At home? Readings will include work by Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and contemporary authors. [more], What gives an individual life meaning? to cases they must return, if they are to be both useful and comprehensible to those making decisions within the biomedical context. We start with some of the Hindu views about the self and the mind and consider their ethical implications. To notify Williams of alumni deaths, please email, Experiential Learning & Community Engagement. What differentiates today from yesterday? The stoics and skeptics both claimed a Socratic imprimatur for their own thought. Their dispute raised some of the deepest questions in philosophy: consequentialism versus deontology, the goals of happiness versus dignity, long term versus short term goals, and more. The Crows staged their main training session at their West . Unit Notes: Public Health concentrators may use either PHIL 211T Ethics of Public Health or PHIL 213T Biomedical Ethics to fulfill their 3-elective requirement, but they may not use both courses to do so. Does it matter who is offended? 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. The first portion of the course will be devoted to developing and understanding four moral principles which have come to be accepted as canonical: respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. How do logic and language relate? 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 [more], Any critical theory presupposes an account how both individual and social subjects come into being. As we go through these results, we will think about the philosophical implications of first-order logic. Reasoning and Inference: The Philosophy of Logic, and thinking within formal systems and how to prove various things within these systems. Throughout the course, our focus will be on the best theoretical and practical knowledge we now have to diagnose, explain, and alleviate mental illness. And, Existentialists express their thought in philosophical treatises as often as in literary works. Furthermore, many of the issues that Aristotle takes up in these books remain of central importance in contemporary philosophy. Last offered Fall 2017 . Conceptions of person are equally important in science (especially in psychology), law, and the arts. Although it has influenced both analytic and continental philosophy, pragmatism is a powerful third philosophical movement. 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. The AFL is in shock after Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh was stabbed to death at his home, with his 26-year-old son arrested and charged with murder. The objective is the presentation and writing of a senior essay (maximum 40 pages). 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. All three have had a profound influence on literature, social theory, and critical theories of the 20th and 21st centuries. Phil Walsh Writer/Producer Los Angeles, California, United States500+ connections Join to connect TW3 Entertainment Williams College Personal Website Report this profile Experience. This is unfortunate, but at least there isn't a heap of sand on my desk. An example might be helpful. From there, we will look at extensions of and/or alternatives to first-order logic. (Foot also invented the infamous trolley car thought experiment.) But now we have a problem. seek answers to the following kinds of questions: When is it rational to have a particular belief? Some understand its aim to be to answer normative questions about the nature of truth, justice, goodness and rationality. The course will present the essential ideas of relativity theory and quantum theory and explore their implications for philosophy. Our starting and central question will be: What makes me the particular person that I am, and how is my identity as this individual person preserved over time? 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. Hegel and Karl Marx. How are conscious and unconscious emotions related to a person's action, character, and her social world? We will begin the course by looking at Hume's and Kant's discussion of causation. What kind of work is that, and how is it accomplished? Does being virtuous guarantee happiness? 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. Is it possible to have systematic knowledge of subjective experience? This course serves as an introduction to formal methods in the scientific study of language. We will discuss the importance of specific genre conventions and broader contextual matters to the interpretation of literary texts (along the lines suggested by Quentin Skinner); the possibility of using intention to rule out mistaken and arrive at acceptable interpretations, if not a single correct interpretation (a possibility denied by such relativists as Stanley Fish); the use and meaning of metaphors; and the host of questions surrounding the intentional fallacy (the alleged result of invoking authorial intention to determine textual meaning). [more], Why are you here? To do this we will explore topics that might traditionally be considered "women's issues" in healthcare, such as medicine and body image (e.g., cosmetic surgery, eating disorders), reproductive and genetic technologies, and research on women and their health care needs. Do our society's laws limit our freedom in order to make us safe? We'll examine these and related questions through historical and contemporary readings. (Foot also invented the infamous trolley car thought experiment.) We will read the great 20th century philosopher who saw education as the foundation of democracy: John Dewey. Hence, being with others, being dependent on others, is regarded as a key structuring feature of human existence. [more], The nature of consciousness remains a fundamental mystery of the universe. [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. 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. Who should rule? 