Spring 2002 course offerings
Introductory Courses in Philosophy |
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| 736-101: Introduction to Philosophy Se 001: God, Metaphysics and Value 3 credits, U, HU M 6:30-9:10 pm Professor Hawi tel 414-229-4395/4719 email hawi@uwm.edu |
The course is a general orientation in the basic issues of philosophy. We discuss certain highlights in the philosophic tradition from Plato to John Stuart Mill. Such topics as: The proofs for God's existence, His nature, His relationship to man, the origin and scope of knowledge, the mind-body problem, evaluation of the scientific procedure, and the various standards of right and wrong behavior are examined and studied in detail. |
| 736-101: Introduction to Philosophy Lc 401: Reflections on the Human Condition 3 credits, U, HU MW 10:30 am Lc 402: Reflections on the Human Condition 3 credits, U, HU MW 12:30 pm Professor Gendron tel 414-229-4771/4719 email bgendron@uwm.edu |
The first half of this course deals with value issues concerning ethics and politics. We ask what our basic moral prohibitions (e.g., against murder) are based on and discuss such contentious issues as euthanasia. Also: what are the origins of our alleged political rights, such as the right to private property? The Second part of the course deals with the questions about the universe and our place in it. Is there a God? Are we totally physical things, or is there something spiritual about our minds that can possibly outlast the death of our bodies? Will machines someday be able to think better than us? What is the source of our individuality? We will read some great past philosophers (e.g., Rene Descartes) and some contemporary texts. |
| 736-111: Informal Logic-Critical Reasoning Se 001 3 credits, U, HU MWF 9:30 am Professor Steldt tel 414-229-4719 email karlsteldt@hotmail.com |
This course involves the study of arguments on social issues and on issues in various academic fields. The basic goal is to learn how to construct and evaluate such arguments. Some of the particular topics considered are the structure of arguments, definition, vagueness and ambiguity, informal fallacies, and sufficiency of evidence. |
| 736-204: Introduction to Asian Religions Se 001 3 credits, U, HU MW 11:30 am Professor Neevel tel 414-229-5215/4719 email wgneevel@uwm.edu |
This course will be a historical and comparative introduction to Hindu and Buddhist religious life and thought. Special emphasis will be placed upon the development of the classical forms of these traditions within India. The Buddhist tradition will also be stressed as a missionary movement linking the various cultures of Asia and interacting with the indigenous traditions of East Asia. |
| 736-211: Elementary Logic Lc 401 3 credits, U, HU MW 10:30 am Lc 402 3 credits, U, HU MW 1:30 pm Professor Liston tel 414-229-4736/4719 email mnliston@uwm.edu |
The Island of Knights and Knaves is a place where only Knights and Knaves live. A Knight is a person who always tells the truth. Knaves, on the other hand, never tell the truth. Harry, who lives on the island, says: "If I am a Knight, then I'll eat my hat." Did you know that you can prove from the above information that Harry will eat his hat? Did you know: 1) Given that Sarah loves either Jim or Tom and that if she loves Jim then she loves Tom, you can prove that she loves Tom? 2) that if everyone loves a lover and there is even one lover in the world, then everyone loves everyone? Learn how to solve these and other puzzles in Philosophy 211, where we will study formal deductive logic -- the science of what follows from what. The concepts and techniques encountered in the study of deductive logic are of central importance to any analysis of argument and inference. They reflect fundamental patterns of proof found in science and mathematics, they underlie the programs that enable computers to "reason" logically, and they provide tools for characterizing the formal structures of language. This is an introductory course intended for students who have had no previous work in logic. There will be 3 exams and weekly homework assignments. |
Intermediate and Advanced Courses |
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| 736-212: Modern Deductive
Logic Se 001 3 credits, U, HU TR 9:30-10:45 am Professor Weiner tel 414-229-5217/4719 email begriff@uwm.edu |
The task of the first logic course -- Philosophy 211 -- was to develop a means for evaluating deductive arguments. This task involved the use of a formal language for expressing the logical structure of English sentences and the use of various formal techniques, including truth tables and deductions, for evaluating arguments. Once an English argument was translated into the formal language, formal techniques were used to solve an apparently informal problem, i.e., the problem of finding out whether it is possible for the conclusion of the argument to be false while all its premises are true. In Philosophy 212 we will continue this inquiry into the evaluation of deductive arguments. We will concentrate on two central areas. First, we will deal with statements and arguments that are more quantificationally complex than those studied in Philosophy 211. Second, we will address the issue of the adequacy of the formal system. Explicit definitions of validity of arguments and formal systems will be used for the investigation, via informal reasoning and proof, of what can be achieved by a deductive system. Philosophy 211 is a prerequisite for this class. |
