What are space and time? Do particular case histories offer good explanations of psychopathology? Student interest will be taken into consideration in deciding what additional topics to cover. In this course we aim to engage that abstract question through two more focused projects. How important are honor, money, love, work, friendship and our connections to others to our happiness? We will discuss the importance of specific genre conventions and broader contextual matters to the interpretation of literary texts (along the lines suggested by Quentin Skinner); the possibility of using intention to rule out mistaken and arrive at acceptable interpretations, if not a single correct interpretation (a possibility denied by such relativists as Stanley Fish); the use and meaning of metaphors; and the host of questions surrounding the intentional fallacy (the alleged result of invoking authorial intention to determine textual meaning). For example, many people would agree that 'Keith's favorite unicorn' is a meaningful expression. Just today (15 February 2022) The New York Times removed some solutions from their recently purchased game Wordle, saying that words such as "pussy", "slave", and "wench" are "offensive or insensitive". Right? Must the freedom or fulfillment of some people require the subordination of others? We will examine this issue in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, classic sources and contemporary articles. Why can't argumentative prose--philosophers' preferred form of expression--clearly say, and moreover prove, what literature, theatre and film illustrate, show and display? Anscombe and Foot resurrected virtue ethics for Anglo-American philosophy and made moral psychology academically respectable. We will examine these (and other questions) in the context of the great philosophical revolution at the beginning of the last century: the linguistic turn and the birth of analytic philosophy. 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. Background readings include sources rooted in traditional modes of bioethical analysis as well as those incorporating feminist approaches. Throughout, we will appeal to reason and evidence in forming our best beliefs. If there are such things--we'll call them propositions--what are they like? as resources to be harvested, as testing grounds for science, and as religious sacrifice. As the music wails in the background, we will study the classic pragmatists: William James, C. S. Peirce, and John Dewey. [more], From questions about contact tracing apps to racial and age disparities in health risk and outcomes, the COVID-19 pandemic has foregrounded the importance of ethics as a key concern in public health policies and activities. We will read Adam Smith and Karl Marx on capitalism, Simone de Beauvoir on gender, and Charles Mills on race. Some of the questions that we will discuss are: What is psychopathology and what are its causes? [more], Plato is one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of the western tradition. In fact, Socrates seems to have been thought of as a kind of intellectual saint in the Hellenistic world. We also examine the Yogacara school, which offers a process view of reality focusing on the analysis of experience. How have you already been taught the academic and civic virtues? Does offensive art harm? We will read several complete dialogues in translation, and will also read a wide variety of secondary source material. In this course we address key themes and figures from two of the most influential movements in twentieth century European philosophy, namely, existentialism and phenomenology, a philosophical approach to which existentialism is indebted. Can we know anything through reason alone? What if they are biased, unbeknownst to us? As we go through these results, we will think about the philosophical implications of first-order logic. Are we capable of disinterested altruism, or are we motivated solely by self-interest? Attention to the writing process and developing an authorial voice will be a recurrent focus of our work inside and outside the classroom. The seminar will be structured around a close, critically engaged reading of the, Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", action, knowledge, ethics, religion, aesthetics, culture, and of course, philosophy itself. Our texts will include Gottlob Frege. As a result, some prominent researchers propose that the existence of consciousness requires a revision of basic physics, while others (seemingly desperately) deny that consciousness exists at all. The AFL abandoned the Crows' game against Geelong on Sunday, the club called the tragedy an unprecedented crisis and a family has been torn apart. demanded by institutions, religious, political and ethnic communities, as well as by the state. In order to be justified in holding a belief, must someone know (or believe) that she is justified in holding that belief? What are space and time? What is his legacy today? Are we capable of disinterested altruism, or are we motivated solely by self-interest? If so, is that knowledge importantly different in kind or in rigor from the knowledge we gain through physics, chemistry or geology? [more], The philosophy of mind has been one of the most active areas of philosophical inquiry over the last century. "Our industry is grieving today, and we send our love and support to the Walsh family, the Crows staff and players, Phil's wider circle of friends, the other clubs he worked with, and his many colleagues across the AFL," he said. We will prepare for the Republic by reading two Socratic dialogues: the Euthyphro and the Meno. In our attempts to make headway in answering such daunting questions, we investigate recent debates in critical theory concerning subjection and resistance, intersubjective recognition and redistribution, social pathologies and the idea of a political unconscious. 