Fall Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| PHILOS (F24) | 200 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES | BAUM, E. |
Med Hum 200: Analyzes social and cultural understandings of the body, health, illness, medicine, and disease. Themes include critical histories of the body; "alternative" and non-biomedical healing systems; race, gender, and identity in medical care; and theories and expressions of pain and suffering. | ||
| PHILOS (F24) | 205A SET THY & MATH REAS | EASWARAN, K. |
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| PHILOS (F24) | 206 LARGE CARDINALS | MEADOWS, T. |
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| PHILOS (F24) | 213 LEIBNIZ AND CLARKE | GARCIA-TORRES |
This course centers around the correspondence between G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) and Samuel Clarke (1675-1729). Leibniz, a true polymath, was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Clarke, arguably the greatest defender of Newtonianism, was the most influential British metaphysician and theologian in the generation between John Locke (1632-1704) and George Berkeley (1685-1753). Some of the central topics of dispute in the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence are the nature of space and time, vacuum, matter, agency, identity, miracles, and God; we will touch on these topics. Of central importance to this course, however, are the topics of freedom and the principle of sufficient reason (PSR). Leibniz and Clarke agree on the significance of both freedom and the PSR, but they come to fundamentally different conclusions about their nature and relationship. The main goal of this course is for students to better appreciate, in their proper historical context, the nuances and the strengths of the opposing philosophical considerations Leibniz and Clarke bring forth in support of their respective conclusions. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. Same as LPS 213. | ||
| PHILOS (F24) | 218 WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY | BONCOMPAGNI, A. |
The presence of women in the history of analytic philosophy is still underestimated, although recent studies are uncovering their work and importance. In this seminar we will examine the crucial role that some women philosophers had, looking at their writings and at the exchanges they had with more established figures such as Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, members of the Vienna Circle, and ordinary language philosophers. Among the thinkers that we will consider are Victoria Welby, Susan Stebbing, Margaret MacDonald, Alice Ambrose, Dorothy Wrinch, Rose Rand, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Susanne Langer. | ||
| PHILOS (F24) | 221 THERORY OF KNOWLEDG | BERNECKER, S. |
| Studies in selected areas of epistemology. Topics addressed vary each quarter. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. Same as LPS 221. | ||
| PHILOS (F24) | 221 TOPC EPISTEMOLOGY | COLIVA, A. |
Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology Virtually all descriptions of social epistemology start with the claim that key to it is the rejection of the tenets of individualistic epistemology, such as the idea that inquiry and knowledge are pursued by individual thinkers alone. It is seldom noted, and is indeed a sign of the deep erasure of the ideas of the later Wittgenstein, that it is starting with the Philosophical Investigations, that the social dimension starts being considered constitutive of meaning and of normativity, and the idea of private experiences, which should at once ground meaning and knowledge, is found nonsensical, or resolved, like in the case of knowledge of our mental states, in terms of grammatical - and therefore communal - recognition of authority over one's own psychological avowals. However, it is only with On Certainty, that the relevance of Wittgenstein's ideas for contemporary core issues in social epistemology - such as the very nature of common knowledge, deep disagreements and their relations to genealogical projects in philosophy, testimony and trust, as well as debates about gender and their relations with epistemic justice - are brought into sharp relief. The seminar will look at each of these themes through an analysis of key passages both in the Philosophical Investigations and in On Certainty, and will bring them in conversation with works in contemporary social epistemology by authors such as Greco, White, Elizabeth and Miranda Fricker, Beier, Lackey, Goldberg, and Haslanger. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. Same as LPS 221. | ||
| PHILOS (F24) | 240 FOUNDATIONS | STANFORD, P. |
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| PHILOS (F24) | 241 PHIL COSMO | WEATHERALL, J. |
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| PHILOS (F24) | 244 PPE I | BARRETT, J. |
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| PHILOS (F24) | 244 SOCIAL DYNAMICS | SKYRMS, B. |
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