We will read the Oresteia and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Sophocles' Theban Cycle, and the Hippolytus, Bacchae and Philoctetes by Euripides. 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. If not, should this concern us? At home? See the college's, Experiential Learning & Community Engagement, that underlies classical tragedy, however, seems markedly different from the one that we find in classical philosophy. What is his legacy today? 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. 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. Is film today really distinct from a number of new, emerging visual media? What is the nature of consciousness and how can it be unhappy, false or double? Is it possible to have systematic knowledge of subjective experience? 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. Some of the questions we will ask are: What is the nature of filmic representation? How did you develop your character? How should we think about the boundaries and methods of theorizing about film? 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. Further, even where there is agreement as to the proper way of answering epistemological questions, there is a stunning variety of possible answers to each question. This course will introduce students to fundamental concepts, methods, and issues in environmental ethics. Are there metaphysical and ideological assumptions in contemporary psychiatry, and if so, could and should they be avoided? What role does the history of philosophy play in the discipline? We'll also work on writing lucid prose that displays precisely the logical structure of arguments, engages in focused critique of these arguments, and forcefully presents arguments of our own. This course is an investigation into how language is used to express meaning, and how such expression can have real interpersonal and societal impact. Both stances face severe difficulties. The first, shorter part will focus on the writings of the three classics of American pragmatism--Charles S. Peirce, William James and John Dewey--and analyze their reaction against traditional epistemology, as well as the positive philosophical ideas that they had to offer. Authors will include Plato, Anselm, Aquinas, Pascal, Paley, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, and several contemporary philosophers. 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. Phil Walsh!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)? 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. Yet, other lesser known experiments are equally important landmarks in research ethics, as well, such as the Willowbrook 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. role does the history of philosophy play in the discipline? A number of things follow from this happy assumption. We ordinarily claim that sentences are true or false, but are there other entities whose truth and falsity explains the truth and falsity of sentences? (There will be optional, supplementary opportunity to engage with the Latin text for interested students with some facility with Latin.) What distinguishes that kind of life from others? Is rationality relative to cultural norms? Do our society's laws limit our freedom in order to make us safe? For that matter, what are logical theorems even about? Safety measures are in place, and campus community members and guests are additionally advised to take personal precautions. Student interest will be taken into consideration in deciding what additional topics to cover. "Don't die," she said. Possible additional topics would include: modal logic, the theory of counterfactuals, alternative representations of conditionals, the use of logic in the foundations of arithmetic and Godel's Incompleteness theorems. 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. [more], Philosophy of film is a relatively young, but very rich and rapidly growing field. These affect not only our particular choices but also, more fundamentally, who we are and what we value. 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. Dean's Office. 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? How much inference goes into interpreting what's said? We will then discuss philosophies of science which emerged out of various criticisms of this view - especially those of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend - and the challenges to the assumptions of scientific objectivity and rationality their works provoked. We will then turn to contemporary controversies such as campus free speech. Dubois, The Talented Tenth, Frederick Rudolph, Williams College 1793-1993: Three Eras, Three Cultures, Michael S. Roth, Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity, William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, and Anthony T. Kronman, The Assault on American Excellence. We will consider the ways in which narrative fiction presents and engages its audience in philosophical reflections on personal identity, nature of the self, interpersonal relationships, memory, time, human existence, freedom, and the meaning in life. We will look at relativism with respect to reason and truth in general as well as with respect to science, religion, and morality. [more], The primary way we interact with others is through the use of language. Understood in this way, critical theory is identified closely with the intellectual tradition of the Frankfurt School. We make causal judgments constantly in our everyday lives and in scientific contexts. Some challenges we face are broad and about the future, though perhaps not the far future. The course will use a case-based approach to examine these issues, and so in most weeks we will (1) read philosophical articles focused on a key concept or set of arguments central to the issue, and (2) consider in detail one morally complex case in which the concept or arguments have special application or relevance. Does film accurately capture reality, as no other art does? This is part of a full-year thesis (493-494). 