And, it's not merely that their answer invokes our freedom to determine our own identities. Attention to the writing process and developing an authorial voice will be a recurrent focus of our work inside and outside the classroom. Hopkins Hall. The AFL abandoned the Crows' game against Geelong on Sunday, the club called the tragedy an unprecedented crisis and a family has been torn apart. Must they inhere in substances? (There will be optional, supplementary opportunity to engage with the Latin text for interested students with some facility with Latin.) Critical theory aims not merely to understand the "struggles and wishes of the age" as Marx one described it, but with emancipation from domination. Existentialists investigate deeply irrational phenomena of human life, including anxiety, boredom, tragedy, despair, death, faith, sexuality, love, hate, sadism, masochism, and authenticity. We will examine a variety of philosophical and scientific theories of emotion, as well as some issues concerning normative aspects of emotions: the role of emotions in a good life, and the concept of emotional maturity. [more], Socrates was executed in 399 BCE on the charges of impiety and corruption of the youth of Athens. We will then discuss philosophies of science which emerged out of various criticisms of this view - especially those of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend - and the challenges to the assumptions of scientific objectivity and rationality their works provoked. According to Hegel, subjects are both historically and socially constituted; they are formed through their relations with other subjects. And on what grounds can we justify confidence in our provisional answers to such questions? Some of the questions that we will discuss are: What is psychopathology and what are its causes? Who is equal? We will read Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in seeking answers to these questions. Secondly, we will try to make sense of the moral dimensions of our relationship to animals. In some weeks, students will be asked to choose from a small set which case they would like to address; in others the case will be assigned. The first, shorter part will focus on the writings of the three classics of American pragmatism--Charles S. Peirce, William James and John Dewey--and analyze their reaction against traditional epistemology, as well as the positive philosophical ideas that they had to offer. With what limits and justifications? The College Mission Statement says that "Williams seeks to provide the finest possible liberal arts education by nurturing in students the academic and civic virtues, and their related traits of character." UPDATE: Footy world pays tribute to Crows coach as AFL cancels Crows clash, Walsh, a man consumed by football Phil Walsh tragedy: rolling coverageCrows-Cats clash called offStatement from Gillon McLachlan on round 14. What is the nature of audience's response to film? What are the social and ethical prerequisites--and consequences--of democracy? We'll try to make some progress on these issues. Apparently he corrupted the youth by engaging with them in philosophy. Or, must sensible properties be organized spatiotemporally? [more], Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, one of the greatest books in the history of philosophy, still exerts a considerable influence on contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of action, ethics and moral psychology. I may also pair some Nietzsche texts with readings from representatives of both the Anglo-American and European critical reception of his work (Bataille, Heidegger, Habermas, Foucault, Irigaray, Deleuze, Derrida Williams, Rorty, Reginster, Hussain, and so forth). We will pay special attention to the first amendment and questions concerning free speech and hate speech. In this course, we will study the most important and influential chapters of the, Topics in Philosophy of Race: Hegel and Africana Philosophy, double? We also examine the Yogacara school, which offers a process view of reality focusing on the analysis of experience. Ms. Sydney Walsh-Wilcox 83 P23 (Sibling), Mr. John C. Walsh (decd) 54 P99 85 83 (Parent). In this tutorial we will exploit this characteristic of biomedical ethics by using a case-based approach to examining core concepts of the field. What differentiates today from yesterday? Are we justified in believing in God? Finally, is there a reason for philosophy of film and film theory to exist as a separate field? At least, let's assume that you are for the sake of argument. Following assistant coach stints at Port Adelaide and West Coast, he took over as Crows head. Finally, we will examine some of Aristotle's works on metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, considering some of the ways Aristotle's thought responds to that of predecessors. We will then turn to contemporary controversies such as campus free speech. Our readings will include the relevant works of Plato, Sextus Empiricus, Carnap, Quine, Davidson, Goodman, Elgin, Hacking, Krausz, Foot, and Williams, among others. Why then should we spend our time studying people who in addition to having these surprising beliefs have been dead for 2500 years? Our main goal will be to prove things about this logical system rather than to use this system to think about ordinary language arguments. On 3 July 2015, Walsh was found dead in his Somerton Park home. Or, must sensible properties be organized spatiotemporally? We'll examine these and related questions through historical and contemporary readings. Mental Health and Illness: Philosophical Considerations. Is moral objectivity like scientific objectivity, assuming that we have a clear sense of what that involves? Persons are subjects of experiences, have thoughts and feelings, motivation and agency; a person is thought of as continuous over time, and as related to, recognized and respected by other persons. Does morality require that we always subordinate our personal relationships to universal principles? German philosopher Martin Heidegger thought he represented