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. Tutorial partners will have an opportunity to spend the end of the semester working on a special topic of their choosing including, for instance, consciousness and free will, pain and anesthesia, consciousness and artificial intelligence, or disorders of consciousness. ways of thinking about formal proof: natural deduction systems, semantic tableaux, axiomatic systems and sequent calculi. Topics will include: What can we know through our senses? This course is an advanced seminar devoted to a comprehensive examination of Fanon's political thought. We shall first explore the salient features of the pragmatic approaches to language, paying special attention to Austin's notion of illocutionary force and Grice's notion of non-natural meaning. While Plato and Aristotle differ on many points, they share the belief that the cosmos and the human place within it can be understood by rational means. Could we (individually and socially) educate and cultivate them? The debate between Realism and Idealism concerns whether reality is composed of mind-independent matter, or mind-like substances. This seminar will try to establish, with as much accuracy as the subject allows, what are the central tenets of American Pragmatism, how they have shaped contemporary epistemology and the philosophy of science, and finally, to what extent are pragmatist approaches to human knowledge philosophically sound and fruitful. We will begin the course by looking at Hume's and Kant's discussion of causation. What is the nature of audience's response to film? [more], We speak as if moral judgments can be true or false, warranted or unwarranted. The remainder of the course will consider key concepts at the core of medical ethics and central issues for the field, such as privacy and confidentiality, the distinction between killing and "letting die," and therapy vs. research. Some of the questions that we will discuss are: What is psychopathology and what are its causes? We will closely analyze classical arguments by Augustine, Avicenna, Aquinas, Anselm, Maimonides, Descartes, and others. Is democratic rule always best? Is a world with AI's overall better or worse for us? Should we revise logic in light of empirical discoveries in, for example, physics or psychology? The course will present the essential ideas of relativity theory and quantum theory and explore their implications for philosophy. [more], We will study the philosophical and literary works of Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and other Existentialist thinkers of the students' choosing. The millennia old problem of whether human suffering is compatible with God's perfection is called "the problem of evil." Is it moral for us to pass along these sorts of decisions to AI's? [more], The status of economics as a predictive science has been most prominently brought into question, historically, by three unpredicted yet extremely important economic events: the Great Depression of the 1930s, stagflation of the 1970s, and bursting of the mortgage bubble in 2008. What does it mean to be "philosophical" or to think "theoretically" about politics? [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. 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). Our starting and central question will be: What makes me the particular person that I am, and how is my identity as this individual person preserved over time? This course will offer a selective overview of the debates that characterized philosophy of film since the early 20th century. [more], Although Kant initially planned for his magnum opus to comprise theoretical and practical chapters, his metaphysics and epistemology take up all of his Critique of Pure Reason while his ethics is spread out over a series of works--Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals. Safety measures are in place, and campus community members and guests are additionally advised to take personal precautions. Furthermore, they share the conviction that the most important components of a successful life are within the control of the individual human being. This course serves as an introduction to formal methods in the scientific study of language. It is at the same time the most intimately known fact of our humanity and science's most elusive puzzle. In pursuing the answers to these questions, we will discuss both classic and contemporary theories from philosophy and linguistics. [more], In her groundbreaking book, The Tentative Pregnancy, Barbara Katz Rothman writes that "[t]he technological revolution in reproduction is forcing us to confront the very meaning of motherhood, to examine the nature and origins of the mother-child bond, and to replace--or to let us think we can replace--chance with choice." In the second part of the course, we will read On Certainty, and selections from other of Wittgenstein's posthumously published works: Zettel, Philosophical Grammar, Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Culture and Value, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, and The Big Typescript. In this course we will engage ethical questions surrounding the seeming inevitability of AI. Unsurprisingly, philosophers have proffered a variety of answers to these questions, prompting one philosopher to remark, half-jokingly, that "there are as many definitions of philosophy as there are philosophers." central to debates about the significance and value of his work such as: psychology academically respectable. German philosopher Martin Heidegger thought he represented the culminating point of Western metaphysics; French Nietzscheans such as Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze as well as French feminist Luce Irigaray appropriate Nietzschean themes and concepts in their critical engagements with the Western philosophical tradition; and Anglo-American moral philosophers such as Bernard Williams, Alisdair MacIntyre, and Phillippa Foot (as well as Rorty) respond to and engage his critique of modern morality. stagflation of the 1970s, and bursting of the mortgage bubble in 2008. In addition, we will devote several class meetings interspersed throughout the semester to reading foundational sources in ethical theory. (i) You are psyched. Some of the questions we will consider are: Are moral standards relative to cultural frameworks? What are the forces, and the dynamics between forces (i.e., economic, technological, modes