 2.5 hours / session There are no prerequisites...

...is designed to teach future scientists in the study of language acquisition. Much of the learning in this class happens through student-professor interaction...