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PHIL 1100
Course Description
A general introduction to some of the main topics, texts, and methods of philosophy. Topics may include the existence of God, the nature of mind and its relation to the body, causation, free will, knowledge ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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Pereboom, D
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- R Uris Hall 498
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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Staff
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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- R Uris Hall G26
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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- F Rockefeller Hall B16
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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- F Morrill Hall 110
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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- F Uris Hall 498
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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PHIL 1110
Course Description
This First-Year Writing Seminar is about using philosophy and everyday life and provides the opportunity to write extensively about these issues. Topics vary by section. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Feminism, Gender, and Education
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 350
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Manne, D
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Business Ethics—Writing “On the Job”
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 156
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Cohn, B
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Ethics-Sex& Relationships
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Class Number & Section Details
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 350
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Takaoka, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Feminism for All Genders
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 164
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Takaoka, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
PHIL 1111
Course Description
This First-Year Writing Seminar discusses problems in philosophy and gives the opportunity to write about them. Topics vary by section. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Framing—The Ethics and Politics of Art
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 348
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Waked, B
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Moral Relativism and Moral Skepticism
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- TR Uris Hall 204
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Korzukhin, T
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
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- MWF Uris Hall 254
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Jovanovska, S
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Nietzsche's Genealogy on Morality
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- MWF Uris Hall 398
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Jovanovska, S
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
PHIL 1112
Course Description
This First-Year Writing Seminar offers the opportunity to discuss and write about philosophy. Topics vary by section. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TR Uris Hall G22
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Kumar, V
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
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Class Number & Section Details
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- MW Uris Hall 303
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
McCellion, L
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Stoics and Buddhists
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 160
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Kwiatek, T
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:American Phil—Transcendentalists & Pragmatists
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 160
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Kwiatek, T
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Buddhist Philosophy
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 156
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Zgurich, B
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Classical Chinese Philosophy
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TR Morrill Hall 102
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Zgurich, B
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
PHIL 1650
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the philosophy of race. It canvasses key debates in the field concerning the metaphysical status of race, the relationship between the concept of race and racism (and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 1650
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Yost, B
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
PHIL 1920
Course Description
This course introduces students to political theory as a distinctive mode of political inquiry. By surveying the wide range of forms through which political theory has been practiced—such as treatises, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 1615
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Baker Laboratory 119
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Frank, J
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- M Ives Hall 107
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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Staff
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- M White Hall B02
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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Staff
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- W Rockefeller Hall 102
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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- W Rockefeller Hall 183
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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PHIL 2220
Course Description
A survey of Western philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries: Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. We focus largely on epistemology (ideas, skepticism, belief, knowledge, science) ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Gerber, E
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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Staff
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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Staff
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
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PHIL 2310
Course Description
Covers sentential languages, the truth-functional connectives, and their logic; first-order languages, the quantifiers "every" and "some," and their logic. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 2310
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Korzukhin, T
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- W Morrill Hall 107
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Staff
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- F Rockefeller Hall 112
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Staff
PHIL 2430
Course Description
The course concerns the principles and philosophical arguments underlying conflicts and moral dilemmas of central and ongoing concern to society as they arise within legal contexts. We consider questions ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2432
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 230
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Marmor, A
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- T Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Staff
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- R Uris Hall G26
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Staff
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- R Rockefeller Hall 105
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Staff
PHIL 2471
Course Description
This course surveys a range of ethical issues that arise in professional engineering, and provides discussion-based practice in analyzing and addressing them. Using normative frameworks from professional ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGRG 3600, STS 3601
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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- MW Phillips Hall 213
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Goetze, T
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Additional Information
Enrollment open to: (EN) sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
PHIL 2530
Course Description
What must (or could) God be like, and what reasons do we have for thinking that a being of that sort actually exists? What difference would (or could) the existence of God make to our lives? Religion & ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 2630
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
MacDonald, S
PHIL 2810
Course Description
We will look at some central questions about the nature of scientific theory and practice. What makes a discipline a science? Does science discover the objective truth about the world? How, and why, do ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 2831
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 204
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Thompson, M
PHIL 2945
Course Description
This course examines controversies in the theory and history of civil disobedience. Do citizens have obligations to obey unjust laws? Can law breaking ever be civil rather than criminal? Do disruptive ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3785, GOVT 3785
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Ives Hall 105
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Livingston, A
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- M White Hall B04
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Livingston, A
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- T White Hall B14
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Livingston, A
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- T McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Livingston, A
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- W Rockefeller Hall 187
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Livingston, A
PHIL 2960
Course Description
Politicians, scientists, and citizens worldwide face many environmental issues today, but they are neither simple nor straightforward. Moreover, there are many ways to understand how we have, do, and could ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2061, STS 2061
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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- W Rockefeller Hall 127
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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- W McGraw Hall 215
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Pritchard, S
PHIL 3210
Course Description
A selective survey of Western philosophical thought from the fourth to the 14th century. Topics include the problem of universals, the theory of knowledge and truth, the nature of free choice and practical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 3210, MEDVL 6210, PHIL 6210, RELST 3150, RELST 6210
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
MacDonald, S
PHIL 3222
Course Description
This course is an advanced study of a central concept, problem, or figure in 17-18th century philosophy. Spring 2024: This course will be an in-depth inquiry into the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 3222
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Rockefeller Hall 105
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Hubner, K
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Additional Information
This course will be an in-depth inquiry into the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch-Jewish modern philosopher — a key figure of radical Enlightenment who left a profound mark on German Idealists like Hegel and on 20th century continental philosophy. We will spend the term reading through his magnum opus, the Ethics, in the light of this influence and in light of his debts to medieval Jewish philosophy (especially Maimonides) and to Cartesianism.