| 736-215: Belief, Knowledge,
and Truth Se 001: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge 3 credits, U, HU TR 12:30-1:45 pm Professor Kaplan tel 414-229-5903/4719 email kaplan@uwm.edu |
"Aristotle said it is so; therefore it is so." To much of established academia in seventeenth century Europe, this was a decisive form of argument. But Descartes held that this argument is nothing more than a blind appeal to authority. He maintained that it could not establish the truth of any claim; it could not justify our believing any claim; it could not secure us knowledge of any claim. He undertook to provide us with the wherewithal to determine what is true, what we can justifiably believe, how we can achieve knowledge. In so doing, he profoundly influenced the way we have thought about these matters ever since. Beginning with an assessment of Descartes’ efforts, this course will explore what it takes to have true belief, justified belief and knowledge. |
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736-241: Introductory Ethics |
This course offers an introduction to philosophical ethics. In
particular, we will consider the nature, the scope, and the justification
of moral reasons. Mill thinks that our actions are justified insofar
as they produce the best consequences, that is, they bring about the
greatest amount of utility. But is utility all we care about when we
search for a moral reason to act? Do consequences alone justify our
action? In contrast to this suggestion, Kant holds that morality is
justified on the basis of reasons that everybody can fully endorse.
On this view, morality is grounded solely on our capacity to reason. Contrary to Kant, Hume thinks that reason cannot justify morality, because morality is matter of moral feelings rather than reasoning. For Aristotle morality is grounded on virtues that express our rational nature and can be fully developed only in a flourishing community. Readings include: J.S. Mill's Utilitarianism, I. Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. |
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736-244: Ethical Issues in Health Care:
Contemporary Problems |
This course will provide a general overview of some of the ethical issues in health care. We will begin the course with an introduction to the basic ethical theories and approaches to moral decision making. These theories and approaches will then be applied to ethical problems currently confronting health care providers, patients and their families, and society at large. Issues we will consider include informed consent, decision-making capacity, confidentiality, futility and withdrawal of life sustaining treatment, euthanasia and assisted suicide, assisted reproduction, genetics, and research ethics. This course is taught off-campus at U.C.C.E. |
| 736-245: Critical Thinking and the Law Se 001: Law of Contracts 3 credits, U, HU W 6:15-8:55pm Professor Santilli tel 963-1356/550-1532 (cell) email santilli@execpc.com |
The goals of critical thinking are to instill in the student an understanding of the fundamental principles of analysis, problem solving, and construction of an argument. In order to convey these principles, students are taught how to use contract law using legal materials, including but not limited to, the language used by the legal profession and legal resources. It is through the study of law that teachers hope to impart to their students a system for analytical thinking which they may use in their every-day lives. Texts used will include Murphy, Speidel and Ayres’Studies in Contract Law, 5th Edition, and Restatement (Second) of Contracts and case law. This course is taught off-campus at U.C.C.E. |
| 736-253: Philosophy of the Arts Se 001 3 credits, U, HU MWF 10:30 am Professor Mink tel 414-229-5217/4719 email kmink@uwm.edu |
In this course, we’ll study some of the most exciting work of the twentieth century in order to come to terms with the “essence” of modern art. We will look at film (e.g., Eisenstein, Godard, Cassavetes), literature (from Beckett to Burroughs), painting (Duchamp, Bacon, Mary Kelly, Gerhard Richter, et. al.), installation and performance art (Robert Smithson, Mike Kelley, Laurie Anderson, etc.), architecture (Eisenmann, Tschumi and others), music and dance (Cage, Cunningham), digital photography, video, and multimedia work. We’ll be guided by writers like Benjamin, Virilio, and Deleuze and Guattari, along with many other contemporary thinkers and critics. Our discussion of themes like surface and simulacrum; shock, inertia, and speed; the cry, the crack, and the fold will show that ours is an age of the “neo-Baroque”. |
| 736-271: Philosophical Traditions Se 001: Western Great Lakes American Indian Philosophy 3 credits, U, HU MWF 11:30 am Professor Boatman tel 414-229-6686/4719 email boatman@uwm.edu |
A study of selected aspects of Western Great Lakes American Indian Philosophy from the perspective of some traditional Elders. Ontological and cosmological facets of the Metaphysics, including selected perceptions of the essential nature of "Being," will be focused upon. Throughout the course particular emphasis will be placed on the important and very special role of Female Beings in the universe. Women's Studies Course. |
| 736-272: Philosophical Classics Se 001-002-003 1-3 credits, U MW4:30-5:45 pm Professor Atherton tel 414-229-5904/4719 email atherton@uwm.edu |
This course or courses offers an opportunity to earn from 1-3 credits.