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. [more], Much like the construction of medical knowledge itself, it is from specific cases that general principles of biomedical ethics arise and are systematized into a theoretical framework, and it is to cases they must return, if they are to be both useful and comprehensible to those making decisions within the biomedical context. Thus, the concept of person plays a significant role in most branches of philosophy, e.g. What distinguishes that kind of life from others? How do we create legal and policy frameworks that cover a new kind of thinking being? While he never wrote any philosophical works of his own, Socrates is one of the most influential thinkers in the western tradition. Milan Kundera tried to answer this question by saying that a good philosophical novel does not serve philosophy but, on the contrary, tries to "get hold of a domain that () philosophy had kept for itself. 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. 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. The theoretical aspect of the course will involve close readings of selected articles in contemporary aesthetics, philosophy of literature and philosophy of film. Hence, being with others, being dependent on others, is regarded as a key structuring feature of human existence. Where have you been taught them? We will also read selections from the vast secondary literature on Aristotle's. Why read the history of philosophy? 413-597-4171. ntp1 @williams .edu. [more], This tutorial, designed especially for first year students, is a philosophy course, not a prelaw course. For each argument, we will first look at historically important formulations and then turn to contemporary reformulations. Do our society's laws limit our freedom in order to make us safe? legitimate? Roger Federer gets stumped by famous saying. These affect not only our particular choices but also, more fundamentally, who we are and what we value. But perform those exact same steps in a different order--check the stove, say "I didn't leave the stove on", then say "I might've left the stove on"--and something's gone quite wrong. What if they are more fair? 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. Or can meaning be allocated only to entire sets of beliefs? We will begin by examining the general concepts of health and disease, and then apply them to human psychology. His thought influenced the thought of subsequent generations of philosophers. Our readings will include the relevant works of Plato, Sextus Empiricus, Carnap, Quine, Davidson, Goodman, Elgin, Hacking, Krausz, Foot, and Williams, among others. Most sessions will pair readings about key concepts with specific cases that raise complex ethical issues, including the concept of moral standing and, e.g., people who do not yet exist, non-human individuals, species, and complex living systems; the concept of moral responsibility and complicity in environmentally damaging practices; the legitimacy of cost-benefit analysis as an environmental policy tool; and the valuation of human lives. central to debates about the significance and value of his work such as: psychology academically respectable. Cognitive science synthesizes research from cognitive psychology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, and contemporary philosophy. questions by studying the history of controversies in American higher education, concentrating especially on debates about the curriculum. [more], In this course we will explore the ways in which feminist approaches to moral thinking have influenced both the methodology and the content of contemporary bioethics. [more], How are individual and social subjects formed, and how do they connect to questions of race? How can it be known and pursued? [more], Intellectually, we are ready skeptics and relativists. [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. Our aim will be to identify and evaluate the strongest version of each argument. 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. In this class, we'll work together to think through some ancient and contemporary paradoxes. 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. Much of the moral philosophy produced in Greece and Rome remains as relevant today as when it was written. However, few (haters gonna hate) would say that the expression has a referent. In order to be justified in holding a belief, must someone know (or believe) that she is justified in holding that belief? Supt Bray said the domestic incident was a tragedy. Required fields are marked *. Assigned works will include Booker T. Washington. 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. 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. After working through these arguments, we will reflect more generally on the proper roles of reason and faith in justifying religious belief. We will thus be led to discuss some of the concepts common to epistemology, metaphysics and ethics: reason, justification, objectivity, understanding, reality and truth. What are emotions, and how should we think about them? [more], We speak as if moral judgments can be true or false, warranted or unwarranted. Should we value other things (say justice or passionate commitment and curiosity) over happiness? Thus, the concept of person plays a significant role in most branches of philosophy, e.g. There two ways to understand "Many students took every class". [more], Modern philosophy centers on two debates: Empiricism vs. Rationalism and Realism vs. Idealism. What are the purposes of liberal arts colleges in America? Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, J.S. [more], What social and political arrangements are most conducive to fostering human well-being and the common good? The answer is not merely that they ask the question, "What gives meaning to a human life?" 