use tab and shift-tab to navigate once expanded, Covid-19 is an ongoing concern in our region, including on campus. Thus, Plato described the philosopher as "the one who beholds all Time and all Being." Does offensive art harm? (iii) You exist. We will then examine writings in the Stoic and Epicurean traditions, as well as Cicero's On the Ends of Good and Evil. What if they are more fair? If time permits, we may also look at how the figure of Socrates has been thought about in the works of more modern thinkers. But now we have a problem. By the early 20th century, in the works of Freud, we encounter the idea of the intra-psychic features of subjects and the importance of understanding and regulating psychic forces both within and between subjects in order to adapt to the demands of living at any given time, born as we are both dependent upon and vulnerable to others. the course will address the emergence of the "Ethics of Care," critically assessing its origins in feminist theory, its development within the context of the caring professions, and its potential as a general approach to bioethical reasoning. 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. 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 continue with the contemporary inheritors of the tradition: Cornel West, Richard Rorty, and Hilary Putnam. If loyalty is a virtue, what are the proper limits of its cultivation and expression? We will begin with questions about how to define death, as well as reflections on its meaning and function in human life. 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. How can we reconcile this faith with the persistence of domination today? On 3 July 2015, Walsh was found dead in his Somerton Park home. Conversation is dynamic--the back and forth exchange of information is a process that grows and adapts to the surrounding context. Existentialists investigate deeply irrational phenomena of human life, including anxiety, boredom, tragedy, despair, death, faith, sexuality, love, hate, sadism, masochism, and authenticity. The aim of this course is to explore and evaluate a number of rival conceptions of persons and personal identity over time. We also examine the Yogacara school, which offers a process view of reality focusing on the analysis of experience. This is a formal course, but no prior logical or mathematical background will be expected. How can we ensure that AI's will act morally? Could the world be made up of sensory properties only? With what limits and justifications? "Don't die," she said. Just today (15 February 2022). We will begin with an analysis of primary texts by Fanon and end by considering how Fanon has been interpreted by his contemporaries as well as activists and critical theorists writing today. Logic is sometimes called the study of reason. The worldview that underlies classical tragedy, however, seems markedly different from the one that we find in classical philosophy. Philosophy? What are the responsibilities of museum curators and theater producers when presenting art that might offend? Most of the authors will come from this list, however: Sartre, de Beauvoir, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, Camus, Ecco, Kundera, Borges, Charlie Kaufman, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Resnais, Kurosawa, Bunuel, Kubrick, Godard, Visconti and Guillermo del Toro. In this course we will engage ethical questions surrounding the seeming inevitability of AI. (v) Either you are reading or you are a fish. We will begin with an analysis of primary texts by Fanon and end by considering how Fanon has been interpreted by his contemporaries as well as activists and critical theorists writing today. [more], We will consider a series of debates in 20th Century Analytic Philosophy concerning the relationship between the mind and the world. Where have you been taught them? Why should one obey the law (if one should)? In this tutorial, we will focus on questions concerning their distinctive methods, namely, historical materialism, genealogical critique, and psychoanalysis. According to one, there is a single group of students that had their hands extremely full this semester. Rather than seeing philosophy as an esoteric discipline, the pragmatic philosophers (with the possible exception of Peirce) see philosophy as integral to our culture and see themselves as public intellectuals. Updated July 4, 2015 1.41am first published July 3, 2015 3.55pm. 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. arts education by nurturing in students the academic and civic virtues, and their related traits of character." Understood in this way, critical theory is identified closely with the intellectual tradition of the Frankfurt School. Our main goal will be to prove things about this logical system rather than to use this system to think about ordinary language arguments. [more], The Williams College Mission statement says that "free inquiry requires open-mindedness, and commitment to community draws on concern for others". How did you develop your character? Does free inquiry clash with concern for others, or do they (or can they) work together? Of particular interest will be how language can be used to establish, reinforce, and resist power relationships involving race and gender. We ordinarily claim that sentences are true or false, but are there other entities whose truth and falsity explains the truth and falsity of sentences? What is the mind? v. t. e. Matt Walsh (born June 18, 1986) [1] is an American right-wing political commentator and author. 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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. By which methods should we pursue these questions? We'll examine these and related questions through historical and contemporary readings. Key ideas and concepts such as the death of god, the use and abuse of history, the eternal recurrence, will to power, and master and slave morality will be addressed. 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. The answer is not merely that they ask the question, "What gives meaning to a human life?" Is it moral for us to pass along these sorts of decisions to AI's? The course will, I hope, provide the students an opportunity and the tools to intellectually examine deeply emotional and contentious issues. . Must the freedom or fulfillment of some people require the subordination of others? We ordinarily claim that sentences are true or false, but are there other entities whose truth and falsity explains the truth and falsity of sentences? [more], Is morality simply a matter of opinion? Were they simply too unsophisticated and confused to understand what is for us the irresistible power of skepticism and relativism? How can we reconcile this faith with the persistence of domination today? + Discussion: UPI, New York Post, . This course will offer a selective overview of the debates that characterized philosophy of film since the early 20th century. It is difficult, however, to get clear on the relation between the meaning of an expression and its reference. What distinguishes that kind of life from others? Near the end of the semester, we'll also examine some evolutionary explanations of religious belief. [more], The sentence "Every cookie is chocolate chip and three of them are oatmeal raisin" is a perfectly grammatical sentence of English, but it's self-contradictory. Supt Bray said the domestic incident was a tragedy. We will examine the wager in its original home of Pascal's Pensees, and look at William James' related article, "The Will to Believe." How do logic and language relate? nature and origins of the mother-child bond, and to replace--or to let us think we can replace--chance with choice." 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." Dean's Office. [more], In this course, we follow the Indian philosophical conversation concerning the self and the nature of consciousness, particularly as they are found in its various Yogic traditions. In this course we will engage ethical questions surrounding the seeming inevitability of AI. 