For each argument, we will first look at historically important formulations and then turn to contemporary reformulations. How should moral equality be understood, and what is its foundation? "Near-Death Experiences." In How to Think About Weird Things. We will read Adam Smith and Karl Marx on capitalism, Simone de Beauvoir on gender, and Charles Mills on race. What do the social and psychological sciences have to teach us about happiness? Our starting and central question will be: and evidence in forming our best beliefs. This course is part of the John Hyde Teaching Fellowship. stagflation of the 1970s, and bursting of the mortgage bubble in 2008. For clarification and discussion of the points made in Treatise, we will read parts of Hume's later works, especially the two Enquiries. 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. We'll try to make some progress on these issues. Fanon ushered in the decolonial turn in critical theory, a move calling on those both within and outside of Europe to challenge the coloniality of the age and to forge a new vision of politics in the postcolonial period. 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. And, Existentialists express their thought in philosophical treatises as often as in literary works. We begin by examining some of the central concepts of Buddhist psychology, its treatment of the mind as a selfless stream of consciousness, its examination of the variety of mental factors and its accounts of the relation between cognition and affects. Later Wittgenstein is a controversial, polarizing figure; but serious reading of his work is invariably intellectually enriching and fertile. and includes death notifications beginning January 1, 2020. . it stands at the beginning of both the Analytic and Continental traditions in contemporary philosophy. 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. Which characteristics of persons give them moral status? We coordinate our lives through sounds from mouths, signs from hands, and squiggles on paper because somehow sounds, signs, and squiggles have, Why Obey the Law? To do this, we will need to become familiar with key ethical theories; think deeply about such concepts as privacy, paternalism and autonomy, exploitation, cost-benefit analysis and justice; and compare the function of these concepts in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic with the way they work in responses to other public health concerns. The seminar will be structured around a close, critically engaged reading of the Confessions (in English translation) and will give attention to its historical context and significance as well as to its philosophical and theological ideas. 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. Phil Walsh was a writer and producer, known for Teamo Supremo (2002), Beakman's World (1992) and Recess (1997). While looking at film as art, as document, as experiment and as entertainment, we will always keep in sight specific theoretical assumptions that underlie different understandings of film, and different critical approaches to the medium. Apparently he corrupted the youth by engaging with them in philosophy. We will try to determine what is the scope and nature of an adequate theory of emotions, what are the desiderata for such a theory, and what should count as evidence in its favor. metaphysics, epistemology, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind. [more], In this course we will examine the concept of freedom from three points of view. We pursue this reflection by examining the views of James, Husserl, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, particularly as they concern the methods for the study of the mind and the relation between consciousness, reflexivity and the body. What role do emotional, irrational or unconscious forces play? We will try to determine what is the scope and nature of an adequate theory of emotions, what are the desiderata for such a theory, and what should count as evidence in its favor. We will also read more recent work by Foucault inspired scholars on topics such as the biopolitics of gender, the genealogy of terrorism, the informational person (how we become our data), and neoliberal subjects. Must they inhere in substances? While social justice and distributive justice are deeply intertwined in the health care context and we will discuss both, we will focus primarily on the concept of distributive justice. Ms. Sydney Walsh-Wilcox '83 P'23 (Sibling) Ms. Jenny Walsh Singer '99 (Sibling) . Who are the people, anyway? What is the nature of consciousness and how can it be unhappy, false or double? In this course we address the question: How is the present we find ourselves living today different from the one that the author Foucault wrote about in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s before his untimely death in 1984? This course is part of the John Hyde Teaching Fellowship. This course introduces philosophy students to these and related questions through a parallel reading that brings together 19th century German philosopher Hegel and a tradition of Africana philosophy running through Douglas, Du Bois, Fanon, Gilroy, Hartman and Wynter. As we go through these results, we will think about the philosophical implications of first-order logic. The Wittgenstein of the Tractatus is known as the "earlier Wittgenstein," the Wittgenstein of the Investigations is known as the "later Wittgenstein." We will begin by reading some of Plato's early dialogues and his Republic. [more], Is morality simply a matter of opinion? How do logic and language relate? How