PHIL-P 300 PHILOSOPHICAL METHODS AND WRITING (3 CR.)
Provides intensive training in all aspects of writing clear, grammatical, well-argued and persuasive philosophical essays through a combination of lectures and tutorials.
1 classes found
Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 6679 | Closed | 3:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m. | MW | BH 346 | Pettler Z; Cudmore-Keating S; Rogers M; Leite A |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 6679: Total Seats: 24 / Available: 0 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL INTENSIVE WRITING SECTION
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- Above class COLL Intensive Writing section
- A portion of above class is reserved for Philosophy majors and minors
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
This course focuses on skills in philosophical writing, argumentation, and research. We consider how philosophers defend their views, and students practice incorporating various argumentative strategies into their writing. Students meet in pairs each week with an advanced graduate student to discuss their own philosophical work. The course topic is personal identity. What makes you the same person as the child you once were? Sameness of body? Continuity of memory or of other psychological traits? Do imaginary scenarios of "body-swapping" show sameness of body to be irrelevant? Do you become a different person if you lose your memory or undergo radical personality change? This topic quickly expands from metaphysics to questions in philosophy of mind and ethics. It connects with our most fundamental concern about what it is to be a person and raises important questions about the role of imagination and "thought experiments" in philosophical methodology. Strongly recommended: at least one course in philosophy. Primarily intended for majors and minors in philosophy.