the culminating point of Western metaphysics; French Nietzscheans such as Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze as well as French feminist Luce Irigaray appropriate Nietzschean themes and concepts in their critical engagements with the Western philosophical tradition; and Anglo-American moral philosophers such as Bernard Williams, Alisdair MacIntyre, and Phillippa Foot (as well as Rorty) respond to and engage his critique of modern morality. We conclude by considering the relation between first and third person studies of the mind, focusing on the concept of the embodied mind as a fruitful bridge between these different traditions. We will begin with Washington's classic article "Industrial Education for the Negro" and DuBois' classic "The Talented Tenth". We will examine the wager in its original home of Pascal's Pensees, and look at William James' related article, "The Will to Believe." We will discuss major works (philosophical, literary, visual) by such figures as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Richard Wright, Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard. In this tutorial, we will investigate the nature of skepticism and the varieties of relativism it encourages. This is part of a full-year thesis (493-494). Is there a difference between being offended and being harmed? Paramedics arrived and tried to revive him, but a doctor confirmed him dead at the scene. microscopes of reason and logic can carry us in traditional arguments about the existence and nature of God. Can we know anything through reason alone? We will ask, for example, what these theories tell us about the nature of space, time, probability and causality. "For any family, regardless of who it is, is one of the worst things that you could imagine that could happen to you," he said. [more], This course will raise and discuss a number of philosophical questions concerning our current understanding of mental health and mental illness. justice or passionate commitment and curiosity) over happiness? In confronting these difficult questions, we do not proceed purely theoretically but consider the contributions of various observation-based traditions, from Buddhist psychology and meditative practices to phenomenology to neurosciences. The philosophical study of what we do in language, and how we understand one another, is called pragmatics; within the analytic tradition, the main philosophical contributions to the study of pragmatics in language came from Peirce, Wittgenstein, Austen, Grice and Searle. What are the purposes of liberal arts colleges in America? In addition to key concepts of death, dying, and terminal illness, we will develop and refine notions of medical futility, paternalism and autonomy, particularly within the context of advance directives and surrogate decision making. as resources to be harvested, as testing grounds for science, and as religious sacrifice. Specific issues will include the ethics of placebo research, deception in research, studies of illicit/illegal behavior, genetic research, experimentation with children, pregnant women and fetuses, and persons with diminished mental capacity, among other topics. Some maintain that these issues are solely the provinces of philosophy, using traditional a priori methods. [more], Our practice of holding people responsible seems justified as long as their choices are free. Why read the history of philosophy? Our main goal in this course is to work our way through Aristotle's text which can be extremely daunting, and to reconstruct his central positions and his arguments for these positions. The abstract philosophical question before us is. In this way we come to realize that far from being the irrational foil of "the West," Indian tradition is a rich resource for thinking through some of the central questions that have challenged philosophers in both traditions. [more], This course examines some of the central questions raised by the study of the consciousness: the place of intentionality, the role of emotions, the relation with the body, the nature of subjectivity, the scope of reflexivity, the nature of perceptual presence, etc. Who is equal? Both stances face severe difficulties. Anscombe and Foot resurrected virtue ethics for Anglo-American philosophy and made moral psychology academically respectable. According to one, there is a single group of students that had their hands extremely full this semester. For each argument, we will first look at historically important formulations and then turn to contemporary reformulations. We will focus on particular topics, examples of which are the following: normative critique, capitalism, authoritarianism, mass culture, enlightenment and reason, progress, violence, the domination of nature, white supremacy, patriarchy and colonialism. Both stances face severe difficulties. In this course, relying on works by economists and philosophers, we examine the status of economics as an academic discipline, focusing on its assumptions, methods, and results. We will analyze and discuss various accounts of scientific method, structure and justification of scientific theories, scientific choice, change, and the idea that scientific knowledge is progressive in a cumulative way. Understanding later Wittgenstein is thus vital for engaging in contemporary philosophy, but neither the interpretation nor the evaluation of his thought is straightforward or easy. [more], Political liberalism has been both celebrated and lamented. Phil Williams / WTVF-TV: Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles didn't want you to see his college transcript! 