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. What is offensive art? 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 tutorial we address some (certainly only some) of the current debates in critical and ethical theory that have been fueled by Nietzsche's work. [more], Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Amelie Rorty, and Cora Diamond all challenged the prevailing philosophical tenets of their times. 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. I just wanted to put on here a tribute video that my Assistant Jessica has put together for Murdered Adelaide Football coach Phil Walsh, who was a true leader of young men in sport and life (it is . 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? "The only thing that is different with this is that he has a high profile. We will pay special attention to the first amendment and questions concerning free speech and hate speech. For example, we will examine the ethics of disease surveillance, treatment and vaccine research, resource allocation and rationing, compulsion and voluntariness in public health measures, and social determinants of health outcomes, among other topics. We will conclude by considering some critical appropriations of Marx by 20th Century philosophers, including Georg Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. We will begin with questions about how to define death, as well as reflections on its meaning and function in human life. 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. This first-year seminar will examine the philosophy of education through educational autobiographies: works that tell the story of a moral and intellectual education. [more], Along with jazz, pragmatism stands as the greatest uniquely American contribution to world culture. In this course, we will investigate dynamic communicative phenomena and discuss competing theoretical explanations about how they're interpreted. Starting from scratch, students will learn the building blocks of current-day linguistic research. 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. Mark Williams remains shattered by the death of his great mate Phil Walsh, but finds solace in the fact one of his sons regularly visits Walsh's son in an Adelaide psychiatric facility. We will examine basic questions in the philosophy of law: What is the relationship between law and morality? 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. Phil Walsh's death a family tragedy. 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. Mill, W.E.B Dubois, John Rawls, Charles Mills, Jurgen Habermas). Police believe Cy argued with his father around 2am on Friday at their beachside suburban Adelaide home. Phil works at Keller Williams Realty, Inc. as Real Estate Broker. 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. We will also read selections from the vast secondary literature on Aristotle's. Some of the questions which we will discuss are: What is a person? How can it be known and pursued? 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.". Starting with early film theorists (such as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Bazin, and Soviet formalists), we will examine how their insights and disagreements influenced later developments in continental and analytic philosophy of film, and in film theory. They have three adult children: Shevaun, Jessica, and Cameron. We turn first to two of Plato's most famous dialogues, Philosophical Approaches to Contemporary Moral Issues. Science is only "true" for some people, agnosticism is the only alternative to foolish superstition, and moral relativism and, consequently, nihilism are obvious. Of particular interest will be the extent to which discourse dynamics are built into the meanings of linguistic expressions vs. the extent to which they're consequences of our rational cognition. Is there a difference between being offended and being harmed? 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). Walsh, 55, died from multiple stab wounds at the scene despite attempts by ambulance officers to revive him.His son was arrested after police were called to a domestic dispute at the home in Somerton Park at 2am ACST on Friday. Meredith Walsh called triple zero after the early-morning attack at the family's Adelaide home on July 3 last year and as she pleaded for help, she also called out to her husband, court documents show. 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. 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. Throughout the course, we will consult and discuss the important secondary literature on Wittgenstein, and analyze different philosophical presuppositions and goals that motivate particular readings. What are the main sources of uncertainty here? [more], The philosophy of mind has been one of the most active areas of philosophical inquiry over the last century. In this tutorial we will exploit this characteristic of biomedical ethics by using a case-based approach to examining core concepts of the field. Can we be mistaken about how well our lives are going, or about what has value? 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. Tragedy and philosophy were two of the finest achievements of classical Athenian civilization, and each attempts to reveal to the reader something fundamental about our shared human condition. [more], Philosophy is often described as thinking about thinking: variously conceived inquiries into the nature, scope and limits of human reasoning have always been at its heart. The cause of death for Phil Williams Jr. was listed as "probably a . What role do emotional, irrational or unconscious forces play? [more], Animals are and always have been part of human life. however, to be surprisingly difficult to say what causation is. Frege, Russell, and the Early Wittgenstein. What do you expect to learn? We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. 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. What do we mean when we talk about racial capitalism? Supt Bray said the domestic incident was a tragedy. In the second part of the course, we will turn to the fundamental questions concerning the status and structure of logic. Authors will include Plato, Anselm, Aquinas, Pascal, Paley, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, and several contemporary philosophers. The second, longer part of the seminar will try to isolate and follow some of the pragmatist currents which run through epistemology and philosophy of science in the 20th and 21st centuries. What makes an individual's life go well? Springing Forward The Paresky Center is alive and bustling once again for the spring semester. Is it forced on people who endorse cultural pluralism as their political ideal as the only tenable philosophical position? What if they are more fair? [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. "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 . Does freedom require leading (or avoiding) a political life? We will spend the balance of the semester coming to grips with Plato's arguments in the later dialogues. Among the questions that we will address: What is justice? How do we create legal and policy frameworks that cover a new kind of thinking being? In this course, we will examine some central texts in ancient Greek and Roman moral philosophy. His thought influenced the thought of subsequent generations of philosophers. We will end the course with a discussion of some of these alternatives. What, if anything, justifies our scientific knowledge? We will prepare for the Republic by reading two Socratic dialogues: the Euthyphro and the Meno. Is a sentence's relation to previously uttered sentences similar to its relation to extra-linguistic events? The debate between Empiricism and Rationalism concerns whether all our knowledge derives from experience, or any is innate. 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