B. Lipscomb before the first meeting, preferably over the summer. Love it or hate it, you cannot ignore it. And, Existentialists express their thought in philosophical treatises as often as in literary works. About 3,000 people flocked to an Adelaide Crows training session as the emotional aftermath to the death of coach Phil Walsh continues. Finally, is there a reason for philosophy of film and film theory to exist as a separate field? seek answers to the following kinds of questions: When is it rational to have a particular belief? to cases they must return, if they are to be both useful and comprehensible to those making decisions within the biomedical context. [more], What is it for a novel, a story, a play or a film to be a philosophical narrative? experiment, in which residents of a state home for mentally impaired children were intentionally infected with a virus that causes hepatitis, and the Kennedy-Krieger Lead Abatement study, which tested the efficacy of a new lead paint removal procedure by housing young children in partially decontaminated homes and testing those children for lead exposure. We will begin the course by looking briefly at some of the Presocratic philosophers active in the Mediterranean world of the seventh through fifth centuries BCE, and some of the sophists active in the fifth century. [more], This course involves Independent Study under the supervision of a member of the department. We will begin with an analysis of primary texts by Fanon and end by considering how Fanon has been interpreted by his contemporaries as well as activists and critical theorists writing today. From there, we will look at extensions of and/or alternatives to first-order logic. Locke is the first great Empiricist Realist, and Leibniz the greatest Rationalist Idealist. What are the main sources of uncertainty here? Does freedom require leading (or avoiding) a political life? Embodiment and Consciousness: A Cross-Cultural Exploration. [more], This course will emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to the study of intelligent systems, both natural and artificial. We will then turn to several of Plato's dialogues, examining Plato's portrayal of Socrates and his development of a new and profoundly powerful philosophical conception. Are there incompatible but equally true ways of describing the world? We will pay special attention to the structure of arguments for and against relativism, as well as to the philosophical motivations and perceived consequences of its endorsement or rejection. We will examine this issue in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, classic sources and contemporary articles. [more], American Pragmatism left a deep legacy in contemporary epistemology and the philosophy of science, but it is--more often than not--a legacy difficult to disentangle from other intellectual influences. While engaging these texts, we will continually reflect on their relevance for thinking about the problems facing liberal democracies today, particularly in the U.S. [more], In this tutorial we will examine a number of prominent and controversial social issues, using our study of them both as an opportunity to better understand the moral dimensions of those issues in and of themselves, and to consider the ways in which selected classical and contemporary moral theories characterize and address those moral dimensions. These affect not only our particular choices but also, more fundamentally, who we are and what we value. Topics will range from consideration of "mundane" technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), prenatal genetic screening and testing, and surrogacy, to the more extraordinary, possibly including pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), post-menopausal reproduction, and post-mortem gamete procurement. Furthermore, they share the conviction that the most important components of a successful life are within the control of the individual human being. The cause of death for Phil Williams Jr. was listed as "probably a . this fact? Mental Health and Illness: Philosophical Considerations. This theoretically oriented work will provide the background for subsequent examination of specific topics, which may include, among others: justice in health care financing and reform; justice in health care rationing and access to health care, with particular attention to the intersections of rationing criteria with gender, sexuality, race, disability, and age; justice in the procurement and allocation of organs for transplantation; obesity and personal responsibility for illness; and justice in medical research, including "double standards" for research conducted in low resource settings. Although we will attempt to engage the readings on their own terms, we will also ask how the vast differences between the ancient world and our own undercut or enhance the texts' ability to illuminate the dilemmas of political life for us. [more], What gives an individual life meaning? It is not enough for it merely to be about a character who happens to be a philosopher; nor is it just that philosophical positions are reviewed in the narrative, as in Gaarder's Sophie's World. Loyalty is frequently expected by family, friends and lovers, and demanded by institutions, religious, political and ethnic communities, as well as by the state. Is happiness an emotional or mental state or is it a social construct? Our readings will come primarily from philosophy, but will be supplemented with material from anthropology, physics, psychology, and linguistics. If loyalty is a virtue, what are the proper limits of its cultivation and expression? We will read some representative works from each of these schools of thought to see how each approaches Socrates. In this course, we will study the most important and influential chapters of the Critique with the help of some secondary literature. We pursue this reflection by examining the