Now I'm confused. Is it possible to have systematic knowledge of subjective experience? What kind of work is that, and how is it accomplished? [more], In her groundbreaking book, The Tentative Pregnancy, Barbara Katz Rothman writes that "[t]he technological revolution in reproduction is forcing us to confront the very meaning of motherhood, to examine the nature and origins of the mother-child bond, and to replace--or to let us think we can replace--chance with choice." Williams relatives. Dean's Office. How do we create legal and policy frameworks that cover a new kind of thinking being? And what present practices and ways of thinking and knowing might be questioned using Foucault's tools, genealogy in particular, for resisting unnecessary constraints on freedom and the perpetuation of unnecessary suffering? Using resources from philosophy and linguistics, we will study various ways in which literal and non-literal uses of language influence our social lives. This course is part of the John Hyde Teaching Fellowship. Or can meaning be allocated only to entire sets of beliefs? The Philosophy of Higher Education: College Controversies. Where have you been taught them? The worldview that underlies classical tragedy, however, seems markedly different from the one that we find in classical philosophy. What is the basis on which current psychiatric diagnostic manuals are organized? What we have here is an example of the sorites paradox. [more], Plato is one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of the western tradition. Throughout, we will appeal to reason and evidence in forming our best beliefs. How is political power generated and exercised? We start with some of the Hindu views about the self and the mind and consider their ethical implications. In this tutorial we address some (certainly only some) of the current debates in critical and ethical theory that have been fueled by Nietzsche's work. What does it mean to be "philosophical" or to think "theoretically" about politics? Against the first, people often don't seem to reason very well. Our aim is to enrich our understanding of the discipline in order to evaluate its value and limitations. This first-year seminar will examine the philosophy of education through educational autobiographies: works that tell the story of a moral and intellectual education. We conclude by considering the relation between first and third person studies of the mind, focusing on the concept of the embodied mind as a fruitful bridge between these different traditions. We will continue with J. S. Mill's Utilitarianism and Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, considering these books as works in the philosophy of education. "Don't die," she said. One of our guiding questions will be: What makes a thinker an "Existentialist"? In this way, we come to appreciate the importance of considering the biology on which mental processes are based and the light that this approach throws on the nature of consciousness. Those positions remain extreme, but the challenge that consciousness poses is dramatic. Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later. For each argument, we will first look at historically important formulations and then turn to contemporary reformulations. In this course, we will spend the first third of the semester attempting to understand the metaphysics and epistemology in Plato's middle dialogues. Phil was stabbed to death by his son, who habitually used hallucinogenic drugs, in one of the most shocking tragedies in . Is rationality relative to cultural norms? The remainder of the course will consider key concepts at the core of medical ethics and central issues for the field, such as privacy and confidentiality, the distinction between killing and "letting die," and therapy vs. research. Does the fact that our lives will end threaten their meaning? Could the world be made up of sensory properties only? The tragedians emphasize the ways in which the cosmos and our role in it resists any attempt to be understood, and emphasize the ways in which the success or failure of our lives often turns on things completely beyond our control. This discussion will lead us to the relativist and social-constructivist views developed within contemporary science studies. Our seminar will have two aims: (1) to reconstruct the single most compelling moral theory from Kant's various ethical writings, and (2) to trace the influence of Kant's ethics in contemporary philosophy. We will focus our study on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Marx's early writings. In this course, we will survey the ethics of public health through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, investigating concepts and arguments that are central to the ethics of public health research and practice. And on what grounds can we justify confidence in our provisional answers to such questions? What makes governmental and legal authority legitimate? In this tutorial we will exploit this characteristic of biomedical ethics by using a case-based approach to examining core concepts of the field. Diamond investigated the methodology of moral philosophy, paying special attention to the role of literature. The goals of this course are to improve the critical thinking of the students, to introduce them to sentential and predicate logic, to familiarize them with enough formal logic to enable them to read some of the great works of philosophy, which use formal logic (such as Wittgenstein's. Or might it be that our skepticism and relativism are the result of our own laziness and failure? A person incapable of loyalty is often characterized as fickle, cold, self-serving and sometimes even pathological. We will examine well-known philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God (including the ontological argument, the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, the