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04 Oct: PHIL 55 – 001 : Paradoxes (Spring 2023)

Philosophy is bursting with paradoxes: Zeno’s paradoxes of motion, the Liar Paradox, the Sorites Paradox, and also modern puzzles like…

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04 Oct: PHIL 63 – 001 : Mind, Brain, and Consciousness (Spring 2023)

Many features of human consciousness are puzzling. Why are people so ready to believe extraordinary claims on the basis of…

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04 Oct: PHIL 80 – 001 : Short Stories and Contemporary Social Problems (Spring 2023)

What is the point of learning about ethics? An ethics course should teach you how to recognize a moral issue…

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28 Mar: PHIL 85 – 001: Reason, Religion, and Reality in the Copernican Revolution

The reasoning by which Galileo and his contemporaries defended the Copernican model of the solar system (the “heliocentric” model –…

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28 Mar: PHIL 89 – 001: Personal Identity

You are different now from how you were ten years ago; but still you are one and the same person,…

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28 Mar: PHIL 89 – 002: Fun and Games, and Philosophy: An Inquiry into the Nature and Value of Games

A game is (perhaps by definition) an activity that lacks a serious point. Yet, we humans spend a lot of…

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