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21A.337J / CMS.917J Documenting Culture, Spring 2004
(2004-06)How — and why — do people seek to capture everyday life on film? What can we learn from such films? This course challenges distinctions commonly made between documentary and ethnographic films to ... -
24.892 Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This course will consider the claim that there is no such thing as race, with a particular emphasis on the question whether races should be thought of as natural kinds: is our concept of race a natural kind concept? Is the ... -
24.260 Topics in Philosophy: David Lewis, Spring 2008
(2008-06)The class will be devoted to the work of David Lewis, one of the most exciting and influential philosophers of the late twentieth century. We will have seminar-style discussions about his work on counterfactuals, time, ...