argument from religious experience, and the argument from evil). We will read classic works (such as John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law), contemporary articles, and United States Supreme Court cases. has taken on an exciting urgency. Their dispute raised some of the deepest questions in philosophy: consequentialism versus deontology, the goals of happiness versus dignity, long term versus short term goals, and more. [more], The core activity of this seminar is the careful reading and sustained discussion of selected works by Plato and Aristotle, but we will also engage such other thinkers as Epictetus and Augustine, and, from a political and theoretical point of view, selections from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. that future is nothing short of an existential threat to human beings. legitimate? What do the social and psychological sciences have to teach us about happiness? We will focus particularly on how subjects are positioned in relation to his writings on power and knowledge with particular attention to the later so-called ethical writings in the years before his untimely death in 1984. In this course, we will study the most important and influential chapters of the Critique with the help of some secondary literature. Whether the mind can be fully understood within a scientific framework has taken on an exciting urgency. [more], If we think of Michel Foucault as engaged in writing histories, or genealogies, of his own present designed to undercut the sense of the obviousness of certain practices and ways of thinking, categorizing, and knowing, we can easily imagine that he might now be questioning different aspects of our contemporary "present" than the ones standardly associated with his name, namely, panopticons and surveillance, discipline, criminalization, the biopolitics of health, the normal and the abnormal, etc. "I can't tell you anything about the argument or the circumstances but as a result of that both Mr Walsh and his wife received the wounds," Superintendent Des Bray told reporters in Adelaide. What do the social and psychological sciences have to teach us about happiness? In this tutorial we will read the contemporary literature on consciousness. We will begin with an analysis of primary texts by Fanon and end by considering how Fanon has been interpreted by his contemporaries as well as activists and critical theorists writing today. This course is an investigation into how language is used to express meaning, and how such expression can have real interpersonal and societal impact. If possible, we will arrange to see a live performance of a Greek tragedy. We will read classic works (such as John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law), contemporary articles, and United States Supreme Court cases. The issue of prediction was also raised by economist Donald McCloskey who, in 1988, asked his fellow economists, "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" How do our thoughts refer to objects? In this course we take up questions such as the following: What sorts of subjects do we find in modern Western societies? These latter writings of Kant's had a tremendous influence on the development of subsequent moral philosophy and indeed set the stage for contemporary discussions of the nature of practical reason, motivation, freedom, and morality. Is it forced on people who endorse cultural pluralism as their political ideal as the only tenable philosophical position? This course will offer a selective overview of the debates that characterized philosophy of film since the early 20th century. Of course, this question cannot really be answered, nor is there any value in trying to answer it, and any "answer" will only be "true" for you. There will be a series of short response papers in which you provide a careful analysis of particular arguments in our texts. More particularly, it concerns itself with the difference between good and bad reasoning, between strong and weak arguments. On the other hand, there is a heap of sand in my backyard. Type in your search terms and press enter or navigate down for suggested search results. By which methods should we pursue these questions? How can we ensure that AI's will act morally? My daughter removes one grain of sand. We also introduce the practice of meditation as a way to observe the mind and raise questions concerning the place of its study in the mind-sciences. In school? [more], What gives an individual life meaning? [more], This is a course in the philosophy of logic. Aside from its overwhelming influence on 20th and 21st century philosophy and intellectual culture, any book which contains the remark, " if a lion could talk, we could not understand him," deserves serious attention. In particular, one must grasp that "three of them" picks out a subset of the group picked out by "every cookie", and that there's no such thing as a cookie that is both chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin. We will examine these and related issues by looking in depth at contemporary defenses of consequentialist, deontological, and contractualist theories. We will read works by three of Socrates' contemporaries: Aristophanes, Xenophon, and especially Plato. stagflation of the 1970s, and bursting of the mortgage bubble in 2008. The theoretical aspect of the course will involve close readings of selected articles in contemporary aesthetics, philosophy of literature and philosophy of film. Although we will attempt to engage the readings on their own terms, we will also ask how the vast differences between the ancient world and our own undercut or enhance the texts' ability to illuminate the dilemmas of political life for us. Is a sentence's relation to previously uttered sentences similar to its relation to extra-linguistic events? In this class, we'll work together to think