views of James, Husserl, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, particularly as they concern the methods for the study of the mind and the relation between consciousness, reflexivity and the body. central to debates about the significance and value of his work such as: psychology academically respectable. The debate never transpired - indeed, Leibniz suppressed his New Essays - because of Locke's death in 1705. The goals of this course are to improve the critical thinking of the students, to introduce them to sentential and predicate logic, to familiarize them with enough formal logic to enable them to read some of the great works of philosophy, which use formal logic (such as Wittgenstein's. The picture that we find in the works of the tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides is markedly different. In this tutorial we will read philosophical texts from a range of approaches in professional philosophy since the early 20th Century (Analytic, Pragmatist, Continental or European, and Public). Some understand its aim to be to answer normative questions about the nature of truth, justice, goodness and rationality. It seems like there is still a heap of sand in my backyard. Moreover, the ethical issues that are implicated in responses to the pandemic reflect the range of those manifested across the field of public health as a whole. Apparently he corrupted the youth by engaging with them in philosophy. [more], Animals are and always have been part of human life. With what limits and justifications? What, if anything, justifies our scientific knowledge? Nietzsche texts may include selections from: Untimely Meditations, The Gay Science,Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, and Ecce Homo. Which characteristics of persons give them moral status? Consequently, many philosophers deeply influenced by pragmatism do not recognize the fact, while, on the other hand, some self-proclaimed pragmatists of our days can hardly be seen as continuing the tradition to which they pledge allegiance. (v) Either you are reading or you are a fish. Does being virtuous guarantee happiness? 1-3), and selected interviews and course lectures. and keto reduced-sugar products has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study. What are other models for understanding moral objectivity? But when does a choice qualify as free? modernity and of politics offered by such thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Mill, and Freud. Can science contribute to our understanding of these issues? However, the status of loyalty as a virtue has always been suspect: it has been argued that it is incompatible with impartiality, fairness and equality, and claimed that it is always exclusionary. Are we justified in believing in God? What form of government best serves the people? But perform those exact same steps in a different order--check the stove, say "I didn't leave the stove on", then say "I might've left the stove on"--and something's gone quite wrong. Despite these rather grim pronouncements, tragic drama has continued to fascinate and educate generations. influences? Class will be primarily driven by discussion, often preceded by brief lectures. We will then turn to some specific social forms in the second unit, and ask whether they promote or preclude our freedom. In this tutorial we will read the contemporary literature on consciousness. and Augustine, and, from a political and theoretical point of view, selections from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. What if they are more fair? Phil Walsh. However, few (haters gonna hate) would say that the expression has a referent. Our main goal in this course is to work our way through Aristotle's text which can be extremely daunting, and to reconstruct his central positions and his arguments for these positions. that we have a clear sense of what that involves? What is the body? We got it anyway . How do we create legal and policy frameworks that cover a new kind of thinking being? Logic is sometimes called the study of reason. metaphysics, epistemology, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind. What makes a theorem of logic true? But three grains isn't enough for a heap. The first portion of the course will address the emergence of the "Ethics of Care," critically assessing its origins in feminist theory, its development within the context of the caring professions, and its potential as a general approach to bioethical reasoning. All three have had a profound influence on literature, social theory, and critical theories of the 20th and 21st centuries. Wilfrid Sellars regarded as uncontroversial the view that it is "an attempt to see how things, in the broadest possible sense of the term, hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term." Readings will include work by Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and contemporary authors. Students who have take PHIL 203 will have a good background for this class, but students who are generally comfortable with formal systems need not have taken PHIL 203. We will conclude by considering some critical appropriations of Marx by 20th Century philosophers, including Georg Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. If there aren't such things, how do we characterize meaningfulness instead? In contrast with this interpretive tendency, this tutorial will focus on Hume's" science of human nature"--his overall philosophical project in Treatise--and cultivate the discussion of different philosophical issues and arguments in light of this general aim of the work as a whole. While he never wrote any philosophical works of his own, Socrates is one of the most influential thinkers in the western tradition. However, in his philosophically more sophisticated and notoriously difficult later dialogues (such as the Parmenides, Philebus, Sophist and Statesman), Plato engages in radical criticism and