Cognitive science synthesizes research from cognitive psychology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, and contemporary philosophy. Cy Walsh has asked a court to let him back into the community without supervision, almost six years to the day after killing his father and Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh. In our attempts to make headway in answering such daunting questions, we investigate recent debates in critical theory concerning subjection and resistance, intersubjective recognition and redistribution, social pathologies and the idea of a political unconscious. Starting from scratch, students will learn the building blocks of current-day linguistic research. As a result, some prominent researchers propose that the existence of consciousness requires a revision of basic physics, while others (seemingly desperately) deny that consciousness exists at all. In this tutorial, we will investigate the nature of skepticism and the varieties of relativism it encourages. By Greg Baum. [more], It is a generally held belief, in our time and culture, that science is the best source of our knowledge of the world, and of ourselves. [more], This course will emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to the study of intelligent systems, both natural and artificial. The reason for this is that there are two underlying structures that the original sentence can realize. Our subjects will include hate speech, press censorship, pornography, controversial art, sacrilegious speech and campus controversies. Mental Health and Illness: Philosophical Considerations. The course will begin with the "received view" of science, advanced by logical empiricists, which assumes the objectivity and the rationality of science and argues that induction is the main scientific method. We ordinarily claim that sentences are true or false, but are there other entities whose truth and falsity explains the truth and falsity of sentences? No one can have an adequate understanding of western intellectual history without some familiarity with the Greeks, and we might think that an understanding of our intellectual history can deepen our understanding of our own situation. In this tutorial, we will investigate the nature of skepticism and the varieties of relativism it encourages. Is that principle of organization justifiable or not? 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. 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. This course introduces philosophy students to these and related questions through a parallel reading that brings together 19th century German philosopher Hegel and a tradition of Africana philosophy running through Douglas, Du Bois, Fanon, Gilroy, Hartman and Wynter. But when does a choice qualify as free? By the early 20th century, in the works of Freud, we encounter the idea of the intra-psychic features of subjects and the importance of understanding and regulating psychic forces both within and between subjects in order to adapt to the demands of living at any given time, born as we are both dependent upon and vulnerable to others. That would be really worrisome. This raises the question whether a more complete account of the emergence of subjects must address both psychic, historical and social dimensions of subjectivity, the ways in which they are intertwined, and their importance for not only psychological well-being, but also relatively well-regulated socio-political relations. Safety measures are in place, and campus community members and guests are additionally advised to take personal precautions. Our starting and central question will be: What makes me the particular person that I am, and how is my identity as this individual person preserved over time? Some philosophers have wondered, however, whether the notion of an alternative logic is even coherent. Must the freedom or fulfillment of some people require the subordination of others? Is film today really distinct from a number of new, emerging visual media? Or can meaning be allocated only to entire sets of beliefs? In order to be justified in holding a belief, must someone know (or believe) that she is justified in holding that belief? Throughout the course, our focus will be on the best theoretical and practical knowledge we now have to diagnose, explain, and alleviate mental illness. Where have you been taught them? 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. What role does the history of philosophy play in the discipline? We'll examine these and related questions through historical and contemporary readings. Dubois, The Talented Tenth, Frederick Rudolph, Williams College 1793-1993: Three Eras, Three Cultures, Michael S. Roth, Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity, William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, and Anthony T. Kronman, The Assault on American Excellence. We will continue with J. S. Mill's, course is to examine the origins, grounds, and nature of this belief. Phil was stabbed to death by his son, who habitually used hallucinogenic drugs, in one of the most shocking tragedies in . While Plato and Aristotle differ on many points, they share the belief that the cosmos and the human place within it can be understood by rational means. Dean's Office. Whether the mind can be fully understood within a scientific framework has taken on an exciting urgency. Meredith Walsh called triple zero after the early-morning attack at the family's Adelaide home on July 3 last year and as she pleaded for help, she also called out to her husband, court documents show. We will then turn to a variety of more recent attempts to give a clear characterization of causation. What is the nature of audience's response to film? We will read the Oresteia and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Sophocles' Theban Cycle, and the Hippolytus, Bacchae and Philoctetes by Euripides. This is part of a full-year thesis (493-494). Against the first, people often don't seem to reason very well. We will then turn to a variety of more recent attempts to give a clear characterization of causation. Attention to the writing process and developing an authorial voice will be a recurrent focus of our work inside and outside the classroom. The picture that we find in the works of the tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides is markedly different. Our readings will include the relevant works of Plato, Sextus Empiricus, Carnap, Quine, Davidson, Goodman, Elgin, Hacking, Krausz, Foot, and Williams, among others. What distinguishes that kind of life from others? What form of government best serves the people? Class will be primarily driven by discussion, often preceded by brief lectures. "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality." In Language, Metaphysics, and Death. Conversation is dynamic--the back and forth exchange of information is a process that grows and adapts to the surrounding context. in a different order--check the stove, say "I didn't leave the stove on", then say "I might've left the stove on"--and something's gone quite wrong. argument, the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, the argument from religious experience, and the argument from evil). First, we will trace the emergence and development of the concept of freedom in various historical traditions. 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. Critical theorists regard philosophy as social and ideology critique. One must grasp the meanings of the various parts of the sentence. 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. We'll try to make some progress on these issues. He hoped it would occasion a public debate between Locke and himself, and prompt the intellectual community to decide, once and for all, between Empiricism and Rationalism, Realism and Idealism, and on related issues concerning the mind, language, truth, God, natural kinds, causation, and freedom. Is happiness an emotional or mental state or is it a social construct? Associate Dean for Sophomore Year Students and Director of Transfer and Non-Traditional Students Services. [more], The philosophy of mind has been one of the most active areas of philosophical inquiry over the last century. To do this, we will need to become familiar with key ethical theories; think deeply about such concepts as privacy, paternalism and autonomy, exploitation, cost-benefit analysis and justice; and compare the function of these concepts in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic with the way they work in responses to other public health concerns. Starting with early film theorists (such as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Bazin, and Soviet formalists), we will examine how their insights and disagreements influenced later developments in continental and analytic philosophy of film, and in film theory. Some understand its aim to be to answer normative questions about the nature of truth, justice, goodness and rationality. For each argument, we will first look at historically important formulations and then turn to contemporary reformulations. We will look at civil disobedience and theories of legal interpretation. Who is equal? Is democratic rule always best? [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. Throughout, we will appeal to reason and evidence in forming our best beliefs. Do we have any control over our emotions? We will conclude by considering some critical appropriations of Marx by 20th Century philosophers, including Georg Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. [more], At the beginning of the last century Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Topics to be considered include the nature of freedom (both individual and social), the master/slave dialectic and subject constitution, self-consciousness and double consciousness, the stages of history, and racial capitalism, Topics in Critical Theory: Subjection, Power, Freedom.