Not regularly offered. Readings from Descartes, Ryle, Searle, Churchland, Fodor, and Nagel. Not offered, 2000-01. Readings include works by Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Putnam, Quine, Davidson, and Chomsky. Topics include theories of meaning, the nature of reference, and the cognitivist approach to mind and language.
Discussion includes the possibility of objective knowledge and the nature of scientific revolutions.
See Political Science 263-264. Gender issues are often at the heart of these discussions. In this course, philosophical theories are considered from the perspective of gender that reveals their underpinnings and opens up often uncritically accepted views for philosophical and political discussion. Thinkers studied include Kant, Hegel, Marx, Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, and Foucault. Philosophy 111 plus one 200-level course in Philosophy, Political Science, or History, or permission of instructor.