Each 1 credit 5 week mini-course will examine carefully a different
philosophical classic.
272-001 The Life and Death of Socrates 272-002 Descartes’ Meditations 272-003 Hume’s Dialogues on Natural Religion
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Se 001 |
5 WKS. BEGINNING WEEK OF 1/22 Socrates’ life and teachings were immortalized by his great pupil,
Plato and in his own right, Socrates has been accorded an honored place in
the history of philosophy. Yet he remains an enigmatic figure.
What sort of a teacher was this man who insisted he was the wisest of all
because he knew nothing? Why did the Athenians find his teachings so
threatening that they put him to death? In this course we will seek
to uncover the puzzle that was Socrates through a reading of Plato’s
account of his last days. |
Se 002 |
6 WKS. BEGINNING WEEK OF 2/25 If we sometimes dream, then perhaps the world we perceive when awake
has no more reality than the world we dream about. How can you be
sure that you do not believe that 2+2=4 because an evil demon has tricked
you into so believing? With speculations like these, Descartes took
his figure of a meditator into an understanding of the underlying
nature of reality, where minds are firmly distinct from bodies and our
knowledge of the nature of reality is saved from skepticism through a
proof for the existence of God. We will follow the thoughts of the
meditator through the steps Descartes laid out for him or her, and see why
Descartes ushered in a new era of philosophical endeavor. |
Se 003 |
5 WKS. BEGINNING WEEK OF 4/8 Through the mouths of his various characters, Hume recorded the
struggles of his age, as thinkers tried to reconcile the discoveries of
the great scientists, such a Isaac Newton, with the truths of religion
that were supposed to be equally available to rational inspection.
One mystery remains for Hume’s readers: Who speaks for Hume?
Was Hume himself an agnostic or a believer? |
| 736-303: Theory of Knowledge Se 001 3 credits, U/G TR 3:30-4:45 pm Professor Kaplan tel 414-229-5903/4719 email kaplan@uwm.edu |
It is over three hundred and fifty years since Descartes wrote the Discourse and the Meditations. Yet such is his influence that a theorists of knowledge cannot write today without having to define her position in terms of the extent to which it agrees and differs with Descartes'. The aim of this course will be to (i) appreciate the way in which Descartes has set the agenda for current research in the theory of knowledge, (ii) assess the state of current research in the light of its Cartesian ancestry and (iii) look beyond current research to ask what future there is for the theory of knowledge. It will turn out that how we end up making our threefold assessment — of what Descartes did then, of what our contemporaries are doing now, of what is worth doing in future — will depend on just what sort of enterprise we take philosophy to be. |
| 736-324: Philosophy of Science Se 001 3 credits, U/G TR 11:05 am-12:20 pm Professor Schwartz tel 414-229-4771/4719 email schwartz@uwm.edu |
This course will explore the nature of scientific inquiry, as well as consider what, if anything, is special about the scientific enterprise. We will start by trying to get a firm understanding of such core notions of scientific methodology as: explanation, cause, laws, and probability. Next we will explore how concepts and hypotheses of science get their empirical meaning. This study will lead us to consider questions about the relation of theoretical terms to "reality" and to problems concerning how science can or cannot test its theories. The last third of the course will focus on recent challenges to both the "objectivity" of science and the "rationality" of scientific practice. |
| 736-335: Philosophy of Biology Se 001 3 credits, U/G MW 2:30-3:45 pm Professor Ferrero tel 414-229-4669/4719 email ferrero@uwm.edu http://www.uwm.edu/~ferrero |
In this course we will examine some fundamental problems in the philosophy of biology. First, we will focus on the claims of evolutionary theory. We will consider in particular: the question of the status of evolutionary theory compared to other scientific theories; the issues raised by claims that genes determine the behavior of living organisms; the role of evolutionary explanations in offering a naturalistic account of goal-oriented/teleological phenomena. We will then consider the two controversies about the levels at which natural selection operates (whether it is genes, individuals or groups) and about the definition of biological individuality. We will discuss in particular whether it is legitimate to speak of groups of living beings (including the totality of life on Earth) as superorganisms. We will then investigate whether natural selection can explain altruistic behavior