Moral Imagination
AS.150.677 (01)

This course explores the relationship between moral principles and how we use imagination to put or fail to put principles to work. We will read widely and eclectically in exploring this relationship.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 11:00AM - 1:00PM
• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15

Social Construction
AS.150.678 (01)

An exploration of the metaphysics of social construction, examining different theories of social construction and related questions about social ontology, scientific realism and the boundaries of metaphysics.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor J.
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15

Graduate Seminar: Current Topics in Philosophy
AS.150.676 (01)

Rather than having a set topic, the point of this seminar is to stay up-to-date with the current philosophy literature by working through 1-2 recently published papers each week. The papers covered will depend on the research interests of the seminar participants (and my own).

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Forster, Eckart
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (04)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Moyar, Dean
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (05)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (06)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (07)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (03)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (08)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (09)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Williams, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (13)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor J.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (02)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Forster, Eckart
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (03)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (12)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (05)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (01)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (11)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (09)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Williams, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (11)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (08)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (07)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (04)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Moyar, Dean
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (10)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (06)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

The Literature of Existence
AS.211.640 (01)

This seminar will explore some key expressions of what could loosely be called existentialist writing from the early twentieth century to the present day, to the end of coming to terms with an emerging “new politics of existence.” While there will be some emphasis on Spanish language materials, including writings by José Ortega Y Gasset, Miguel de Unamuno, María Zambrano, and Jorge Luis Borges, we will also be reading important works by Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and Martin Hägglund.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Egginton, William
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/19

Research Seminar in Language and Mind
AS.150.821 (01)

A workshop for current departmental research in language and mind. Permission required.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 6/10

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (12)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (10)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Imagination in Philosophy and Literary Theory
AS.213.687 (01)

Imagination in Philosophy and Literary Theory is devoted to studying theories of imagination in the history of philosophy and literary theory, from the ancient Greeks to the present day. We will study philosophical conceptions of the role of imagination in memory, cognition, perception, and creativity, and assess traditional philosophical oppositions between imagination and reason, the imaginary and the real. Readings may include selections from Aristotle, Kant, Coleridge, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Dufrenne, Stevens, Iser, Ricoeur, Ryle, Wittgenstein, and Nussbaum.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (13)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor J.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (03)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pickard, Hanna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Formal Logic
AS.150.632 (01)

"An introduction to symbolic logic and probability. In the first two parts of the course we study formal ways of determining whether a conclusion of an argument follows from its premises. Included are truth-functional logic and predicate logic. In the third part we study the basic rules of probability, and learn how to make probability calculations and decisions in life." Co-listed with AS.150.118 (for undergraduate students) (01-F 11:00-11:50am).

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/3

Kant's Opus Postumum
AS.150.633 (01)

This research seminar examines the reasons that led Kant to revise his transcendental philosophy late in life. Special attention to problems in the Metaphysics of Nature and the Metaphysics of Morals. Students should be familiar with Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Forster, Eckart
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/10

Seminar in Philosphy in Physics
AS.150.653 (01)

This should not be confused with the quantum revolution in physics roughly a century ago. The recent book, The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy, by Richard Healey urges that a proper understanding of quantum theory should usher in a just as significant revolution in philosophy itself. According to Healey, the current morass in quantum foundations derives from a misunderstanding of how the theory works—it does not represent some weird reality. Building on the inferentialist account of content due to Sellars, Brandom and Price, he argues instead that one needs to understand how the theory is used, and that doing this not only dispels the usual conundrums, but has radical implications for deeply held views in philosophy of science, analytic metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy more generally.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert, Williams, Michael
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15

Philosophy of Psychology
AS.150.688 (01)

An examination of recent philosophical and empirical work on perception and consciousness.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Gross, Steven, Phillips, Ian B
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (04)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Moyar, Dean
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (06)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Forster, Eckart
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (05)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (07)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (08)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (14)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (02)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Forster, Eckart
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (13)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor J.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (01)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pickard, Hanna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (10)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (09)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Williams, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (09)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Williams, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (12)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (04)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Moyar, Dean
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (06)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (08)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (05)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (11)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (12)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (10)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bledin, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (13)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Taylor, Elanor J.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (11)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (07)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bok, Hilary
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (14)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Research Seminar in Language and Mind
AS.150.821 (01)

A workshop for current departmental research in language and mind. Permission of instructor required.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 1:00PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10

What is a Person? Humans, Corporations, Robots, Trees.
AS.300.618 (01)

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 investigates recent debates about being a person in literature and law. Questions examined will include: Should trees have standing? Can corporations have religious beliefs? Could a robot sign a contract? Although our explorations will be focused on these questions, the genre of materials examined will be wide-ranging (including legal essays, philosophy, contemporary novels, and film). Texts will include novels by William Gibson and Lydia Millet, essays by John Dewey and Daniel Dennett, and films such as Ex Machinaand Her.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Siraganian, Lisa Michele
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (03)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gross, Steven
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5