Arts, Humanities, Exams

Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Self-Knowledge

"self-knowledge" (knowledge of one's own mental states), classic papers on self-knowledge, recent work: Readings, Related Resources, Course Download

Moral Problems and the Good Life

issues that arise in contemporary public debate concerning matters of social justice, Topics such as euthanasia, gay marriage, racism and racial profiling, free speech, hunger and global inequality, goal to provide basis for respectful and informed discussion of matters of common moral concern: Readings, Related Resources, Course Download

Classics in Western Philosophy

Western philosophical tradition, through the study of major figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant, questions that have been significant to philosophy from its beginnings (nature of the mind or soul, the existence of God, the foundations of knowledge, ethics and the good life): Readings, Study Materials, Related Resources, Course Download

Philosophy Course Materials

courses: History of Philosophy (Early Modern), Theory of Knowledge, 19th & 20th Century European Philosophy, Kant

Seventeenth Century European Philosophy

Leibniz & Arnauld, biography of Descartes, philosophical matrices, menu of lectures (Aristotelian Philosophy, Early Modern Scientists, Skeptical Crisis in Europe, Montaigne, Descartes, Cavendish, Hobbes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Leibniz, Newton)

Ethics, Logic, Peirce, Pragmatism, Epistemology

courses (introduction to ethics - Limited Cultural Differences Argument, Arguments, Validity, Soundness, professional ethics - Lying to Patients - Kant - Meta-Ethics), writing a philosophy paper, Negative Account, Introduction to Peirce

History of Ancient Philosophy

survey of history of ancient Greek philosophy from the Milesians through Aristotle: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Ship of Theseus, Parmenides, Zeno, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Atomism, Socratic Definitions, Meno's Paradox, Plato's Phaedo, forms, "one over many", allegory of the cave, criticism of forms, Plato's cosmology, Aristotle's categories, Aristotle on change, four causes, texts & essays, search engines, links, news, just for fun

FURTHER GREEK LITERATURE: Aristotle's Poetics

theory of tragedy developed in Aristotle's Poetics, usefulness of Aristotle's analysis of tragedy when applied to Homer and the Greek tragedians: Supplementary texts, Seminar notes

Survey of African-American Literature

works by African American writers from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century, presents historical, sociological, and political context of the literature created by African Americans during these time periods: literature of (slavery & freedom, reconstruction to new Negro renaissance, Harlem renaissance), sample essay

Introduction to Literary Theory

overview of some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending & engaging with literary texts developed in twentieth century, specific theoretical paradigms, working through selected reading to see how determines or defines task of literary interpretation, locate limits of each particular approach, trace emergence of subsequent theoretical paradigms as responses to the achievements and limitations of what came before: readings

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