important are honor, money, love, work, friendship and our connections to others to our happiness? What, if anything, justifies our scientific knowledge? The view of the tragedians can lead to a thoroughgoing nihilism according to which --the best thing of all [for a human being] is never to have born-but the next best thing is to die soon (Aristotle's Eudemus as quoted in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy; see also Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus)." We will examine several different approaches in depth, including realism, constructivism, expressivism, and skepticism. We begin by examining some of the central concepts of Buddhist psychology, its treatment of the mind as a selfless stream of consciousness, its examination of the variety of mental factors and its accounts of the relation between cognition and affects. His thought influenced the thought of subsequent generations of philosophers. Finally, is there a reason for philosophy of film and film theory to exist as a separate field? As we read through these plays, we will also examine a number of philosophical works about tragedy. This course argues that by reference to the historically specific modes of subjectivity and sociality that resulted from the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Haitian Revolution, for instance, we can better understand and address long-standing questions in European Social Philosophy. [more], Why are you here? What is the mind? Emboldened by our confidence in skeptical arguments, we claim that knowledge is inevitably limited, that it depends on one's perspective, and that everything one believes is relative to context or culture. 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. . Beyond this common ground, however, epistemologists are much divided. In this course we will engage ethical questions surrounding the seeming inevitability of AI. What is knowledge (as opposed to mere opinion)? We will examine this issue in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, classic sources and contemporary articles. In addition we'll also look at feminist analyses of topics that traditionally have not been regarded as "gendered," such as resource allocation and end of life issues. The seminar will be structured around a close, critically engaged reading of the, Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", action, knowledge, ethics, religion, aesthetics, culture, and of course, philosophy itself. Our focus will be on recent influential work in this area. In this course we take up questions such as the following: What sorts of subjects do we find in modern Western societies? From there it is a natural transition to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Success in fulfilling desires? To submit an obituary, please send it to Alumni Records, Williams College, 75 Park Street, Williamstown, MA 01267. role does the history of philosophy play in the discipline? This tutorial aims to provide students with the skills necessary for careful, serious and thorough reading of Wittgenstein's later philosophy. In this course, we will spend the first third of the semester attempting to understand the metaphysics and epistemology in Plato's middle dialogues. The central topics of the course will be: meaning, rule following, human languages; private experiences and other minds; intention and action; knowledge and skepticism; and especially, the methods and nature of philosophy. The philosopher John Rawls is widely credited with reviving liberalism in the late 20th century and providing its most persuasive defense. [more], The core activity of this seminar is the careful reading and sustained discussion of selected works by Plato and Aristotle, but we will also engage such other thinkers as Epictetus and Augustine, and, from a political and theoretical point of view, selections from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. How can we reconcile this faith with the persistence of domination today? In this tutorial we will read philosophical texts from a range of approaches in professional philosophy since the early 20th Century (Analytic, Pragmatist, Continental or European, and Public). If time permits, we may also look at how the figure of Socrates has been thought about in the works of more modern thinkers. In this tutorial we'll closely examine a series of contemporary and historical cases of human experimentation (roughly, one case per week) with an eye toward elucidating the moral norms that ought to govern human subjects research. Or can meaning be allocated only to entire sets of beliefs? However, the status of loyalty as a virtue has always been suspect: it has been argued that it is incompatible with impartiality, fairness and equality, and claimed that it is always exclusionary. Our main goal will be to prove things about this logical system rather than to use this system to think about ordinary language arguments. Readings will be drawn from recent work in the Frankfurt School and poststructuralist traditions of critical theory as well as anti-racist, anti-colonial, feminist and queer theories that draw upon them. [more], Philosophy of film is a relatively young, but very rich and rapidly growing field. Other questions are pressing and immediate: Artificial intelligence techniques are used today to help decide whether someone gets a bank loan, is eligible to be released on bail, or in need of particular medical treatment. Could we (individually and socially) educate and cultivate them? Although we will attempt to engage the readings on their own terms, we will also