24.00 | Fall 2019 | Undergraduate

Problems of Philosophy

Course Description

This course is an introduction to the problems of philosophy—in particular, to problems in ethics, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of logic, language, and science. It takes a systematic rather than historical approach. Readings come from classical and contemporary sources, but emphasis is on …
This course is an introduction to the problems of philosophy—in particular, to problems in ethics, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of logic, language, and science. It takes a systematic rather than historical approach. Readings come from classical and contemporary sources, but emphasis is on examination and evaluation of proposed solutions to the problems.
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Written Assignments
Lecture Notes
A marble statue of a seated, toga-wearing man with a furrowed brow and one hand resting on his chin.
A marble statue of Socrates at the Academy of Athens in Greece. In Plato’s Euthyphro, Socrates asks whether the gods love the pious because it is the pious, or whether the pious is pious only because it is loved by the gods. (Image courtesy of Carlos Blanco on Flickr. License CC BY-NC-SA.)