and, more generally, whether evolutionary explanations can be applied to psychological, social and cultural facts about human beings (as claimed by sociobiology and evolutionary psychology). In the last part of the class, we will discuss different answers to the question of the definition of Life and consider the consequences of the research currently conducted in so-called Artificial Life (A-Life). Readings: Sterelny, Griffiths’ Sex and Death: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology and a selection of recent papers. Further information available at http://www.uwm.edu/~ferrero/biology.htm. No background in biology is required. Students majoring in biology or related disciplines should contact the instructor about waiving the philosophy credits prerequisite. |
| 736-341: Modern Ethical Theories Se 001 3 credits, U/G TR 2:05-3:20 pm Professor Sensat tel 414-229-4669/4719 email sensat@uwm.edu http://www.uwm.edu/~sensat |
An exploration of the major contemporary philosophical accounts of the nature of morality, along with some of their substantive implications. |
| 736-350: Introduction to the Comparative
Study of Religion Se 001 3 credits, U/G MW 3:30-4:45 pm Professor Neevel tel 414-229-5215/4719 email wgneevel@uwm.edu |
This course is the basic theoretical requirement for the
interdepartmental B.A. Major in the Comparative Study of Religion. As
such, its central concern will be to provide a solid theoretical basis for
an academic humanistic or anthropological approach th at will be both
critical and fair, an approach that will not only be valid within a public
university but also be adequate for an appreciation of the many dimensions
of human religious experience and expression. We will explore the nature of religion and its significance for human life and culture; the problem of defining "religion;" the foundational role of symbols and symbolic activity in the construction of human "reality;" the structure and dynamics of religious "worlds" or symbolic universes, and the problems involved in understanding and interpreting, classifying and comparing, these different religious "worlds" and their various dimensions of "Transcendence" or "Ultimacy." We will also analyze and critique the major disciplinary approaches or methods that have been employed in the study of religion. |
| 736-432: History of Modern Philosophy Se 001 3 credits, U/G TR 12:30-1:45 pm Professor Mondadori tel 414-229-5904/4719 email mondadf@uwm.edu |
The course will study the history of European philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries, also called the modern period. This is an astonishingly rich period in the history of philosophy as thinkers came to grips with devastating challenges to the authority of centuries of tradition in the areas of religion, natural science and social theory. We will be concentrating on a few of the philosophers working at this time in order to be able to explore their ideas in some detail. We will be reading selections from Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. |
| 736-452: Special Topics in Ancient and
Medieval Philosophy Se 001 3 credits, U/G TR 3:30-4:45 pm Professor Mondadori tel 414-229-5904/4719 email mondadf@uwm.edu |
A so-called general term – e.g., “horse”, “red” –typically applies to a number of particular things: and the things to which it applies are typically (and not implausibly) said to have something in common. Less typically, what they are said to have in common is a so-called universal --- e.g., horsehood, redness, --which the general term is taken to refer to. The problem of universals arises when we raise the question (1) of what “have in common” means here, and (2) of what kind of entity a universal is. The problem has been discussed with unparalleled subtlety by the Schoolmen – prominent among them, Abelard, Duns Scotus, and Ockham. |
| 736-453: Special Topics in the History of
Modern Philosophy Se 001 Locke 3 credits, U/G M 1:30-4:10 pm Professor Atherton tel 414-229-5904/4719 email atherton@uwm.edu |
John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is generally recognized as a major classic text in Philosophy and as a central document in the development of philosophy in the eighteenth century. But the book is also frequently criticized as being sprawling and under-edited, interesting in the parts but incoherent in the whole. How could the same book both set the stage for future intellectual development and fail to present a coherent message? In this course we will work our way through the test of the Essay, placing it within its historical context, in order to try to develop a consistent interpretation and understanding of this work. |
| 736-461: Islamic Philosophy and
Mysticism Se 001 3 credits, U/G TR 11:05 am -12:20 pm Professor Hawi tel 414-229-4395/4719 email hawi@uwm.edu |