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, Minds, Brains, and Intelligent Behavior: An Introduction to Cognitive Science. [more], The aim of this tutorial is to critically examine the nature, importance, and ethical value of personal attachments and loyalties. We will examine several different approaches in depth, including realism, constructivism, expressivism, and skepticism. Cy Walsh was detained under mental health supervision after the Supreme Court found he was mentally incompetent when he stabbed his father to death in July 2015. + Discussion: UPI, New York Post, . Philosophy of Education: DuBois versus Washington, deepest questions in philosophy: consequentialism versus deontology, the goals of happiness versus dignity, long term versus short term goals, and more. Is film a creation of a single artist - the director, the author - or is it a result of a loosely synchronized and not quite coherent collaboration of many different people, each guided by her or his particular vision? Some of the questions which we will discuss are: What is a person? [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. By Greg Baum. [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. We will start by situating Hume's project within the historical tradition in which he thought and against which Treatise was directed. [more], There are three grains of sand on my desk. Do our society's laws limit our freedom in order to make us safe? Some philosophers have wondered, however, whether the notion of an alternative logic is even coherent. . Class will be primarily driven by discussion, often preceded by brief lectures. 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). and Augustine, and, from a political and theoretical point of view, selections from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Yet what is it to be happy? [more], This is a course in the philosophy of logic. Reasoning and Inference: The Philosophy of Logic, and thinking within formal systems and how to prove various things within these systems. But three grains isn't enough for a heap. [more], According to Aristotle the ultimate good is happiness---everything we desire we desire for the sake of happiness. In framing and answering these questions, we will discuss subjective experience (or phenomenology) of mental illness; holism vs. reductionism; functional, historical and structural explanations of psychopathology; theory formation, evidence, and the role of values in psychology and psychiatry; the diversity and disunity of psychotherapeutic approaches; relationship between knowers and the known; and relationship between theoretical knowledge in psychiatry and the practices of healing. Do particular case histories offer good explanations of psychopathology? 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. who happens to be a philosopher; nor is it just that philosophical positions are reviewed in the narrative, as in Gaarder's. "I can't tell you anything about the argument or the circumstances but as a result of that both Mr Walsh and his wife received the wounds," Superintendent Des Bray told reporters in Adelaide. 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. As we go through these results, we will think about the philosophical implications of first-order logic. Or, must sensible properties be organized spatiotemporally? Phil Walsh Writer/Producer Los Angeles, California, United States500+ connections Join to connect TW3 Entertainment Williams College Personal Website Report this profile Experience. Other questions are pressing and immediate: Artificial intelligence techniques are used today to help decide whether someone gets a bank loan, is eligible to be released on bail, or in need of particular medical treatment. Of particular interest will be how language can be used to establish, reinforce, and resist power relationships involving race and gender. Is patriotism incompatible with cosmopolitanism, and if so, which of the two should we value? But now we have a problem. 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. Among other things, these critics challenged Rawls' interpretation and defense of the social contract framework, the ideals of freedom and equality, the content of principles of justice, political neutrality about the good, the nature of the self, the division between public and private spheres, and the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory. arts education by nurturing in students the academic and civic virtues, and their related traits of character." Should we revise logic in light of empirical discoveries in, for example, physics or psychology? 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. What is knowledge (as opposed to mere opinion)? What is knowledge (as opposed to mere opinion)? The thoughts that Aristotle expresses in these books were instrumental in setting an intellectual agenda that dominated western thought through the Middle Ages and provided the backdrop against which the modern philosophical tradition arose. Our internal, felt experience--what chocolate tastes like to oneself, what it is like to see the color red, or, 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. Phil is based out of Greater Seattle Area and works in the Real Estate industry. What does it mean to be "philosophical" or to think "theoretically" about politics? What are other models for understanding moral objectivity? 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. [more], The touchstone of our course will be Plato's Republic: the first and perhaps greatest utopia as well as perhaps the greatest work in political philosophy. 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. What, if anything, justifies our scientific knowledge? Political parties. Authors will include Plato, Anselm, Aquinas, Pascal, Paley, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, and several contemporary philosophers. 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. This raises the question whether a more complete account of the emergence of subjects must address both psychic, historical and social dimensions of subjectivity, the ways in which they are intertwined, and their importance for not only psychological well-being, but also relatively well-regulated socio-political relations. 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. Love it or hate it, you cannot ignore it. 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. 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. Always asking what practical difference would it make, our authors investigate the central questions and disputes of philosophy, from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and religion. We will begin the course by looking at Hume's and Kant's discussion of causation. Although it has influenced both analytic and continental philosophy, pragmatism is a powerful third philosophical movement. Are we rationally justified in drawing causal inferences? 