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. nature and origins of the mother-child bond, and to replace--or to let us think we can replace--chance with choice." He had also worked at the Eagles for 5 years and was close A lesson from the tragic death of Phil Walsh Read More Why should one obey the law (if one should)? This first-year seminar will examine the philosophy of education through educational autobiographies: works that tell the story of a moral and intellectual education. How can it be known and pursued? In this course, we will survey the ethics of public health through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, investigating concepts and arguments that are central to the ethics of public health research and practice. This course will introduce students to fundamental concepts, methods, and issues in environmental ethics. But we also question the value of these tools based on first person approaches by relating them to the third person studies of the mind. [more], This course begins with a brief introduction to some of Foucault's early writings but focuses on a close reading of a selection of middle and late texts that have become central to debates about the significance and value of his work such as: Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality (vols. Right? What are the main sources of uncertainty here? some of the Hindu views about the self and the mind and consider their ethical implications. Through an examination of these works, we will try to get some feeling for what Socrates' controversial positions and his arguments for these positions may have been. There will also be a midterm paper (roughly 10 pages) and a final paper (roughly 15 pages) which you will develop and revise in consultation with the instructor. According to the other, every class was well-populated, potentially by different groups. The course will place special emphasis on developing students' intellectual skills in close, analytical reading; reconstructing and evaluating claims and reasons that support them; producing original ideas and arguments, orally and in writing; responding to the claims and arguments presented in texts and in class; and writing clear, polished, well-argued papers. Our subjects will include hate speech, press censorship, pornography, controversial art, sacrilegious speech and campus controversies. Questions about persons are of central importance for a myriad of our theories and practices, and for the ways in which we live our lives. If so, is that knowledge importantly different in kind or in rigor from the knowledge we gain through physics, chemistry or geology? Although it has influenced both analytic and continental philosophy, pragmatism is a powerful third philosophical movement. [more], Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Amelie Rorty, and Cora Diamond all challenged the prevailing philosophical tenets of their times. Could we (individually and socially) educate and cultivate them? [more], In her groundbreaking book, The Tentative Pregnancy, Barbara Katz Rothman writes that "[t]he technological revolution in reproduction is forcing us to confront the very meaning of motherhood, to examine the nature and origins of the mother-child bond, and to replace--or to let us think we can replace--chance with choice." WILLIAMS NEWS Covid-19 InformationCovid-19 is an ongoing concern in our region, including on campus . We will, undoubtedly, have to adjust the syllabus to respond to breaking international, national and local news. Nietzsche texts may include selections from: Untimely Meditations, The Gay Science,Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, and Ecce Homo. We will also study contemporary philosophers who have written on education, such as Martha Nussbaum and Cornel West. We conclude by considering the relation between first and third person studies of the mind, focusing on the concept of the embodied mind as a fruitful bridge between these different traditions. legitimate? Does film accurately capture reality, as no other art does? To this end, each week we will (1) read philosophical material focused on one principle or concept, and (2) consider in detail one bioethics case in which the principle or concept has special application or relevance. Perhaps even more so than on Friday night, the effect of Phil Walsh's death was felt at the MCG on Saturday afternoon. Existentialists investigate deeply irrational phenomena of human life, including anxiety, boredom, tragedy, despair, death, faith, sexuality, love, hate, sadism, masochism, and authenticity. This tutorial will bring to life the debate between Locke and Leibniz, and enable students to reach their own conclusions about Empiricism vs. Rationalism, Realism vs. Idealism, and related issues. We will read works by three of Socrates' contemporaries: Aristophanes, Xenophon, and especially Plato. Our texts will include Gottlob Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic, Bertrand Russell, Principles of Mathematics, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. How important are honor, money, love, work, friendship and our connections to others to our happiness? [more], The aim of this tutorial is to critically examine the nature, importance, and ethical value of personal attachments and loyalties. Finally, we will analyze the current debate about cognitive credentials of science and about proper approaches to the study of science, which came to be known as "the science wars." We will begin the course by looking at Hume's and Kant's discussion of causation. [more], In this course we will study Aristotle's Metaphysics concentrating of books gamma-theta. Or are some of our beliefs true in virtue of their meanings alone? Reasoning and Inference: The Philosophy of Logic, and thinking within formal systems and how to prove various things within these systems. Or are some of our beliefs true in virtue of their meanings alone? According to Hegel, subjects are both historically and socially constituted; they are formed through their relations with other subjects. [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], Although Kant initially planned for his magnum opus to comprise theoretical and practical chapters, his metaphysics and epistemology take up all of his Critique of Pure Reason while his ethics is spread out over a series of works--Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals. We will begin by reading some of Plato's early dialogues and his Republic. 