revision of his earlier views. [more], Freedom is widely held as one of our fundamental values. Beyond this common ground, however, epistemologists are much divided. We will analyze and discuss various accounts of scientific method, structure and justification of scientific theories, scientific choice, change, and the idea that scientific knowledge is progressive in a cumulative way. This course introduces philosophy students to these and related questions through a parallel reading that brings together 19th century German philosopher Hegel and a tradition of Africana philosophy running through Douglas, Du Bois, Fanon, Gilroy, Hartman and Wynter. Cy Walsh has asked a court to let him back into the community without supervision, almost six years to the day after killing his father and Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh. Conversation is dynamic--the back and forth exchange of information is a process that grows and adapts to the surrounding context. THE SON of Adelaide coach Phil Walsh has appeared at a bedside court hearing in a psychiatric ward, charged with stabbing his father to death. What makes an individual's life go well? To do this, we will need to become familiar with key ethical theories; think deeply about such concepts as privacy, paternalism and autonomy, exploitation, cost-benefit analysis and justice; and compare the function of these concepts in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic with the way they work in responses to other public health concerns. This course serves as an introduction to formal methods in the scientific study of language. Is the happy life a life of virtue? Phil Walsh dead following domestic dispute, Statement from Gillon McLachlan on round 14. You are psyched to be reading this course description right now. The abstract philosophical question before us is. What makes an individual's life go well? We will then turn to contemporary controversies such as campus free speech. Swift, Jonathan. Paramedics arrived and tried to revive him, but a doctor confirmed him dead at the scene. This course is an investigation into how language is used to express meaning, and how such expression can have real interpersonal and societal impact. argument, the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, the argument from religious experience, and the argument from evil). He is a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors and resides with his wife Michaela in North Canterbury. Second, we will engage in some current philosophical debates concerning the concept of freedom in metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. Anscombe and Foot resurrected virtue ethics for Anglo-American philosophy and made moral psychology academically respectable. Why should one obey the law (if one should)? We will read classic works (such as John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law), contemporary articles, and United States Supreme Court cases. The debate between Realism and Idealism concerns whether reality is composed of mind-independent matter, or mind-like substances. What does it mean to be "philosophical" or to think "theoretically" about politics? Is philosophy of film really autonomous, independent from traditional philosophical disciplines which help generate its central questions, such as aesthetics, philosophy of art, epistemology, ontology, semiotics, ethics, social and political philosophy? [more], In this course we will study Aristotle's Metaphysics concentrating of books gamma-theta. Existentialists investigate deeply irrational phenomena of human life, including anxiety, boredom, tragedy, despair, death, faith, sexuality, love, hate, sadism, masochism, and authenticity. Aside from its overwhelming influence on 20th and 21st century philosophy and intellectual culture, any book which contains the remark, " if a lion could talk, we could not understand him," deserves serious attention. The Philosophy of Higher Education: College Controversies. We start with some of the Hindu views about the self and the mind and consider their ethical implications. The philosophical study of what we do in language, and how we understand one another, is called pragmatics; within the analytic tradition, the main philosophical contributions to the study of pragmatics in language came from Peirce, Wittgenstein, Austen, Grice and Searle. We will, undoubtedly, have to adjust the syllabus to respond to breaking international, national and local news. And, it's not merely that their answer invokes our freedom to determine our own identities. The AFL is in shock after Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh was stabbed to death at his home, with his 26-year-old son arrested and charged with murder. The first portion of the course will be devoted to considering general theories of justice as well as alternative conceptions of justice specifically within the health care context. Where did my reasoning go wrong? However, this approach is too narrow, since people use language to do a myriad of things: to ask, demand, promise, praise, blame, threaten, command, insinuate, evoke, express feelings, and sometimes just to play. He was born on March 15, 1960 and his birthplace is Australia. From there it is a natural transition to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. [more], The seminar involves a critical engagement with key Africana political leaders, theorists and liberationists. Safety measures are in place, and campus community members and guests are additionally advised to take personal precautions. Our main goal in this course is to work our way through Aristotle's text which can be extremely daunting, and to reconstruct his central positions and his arguments for these positions. How are conscious and unconscious emotions related to a person's action, character, and her social world? We will read some representative works from each of these schools of thought to see