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. Some of the questions we will ask are: What is the nature of filmic representation? We will start by situating Hume's project within the historical tradition in which he thought and against which Treatise was directed. [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. The choice of literary works and films to be discussed will to some extent depend on students' interest. And, it's not merely that their answer invokes our freedom to determine our own identities. Possible additional topics would include: modal logic, the theory of counterfactuals, alternative representations of conditionals, the use of logic in the foundations of arithmetic and Godel's Incompleteness theorems. The thoughts that Aristotle expresses in these books were instrumental in setting an intellectual agenda that dominated western thought through the Middle Ages and provided the backdrop against which the modern philosophical tradition arose. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Some challenges we face are broad and about the future, though perhaps not the far future. Some of the questions we will ask are: What is the nature of filmic representation? The picture that we find in the works of the tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides is markedly different. It was the Crow's first game since the death of their coach Phil Walsh. demanded by institutions, religious, political and ethnic communities, as well as by the state. This introduction to philosophy will see how far the microscopes of reason and logic can carry us in traditional arguments about the existence and nature of God. 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. What is the mind? The real question, then, seems to be whether, and how, free choice is possible amidst all of these influences. Does film accurately capture reality, as no other art does? We will also read selections from the vast secondary literature on Aristotle's Metaphysics. According to Hegel, subjects are both historically and socially constituted; they are formed through their relations with other subjects. that future is nothing short of an existential threat to human beings. How does film generate meaning? There is a village where the barber shaves (a) all those and (b) only those who do not shave themselves. 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. Is film today really distinct from a number of new, emerging visual media? We'll try to make some progress on these issues. The philosopher John Rawls is widely credited with reviving liberalism in the late 20th century and providing its most persuasive defense. [more], The aim of the course is to survey, analyze and discuss many varieties of relativism--semantic, epistemic, ontological and moral--from Plato's Theaetetus to contemporary social constructivism. With what limits and justifications? 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. "The only thing that is different with this is that he has a high profile. 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. 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. We turn first to two of Plato's most famous dialogues, Philosophical Approaches to Contemporary Moral Issues. According to one, there is a single group of students that had their hands extremely full this semester. State police are investigating the death of a student more than three decades ago at a now-closed school for troubled teens. [more], "Faith is a fine invention," according to Emily Dickinson's poem, "when gentlemen can see; but microscopes are prudent in an emergency." In this way, we develop a rich array of analytical tools and observational practices to further our understanding of the mind. to the structure of arguments for and against relativism, as well as to the philosophical motivations and perceived consequences of its endorsement or rejection. [more], This course is a survey of 17th- and 18th-century European philosophy, with a focus on metaphysics and epistemology. Pragmatist Currents in Contemporary Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Leibniz wrote his New Essays in 1704 as a critical response to Locke's Essay of 1690. 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. [more], Plato is one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of the western tradition. While answers to such questions are implicit in historically important accounts of morality, these issues became the topic of explicit, sustained debate in the twentieth and twenty-first century. 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. 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 answer is not merely that they ask the question, "What gives meaning to a human life?" Our focus will be on recent influential work in this area. Some critics find predictive failures of economists unsurprising, given the frequent reliance of the latter on assumptions known to be false (e.g., that economic agents are always selfish, have perfect information, and never make mistakes) and on models that unavoidably ignore potentially relevant factors. We will begin with Aristotle's Poetics and will continue with Hume's Of Tragedy, Hegel's various writings on tragedy, and Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. 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. The first portion of the course will be devoted to considering general theories of justice as well as alternative conceptions of justice specifically within the health care context. Dean's Office. What are emotions, and how should we think about them? We'll try to make some progress on these issues. What is the relationship between the mind and the body? 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. Are we justified in believing in God? Epistemologists don't seem to think that Hume's account of human psychology, morality and taste can in any way illuminate his treatment of skepticism and natural belief, while moral philosophers often neglect Hume's conclusions about the limits of our knowledge in analyzing his conception of motivation, action, obligation and virtue. Is it moral for us to pass along these sorts of decisions to AI's? this class, we will attempt to carry on the noble tradition of corruption by philosophy. Our reading of Hume will be supplemented by historical and interpretive essays on his work. 