through some ancient and contemporary paradoxes. The second, longer part of the seminar will try to isolate and follow some of the pragmatist currents which run through epistemology and philosophy of science in the 20th and 21st centuries. this class, we will attempt to carry on the noble tradition of corruption by philosophy. In a. move calling on those both within and outside of Europe to challenge the coloniality of the age and to forge a new vision of politics in the postcolonial period. I don't know how exactly how many grains of sand are in this heap, but let's say 100,000. Beyond this common ground, however, epistemologists are much divided. We will move on to examine ethical issues of truth-telling with terminally ill patients and their families, decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatments, the care of seriously ill newborns, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and posthumous interests. [more], The seminar involves a critical engagement with key Africana political leaders, theorists and liberationists. Is film a creation of a single artist - the director, the author - or is it a result of a loosely synchronized and not quite coherent collaboration of many different people, each guided by her or his particular vision? Our tools in this course will be logic and reason, even when we are trying to determine what the limits of reason might be. What are the forces, and the dynamics between forces (i.e., economic, technological, modes of communication, techniques of social control, biological, psychological) that make certain types of subjects possible influencing both their self-understandings and their forms of life? He is a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors and resides with his wife Michaela in North Canterbury. What should be done about offensive art? Do we have any control over our emotions? We turn first to two of Plato's most famous dialogues, Philosophical Approaches to Contemporary Moral Issues. action, ethics and moral psychology. In this course we will investigate the the broad topics of consciousness and thought by surveying the many approaches to mind that yield the contemporary debates. Is democratic rule always best? Science is only "true" for some people, agnosticism is the only alternative to foolish superstition, and moral relativism and, consequently, nihilism are obvious. To this end, each week we will (1) read philosophical material focused on one principle or concept, and (2) consider in detail one bioethics case in which the principle or concept has special application or relevance. Understood in this way, critical theory is identified closely with the intellectual tradition of the Frankfurt School. The picture that we find in the works of the tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides is markedly different. As we go through these results, we will think about the philosophical implications of first-order logic. The aim of this course is to explore and evaluate a number of rival conceptions of persons and personal identity over time. With what limits and justifications? We coordinate our lives through sounds from mouths, signs from hands, and squiggles on paper because somehow sounds, signs, and squiggles have meanings. What is the basis on which current psychiatric diagnostic manuals are organized? Leibniz wrote his New Essays in 1704 as a critical response to Locke's Essay of 1690. Other philosophers and literary theorists have used some of their ideas recently to throw light on the nature of textual meaning and the interpretation of literary texts. [more], It'd be perfectly natural to say "I might've left the stove on", then check the stove, then say "I didn't leave the stove on". On the sports field? What, you may ask, is the philosophy of logic? We will read the great 20th century philosopher who saw education as the foundation of democracy: John Dewey. Among other things, these critics challenged Rawls' interpretation and defense of the social contract framework, the ideals of freedom and equality, the content of principles of justice, political neutrality about the good, the nature of the self, the division between public and private spheres, and the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory. [more], What are the purposes of higher education? Are there incompatible but equally true ways of describing the world? Pascal's wager is a different approach: it argues that even though proof of the existence of God is unavailable, you will maximize your expected utility be believing. I don't know why, she just does. Topics will range from consideration of "mundane" technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), prenatal genetic screening and testing, and surrogacy, to the more extraordinary, possibly including pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), post-menopausal reproduction, and post-mortem gamete procurement. [more], This course will explore the themes of alienation, fetishism, ideology, dialectic, sociality, and freedom in the philosophical writings of G.W.F. Our subjects will include hate speech, press censorship, pornography, controversial art, sacrilegious speech and campus controversies. In addition we'll also look at feminist analyses of topics that traditionally have not been regarded as "gendered," such as resource allocation and end of life issues. We will spend the balance of the semester coming to grips with Plato's arguments in the later dialogues. Cy Jacob Walsh, 26, entered no plea after being charged with murdering his father in a killing that has stunned Australia's sporting community. Along the way, we will need to come to grips with the following surprising fact. Are there metaphysical and ideological assumptions in contemporary psychiatry, and if so, could and should they be avoided? Phil Williams / WTVF-TV: Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles didn't want you to see his college transcript! We shall first explore the salient features of the pragmatic approaches to language, paying special attention to Austin's notion of illocutionary force and Grice's notion of non-natural meaning. Despite these rather grim pronouncements, tragic drama has continued to fascinate and educate generations. We will start by situating Hume's project within the historical tradition in which he thought and against which Treatise was directed. We will conclude by considering some critical appropriations of Marx by 20th Century philosophers, including Georg Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. This course argues that by reference to the historically specific modes of subjectivity and sociality that resulted from the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Haitian Revolution, for instance, we can better understand and address long-standing questions in European Social Philosophy. Locke is the first great Empiricist Realist, and Leibniz the greatest Rationalist Idealist. Further, even where there is agreement as to the proper way of answering epistemological questions, there is a stunning variety of possible answers to each question. Authors will include Plato, Anselm, Aquinas, Pascal, Paley, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, and several contemporary philosophers. it stands at the beginning of both the Analytic and Continental traditions in contemporary philosophy. Associate Dean for Sophomore Year Students and Director of Transfer and Non-Traditional Students Services. We will begin the course by looking at Hume's and Kant's discussion of causation. If there aren't such things, how do we characterize meaningfulness instead? Is film today really distinct from a number of new, emerging visual media? [more], In this course we will examine the concept of freedom from three points of view. Of course, this question cannot really be answered, nor is there any value in trying to answer it, and any "answer" will only be "true" for you. Must it be unaffected by any outside influences? In this course we will seek to comprehend the dimensions in which Existentialism is a distinctive intellectual tradition. [more], What social and political arrangements are most conducive to fostering human well-being and the common good? I just wanted to put on here a tribute video that my Assistant Jessica has put together for Murdered Adelaide Football coach Phil Walsh, who was a true leader of young men in sport and life (it is . Furthermore, they share the conviction that the most important components of a successful life are within the control of the individual human being. While you're debating whether to take this class, consider the following puzzle. While he never wrote any philosophical works of his own, Socrates is one of the most influential thinkers in the western tradition. Flourishing in ways distinctive to a rational agent or a human being (including, for example, developing rational capacities and self-mastery, succeeding in worthwhile projects, cultivating relationships, living morally, developing spiritually)? But is the best conclusion we can come to with respect to our intellectual endeavors that skepticism always carries the day and that nothing at all is true? Nietzsche texts may include selections from: historical traditions. What role do emotional, irrational or unconscious forces play? We will begin by examining the general concepts of health and disease, and then apply them to human psychology. [more], This will be a course in the philosophy of language at it has developed over the past century and a half in the analytic tradition. For example, we commonly attribute to Plato a theory of the Forms on the basis of his claims in the so-called "middle dialogues" (mainly Republic, Phaedo, and Symposium). The choice of literary works and films to be discussed will to some extent depend on students' interest. Our internal, felt experience--what chocolate tastes like to oneself, what it is like to see the color red, or, more broadly, what it is like to have a first person, waking perspective at all--resists explanation in any terms other than the conscious experience itself in spite of centuries of intense effort by philosophers and, more recently, by scientists. However, the status of loyalty as a virtue has always been suspect: it has been argued that it is incompatible with impartiality, fairness and equality, and claimed that it is always exclusionary. Some critical theorists within the Frankfurt School tradition draw from upon ideas about the constitution of the subject developed in the early 19th century German philosophy of Hegel. Our aim will be to identify and evaluate the strongest version of each argument. We conclude by considering some of the later Hindu holistic views of the self as responses to the Buddhist critique. You are psyched to be reading this course description right now. Some critics find predictive failures of economists unsurprising, given the frequent reliance of the latter on assumptions known to be false (e.g., that economic agents are always selfish, have perfect information, and never make mistakes) and on models that unavoidably ignore potentially relevant factors. Among the questions that we will address: What is justice? Does it advance our thinking and increase our knowledge of the world? Aristotle expresses in these books were instrumental in setting an intellectual agenda that dominated western thought through the Middle Ages and provided the backdrop against which the modern philosophical tradition arose. Taking this as our starting point, in this course we will examine a number of conceptual and ethical issues in the use and development of technologies related to human reproduction, drawing out their implications for such core concepts as "motherhood" and "parenthood," family and genetic