how each approaches Socrates. [more], It is a generally held belief, in our time and culture, that science is the best source of our knowledge of the world, and of ourselves. We will try to determine what is the scope and nature of an adequate theory of emotions, what are the desiderata for such a theory, and what should count as evidence in its favor. Who are the people, anyway? Do our society's laws limit our freedom in order to make us safe? [more], This course begins with a brief introduction to some of Foucault's early writings but focuses on a close reading of a selection of middle and late texts that have become central to debates about the significance and value of his work such as: Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality (vols. The central topics of the course will be: meaning, rule following, human languages; private experiences and other minds; intention and action; knowledge and skepticism; and especially, the methods and nature of philosophy. The real question, then, seems to be whether, and how, free choice is possible amidst all of these influences. We will begin with Aristotle's Poetics and will continue with Hume's Of Tragedy, Hegel's various writings on tragedy, and Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. Rings of harmony surround you. Among the questions that we will address: What is justice? "He was just like the rest of us," said Watt to give the first personal reflection of Walsh since his death has brought tributes focused on his football achievements in 122 VFL-AFL games with . We conclude by considering the relation between first and third person studies of the mind, focusing on the concept of the embodied mind as a fruitful bridge between these different traditions. Critical theorists regard philosophy as social and ideology critique. If they are conscious, will AI's have dignity and rights? Success in fulfilling desires? Where have you been taught them? How do you expect to learn? We'll attempt to answer this question by examining recent philosophical work on the nature of free will and responsibility. The course will place special emphasis on developing students' intellectual skills in close, analytical reading; reconstructing and evaluating claims and reasons that support them; producing original ideas and arguments, orally and in writing; responding to the claims and arguments presented in texts and in class; and writing clear, polished, well-argued papers. We will narrow our focus even further and will concentrate primarily on meaning, reference and truth. [more], The core activity of this seminar is the careful reading and sustained discussion of selected works by Plato and Aristotle, but we will also engage such other thinkers as Epictetus and Augustine, and, from a political and theoretical point of view, selections from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. We will look at relativism with respect to reason and truth in general as well as with respect to science, religion, and morality. Readings will be drawn from recent work in the Frankfurt School and poststructuralist traditions of critical theory as well as anti-racist, anti-colonial, feminist and queer theories that draw upon them. The order in which you say things matters, and it matters for what you communicate what actions you take and what events happen around you. We will continue with J. S. Mill's, course is to examine the origins, grounds, and nature of this belief. philosophers deeply influenced by pragmatism do not recognize the fact, while, on the other hand, some self-proclaimed pragmatists of our days can hardly be seen as continuing the tradition to which they pledge allegiance. Phil Walsh!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)? Its probing and intimate reflections on the meaning of human life, the nature of God and mind, time and eternity, will and world, good and evil, love and sexuality have challenged every generation since Augustine's own. We will thus be led to discuss some of the concepts common to epistemology, metaphysics and ethics: reason, justification, objectivity, understanding, reality and truth. [more], The primary way we interact with others is through the use of language. Do our beliefs have their meanings one-by-one? In this course, we will survey the ethics of public health through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, investigating concepts and arguments that are central to the ethics of public health research and practice. Is there a room for the notion of collective intention in filmmaking? Could the world be made up of sensory properties only? Why read the history of philosophy? Furthermore, philosophers have continued to revisit the existential questions vividly raised by Greek tragedy. Do we have any control over our emotions? In this way we come to realize that far from being the irrational foil of "the West," Indian tradition is a rich resource for thinking through some of the central questions that have challenged philosophers in both traditions. In this course we address the question: How is the present we find ourselves living today different from the one that the author Foucault wrote about in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s before his untimely death in 1984? According to one, there is a single group of students that had their hands extremely full this semester. metaphysics, epistemology, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind. While social justice and distributive justice are deeply intertwined in the health care context and we will discuss both, we will focus primarily on the concept of distributive justice. Questions include: Does the world decide the truth and falsity of all our beliefs? We coordinate our lives through sounds from mouths, signs from hands, and squiggles on paper because somehow sounds, signs, and squiggles have, Why Obey the Law? The first portion of the course will be devoted to developing