PHIL 3310
Course Description
A mathematical study of the formal languages of standard first-order propositional and predicate logic, including their syntax, semantics, and deductive systems. The basic apparatus of model theory will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 3310, MATH 3810, PHIL 6310
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Hodes, H
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- R Rockefeller Hall 102
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Staff
PHIL 3460
Course Description
This course will primarily focus on studying and scrutinizing general conceptions of justice. Topics explored typically include liberty,economic equality, democracy, community, the general welfare, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3625
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 203
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Shoemaker, D
PHIL 3475
Course Description
This course addresses central debates in the philosophy of legal punishment. We will analyze the leading theories of punishment, including the familiar retributivist and deterrent alternatives, as well ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LAW 6030, PHIL 6475, SHUM 3475
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 204
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Yost, B
PHIL 3870
Course Description
After some stage-setting on logic, and an overview of philosophical questions raised by mathematics, we will focus on Logicism: the thesis that arithmetic (understood as the part of mathematics concerned ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 6870
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Hodes, H
PHIL 3900
Course Description
To be taken only in exceptional circumstances. Must be arranged by the student with his or her advisor and the faculty member who has agreed to direct the study. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
PHIL 3915
Course Description
Moral Psychology in Action is an applied psychology course for students who want to make a difference in the world through ethical leadership and positive contributions in organizations, and who are drawn ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HD 4940, PSYCH 4940
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 204
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Trautmann, C
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
PHIL 4261
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4261, PHIL 6260, ROMS 4261, ROMS 6261
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Simone de Beauvoir
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall G26
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Kosch, M
PHIL 4510
Course Description
An investigation of central topics in the philosophy of art, with an emphasis on issues about the mind. Readings will be drawn from philosophy and psychology. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COGST 4510, COGST 6510, PHIL 6510
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Art and the Mind
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Morrill Hall 102
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Silins, N
PHIL 4900
Course Description
Majors in philosophy may choose to pursue writing of an honors thesis in their senior year. Students undertake research leading to the writing of an honors essay by the end of the final semester. Prospective ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
PHIL 4901
Course Description
Majors in philosophy may choose to pursue writing of an honors thesis in their senior year. Students undertake research leading to the writing of an honors essay by the end of the final semester. Prospective ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
PHIL 6010
Course Description
Reading and translation of Greek Philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GREEK 7161
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 327
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Brennan, T
PHIL 6020
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 6020, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Hans Bethe House 125
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Brittain, C
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
PHIL 6200
Course Description
Advanced discussion of topics in ancient philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 7173
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Plato
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Morrill Hall 110
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Brennan, T
PHIL 6210
Course Description
Graduate seminar covering a topic in medieval philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 3210, MEDVL 6210, PHIL 3210, RELST 3150, RELST 6210
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Medieval Philosophy
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
MacDonald, S
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Additional Information
Enrollment in 6000-level is restricted to grad students only. Contact the Philosophy department for a permission number.
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PHIL 6260
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4261, PHIL 4261, ROMS 4261, ROMS 6261
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Simone de Beauvoir
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall G26
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Kosch, M
PHIL 6310
Course Description
A mathematical study of the formal languages of standard first-order propositional and predicate logic, including their syntax, semantics, and deductive systems. The basic apparatus of model theory will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 3310, MATH 3810, PHIL 3310
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Hodes, H
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall 102
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Staff
PHIL 6417
Course Description
What makes discrimination wrongful, when it is? Does its wrongness depend on social context and historical background? Does it depend on harmful consequences? What makes a certain ground of discrimination ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LAW 7178
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Myron Taylor Hall 479
- Jan 22 - Apr 26, 2024
Instructors
Marmor, A
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
PHIL 6430
Course Description
Advanced discussion of a topic in social and political philosophy. Topic for Fall 2023: Race, Gender, and Technology. Topic for Spring 2024: Authority, Coercion, and the Rule of Law. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6656, LAW 7782
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Authority, Coercion, and the Rule of Law
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 204
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Atiq, E
Marmor, A
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
PHIL 6461
Course Description
What would happen if, instead of taking an instrumentalist view of the ideas of modern African political thinkers, we consider those ideas as indeed they are, attempts by them to proffer answers to the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6220
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall G44
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Taiwo, O
PHIL 6475
Course Description
This course addresses central debates in the philosophy of legal punishment. We will analyze the leading theories of punishment, including the familiar retributivist and deterrent alternatives, as well ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LAW 6030, PHIL 3475, SHUM 3475
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 204
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Yost, B
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
PHIL 6510
Course Description
An investigation of central topics in the philosophy of art, with an emphasis on issues about the mind. Readings will be drawn from philosophy and psychology. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COGST 4510, COGST 6510, PHIL 4510
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Art and the Mind
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Morrill Hall 102
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Silins, N
PHIL 6620
Course Description
Advanced discussion of a topic in Philosophy of Mind. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COGST 6620
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Self-Awareness, Self-Knowledge, and the Self
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Olin Library 303
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Silins, N
PHIL 6740
Course Description
Addresses current theoretical and empirical issues in semantics. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: LING 7711
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 226E
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Aparicio Terrasa, H
PHIL 6870
Course Description
After some stage-setting on logic, and an overview of philosophical questions raised by mathematics, we will focus on Logicism: the thesis that arithmetic (understood as the part of mathematics concerned ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 3870
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Hodes, H
PHIL 7000
Course Description
Independent study for graduate students only. view course details
PHIL 7950
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit S/U NoAud(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 132
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Brennan, T
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited to Philosophy grad students.