of communication, techniques of social control, biological, psychological) that make certain types of subjects possible influencing both their self-understandings and their forms of life? Must it be unaffected by any outside influences? Our subjects will include hate speech, press censorship, pornography, controversial art, sacrilegious speech and campus controversies. The seminar will fall into two unequal parts. On the sports field? The stoics and skeptics both claimed a Socratic imprimatur for their own thought. He was born on March 15, 1960 and his birthplace is Australia. In fact, it seems like you can't change a heap of sand into something that isn't a heap of sand by removing one grain of sand. Contact Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636, Western Bulldogs great Luke Darcy tells Sarah Olle the one piece of wellbeing advice he'd give to his younger self, Sarah Olle and Josh Gabelich with the latest footy news, Check out the best highlights of Port Adelaide signing Ashleigh Woodland, Check out the best moments for all 18 clubs from the 2023 pre-season match simulation games, Tom Hickey, Robbie Fox and Ryan Clarke will all miss the start of the premiership season due to injury, Follow all the action from Thursday's practice games, Mitchell, Daicos x2, Worpel, Sicily tune in as The Traders break down Hawks v Pies LIVE, Hear the coach's messages delivered to his charges during North Melbourne's clash with Richmond, in episode two of 'Inner North', Jennifer Dunne and Dayna Finn are weighing up offers from AFLW clubs to play in season eight. There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize." The picture that we find in the works of the tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides is markedly different. To notify Williams of alumni deaths, please email, Experiential Learning & Community Engagement. View Phil Walsh's email address (p*****@kw***.com) and phone number. The picture that we find in the works of the tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides is markedly different. In this tutorial we will exploit this characteristic of biomedical ethics by using a case-based approach to examining core concepts of the field. This is part of a full-year thesis (493-494). [more], Twenty-four centuries ago Plato argued for censorship of art. 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." While he never wrote any philosophical works of his own, Socrates is one of the most influential thinkers in the western tradition. It puts an end to the Early Modern traditions of Rationalism and Empiricism, and it stands at the beginning of both the Analytic and Continental traditions in contemporary philosophy. Conceptions of person are equally important in science (especially in psychology), law, and the arts. If so, freedom may seem impossible since we're all deeply influenced by factors ranging from the general laws of nature to specific features of our genetic endowment and social environment (including religion, political ideology, and advertising). [more], It'd be perfectly natural to say "I might've left the stove on", then check the stove, then say "I didn't leave the stove on". Can science contribute to our understanding of these issues? Other philosophers and literary theorists have used some of their ideas recently to throw light on the nature of textual meaning and the interpretation of literary texts. Can science contribute to our understanding of these issues? The cause of death for Phil Williams Jr. was listed as "probably a . We will examine a variety of philosophical and scientific theories of emotion, as well as some issues concerning normative aspects of emotions: the role of emotions in a good life, and the concept of emotional maturity. Thus, Plato described the philosopher as "the one who beholds all Time and all Being." Our readings will include the relevant works of Plato, Sextus Empiricus, Carnap, Quine, Davidson, Goodman, Elgin, Hacking, Krausz, Foot, and Williams, among others. After working through these arguments, we will reflect more generally on the proper roles of reason and faith in justifying religious belief. What distinguishes that kind of life from others? Some of the questions which we will discuss are: What is a person? Diamond investigated the methodology of moral philosophy, paying special attention to the role of literature. Are we ever justified in having more concern, and doing more, for our friends, family, community or nation? As we proceed through the course, we will look at the way in which each thinker characterizes happiness, virtue and the relation between the two. argument, the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, the argument from religious experience, and the argument from evil). How do we create legal and policy frameworks that cover a new kind of thinking being? of thinking, categorizing, and knowing, we can easily imagine that he might now be questioning different aspects of our contemporary "present" than the ones standardly associated with his name, namely, panopticons and surveillance, discipline, criminalization, the biopolitics of health, the normal and the abnormal, etc. We will also read more recent work by Foucault inspired scholars on topics such as the biopolitics of gender, the genealogy of terrorism, the informational person (how we become our data), and neoliberal subjects. 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. As we go through these results, we will think about the philosophical implications of first-order logic. Key ideas and concepts such as the death of god, the use and abuse of history, the eternal recurrence, will to power, and master and slave morality will be addressed. We begin by examining some of the central concepts of Buddhist psychology, its treatment of the mind as a selfless stream of consciousness, its examination of the variety of mental factors and its accounts of the relation between cognition and affects. Is a world with AI's overall better or worse for us? In this course we will investigate the the broad topics of consciousness and thought by surveying the many approaches to mind that yield the contemporary debates. Throughout the course, our focus will be on the best theoretical and practical knowledge we now have to diagnose, explain, and alleviate mental illness. The Crows staged their main training session at their West . In addition we'll also look at feminist analyses of topics that traditionally have not been regarded as "gendered," such as resource allocation and end of life issues. Supt Bray said the domestic incident was a tragedy. falsity of all our beliefs? We doubt, we point out that no one can be certain in what she believes, and we are suspicious of declarations of transcendent reason or truth (unless they are our own). Save. 