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. Is a world with AI's overall better or worse for us? The debate between Realism and Idealism concerns whether reality is composed of mind-independent matter, or mind-like substances. We will look at relativism with respect to reason and truth in general as well as with respect to science, religion, and morality. At Williams College a mural was removed from The Log and Herman Rosse's painting "Carnival of Life" was removed from the '62 Center. Conversation is dynamic--the back and forth exchange of information is a process that grows and adapts to the surrounding context. As a result, some prominent researchers propose that the existence of consciousness requires a revision of basic physics, while others (seemingly desperately) deny that consciousness exists at all. We also introduce the practice of meditation as a way to observe the mind and raise questions concerning the place of its study in the mind-sciences. He was born on March 15, 1960 and his birthplace is Australia. One of our guiding questions will be: What makes a thinker an "Existentialist"? What is the nature of audience's response to film? 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). [more], No thinker has done more to shape the Western intellectual tradition than Augustine (354-430 CE), and no book displays Augustine's dynamic vision of reality more compellingly than the Confessions. The cause of death for Phil Williams Jr. was listed as "probably a . [more]. Is film today really distinct from a number of new, emerging visual media? Our main goal will be to prove things about this logical system rather than to use this system to think about ordinary language arguments. How should moral equality be understood, and what is its foundation? Our starting and central question will be: and evidence in forming our best beliefs. Associate Dean for Sophomore Year Students and Director of Transfer and Non-Traditional Students Services. Can we be mistaken about how well our lives are going, or about what has value? We will begin with John Stuart Mill's powerful defense of free speech in On Liberty, but will then investigate challenges to Mill's traditional liberalism from thinkers, such as Catharine MacKinnon, who believe that such rights are never neutral. Some of them explicitly engage meta-philosophical debates; others exemplify particular philosophical styles and methods. Apparently he corrupted the youth by engaging with them in philosophy. We will thus be led to discuss some of the concepts common to epistemology, metaphysics and ethics: reason, justification, objectivity, understanding, reality and truth. more broadly, what it is like to have a first person, waking perspective at all--resists explanation in any terms other than the conscious experience itself in spite of centuries of intense effort by philosophers and, more recently, by scientists. Our tools in this course will be logic and reason, even when we are trying to determine what the limits of reason might be. In this class, we will attempt to carry on the noble tradition of corruption by philosophy. A number of conceptual themes will emerge throughout the course of the term, including notions of exploitation and coercion, privacy and confidentiality, and the balance between public interests and individual rights. In order to hit the ground running, students will be expected to read The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. Our aim will be to identify and evaluate the strongest version of each argument. Other topics could include: Zeno's paradoxes of motion and plurality, the liar's paradox, the surprise-exam paradox, paradoxes of material constitution, Newcomb's Problem , and the Prisoner's Dilemma. Both stances face severe difficulties. [more], In this course we will examine traditional philosophical approaches to understanding death and related concepts, with a special focus on the ethical concerns surrounding death and care for the dying. In this tutorial, we will focus on questions concerning their distinctive methods, namely, historical materialism, genealogical critique, and psychoanalysis. Walsh's wife Meredith was taken to a nearby hospital for cuts to her leg. 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. [more], What is it for a novel, a story, a play or a film to be a philosophical narrative? Conservatism portal. I don't know how exactly how many grains of sand are in this heap, but let's say 100,000. In this course we address key themes and figures from two of the most influential movements in twentieth century European philosophy, namely, existentialism and phenomenology, a philosophical approach to which existentialism is indebted. 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. Other philosophers and literary theorists have used some of their ideas recently to throw light on the nature of textual meaning and the interpretation of literary texts. Just today (15 February 2022). and Why do we value it? Nevertheless, comparatively few people realize that the views we commonly think of as "Platonic" represent only one strand in Plato's thought. Indeed Nietzsche's influence has been pervasive. What do the social and psychological sciences have to teach us about happiness? In this way the goal of the course is significantly different from that of Logic and Language (PHIL 203). 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. Initial tutorial meetings will focus on theoretical materials that will background later discussions and will include classic readings from the environmental ethics literature (e.g., Leopold, Taylor, Rolston). 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