Browsing Linguistics and Philosophy (24) - Archived by Author "Byrne, Alex"
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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 ... -
24.400 Proseminar in Philosophy I, Fall 2003
(2003-12)An intensive seminar on the foundations of analytic philosophy for first-year graduate students. A large selection of classic texts, from Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, ... -
24.400 Proseminar in Philosophy I, Fall 2013
(2013-12)This course is an intensive seminar on the foundations of analytic philosophy for first-year graduate students. A large selection of classic texts, such as Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic, Russell's Problems of Philosophy, ... -
24.401 Proseminar in Philosophy II, Spring 2020
(2020-06)This course is an advanced study of the basic problems of philosophy and is intended for first-year graduate students in philosophy. It is an intensive seminar on selected highlights of analytic philosophy from roughly ... -
24.500 Other Minds, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This is a seminar on issues connected with the traditional "problem of other minds". In addition to reading some of the classic papers on other minds, we will look at recent work on related topics. There will be no lectures. ... -
24.500 Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Mental Content, Spring 2015
(2015-06)Propositions are everywhere in the philosophy of mind. Believing, hoping, and intending (for example) are said to be "propositional attitudes", mental states that involve relations to propositions. The seminar ... -
24.500 Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Perceptual Experience, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This course is a survey of recent philosophy of perception. The main topics discussed are the following: the transparency of perceptual experience, disjunctivism, the content of perceptual experience, perceptual consciousness, ... -
24.500 Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Self-Knowledge, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This is a seminar on "self-knowledge" -- knowledge of one's own mental states. In addition to reading some of the classic papers on self-knowledge, we will look at some very recent work on the topic. There will ... -
24.805 Topics in Epistemology: Self-Knowledge, Fall 2015
(2015-12)This course is a graduate seminar surveying recent work on self-knowledge. Some questions that will be explored and discussed are: What is the distinctive philosophical interest of self-knowledge? Is self-knowledge really ...