Problems central to Islamic Theology, philosophy and mysticisms and their relation to the teaching of Islam and Western philosophy. |
| 736-532: Philosophical Problems: Frege Se 001 3 credits, U/G TR 2:05 - 3:20 pm Professor Weiner tel 414-229-5217/4719 email begriff@uwm.edu |
What is the number one? And how do we know that 2 + 2 = 4? These apparently simple questions are in fact notoriously difficult to answer, and in one form or another have occupied philosophers from ancient times to present. Gottlob Frege's conviction that the truths of arithmetic -- that, in fact, all truths of mathematics with the exception of those of geometry -- are derived from self-evident logical truths forms the basis of a systematic project which revolutionized logic, and founded modern analytic philosophy. Our focus in this course will be on Frege's central project and some of the consequences his writings have had for contemporary work in the philosophy of logic and language. No mathematical background will be presupposed but an acquaintance with first-order logic is recommended. |
| 736-532: Philosophical Problems Se 002: Pragmatism 3 credits, U/G W 1:30-4:10 pm Professor Schwartz tel 414-229-4771/4719 email schwartz@uwm.edu |
Recently there has been an enormous resurgence of interest in Pragmatism, not only in philosophy, but in political science, sociology, cultural studies, and many other areas of intellectual pursuit. This seminar will examine main themes, problems, and trends in Pragmatism. It will focus on the writings of Peirce, James, and Dewey. The implications of their ideas to current controversies concerning truth, knowledge, relativism, and inquiry will be explored. Questions will also be raised about the goals and methods of philosophy. |
| 736-553: Aethetics Se 001 3 credits, U/G TR 11:05 am-12:20 pm Professor Wainwright tel 414-229-4395/4719 email wjwain@uwm.edu |
The course examines a variety of philosophical approaches to the arts. Four topics will be addressed. 1) Aristotle and Nietzsche on tragedy. 2) The emergence of the concept of the aesthetic, with special attention to Kant, formalist theories of art, and the notion of “art for art’s sake”. 3) Morality and art, with special attention to Tolstoy’s claim that art must be judged by moral and religious standards. 4) An examination of the question “What is art?” – a problem which has become particularly acute in the aftermath of Duchamp’s “ready mades” (e.g. an ordinary urinal exhibited under the title “Fountain”), Warhol’s Campbell soup cans, and monochrome paintings. Required texts will include Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Aristotle’s Poetics, Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Tolstoy’s What is Art?, and Arthur Danto’s The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. Essays by Hutcheson, Hume, Clive Bell, and others will also be assigned. There will be a midterm, final and substantial term paper. |
| 736-560: The Concept of Law Se 001 3 credits, U/G MWF 9:30 am Professor Emeritus Luce tel 414-229-5215/4719 email luce@uwm.edu |
The roles of reason and moral judgment in judicial decision-making. Judicial decision-making versus majority rule. Majority rule versus the rights of individuals. The concept of an independent judiciary. The sources of law. To explore these issues we shall be reading Ronald Dworkin and his critics, starting off with Dworkin's Law's Empire (1986). For a historical reach we shall be reading Leonard Levy's Origins of the Fifth Amendment (1969). And we can break up into research teams to test our conclusions against case law in such areas as product liability, free speech, the Miranda rule, gay rights, gun control legislation, and governmental powers of seizure. |
| 736-681: Seminar in Advanced Topics Se 001: Values In Conflict 3 credits, U/G M 4:30-7:10 pm Professor Bagnoli tel 414-229-5903/4719 email bagnoli@uwm.edu http://www.uwm.edu/~cbagnoli |
This seminar concerns the origin, the conditions of possibility, and the philosophical significance of conflicts of values. Some philosophers, such as A. McIntyre and B. Williams, suggest that conflicts of values permeate our life because we live in a pluralist society, where different traditions and moral codes have met and only partially merged. The possibility of conflicts of values is thus to be taken for granted, and the conclusion to be drawn is that a complete and coherent theoretical account of values is impossible to achieve. This conclusion seems to follow because the plurality and variety of values is taken to undermine the possibility of comparing them or of trading them off against one another. But is this so? It is generally held that when the alternatives for choice are plural and incommensurable, that is, when they cannot be measured by a single scale or