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This course is a study of basic metaphysical issues concerning existence, the mind-body problem, personal identity, and... see more

This course focuses on the study of basic metaphysical issues concerning existence, the mind-body problem, personal... see more

This course is a study of free will. It explores the main topic through the lenses of the consequence argument,... see more

This is a class about 'ought' and ought—you can think of it as a class in philosophy of language and metaphysics in which... see more

This is a free textbook that is offered by Amazon for reading on a Kindle. Anybody can read Kindle books—even without a... see more

This video was recorded at PLSC 118 - Moral Foundations of Politics. The mature Rawls departed quite a bit from his... see more

In this course we shall study the Critique of Pure Reason with special focus on questions about idealism, about our... see more

This course introduces students to some of the most important practitioners of poetry in sixteenth- and... see more

This course introduces students to some of the most important practitioners of poetry in sixteenth- and... see more

A peer-reviewed reader for introduction to philosophy classes. The book itself is a remix of several sources, with some... see more

This book addresses the age-old problem of infinite regresses in epistemology. How can we ever come to know something if... see more

PhilPapers (2009) hosts one of the largest open access archives that aggregates and indexes philosophy journal articles,... see more

Quantum mechanics--even in the ordinary, non-relativistic, "particle" formulation that will be the primary focus of this... see more

In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with... see more

Are moral standards relative to cultures and/or moral frameworks? Are there incompatible or non-comparable ways of... see more

This course explores different kinds of infinity; the paradoxes of set theory; the reduction of arithmetic to logic;... see more

This course is a survey of recent philosophy of perception. The main topics discussed are the following: the transparency... see more

Propositions are everywhere in the philosophy of mind. Believing, hoping, and intending (for example) are said to be... see more

This course offers an advanced survey of current debates about the ontology, methodology, and aims of the social... see more

When John Locke declared (in the 1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding) that knowledge was derived solely from... see more

Cover songs are a familiar feature of contemporary popular music. Musicians describe their own performances as covers,... see more

Forms of Life and Subjectivity: Rethinking Sartre’s Philosophy explores the fundamental question of why we act as we do.... see more

Humans are social animals; social demands, both cooperative and competitive, structure our development, our brain and our... see more

This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and... see more