relatedness, exploitation and commodification, and reproductive rights and society's interests in reproductive activities. An example might be helpful. Rather than seeing philosophy as an esoteric discipline, the pragmatic philosophers (with the possible exception of Peirce) see philosophy as integral to our culture and see themselves as public intellectuals. Cognitive science synthesizes research from cognitive psychology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, and contemporary philosophy. We will first get clear on the formal semantics of first-order logic and various ways of thinking about formal proof: natural deduction systems, semantic tableaux, axiomatic systems and sequent calculi. In this course we will seek to comprehend the dimensions in which Existentialism is a distinctive intellectual tradition. He died on 30 September 2020. We will examine these and related issues by looking in depth at contemporary defenses of consequentialist, deontological, and contractualist theories. The first portion of the course will be devoted to considering general theories of justice as well as alternative conceptions of justice specifically within the health care context. Is a sentence's relation to previously uttered sentences similar to its relation to extra-linguistic events? Other questions are pressing and immediate: Artificial intelligence techniques are used today to help decide whether someone gets a bank loan, is eligible to be released on bail, or in need of particular medical treatment. In pursuing the answers to these questions, we will discuss both classic and contemporary theories from philosophy and linguistics. [more], Philosophy is often described as thinking about thinking: variously conceived inquiries into the nature, scope and limits of human reasoning have always been at its heart. Finally, there are those who do not think philosophy can contribute much at all to answering such questions and others who question its claims to universality given its associations with colonialism, racism, sexism, etc. Through an examination of these works, we will try to get some feeling for what Socrates' controversial positions and his arguments for these positions may have been. How does our experience justify our beliefs? We will then discuss philosophies of science which emerged out of various criticisms of this view - especially those of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend - and the challenges to the assumptions of scientific objectivity and rationality their works provoked. [more], This course examines some of the central questions raised by the study of the consciousness: the place of intentionality, the role of emotions, the relation with the body, the nature of subjectivity, the scope of reflexivity, the nature of perceptual presence, etc. In pursuing the answers to these questions, we will discuss both classic and contemporary theories from philosophy and linguistics. [more], Early philosophy of language focused on meaning of assertions, denials and descriptions. The debate between Realism and Idealism concerns whether reality is composed of mind-independent matter, or mind-like substances. [more], This course is a chronological survey of major works of political theory from the 16th to the 20th century. In framing and answering these questions, we will discuss subjective experience (or phenomenology) of mental illness; holism vs. reductionism; functional, historical and structural explanations of psychopathology; theory formation, evidence, and the role of values in psychology and psychiatry; the diversity and disunity of psychotherapeutic approaches; relationship between knowers and the known; and relationship between theoretical knowledge in psychiatry and the practices of healing. Finally, we will consider how the concept of freedom is applied in contemporary social contexts, such as speech, religion, voting, and sexuality and gender. Moreover, the ethical issues that are implicated in responses to the pandemic reflect the range of those manifested across the field of public health as a whole. questions by studying the history of controversies in American higher education, concentrating especially on debates about the curriculum. the course will address the emergence of the "Ethics of Care," critically assessing its origins in feminist theory, its development within the context of the caring professions, and its potential as a general approach to bioethical reasoning. Your email address will not be published. Our reading of Hume will be supplemented by historical and interpretive essays on his work. Pragmatist Currents in Contemporary Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. We will also pay close attention to the way in which each of these thinkers takes the practice of philosophy to play a key role in our realization of the good human life. If time permits, we may also look at how the figure of Socrates has been thought about in the works of more modern thinkers. Second, we will engage in some current philosophical debates concerning the concept of freedom in metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. of subjectivity, the scope of reflexivity, the nature of perceptual presence, etc. If they are conscious, will AI's have dignity and rights? It turns out, however, to be surprisingly difficult to say what causation is. [more], The aim of this tutorial is to critically examine the nature, importance, and ethical value of personal attachments and loyalties. Paramedics arrived and tried to revive him, but a doctor confirmed him dead at the scene. What do we mean when we talk about racial capitalism? This tutorial will bring to life the debate between Locke and Leibniz, and enable students to reach their own conclusions about Empiricism vs. Rationalism, Realism vs. Idealism, and related issues. 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