ask how the vast differences between the ancient world and our own undercut or enhance the texts' ability to illuminate the dilemmas of political life for us. While Hegel studies tends to occur in isolation from philosophers in the Africana tradition, many of the above explicitly refer to and take up questions in Hegel. While he never wrote any philosophical works of his own, Socrates is one of the most influential thinkers in the western tradition. We will examine well-known philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God (including the ontological argument, the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, the argument from religious experience, and the argument from evil). Rorty challenged the very concept of morality and questioned all moral theory. Secondly, we will try to make sense of the moral dimensions of our relationship to animals. Our aim is to enrich our understanding of the discipline in order to evaluate its value and limitations. What is the body? 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. In the spirit of reconciliation the AFL acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. There is a village where the barber shaves (a) all those and (b) only those who do not shave themselves. Is that principle of organization justifiable or not? [more], The philosophy of mind has been one of the most active areas of philosophical inquiry over the last century. Our reading of Hume will be supplemented by historical and interpretive essays on his work. Introduction to Critical Theory: The Enlightenment and Its Critics. In this course, we will study the most important and influential chapters of the Critique with the help of some secondary literature. In school? While students will not regularly be required to read the latter, any who want to pursue this legacy will be supported in doing so.) 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. One possible answer which we will examine is that, while many philosophers recognize that there are intimate connections between what we believe, feel and do, philosophical argumentation by its very nature appeals to belief alone; narrative art, by contrast, can simultaneously engage our reason, emotions, imagination and will, thus resulting not only in deepening our understanding, but also in transformation of the self. Dubois, The Talented Tenth, Frederick Rudolph, Williams College 1793-1993: Three Eras, Three Cultures, Michael S. Roth, Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity, William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, and Anthony T. Kronman, The Assault on American Excellence. We coordinate our lives through sounds from mouths, signs from hands, and squiggles on paper because somehow sounds, signs, and squiggles have meanings. The reason for this is that there are two underlying structures that the original sentence can realize. We will spend the balance of the semester coming to grips with Plato's arguments in the later dialogues. [more], This course involves Independent Study under the supervision of a member of the department. Our discussions will range over historical and contemporary works in the Western tradition. What are some of the necessary conditions for democracy? We will read classic works (such as John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law), contemporary articles, and United States Supreme Court cases. public health policies and activities. We then consider a range of Buddhist critiques of these views, focusing more particularly on the Madhyamaka, which radicalizes the critique of the self into a global anti-realist and skeptical stance. This course will offer a selective overview of the debates that characterized philosophy of film since the early 20th century. The debate never transpired - indeed, Leibniz suppressed his New Essays - because of Locke's death in 1705. Near the end of the semester, we'll also examine some evolutionary explanations of religious belief. Authors will include Plato, Anselm, Aquinas, Pascal, Paley, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, and several contemporary philosophers. We will examine basic questions in the philosophy of law: What is the relationship between law and morality? Our study will definitely include Frege, Russell, Quine, Searle, and Kripke. [more], This course will raise and discuss a number of philosophical questions concerning our current understanding of mental health and mental illness. Is film a creation of a single artist - the director, the author - or is it a result of a loosely synchronized and not quite coherent collaboration of many different people, each guided by her or his particular vision? We will read the Oresteia and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Sophocles' Theban Cycle, and the Hippolytus, Bacchae and Philoctetes by Euripides. Science is only "true" for some people, agnosticism is the only alternative to foolish superstition, and moral relativism and, consequently, nihilism are obvious. And what present practices and ways of thinking and knowing might be questioned using Foucault's tools, genealogy in particular, for resisting unnecessary constraints on freedom and the perpetuation of unnecessary suffering? In this course we will investigate the the broad topics of consciousness and thought by surveying the many approaches to mind that yield the contemporary debates. How should we think about the boundaries and methods of theorizing about film? When should we give morality priority over personal commitments and relationships, and why? "He was just like the rest of us," said Watt to give the first personal reflection of Walsh since his death has brought tributes focused on his football achievements in 122 VFL-AFL games with . We will begin the course by looking briefly at some of the Presocratic philosophers active in the Mediterranean world of the seventh through fifth centuries BCE, and some of the sophists active in the fifth century. What are the social and ethical prerequisites--and consequences--of democracy? [more], At the beginning of the last century Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. in conflict. Why then should we spend our time studying people who in addition to having these surprising beliefs have been dead for 2500 years? Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later. We shall first explore the salient features of the pragmatic approaches to language, paying special attention to Austin's notion of illocutionary force and Grice's notion of non-natural meaning. reason or truth (unless they are our own). (i) You are psyched. [more], This tutorial, designed especially for first year students, is a philosophy course, not a prelaw course. We will, undoubtedly, have to adjust the syllabus to respond to breaking international, national and local news. The stoics and skeptics both claimed a Socratic imprimatur for their own thought. The course will present the essential ideas of relativity theory and quantum theory and explore their implications for philosophy. You are psyched to be reading this course description right now. We will read several complete dialogues in translation, and will also read a wide variety of secondary source material. The goals of this course are to improve the critical thinking of the students, to introduce them to sentential and predicate logic, to familiarize them with enough formal logic to enable them to read some of the great works of philosophy, which use formal logic (such as Wittgenstein's Tractatus), and to examine some of the connections between logic and philosophy. [more], We will consider a series of debates in 20th Century Analytic Philosophy concerning the relationship between the mind and the world. The course will begin with the "received view" of science, advanced by logical empiricists, which assumes the objectivity and the rationality of science and argues that induction is the main scientific method. Unsurprisingly, philosophers have proffered a variety of answers to these questions, prompting one philosopher to remark, half-jokingly, that "there are as many definitions of philosophy as there are philosophers." We will concentrate both on making precise the philosophical problem of consciousness and on understanding the role of the relevant neuroscientific and cognitive research. "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality." In Language, Metaphysics, and Death. What is the relationship between the mind and the body? Conservatism portal. 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. This tutorial aims to provide students with the skills necessary for careful, serious and thorough reading of Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Finally, we will consider how the concept of freedom is applied in contemporary social contexts, such as speech, religion, voting, and sexuality and gender. In addition to examining general accounts of causation, we will examine particular problems that come up in thinking about mental causation and causation in indeterministic contexts. Leibniz wrote his New Essays in 1704 as a critical response to Locke's Essay of 1690. The remainder of the course will consider key concepts at the core of medical ethics and central issues for the field, such as privacy and confidentiality, the distinction between killing and "letting die," and therapy vs. research. In this tutorial we will read the contemporary literature on consciousness. [more], Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is probably the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. And on what grounds can we justify confidence in our provisional answers to such questions? While Plato and Aristotle differ on many points, they share the belief that the cosmos and the human place within it can be understood by rational means. Some of the questions we will consider are: Are moral standards relative to cultural frameworks? The tragedians emphasize the ways in which the cosmos and our role in it resists any attempt to be understood, and emphasize the ways in which the success or failure of our lives often turns on things completely beyond our control. We will move on to examine ethical issues of truth-telling with terminally ill patients and their families, decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatments, the care of seriously ill newborns, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and posthumous interests. It puts an end to the Early Modern traditions of Rationalism and Empiricism, and it stands at the beginning of both the Analytic and Continental traditions in contemporary philosophy. (Foot also invented the infamous trolley car thought experiment.) Wilfrid Sellars regarded as uncontroversial the view that it is "an attempt to see how things, in the broadest possible sense of the term, hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term." I don't know why, she just does. Are we justified in believing in God? We will continue with J. S. Mill's Utilitarianism and Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, considering these books as works in the philosophy of education. How should moral equality be understood, and what is its foundation? scientific theories. [more], This