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Winter Quarter

Dept Course No and Title Instructor
PHILOS (W19)190  CHRISTNITY &SCIENCERAPHAEL, R.
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PHILOS (W19)163  SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGYBONCOMPAGNI, A.
A selection of topics in social epistemology with a special emphasis on testimony, epistemic injustice, prejudice, and the epistemology of resistance. We’ll be working on the blurred boundaries between common sense certainties and deeply entrenched prejudices, making use of the Wittgenstein-inspired perspective of hinge epistemology in the social domain.
PHILOS (W19)122  PHILOSOPHY OF MINDSMITH, D.
Selected topics involving the concept of mind, e.g., the relation between mind and body, the self, personal identity, consciousness, the unconscious.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.
PHILOS (W19)121A  MED EPISTEMOLOGYBERNECKER, S.
This course provides an overview of the exciting field of medical epistemology. Based on case-studies drawn from contemporary medical practice, the course will be themed around the following key topics: Disease classification. Hierarchies of evidence in evidence based medicine. The role of trust in the medical context. Expert disagreement in the medical context. Vaccine skepticism. Informed consent. Testimonial and hermeneutical injustice in the medical context. Alternative medicines. Diagnostics and epistemic value. Placebo effect.
PHILOS (W19)115  HIST OF ANALYTIC IHEIS, J.
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PHILOS (W19)113  KANT'S ETHICSBENCIVENGA, E.
A study of Kant's ethics. Grades will be based on a midterm and a final, both take home.
PHILOS (W19)110  SOCRATES AND THE SOPHISTSPERIN, C.
The ancient Greek Sophists were professional, self-professed teachers of wisdom or the skills of success. They traveled from city to city offering their services to young men from rich families. Socrates seems to have been viewed by many in Athens as just one more Sophist, and perhaps an especially dangerous one. Plato thought otherwise. In dialogues like the Protagoras and the Apology, he presents a portrait of Socrates designed to highlight the differences between him and the Sophists. In this course we'll try to figure out just who the sophists were and what they did. Were they the ancient Greek equivalent of celebrity professors, or intellectual con men, or both? Did they hold or advance any philosophical views? Were they sceptics or relativists? We'll also ask why, according to Plato, Socrates was not a Sophist. Readings include Gorgias' Helen, the Dissoi Logoi, selections from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes' Clouds, and Plato's Protagoras and Apology.
PHILOS (W19)105B  METALOGICWEHMEIER, K.
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PHILOS (W19)102W  INTRO TO KNOWLEDGECOLIVA, A.
The course will introduce students to two forms of skepticism, the Cartesian and the Humean, and will present some of the main contemporary anti-skeptical strategies. In particular, we will study the writings of Putnam, Nozick, DeRose, G. E. Moore, Pryor, McDowell, Strawson and Wright.
The course will also teach students how to write a philosophy paper, through a series of intermediate assignments, such as summaries, argument reconstructions and argument evaluations.  

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing Requirement.
Overlaps with LPS 102.
PHILOS (W19)30  INTR SYMBOLIC LOGICMEADOWS, T.
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PHILOS (W19)29  CRITICAL REASONINGSTAFF
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PHILOS (W19)4  INTRO TO ETHICSBENCIVENGA, E.
A study of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, on such topics as virtue, friendship, and happiness. Grades will be based on two exams, on study questions provided in advance.
PHILOS (W19)3  TECH & SOCIETYBERNECKER, S.
Technologies play a pervasive role in our lives. The aim of the course is to help you develop a better and more articulate understanding of the metaphysical, epistemological, moral and social-political implications of technologies. The course has three distinct parts. The first part investigates the nature of technology. What is technology? What is philosophy of technology? How are philosophy and technology related to the production of knowledge? The second part investigates some of the major positions in the philosophy of technology, past and present. Among the authors discussed in this section are Aristotle, Carnap, Foucault, Heidegger, Marcuse, and Marx. The third part deals with philosophical issues raised by emerging technologies such as genetic engineering, driverless cars, state-of-the-art surveillance, machine learning, robotics and cyborgs, social media, geoengineering, workplace automation, and augmented reality.
PHILOS (W19)2  PUZZLES & PARADOXESSMITH, D.
Introduction to the formal tools needed to comprehend and evaluate philosophical arguments and theoretical reasoning in general.

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PHILOS (W19)1  INTRO TO PHILOSOPHYPRITCHARD, D.
This course provides a general introduction to the main topics in philosophy. The topics covered include: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion, and The Meaning of Life.

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