Lectures Proposed by the Board of the Faculty of Philosophy

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1 SPECIAL NO. 1] LECTURE-LIST MICHAELMAS TERM Lectures Proposed by the Board of the Faculty of Philosophy For particulars of the University Composition Fee and of the fees payable for attendance at separate courses of lectures, see p. 2. Graduates of the University who are not reading for a University examination may attend without payment any lectures proposed by the Faculty Board of Philosophy. Lectures will be delivered at Sidgwick Avenue unless otherwise stated. Attention is drawn to lectures listed under Classics, Divinity, History, History and Philosophy of Science, Social and Political Sciences. PHILOSOPHY TRIPOS PART I A Causation Th. 11 (Four lectures) (weeks A. N. OTHER Free Will Tu. 11 (Four lectures) DR T. LEWENS/DR S. BANGU (HPS) Induction and the Sciences W. 12 Introduction to Metaethics W. 10 Utility and Rights Tu. 2 Personal Identity (for HPS) F. 11 (Four lectures) (weeks Mill Lane Lecture 1 Mind and Matter (for HPS) F. 11 (Four lectures) Mill Lane Lecture 1 Knowledge and Scepticism W. 2 (Six lectures) (weeks Punishment Th. 10 (Four lectures) (weeks MR H. ADAMSON Morality and the Self W. 11 (Four lectures) DR C. SALVAT (HISTORY) Utilitarianism and its critics Tu. 2 (Four lectures) Formal logic Th. 10, F. 10 (Sixteen lectures) Sets and probability W. 11, Th. 10 (Eight lectures) (weeks. Introduction to philosophy of logic and language W. 10 MR TIM BUTTON Formal Logic Th. 11 (Four lectures) (weeks Tu. 10 (weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8) PROF. S. W. BLACKBURN Hume s Dialogues M. 11 DR J. BRYAN Plato s Meno F. 11 Discussion Groups Tu. 10 (weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7) Tu. 10 (weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8) DR C. CHAMBERS Mill On Liberty and The Subjection of Women M. 11 Discussion Groups Tu. 10 (weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7) Tu. 10 (week 2) Perception Th. 3 (Six lectures) (weeks DR A. BROADBENT (HPS) Mind, Knowledge and Meaning F. 10 Mill Lane Lecture 4 PART I B A priori Knowledge. W. 10 (Four lectures) DR L. BRADDOCK Functionalism W. 9 (Four lectures) (weeks 1 4 DR M. HOGARTH Theories of Truth M. 3 (Four lectures) Theories of Justification. W. 10 (Four lectures)

