Fall 2024
Undergraduate courses
R1B Reading and Composition Through Philosophy. Crockett. MW 5-6:30, TBA.
2 Individual Morality and Social Justice. Frick. MWF 11-12, TBA.
3 The Nature of Mind. Campbell. MWF 9-10, TBA.
5 Science and Human Understanding. Rubenstein. MWF 10-11, TBA.
12A Introduction to Logic. Gómez Sánchez. TuTh 11-12:30, TBA.
This course is an introduction to first-order logic. You will learn how to put arguments from ordinary language into a formal language, how to ascertain validity using truth tables and first-order models, and how to construct derivations within a fitch-style system of natural deduction.
18 Confucius for Today. Shun. TuTh 6:30-8, TBA.
25A Ancient Philosophy. MacFarlane. MWF 1-2, TBA.
98BC-1 Berkeley Connect. Staff. Tu 5-6, TBA.
98BC-2 Berkeley Connect. Staff. Tu 6-7, TBA.
100 Philosophical Methods. Dasgupta. W 4-6, TBA.
104 Ethical Theories. Kolodny. MWF 9-10, TBA.
116 Special Topics in Political Philosophy: Equality and Identity. Munoz-Dardé. TuTh 12:30-2, TBA.
This course will be focused on the political ideal of equality. We will pay special attention to:
- the relation between ideas of equality, priority and sufficiency, or needs,
- the notion of equality of opportunity,
- the relation between equality, responsibility and desert; and
- discrimination of given social groups or identities.
As taught this semester, Phil 116 satisfies the ethics requirement for the philosophy major.
117AC Philosophy of Race, Ethnicity and Citizenship. Crockett. MWF 2-3, TBA.
125 Metaphysics. Gómez Sánchez. TuTh 2-3:30, TBA.
Metaphysics is concerned with very general questions about the objective nature/structure of reality. In this course we will tackle four foundational metaphysical questions, through the lens of contemporary analytic metaphysics: (i) what is it for something to be possible or impossible? (ii) do the natural laws of our world leave any room for free will and/or moral responsibility? (iii) what does it take for a person to persist from one time to another (e.g., from childhood to adulthood)? (iv) what is the nature of time?
136 Perception. Martin. TuTh 12:30-2, TBA.
142 Philosophical Logic. Mancosu. TuTh 9:30-11, TBA.
The course aims at introducing students to the basic topics in philosophy of logic. Topics to be covered will be selected from among the following: theories of truth, logical consequence, modal notions (necessity/possibility) and possible world semantics, vagueness, quantification, existence and descriptions, first vs second-order logic, extensionality vs intentionality, realism and antirealism in logic.
Prerequisites (no exceptions!): Phil 12A (or equiv) and at least another course in philosophy.
148 Probability and Induction. Zhang. MWF 12-1, TBA.
170 Descartes. Carriero. TuTh 11-12:30, TBA.
A close reading of Descartes’s Meditations. We’ll try to let Descartes’s own agenda come through by seeking a philosophically sensitive and historically informed interpretation that can be sustained across the entire six meditations, rather than treating the work as a collection of interesting arguments. No previous knowledge of Descartes presupposed.
171 Hobbes. Primus. TuTh 2-3:30, TBA.
189 Topics in Recent European Philosophy: Foucault. Sluga. TuTh 9:30-11, TBA.
Michel Foucault: A comprehensive examination of Foucault’s thought from The Order of Things of 1966 to his late writings from the 1980’s on politics and ethics.
Readings: Foucault, Discipline and Punish The History of Sexuality, vol. 1 A class reader (to be made available at Copy Central)
*As taught this semester, this course satisfies the 160-187 (but not the 160-178) requirement for the major.
198BC-1 Berkeley Connect. Staff. M 5-6, TBA.
198BC-2 Berkeley Connect. Staff. Tu 6-7, TBA.
198BC-3 Berkeley Connect. Staff. W 5-6, TBA.
198BC-4 Berkeley Connect. Staff. W 5-6, TBA.
Graduate seminars
200 First Year Graduate Seminar. Campbell/Ginsborg. Tu 2-4, TBA.
290-1 Graduate Seminar. Holliday/Zhang. M 2-4, TBA.
290-2 Graduate Seminar. Wallace. Tu 12-2, TBA.
290-3 Graduate Seminar. Martin. Tu 4-6, TBA.
290-4 Graduate Seminar. Viehoff. Th 2-4, TBA.
290-5 Graduate Seminar. Cohen/Munoz-Dardé. F 12-3, TBA.
375 Teaching Seminar. Kaiser. M 6-8, TBA.