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 . We will prove soundness and completeness, compactness, the Lowenheim-Skolem theorems, undecidability and other important results about first-order logic. We will then turn to a variety of more recent attempts to give a clear characterization of causation. Ms. Sydney Walsh-Wilcox 83 P23 (Sibling), Mr. John C. Walsh (decd) 54 P99 85 83 (Parent). If loyalty is a virtue, what are the proper limits of its cultivation and expression? know anything through reason alone? Leibniz wrote his New Essays in 1704 as a critical response to Locke's Essay of 1690. 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. Topics to be considered include the nature of freedom (both individual and social), the master/slave dialectic and subject constitution, self-consciousness and double consciousness, the stages of history, and racial capitalism [more], Any critical theory presupposes an account how both individual and social subjects come into being. [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. 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? In this course we will seek to comprehend the dimensions in which Existentialism is a distinctive intellectual tradition. Hegel and Karl Marx. We also introduce the practice of meditation as a way to observe the mind and raise questions concerning the place of its study in the mind-sciences. In some weeks, students will be asked to choose from a small set which case they would like to address; in others the case will be assigned. There will be a series of short response papers in which you provide a careful analysis of particular arguments in our texts. What are the purposes of liberal arts colleges in America? and Rationalism concerns whether all our knowledge derives from experience, or any is innate. in conflict. [more], The sentence "Every cookie is chocolate chip and three of them are oatmeal raisin" is a perfectly grammatical sentence of English, but it's self-contradictory. Yet what is it to be happy? In this tutorial you will read from a selection of Foucault's texts (books, lectures, interviews) in order to acquire a firm grasp of his method of "critique" and his way of looking at the interconnections between forms of power and the knowledge associated with particular disciplines. 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. Persons are subjects of experiences, have thoughts and feelings, motivation and agency; a person is thought of as continuous over time, and as related to, recognized and respected by other persons. We will begin with John Stuart Mill's powerful defense of free speech in On Liberty, but will then investigate challenges to Mill's traditional liberalism from thinkers, such as Catharine MacKinnon, who believe that such rights are never neutral. We'll examine these and related questions through historical and contemporary readings. What makes an individual's life go well? What is the body? What should be done about offensive art? How much inference goes into interpreting what's said? Is relativism a form of skepticism? In this tutorial, we'll read portions of Rawls' major works, A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, and trace how his theory evolved in response to an array of critics, including libertarians, perfectionists, communitarians, feminist philosophers, and critical race theorists. Or are some of our beliefs true in virtue of their meanings alone? Is it possible to have systematic knowledge of subjective experience? Our texts will include Gottlob Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic, Bertrand Russell, Principles of Mathematics, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Questions about persons are of central importance for a myriad of our theories and practices, and for the ways in which we live our lives. Special attention will be given to the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, representation and computation in symbolic and connectionist architectures, concept acquisition, problem solving, perception, language, semantics, reasoning, and artificial intelligence. A person incapable of loyalty is often characterized as fickle, cold, self-serving and sometimes even pathological. We will discuss major works (philosophical, literary, visual) by such figures as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Richard Wright, Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard. 1-3), and selected interviews and course lectures. Their dispute raised some of the deepest questions in philosophy: consequentialism versus deontology, the goals of happiness versus dignity, long term versus short term goals, and more. While you're debating whether to take this class, consider the following puzzle. If there aren't such things, how do we characterize meaningfulness instead? We will continue with the contemporary inheritors of the tradition: Cornel West, Richard Rorty, and Hilary Putnam. Roger Federer gets stumped by famous saying. 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. [more], If we think of Michel Foucault as engaged in writing histories, or genealogies, of his own present designed to undercut the sense of the obviousness of certain practices and ways of thinking, categorizing, and knowing, we can easily imagine that he might now be questioning different aspects of our contemporary "present" than the ones standardly associated with his name, namely, panopticons and surveillance, discipline, criminalization, the biopolitics of health, the normal and the abnormal, etc.