Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion: Summer 8 Week Session, Summer 8 Week Session Intended as a first course in logic for students with no previous exposure to the subject, the course treats symbolic logic. Students will learn to formalize reasoning in symbolic languages with precisely defined meanings and rules of inference. Symbolic logic is by nature a mathematical subject, but the course does not presuppose any prior coursework in mathematics—only an openness to mathematical reasoning.
The course concentrates on three systems of symbolic logic: Students from philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics will find important connections between symbolic logic and their other coursework. Summer 10 Week Session This course addresses the nature of ethical motivation and agency, with special attention to the individual's role in a business organization. Topics include theories of ethical motivation; individual character and organizational culture; personal integrity; corporate agency; corporate responsibility to society. Summer 10 Week Session, Summer 10 Week Session, Summer 10 Week Session This course is an introduction to some of the traditional questions in metaphysics--the study of what there is in the world and how what there is is structured.
Topics will include free will and determinism, the mind-body problem, and personal identity.
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If time permits, we will also examine arguments for the existence of God. Prior to In any culture, the way we act implies some view of what it is to be a person, and indeed what it is to be a particular kind of person, e. This view determines what roles and privileges are available to specific individuals and how these individuals will think of themselves and evaluate their actions and obligations. We will focus on works of philosophy, literature and film which have had a powerful and lasting impact on our culture.
Concepts of the Person in Novel, Drama, and Film: In what ways are they still of relevance to life in the twenty-first century? In addition to reading selected passages from the Analects, we will also consider commentaries by later Confucians and read contemporary philosophical articles on the relevant topics.
Fall , Fall , Spring The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment is limited to 15 freshmen.
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The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Fall Study of various fields of philosophy of special interest to freshman. Topics will vary from semester to semester and will be individually announced. Freshman seminars are restricted to fifteen students each. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Spring , Spring Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year.
The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores. Spring , Fall , Spring Directed study on special topics. Final exam not required. Spring , Fall , Spring Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor following a faculty-directed curriculum , meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources.
Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate. Spring , Fall , Spring The course is designed to acquaint students with the techniques of philosophical reasoning through detailed study of selected philosophical texts and through extensive training in philosophical writing, based on those texts. Should be taken as early as possible after declaring the major. Two courses from 2, 4, 25A, 25B.
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Restricted to students in the major. Fall , Fall , Spring The fundamental concepts and problems of morality examined through the study of classical and contemporary philosophical theories of ethics. Spring , Spring , Spring An investigation of central issues in moral psychology, such as: Summer First 6 Week Session, Fall , Summer First 6 Week Session This course will be devoted to in-depth discussion of a variety of problems in moral philosophy raised by real-life questions of individual conduct and social policy.
Its contents will vary from occasion to occasion. Possible topics include philosophical problems posed by affirmative action, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, terrorism, war, poverty, and climate change. The following topics will be addressed among others: Readings may be drawn from both historical and contemporary sources. Form, expression, representation style; interpretation and evaluation. Upper division courses in philosophy or consent of instructor. Majors in literature or the arts. Spring This course is intended to allow a more focused exploration of particular topics in aesthetics than is possible in Philosophy Topics may include philosophical questions arising for particular art forms such as painting, music, or dance; questions about form, expression, representation, and emotion in aesthetic experience; or the ideas of particular aesthetic movements or schools of thought.
Special Topics in Aesthetics: History of Political Philosophy: Spring , Fall , Spring Analysis of political obligation and related problems. Spring , Fall , Fall This course is designed to deal with a variety of topics in political philosophy. Possible topics include problems in liberal theory; justice, desert, and responsibility; communitarianism, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism. Special Topics in Political Philosophy: Summer First 6 Week Session, Fall , Fall This course explores philosophical questions of race, ethnicity, and citizenship, with special attention to the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and indigenous peoples of the United States.
The Philosophy of Race, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: Summer Second 6 Week Session, Fall This course will introduce students to a range of historical and contemporary feminist issues. Spring This course explores, from a philosophical perspective, ethical questions arising from collecting, drawing inferences from, and acting on data, especially when these activities are automated and at a large scale. Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Moral Questions of Data Science: Prior coursework in philosophy will be helpful, but is not required.
Spring , Spring , Spring Theory of Knowledge: Spring , Fall , Summer Second 6 Week Session An advanced introduction to contemporary metaphysics, focusing on the ideas of objectivity, existence, naturalness, identity, time, causation, and possibility. Spring Science is often regarded as preeminently rational. Yet recent work in philosophy, history and sociology of science suggests that scientific knowledge is no more rationally established than other sorts of knowledge, and that scientists' convictions are driven more by party loyalty and ego than by a pureminded pursuit of truth.
This course will consider the case for and against the rationality of science. It will also consider the recent controversy concerning "scientific" creationism. Rationality and Irrationality in Science: Spring , Summer First 6 Week Session, Fall A survey of main topics in the logic of science and of other issues coming under the general heading of philosophy of science. Fall , Fall Mind and matter; other minds; the concept of "person.
Summer Second 6 Week Session, Spring , Summer Second 6 Week Session An introduction to central topics in the philosophy of language, for example the nature of linguistic meaning, the relation of meaning to truth and reference, knowledge of language, the relation of language to thought, pragmatic aspects of linguistic communication, and skepticism about linguistic meaning.
Some previous background in philosophy and logic is required. Fall , Fall How is the meaning of a whole sentence determined by the meanings of its parts, and by its structure? This question is addressed in empirical semantic theories for natural language. The character and content of such theories has been a central concern both of the philosophy of language and of recent linguistics, and it is the central focus of this course. Language compared to other sign systems.
The foundations of semantics, truth, meaning, reference. Issues of logical form in belief sentences, indirect discourse, sentences about causality, events, actions. Relations between thought and language. Fall , Fall , Fall The philosophy of perception is a microcosm of the metaphysics of mind.
Its central problems - What is perception? What is the nature of perceptual consciousness? How can one fit an account of perceptual experience into a broader account of the nature of the mind and the world? It is often justifiably said that the theory of perception and especially vision is the area of psychology and neuroscience that has made the greatest progress in recent years. Despite this progress, or perhaps because of it, philosophical problems about perception retain a great urgency, both for philosophy and for science.
Fall , Spring , Spring This course deals with the ontology of society and thus provides a foundation for the social sciences. The main questions discussed are: Fall , Spring , Spring Major concepts, results, and techniques of modern logic. Basic set theoretic tools. Model theoretic treatment of propositional and first-order logic completeness, compactness, Lowenheim-Skolem.
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Spring , Summer 10 Week Session, Spring An exploration of how game theory and rational choice theory shed light on traditional philosophical problems; and of new paradoxes and problems introduced by these theories. Philosophy and Game Theory: Spring , Spring , Spring The course aims at introducing students to the basic topics in philosophy of logic. We are frequently forced to abandon common sense and the obvious in order to progress beyond the immediate muddle of everyday existence towards what we consider to be the truths of science. History in an Hour. The Siege of Leningrad: The American Civil War: The English Civil Wars Odd True Tales, Volume 1.
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