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. Do our beliefs have their meanings one-by-one? These questions are typically asked within a framework where the overarching goal is attaining truth and avoiding falsity. His son was arrested after police were called to a domestic dispute at the home in Somerton Park at 2am ACST on Friday. Where have you been taught them? The son of Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh has been charged with his murder, after the 55-year-old was found dead in his home, South Australian police . What is the relationship between the mind and the body? 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. Questions include: Does the world decide the truth and falsity of all our beliefs? The course will, I hope, provide the students an opportunity and the tools to intellectually examine deeply emotional and contentious issues. 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. In school? We will also read selections from the vast secondary literature on Aristotle's. Williams College Catalog Phone Number 413-597-4286 [email protected] 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. Some of them explicitly engage meta-philosophical debates; others exemplify particular philosophical styles and methods. In this course we'll examine several influential attempts to provide a rational foundation for morality, along with Nietzsche's wholesale rejection of these efforts. In this course, we will study the literature in contemporary philosophy on the nature of knowledge and rational belief. How are conscious and unconscious emotions related to a person's action, character, and her social world? The theoretical aspect of the course will involve close readings of selected articles in contemporary aesthetics, philosophy of literature and philosophy of film. 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. What is the basis on which current psychiatric diagnostic manuals are organized? We got it anyway . To submit an obituary, please send it to Alumni Records, Williams College, 75 Park Street, Williamstown, MA 01267. Is happiness an emotional or mental state or is it a social construct? (Foot also invented the infamous trolley car thought experiment.) How do you expect to learn? In discussions and writing, we will explore the diverse visions of modernity and of politics offered by such thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Mill, and Freud. 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. Finally, we will consider how the concept of freedom is applied in contemporary social contexts, such as speech, religion, voting, and sexuality and gender. Some of the questions we will consider are: Are moral standards relative to cultural frameworks? Readings will include work by Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and contemporary authors. 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. Topics will include: What can we know through our senses? Meredith Walsh called triple zero after the early-morning attack at the family's Adelaide home on July 3 last year and as she pleaded for help, she also called out to her husband, court documents show. [more], Is morality simply a matter of opinion? Were they simply too unsophisticated and confused to understand what is for us the irresistible power of skepticism and relativism? We will read Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in seeking answers to these questions. My daughter removes one grain of sand. Are there ethical considerations that should govern both film production and spectatorship? What are other models for understanding moral objectivity? We will begin examining these questions by studying the history of controversies in American higher education, concentrating especially on debates about the curriculum. The choice of literary works and films to be discussed will to some extent depend on students' interest. Trigger Warning: all the works of art studied in this class will be chosen partly because they have offended a significant number of people. 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. Safety measures are in place, and campus community members and guests are additionally advised to take personal precautions. In fact, Socrates seems to have been thought of as a kind of intellectual saint in the Hellenistic world. 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. It turns out, however, to be surprisingly difficult to say what causation is. microscopes of reason and logic can carry us in traditional arguments about the existence and nature of God. In this course, we will study the most important and influential chapters of the, Topics in Philosophy of Race: Hegel and Africana Philosophy, double? Does it matter who is offended? [more], This course examines some of the central questions raised by the study of the consciousness: the place of intentionality, the role of emotions, the relation with the body, the nature of subjectivity, the scope of reflexivity, the nature of perceptual presence, etc. Existentialists investigate deeply irrational phenomena of human life, including anxiety, boredom, tragedy, despair, death, faith, sexuality, love, hate, sadism, masochism, and authenticity. Phil was stabbed to death by his son, who habitually used hallucinogenic drugs, in one of the most shocking tragedies in . In this course, we will investigate dynamic communicative phenomena and discuss competing theoretical explanations about how they're interpreted. [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. We will continue with the contemporary inheritors of the tradition: Cornel West, Richard Rorty, and Hilary Putnam. [more], The Williams College Mission statement says that "free inquiry requires open-mindedness, and commitment to community draws on concern for others". 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. How is political power generated and exercised? 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. On the sports field? New York: McGraw Hill, 2005. pp 307-323. What should be done about offensive art? [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. The second, longer part of the seminar will try to isolate and follow some of the pragmatist currents which run through epistemology and philosophy of science in the 20th and 21st centuries. 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