and understanding four moral principles which have come to be accepted as canonical: respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Phil Walsh played 122 games for Collingwood, Richmond and the Brisbane Bears between 1983 and 1990. We will read Adam Smith and Karl Marx on capitalism, Simone de Beauvoir on gender, and Charles Mills on race. We conclude by considering some of the later Hindu holistic views of the self as responses to the Buddhist critique. We then consider a range of Buddhist critiques of these views, focusing more particularly on the Madhyamaka, which radicalizes the critique of the self into a global anti-realist and skeptical stance. If possible, we will arrange to see a live performance of a Greek tragedy. Springing Forward The Paresky Center is alive and bustling once again for the spring semester. [more], Much like the construction of medical knowledge itself, it is from specific cases that general principles of biomedical ethics arise and are systematized into a theoretical framework, and it is to cases they must return, if they are to be both useful and comprehensible to those making decisions within the biomedical context. For example, we commonly attribute to Plato a theory of the Forms on the basis of his claims in the so-called "middle dialogues" (mainly Republic, Phaedo, and Symposium). Is relativism a form of skepticism? What do the social and psychological sciences have to teach us about happiness? Do particular case histories offer good explanations of psychopathology? Some of the questions which we will discuss are: What is a person? Some understand its aim to be to answer normative questions about the nature of truth, justice, goodness and rationality. No domain of inquiry is immune to this destructive skepticism and confident relativism. Cy Jacob Walsh, 26, entered no plea after being charged with murdering his father in a killing that has stunned Australia's sporting community. Type in your search terms and press enter or navigate down for suggested search results. The course will begin with the "received view" of science, advanced by logical empiricists, which assumes the objectivity and the rationality of science and argues that induction is the main scientific method. [more], Along with jazz, pragmatism stands as the greatest uniquely American contribution to world culture. We will then turn to several of Plato's dialogues, examining Plato's portrayal of Socrates and his development of a new and profoundly powerful philosophical conception. When I attended the Chairmans dinner at the West Coast Eagles- Adelaide Crows AFL game a few week ago there was a pall of sadness in the room. In particular, one must grasp that "three of them" picks out a subset of the group picked out by "every cookie", and that there's no such thing as a cookie that is both chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin. What is the basis on which current psychiatric diagnostic manuals are organized? We use language to communicate meanings in order to accomplish a variety of goals: to convey information, make requests, establish rules, utilize power, issue protests, and much more. Starting with early film theorists (such as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Bazin, and Soviet formalists), we will examine how their insights and disagreements influenced later developments in continental and analytic philosophy of film, and in film theory. Whether this is hyperbole or wise prognostication, it cannot be denied that the rise of AI will be a tectonic shift for culture, technology, and our fundamental sense of ourselves. How does our experience justify our beliefs? This course argues that by reference to the historically specific modes of subjectivity and sociality that resulted from the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Haitian Revolution, for instance, we can better understand and address long-standing questions in European Social Philosophy. [more], Put simply, metaphilosophy is reflection on the nature of philosophy: Can it be defined? If not, should this concern us? . The aim of this course is to explore and evaluate a number of rival conceptions of persons and personal identity over time. The reason for this is that there are two underlying structures that the original sentence can realize. Some of the questions that we will discuss are: What is psychopathology and what are its causes? ", Get immediate help for depression or anxiety. One of our guiding questions will be: What makes a thinker an "Existentialist"? How could proponents of each be claiming to follow in the footsteps of Socrates? [more], We will consider a series of debates in 20th Century Analytic Philosophy concerning the relationship between the mind and the world. A deranged young man who stabbed his AFL coach father to death during a psychotic episode will be allowed to leave a mental asylum after just six years.. Phil Walsh, 55, was head coach of the . What are space and time? Should we revise logic in light of empirical discoveries in, for example, physics or psychology? How much inference goes into interpreting what's said? What should be done about offensive art? In confronting these difficult questions, we do not proceed purely theoretically but consider the contributions of various observation-based traditions, from Buddhist psychology and meditative practices to phenomenology to neurosciences. What are the main sources of uncertainty here? more broadly, what it is like to have a first person, waking perspective at all--resists explanation in any terms other than the conscious experience itself in spite of centuries of intense effort by philosophers and, more recently, by scientists. We conclude by considering the relation between first and third person studies of the mind, focusing on the concept of the embodied mind as a fruitful bridge between these different traditions. 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