compared by a single standard, then the resources of practical reason run out. If alternatives for choice cannot be compared and ranked, what reason can there be for choosing one rather than the other? How is reasoned choice possible in contexts of value-incommensurability? These questions lead us to consider two kinds of conflicts that have been the focus of philosophical debates: tragic choices and dilemmas. In tragic choices, there seem to be a reason to act, but the act is repugnant. When conflicts of values lead to dilemmatic choices, practical reason is silent or, rather, it offers contradictory directions. For this reason, dilemmas are not easy to accommodate: they show that practical reasoning can be stuck, and that the theory is either incomplete or incoherent. If so, ethical theory cannot be of any guidance, and appears to fail in its practical and theoretical purposes. To avoid this result, dilemmas have been traditionally excluded as spurious or due to the agent's cognitive limitations and defects. This view, however, hardly makes sense of moral phenomenology. Therefore, the question seems to be how to accommodate dilemmas and conflicts of values and yet make sense of ethical theory as a theoretical and practical enterprise. This is the challenge of contemporary ethical theorists. But do dilemmas really reveal a logical or normative flaw in the theory that permits them to arise? Are they necessarily generated by subjective mistakes and defects? And even if it is so, should not an ethical theory be relevant exactly for defective agents, that is, agents operating under non-ideal conditions of rationality? In addressing this issue, philosophers have come to reconsider the bounds of deliberation, and the purposes and the structure of ethical theory. Readings include: B. Williams, E. Anderson, J. Raz, C. Taylor, P. Railton, R. Hare, S. Blackburn, A. McIntyre, T. Hill, C. Korsgaard, D. Wiggins. |
| 736-685: Capstone Senior Seminar: John
Rawls' Political Philosophy 3 credits, U/G TR 12:30-1:45 pm Professor Sensat tel 414-229-4669/4719 email sensat@uwm.edu http://www.uwm.edu/~sensat |
We shall focus on Rawls's theory of justice as stated in two recent publications: Justice as Fairness: A Restatement and The Law of Peoples. We shall also try to understand his conception of political liberalism. |
| 736-712: Fundamentals of Formal Logic Se 001 3 credits, G TR 9:30-10:45 am Professor Weiner tel 414-229-5217/4719 email begriff@uwm.edu |
See description for 736-212. |
| 736-960: Seminar in Metaphysics Se 001: Action Theory 3 credits, G W 4:30-7:10 pm Professor Ferrero tel 414-229-4669/4719 email ferrero@uwm.edu http://www.uwm.edu/~ferrero |
What differentiates actions, such as raising an arm, from mere happening and body movements, such as the rising of an arm? In this seminar, we will investigate the distinction between actions and happenings and why this distinction should matter to us. The questions that we will study fall under four general categories. The ontology of action, the explanation of action, the unity of agency, the natural history of agency. Under the heading of ontology, we will investigate the following issues: the relation between events, bodily movements and actions; whether actions are distinct because of being caused in special ways (e.g., by the agent or by acts of will); the criteria of identity for actions; the determination of the inception, duration and termination of actions; the distinction between positive and negative actions (omissions); the relation between simple-basic actions and more complex ones, the effects of prosthetic devices on the location of the centers of control and agency. The central question about the explanation of action is whether the distinctive teleological-interpretive mode of action explanation can be reduced to the causal-predictive mode of event explanation. In this context, we will consider the issue of the relation between reasons and causes. Under the heading of the unity of agency, we will consider the relation between agency and the self, with particular attention to the questions raised by intentions and commitments. If time permits, we will consider the relation between individual and collective agency. Finally, we will study the `natural history of agency', i.e., the differences between the kinds of agency that can be attributed to living organisms and various human artifacts. Readings drawn, for the most part, from works of contemporary analytic philosophers. |
For a complete list of philosophy classes, please refer to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Spring 2002 Schedule of Classes. This booklet is available through Enrollment Services, Mellencamp Hall Room 274 or on the web at http://www.uwm.edu/schedule/
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