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. Does offensive art harm? In this tutorial you will read from a selection of Foucault's texts (books, lectures, interviews) in order to acquire a firm grasp of his method of "critique" and his way of looking at the interconnections between forms of power and the knowledge associated with particular disciplines. See if you can figure out why this is sometimes called a paradox, and then ask yourself what this has to do with our opening questions. We can learn a lot about logic, language, epistemology and metaphysics by thinking through and attempting to resolve paradoxes. However, in his philosophically more sophisticated and notoriously difficult later dialogues (such as the Parmenides, Philebus, Sophist and Statesman), Plato engages in radical criticism and revision of his earlier views. Why should one obey the law (if one should)? Its probing and intimate reflections on the meaning of human life, the nature of God and mind, time and eternity, will and world, good and evil, love and sexuality have challenged every generation since Augustine's own. We will examine several different approaches in depth, including realism, constructivism, expressivism, and skepticism. Whether the mind can be fully understood within a scientific framework has taken on an exciting urgency. that future is nothing short of an existential threat to human beings. He died on 30 September 2020. Is the happy life a life of virtue? We will continue with the contemporary inheritors of the tradition: Cornel West, Richard Rorty, and Hilary Putnam. But we also question the value of these tools based on first person approaches by relating them to the third person studies of the mind. Others maintain that these questions will only yield to methods that incorporate our broader insight into the nature of the world including, perhaps, feminist thought or science. Rings of harmony surround you. Summer Institutes for Undergraduates in Philosophy. [more], Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is probably the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. From there it is a natural transition to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. What is knowledge (as opposed to mere opinion)? In this course, we will examine some central texts in ancient Greek and Roman moral philosophy. How have you already been taught the academic and civic virtues? However, this approach is too narrow, since people use language to do a myriad of things: to ask, demand, promise, praise, blame, threaten, command, insinuate, evoke, express feelings, and sometimes just to play. More importantly, many of the thinkers that we will read in this class are simply excellent philosophers, and it is worthwhile for anyone interested in philosophical problems to read treatments of these problems by excellent philosophers. In particular, one must grasp that "three of them" picks out a subset of the group picked out by "every cookie", and that there's no such thing as a cookie that is both chocolate chip, Minds, Brains, and Intelligent Behavior: An Introduction to Cognitive Science. Where did my reasoning go wrong? We conclude by considering some of the later Hindu holistic views of the self as responses to the Buddhist critique. subject. classics of western literature, and his views on ethics and politics continue to occupy a central place in our discussions 2400 years after they were written. We will then turn to several of Plato's dialogues, examining Plato's portrayal of Socrates and his development of a new and profoundly powerful philosophical conception. Diamond investigated the methodology of moral philosophy, paying special attention to the role of literature. Or might it be that our skepticism and relativism are the result of our own laziness and failure? And right now there are autonomous vehicles deciding how to behave in traffic, and autonomous weapons capable of delivering lethal force. Philosophy of Education: DuBois versus Washington, deepest questions in philosophy: consequentialism versus deontology, the goals of happiness versus dignity, long term versus short term goals, and more. In a philosophy of logic class, we think about what we are doing when we do logic. Or is it a supreme illusion, a dream-like escape, the domain in which the viewer's unconscious wishes are magically fulfilled? Among the authors we will read are: Aristotle, Frege, Russell, Quine, Kripke, Putnam, Field and Fine. For each argument, we will first look at historically important formulations and then turn to contemporary reformulations. 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. It will be very helpful, though not absolutely necessary, for you to have some familiarity with logic and some experience in reading philosophy. Beyond this common ground, however, epistemologists are much divided. 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. What is it for a sentence or a proposition to be true? Where have you been taught them? Does freedom require leading (or avoiding) a political life? Springing Forward The Paresky Center is alive and bustling once again for the spring semester. The second portion of the course will use feminist philosophy to inform our understanding of the ways in which gender structures the individual's interactions with the health care system. What do we mean when we talk about racial capitalism? We will raise questions concerning the task of philosophy, the structure and meaning constituting function of consciousness, the relationship between self and other, the mind-body relationship, freedom, authenticity, and absurdity. Some of them explicitly engage meta-philosophical debates; others exemplify particular philosophical styles and methods. Which characteristics of persons give them moral status? Phil, miss you and wish I had the chance to say goodbye. Are happiness and pleasure the same thing? What does it take to realize this fact? In addressing these substantive questions, we will also consider which methodological approach--if a single one can be privileged--we should adopt for examining emotions. 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