Humanities, Social Science, Education Postgraduate Degrees in the USA

...Keefe, Rosanna, and Peter Smith, eds. Vagueness: A Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 0262112256. Williamson, Timothy. Vagueness...

...Some questions that will be explored and discussed are: What is the distinctive philosophical interest of self-knowledge? Is self-knowledge really an epistemic achievement?...

...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...

...Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. There's no signup, and no start or end dates. Knowledge is your reward. Use OCW to guide your own life-long learning... Learn about: Social Science...

...If so, is Appiah right to conclude that there are no races? How should one go about "analyzing" the concept of race? The readings for the course will...

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...situations Background on modality Heim 1992 IV. Habituals and dispositionals Don't show me this again This is one of over 2,200 courses on...

...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...

...Inherited organizational as well as presentational properties are gratefully acknowledged. 24.900 Introduction to Linguistics Readings: There is no textbook for this class...

...courtesy requires that you give prior notification (email or phone would be fine) and tell me what is going on. There are of course acceptable excuses...

...covering the entire MIT curriculum. No enrollment or registration. Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. There's no signup, and no start or end dates...

...comprehension attempts to discover what representations are used when people understand sentences, and how these representations are arrived at during...

...acquisition and disorders but will also be able to apply these critical skills to the study of other domains of linguistics and cognitive science...

...over a variety of topics, especially in relation to linguistic theory. The topics covered will include syntax, semantics, and phonology in development...

...We will discuss this more in class. A short paper on a topic from the class will be due on the last class day. This paper can be quite short...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course is a continuation of 24.951. The broad issues of interest this semester include movement...

...present his/her research during the final weeks of class. Lecture 2: Theta Roles, Decomposition, the External Argument, and the Object Dowty...

...covering the entire MIT curriculum. No enrollment or registration. Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. There's no signup, and no start or end dates...

...generative semantics, government-binding theory/minimalism, LFG, HPSG, TAG, functionalist perspectives and others. An overarching issue in linguistic theory...

...must turn in their own write-up of the solution. Homeworks will range from relatively straightforward applications of concepts introduced in class to...