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22.39 Integration of Reactor Design, Operations, and Safety, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This course integrates studies of reactor physics and engineering sciences into nuclear power plant design. Topics include materials issues in plant design and operations, aspects of thermal design, fuel depletion and ... -
22.51 Interaction of Radiation with Matter, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Basic principles of interaction of electromagnetic radiation, thermal neutrons, and charged particles with matter. Introduces classical electrodynamics, quantum theory of radiation, time-dependent perturbation theory, ... -
22.54 Neutron Interactions and Applications, Spring 2002
(2002-06)Comprehensive treatment of neutron interactions in condensed matter at energies from thermal to MeV, focusing on aspects most relevant to radiation therapy, industrial imaging, and materials research applications. Comparative ... -
22.611J / 6.651J / 8.613J Introduction To Plasma Physics I, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Introduces plasma phenomena relevant to energy generation by controlled thermonuclear fusion and to astrophysics. Basic plasma properties and collective behavior. Coulomb collisions and transport processes. Motion of charged ... -
22.A09 / 22.013 Career Options for Biomedical Research, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This course has been designed as a seminar to give students an understanding of how scientists with medical or scientific degrees conduct research in both hospital and academic settings. There will be interactive discussions ... -
24.00 Problems in Philosophy, Fall 2010
(2010-12)The course has two goals. First, to give you a sense of what philosophers think about and why. Here we look at a number of perennial philosophical problems, including some or all of: how knowledge differs from "mere ... -
24.00 Problems of Philosophy, Fall 2001
(2001-12)The course has two main goals: First, to give you a sense of what philosophers think about and why. This will be done through consideration of some perennial philosophical problems, e.g., the existence of God, reason and ... -
24.00 Problems of Philosophy, Fall 2005
(2005-12)The course has two main goals: First, to give you a sense of what philosophers think about and why. This will be done through consideration of some perennial philosophical problems, e.g., the existence of God, reason and ... -
24.01 Classics in Western Philosophy, Spring 2006
(2006-06)This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition, through the study of major figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. You will get to grips with questions that have been significant ... -
24.02 Moral Problems and the Good Life, Fall 2006
(2006-12)Subject examines classic texts from the history of Western moral philosophy, and their answers to the question of what is the best way to live. These texts include works by Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, and J. S. ... -
24.03 Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food Choices, Fall 2012
(2012-12)This course explores the values (aesthetic, moral, cultural, religious, prudential, political) expressed in the choices of food people eat. It analyzes the decisions individuals make about what to eat, how society should ... -
24.03 Relativism, Reason, & Reality, Fall 2002
(2002-12)An examination of philosophical issues on the theme of relativism. Are moral standards relative to cultures and/or moral frameworks? Are there incompatible or non-comparable ways of thinking about the world that are somehow ... -
24.03 Relativism, Reason, and Reality, Spring 2005
(2005-06)Are moral standards relative to cultures and/or moral frameworks? Are there incompatible or non-comparable ways of thinking about the world that are somehow equally good? Is science getting closer to the truth? Is ... -
24.09 Minds and Machines, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This course is an introduction to many of the central issues in a branch of philosophy called philosophy of mind. Some of the questions we will discuss include the following. Can computers think? Is the mind an immaterial ... -
24.111 Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Spring 2002
(2002-06)Quantum mechanics is said to describe a world in which physical objects often lack "definite" properties, indeterminism creeps in at the point of "observation," ordinary logic does not apply, and distant events are perfectly ... -
24.118 Paradox & Infinity, Spring 2013
(2013-06)This course explores different kinds of infinity; the paradoxes of set theory; the reduction of arithmetic to logic; formal systems; paradoxes involving the concept of truth; Gödel’s incompleteness theorems; the ... -
24.118 Paradox and Infinity, Fall 2006
(2006-12)In this class we will study a cluster of puzzles, paradoxes and intellectual wonders - from Zeno's Paradox to Godel's Theorem - and discuss their philosophical implications. -
24.119 Mind and Machines, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Examination of problems in the intersection of artificial intelligence, psychology, and philosophy. Issues discussed: whether people are Turing Machines, whether computers can be conscious, limitations on what computers ... -
24.119 Mind and Machines, Spring 2005
(2005-06)Examination of problems in the intersection of artificial intelligence, psychology, and philosophy. Issues discussed: whether people are Turing Machines, whether computers can be conscious, limitations on what computers ... -
24.120 Moral Psychology, Fall 2005
(2005-12)The course is an examination of philosophical theories of action and motivation in the light of empirical findings from social psychology, sociology and neuroscience. Topics include Belief, Desire, and Moral Motivation; ...