Presentations by invited speakers.

• Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter; Bledin, Justin
• Room: Gilman 55
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/35
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course stages a critical conversation between the virtue ethics and tragic traditions championed by Bernard Williams and Alasdair MacIntyre and the contemporary liberal tradition whose roots are in Immanuel Kant's metaphysics and later championed by John Rawls's political philosophy. The core question is: what are the lessons about a good society taught us by virtue ethics and tragedy and can contemporary liberalism begin to incorporate any of them?

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

We will consider whether the problem of free will and moral responsibility can be unwound by, first, expanding our idea of control and, second, recentering our idea of responsibility. The framing text will be Hieronymi’s four Gifford Lectures, Minds Matter. The lectures will be supplemented with other readings from the literature. Particular attention will be paid to the way in which concerns about freedom infect our ideas about ethics.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Hieronymi, Pamela Darlene
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this seminar, we examine the connections between recent work in truthmaker semantics by philosophers and linguists and the mental model theory of deduction developed by psychologists since the 1980s.

• Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:30PM
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

We will explore puzzles about belief, focusing on Frege's puzzle and the preface paradox, as well as questions about the logical relations among different doxastic and epistemic attitudes, such as certainty, confidence, and knowledge.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Goodman, Jeremy
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Topic: Nature and Reason in German Philosophy (late 18th to early 20th century) Student-centered course design: All students are welcome to send in suggestions for readings in German philosophy (e.g., Kant, German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism, Phenomenology, Women Philosophers, etc.). Potential readings will be discussed in the first session, a preliminary selection will then be made together and adjusted along the way. Close-reading seminar: We will focus on close reading of the texts, that is, we will be reading individual passages together and discussing them in detail.

• Days/Times: Th 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Kraus, Katharina Teresa
• Room: Gilman 35
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Allais, Lucy
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• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Pickard, Hanna
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• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Moyar, Dean
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• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
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• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Williams, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Holguín, Ben
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Ismael, Jenann T
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Carroll, Sean Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Velleman, James David
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Connolly, Patrick
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Kraus, Katharina Teresa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Goodman, Jeremy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Green, E. J.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Wonderly, Monique Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

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• Instructor: Allais, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Pickard, Hanna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Moyar, Dean
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
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• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Williams, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Holguín, Ben
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Ismael, Jenann T
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Carroll, Sean Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Velleman, James David
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Connolly, Patrick
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Kraus, Katharina Teresa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Goodman, Jeremy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Green, E. J.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Instructor: Wonderly, Monique Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is to develop essential teaching skills.

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• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course provides skills training for a successful career in philosophy, through engagement with contemporary work across a wide range of areas of philosophy. As a class, we will choose accessible articles of general interest recently published in top journals. Each student will be responsible for presenting one of these articles to the class and leading discussion, with guidance from the instructors. All students will be required to carefully and closely read each paper for each class, and come prepared to discuss it in depth. The aim of this part of the course is to learn how to read and analyze articles, present work, and engage in constructive philosophical discussion. After presenting the paper, each presenter will be required to write a short reply. As a class, we will then engage in a mock review process, crafting anonymous referee reports, revising replies in the light of these, and writing letters to the editor explaining the revisions. The aim of this part of the course is to gain knowledge and skills relevant to writing philosophy and successful publication. This course is STRICTLY limited to 1st and 2nd year Philosophy PhD Students ONLY. It will meet every other week in both the fall and the spring semesters; each semester is worth 2 credits and students are required to enroll in both. Grading will be based predominantly on participation and effort

• Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Phillips, Ian B; Pickard, Hanna
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

For 3rd and 4th year Philosophy graduate students working on their Qualifying Papers and Dissertation Proposals. Meets every other week.

• Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this course, we will examine the evolution of the modern hermeneutic tradition, from textual hermeneutics to philosophical hermeneutics, in relation to a range of posthermeneutic approaches to the study of literature, concerning questions of media, materiality, affect, and presence. We will consider how “post”-hermeneutics is not simply anti- or non-hermeneutic, but rather in complex dialog with hermeneutics, and is inscribed into the modern hermeneutic tradition since the late 18th century. Throughout the semester, we will return to a selection of literary works that serve as case studies with which to apply the theoretical and philosophical frameworks examined. Readings may include works by Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Susan Sontag, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Friedrich Kittler, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and Brian Massumi, among others.

• Days/Times: M 3:30PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane; Haubenreich, Jacob
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course explores the link between the transgression of the symbolic order in psychosis and the transcendence of discrete mental acts in transcendental philosophy to arrive at thought’s foundation. We will begin the course with the analysis of selected texts by Aristotle, Hegel, Husserl, Freud and Lacan with attention to the parallels between the psychoanalytic account of bliss in transgression and the idealist account of freedom in thinking. The remainder of the course will be devoted to the examination of literary works by Virginia Woolfe, Franz Kafka, Robert Walser and Daniel Paul Schreber.

• Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane; Tobias, Rochelle
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Knowing who or what counts as a person seems straightforward, until we consider the many kinds of creatures, objects, and artificial beings that have been granted—or demanded or denied—that status. This course explores recent debates on being a person in culture, law, and philosophy. Questions examined will include: Should trees have standing? Can corporations have religious beliefs? Could a robot sign a contract? Materials examined will be wide-ranging, including essays, philosophy, novels, science fiction, television, film. No special background is required.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Siraganian, Lisa
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a