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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 ...
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, ...
24.500 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 ...
24.221 Metaphysics, Spring 2015
(2015-06)
This course is a study of basic metaphysical issues concerning existence, the mind-body problem, personal identity, and causation plus its implications for freedom. This class features classical as well as contemporary ...
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 ...