is a course in the philosophy of logic. With few exceptions, thoroughgoing skepticism and relativism have not been the prevailing views of the greatest minds in the history of philosophy. First of all, Greek thinkers, especially Plato and Aristotle, radically shaped the trajectory of western thought in every area of philosophy. Love it or hate it, you cannot ignore it. [more], This course is a survey of 17th- and 18th-century European philosophy, with a focus on metaphysics and epistemology. Who should rule? [more], What is it for a novel, a story, a play or a film to be a philosophical narrative? [more], This course is a chronological survey of major works of political theory from the 16th to the 20th century. Messing with People: The Ethics of Human Experimentation. We will then turn to contemporary controversies such as campus free speech. Is relativism a form of skepticism? The aim of this course is to examine the origins, grounds, and nature of this belief. Our focus will be on recent influential work in this area. We conclude by considering some of the later Hindu holistic views of the self as responses to the Buddhist critique. In this tutorial, we will investigate the nature of skepticism and the varieties of relativism it encourages. [more], What ethical standards should guide our individual and societal choices when those choices affect current and future environmental conditions? + Discussion: UPI, New York Post, . We will read the great 20th century philosopher who saw education as the foundation of democracy: John Dewey. 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. Finally, there are those who do not think philosophy can contribute much at all to answering such questions and others who question its claims to universality given its associations with colonialism, racism, sexism, etc. While looking at film as art, as document, as experiment and as entertainment, we will always keep in sight specific theoretical assumptions that underlie different understandings of film, and different critical approaches to the medium. It is difficult, however, to get clear on the relation between the meaning of an expression and its reference. What, if anything, justifies our scientific knowledge? It is difficult, however, to get clear on the relation between the meaning of an expression and its reference. In discussions and writing, we will explore the diverse visions of modernity and of politics offered by such thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Mill, and Freud. 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 and oatmeal raisin. The picture that we find in the works of the tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides is markedly different. [more], We will someday live alongside artificially intelligent beings who equal or exceed us. 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. Students should be aware that, in the classic tradition, this class resembles a logic course. What does it mean to be "philosophical" or to think "theoretically" about politics? Moreover, the ethical issues that are implicated in responses to the pandemic reflect the range of those manifested across the field of public health as a whole. We'll examine these and related questions through historical and contemporary readings. the cosmos. His later work, best known through posthumously published Philosophical Investigations, continues to influence contemporary thinking about language, mind, action, knowledge, ethics, religion, aesthetics, culture, and of course, philosophy itself. When AI is fully realized, it is likely to be amongst the most important things to happen to our species. What should be done about offensive art? [more], Animals are and always have been part of human life. nature and origins of the mother-child bond, and to replace--or to let us think we can replace--chance with choice." Why should one obey the law (if one should)? If there are such things--we'll call them propositions--what are they like? Is happiness an emotional or mental state or is it a social construct? We will prepare for the Republic by reading two Socratic dialogues: the Euthyphro and the Meno. We will read works by three of Socrates' contemporaries: Aristophanes, Xenophon, and especially Plato. Whether this is hyperbole or wise prognostication, it cannot be denied that the rise of AI will be a tectonic shift for culture, technology, and our fundamental sense of ourselves. Our readings will come primarily from philosophy, but will be supplemented with material from anthropology, physics, psychology, and linguistics. Topics will include: What can we know through our senses? This theoretically oriented work will provide the background for subsequent examination of specific topics, which may include, among others: justice in health care financing and reform; justice in health care rationing and access to health care, with particular attention to the intersections of rationing criteria with gender, sexuality, race, disability, and age; justice in the procurement and allocation of organs for transplantation; obesity and personal responsibility for illness; and justice in medical research, including "double standards" for research conducted in low resource settings. A number of things follow from this happy assumption. Cy Jacob Walsh, 26, entered no plea after being charged with murdering his father in a killing that has stunned Australia's sporting community. demand, promise, praise, blame, threaten, command, insinuate, evoke, express feelings, and sometimes just to play. 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