An exploration of a variety of advanced topics in philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

• Days/Times: M 4:15PM - 6:45PM
• Instructor: Green, E. J.; Phillips, Ian B
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-MIND, COGS-PHLMND

This course will examine the notion of a complex system through scientific and philosophical lenses. Through a series of readings of classic papers and contemporary research, we will discuss what it means to be a complex system, the role of information, and how complexity can emerge from fundamentally simple underlying behavior.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Carroll, Sean Michael; Ismael, Jenann T
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/12
• PosTag(s): PHIL-LOGSCI

This seminar will straddle the philosophy of perception and metaphysics/philosophical logic. We will explore two overarching questions: (i) Can the phenomenology and cognitive significance of perceptual experiences be accounted for in terms of those experiences' logical contents, and (ii) How fine-grained are propositions, properties, and relations? These two questions turn out to be intimately related: if we hope to give an affirmative answer to the first, we are pushed towards some new and surprising answers to the second.

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

Presentations by invited speakers.

• Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter; Bledin, Justin
• Room: Gilman 132
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/35
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this seminar, we will study the first-person perspective and its implications for both theoretical reasoning (including self-understanding) and practical reasoning (including self-development). Drawing on texts from historical and contemporary sources, we will explore questions such as: --What does it mean to be a thinker with a first-person perspective? (Can there be a thinker without one?) --Does the first-person perspective necessarily include a position for the subject? --What role does the body play in the first-person perspective? --Are perspectivity and objectivity mutually exclusive? --Do empathy and morality require us to exit the first-person perspective? --What is the relation (if any) between the first-person perspective and “the self” as it figures in moral psychology? Readings may include, but are not limited to, texts by Descartes, Kant, and Husserl, as well as Anscombe, Perry, Lewis, and Bar-On.

• Days/Times: Th 1:15PM - 3:45PM
• Instructor: Kraus, Katharina; Velleman, James David
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-MIND, PHIL-ETHICS, PHIL-MODERN

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Williams, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• 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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
• 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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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

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

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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• 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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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• 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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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Holguín, Ben Walton
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

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

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

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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Connolly, Patrick
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

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

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• Days/Times:
• 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: 8/15
• 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. The course is open 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: Holguín, Ben Walton; Kraus, Katharina
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• 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: 8/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Allais, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pickard, Hanna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Moyar, Dean
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Williams, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Goodman, Jeremy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wonderly, Monique Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Green, E. J.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Carroll, Sean Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Connolly, Patrick
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ismael, Jenann T
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Velleman, James David
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

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

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

In social metaphysics the tools of analytic metaphysics are applied to the social world. In this seminar we will survey different methodologies for social metaphysics including social metaphysics as philosophy of social science, social metaphysics as an emancipatory political project, deflationist social metaphysics, and social essentialism. On the way we will explore methodological and meta-metaphysical issues raised by the prospect of social metaphysics.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor Jane
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

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

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

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

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kraus, Katharina
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• 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: 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: Carroll, Sean Michael
• 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: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

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

Presentations by invited speakers.

• Days/Times: Th 4:15PM - 6:15PM
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter; Bledin, Justin
• Room: Gilman 55
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/35
• PosTag(s): n/a

The Principle of Relativity in historical and philosophical perspective. For the history from Galileo to Einstein, we will read Olivier Darrigol’s recent (2022) book on the topic supplemented by various primary sources. For the philosophy, the problem is simply to formulate the principle in a non-question begging way, especially in light of Kretschmann’s 1917 observation that general covariance alone does not constitute a general principle of relativity, as well as his contention that, properly analyzed, general relativity is less relativistic than special relativity. We will then consider various formulations by physicists and philosophers over the last 50 years.

• Days/Times: Th 9:30AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will focus on the phenomenon of semantic shiftiness, with special attention to its relevance to puzzles of modal variation. Other topics to be discussed include speech reports, the problem of the many, and personal identity.

• Days/Times: M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
• Instructor: Holguín, Ben Walton
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students research and develop their dissertation topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

In the 1950s, Noam Chomsky asked a very productive question: what kind of theoretical vocabulary do we want for purposes of specifying grammars for the languages that human children naturally acquire? In the seminar, we’ll revisit this question, focusing on the meanings that these grammars connect with pronunciations. Should we be trying to specify these meanings in terms of an externalistic notion like truth, or as I suspect, in terms of more internalistic notions that involve a computationally simple language of thought? In what ways are meanings recursive? How should we specify the relevant composition procedures for meanings and the corresponding concepts that are available to children? Readings will be organized around chapters of a draft book manuscript, The Vocabulary of Meanings

• Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:30PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
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By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

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• Instructor: Wonderly, Monique Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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In this course, we will read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit together with Robert Brandom's A Spirit of Trust. Topics include the pragmatist semantic reading of Hegel, the recognitive nature of self-consciousness, and the expressive metaphysics of agency.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Moyar, Dean; Williams, Michael
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• 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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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

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

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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This course is to develop essential teaching skills.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this course students will present drafts of Qualifying Papers and first dissertation chapters, receiving feedback from students, the instructor and other relevant faculty.

• Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course provides skills training for a successful career in philosophy, through engagement with cutting-edge 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 to it, in the style of the relevant journal. As a class, we will then engage in a mock review process, crafting anonymous referee reports, revising replies in the light of these, and discussing these as editors. The aim of this part of the course is to gain knowledge and skills relevant to writing philosophy and successful publication. The course is open to 1st and 2nd year graduate students. 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. Upper-year graduate students may audit the course by permission of the instructors, conditional on their commitment to attend and engage as full members of the class; if student numbers are high, priority with respect to presentations will be given to 1st and 2nd year students.

• Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Holguín, Ben Walton; Kraus, Katharina
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a