2 120 LECTURE-LIST MICHAELMAS TERM 2009 [SPECIAL NO. 1 PHILOSOPHY TRIPOS, PART IB (continued) Names and descriptions Tu. 12 (Six lectures) (weeks Logic Options (Sixteen lectures) (Two by Dr P. Smith, ten by Mr F. Steinberger, four by Mr T. Button). W. 11, F. 11 Acts, Intentions and Omissions Th. 2 (Four lectures) Responsibility and Voluntariness W. 12 (Four lectures) (weeks Plato s Republic (Twelve lectures) Tu. 2 (weeks 1 8), W. 2 DR C. FAIRLEY Locke s Essay Concerning Human Understanding W. 10 (Four lectures) (weeks DR J. MARENBON Descartes Meditations Tu. 3 (Six lectures) (weeks 1 4 and 7 8) DR M. FRASCA-SPADA, DR S. JOHN (HPS) Sources of Knowledge: Locke, Berkeley and Hume Th. 12 DR A. BROADBENT (HPS) Causation, Explanation and Law M. 11 Mill Lane Lecture 4 MR A. CAULTON Probability discussion group W. 3 (weeks 1 8). Philosophy of Physics Th. 10 (Four lectures) (weeks Methodology: Popper, Kuhn and Confirmation F. 5 (Four lectures) (weeks Liberty Tu. 10 (Six lectures) (weeks Rawls and Nozick M. 10 (Also Part II, paper 10) DR C. BROOKE (PSSIS) Distributive justice from Mill to Rawls F. 11 Faculty of PPSIS (Also Part II, Paper 10) DR C. SALVAT (HISTORY) Ideas of liberty Tu. 2 (Four lectures) Experimental Psychology. Tu. Th. Sat. 11. (Twenty four lectures) a) Tu. 9 11/W /W. 2 4 Extended Essays and Dissertations Research Tools in Philosophy. M. 16 Nov. 3 4 [Part II students also welcome] Philosophy Board MR N. WILDMAN Possible worlds Th. 10, (Four lectures) (weeks Theories F. 10 (Four lectures) Reasons and relativism W. 11 MS M. ALBERTZART Universalization, Impartiality and Generality Th. 10 (Four lectures) Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics M. 11 (Six lectures) (weeks Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics Tu. 2 (6 x 1.5 hr seminars) (weeks Philosophy Board DR FRASER MACBRIDE Leibniz F. 11 (Six lectures) (weeks Hume s Treatise and comparative issues W. 3 (Six lectures) (weeks DR J. MARENBON Boethius and Ockham on Time, Eternity and Foreknowledge W. 12 DR P. DICKEN Constructive Empiricism W. 10, (Four lectures) (weeks DR C. MCLEISH (HPS) The language of Scientific Theories M. 2 (Four lectures) DR T. LEWENS, DR K. BROSNAN AND DR U. STEGMANN (HPS) Philosophy of Biology Tu. 10 DR T. LEWENS (HPS) Philosophy of Biology F. 5 (Four lectures) Equality M. 10 (Six lectures) (weeks Democracy F. 10 (Four lectures) (weeks Political obligation W. 2 (Four lectures) The democratic state and the idea of European Union F. 2 (Four lectures) Experimental Psychology. Tu. Th. Sat. 11. (Twenty four lectures) a) Tu. 9 11/W / W. 2 4 Theories of Meaning M. 10 (Four lectures) DR A. D. OLIVER Logical Form: verbs and adverbs W. 12, W. 2 (Four lectures) (weeks 1 2) Life and Death Issues W. 11 (Four lectures) Philosophy of Physics W. 5 (Four lectures) Revision seminar (2 x 1 hr) M. 2 (weeks 1 and 2) (Also Part II, paper 10) Experimental Psychology. Tu. Th. Sat. 11. (Twenty four lectures) a) Tu. 9 11/W /W. 2 4

3 SPECIAL NO. 1] LECTURE-LIST MICHAELMAS TERM PHILOSOPHY TRIPOS, PART II DR M. HOGARTH Causation. M. 2 Scepticism W. 3 (Four lectures) Metaphysics Tu (8 x 1.5 hr seminars). (Graduate Students welcome) Philosophy Board Wittgenstein s Philosophical Investigations M. 12 (weeks 1 8) Tu. 12 (Twelve lectures) (Also Part II, paper 8 & Paper 9) First person authority W. 3 (Four lectures) (weeks MS C. TIEFENSEE Realism and Irrealism W. 11, (Four lectures) (weeks Ethics and organisations (Four lectures) F. 2 (Four lectures) (Graduate students welcome) Ethics and organisations F (Four x 1.5 hr seminars) (weeks (Graduate students welcome) Philosophy Common DR L. RADOILSKA Population-level Bioethics Th (Six x 1.5 hr seminars) (weeks 3 8) (Graduate students welcome) Philosophy Board or Philosophy Common DR C. FAIRLEY Kant (Transcendental Aesthetics) W. 11 (Four lectures) DR S. Y. J. GOLOB Kant (Transcendental Analytic and Dialetic) Th. 10, F. 10 (Eight lectures) (weeks Introduction to mathematical logic W. 12 (weeks 1 8), W. 2 (12 lectures) Gödel s Theorems F. 12 Philosophy Board Wittgenstein s Tractatus M. 12 (weeks Th. 11 (Ten lectures) (Also Part II paper 9) MR A. STEWART-WALLACE Relativism F. 10 (Four lectures) Metaphysics Th (8 x 1.5 hr seminars) (Graduate Students welcome) Philosophy Board Mental Causation and Physicalism Tu. 4 (Four lectures) Objects of Thought W (8 x 1.5 hr seminars). (Graduate Students welcome) Philosophy Board or Philosophy Common (HPS) Meaning and Mental Representation Th. 9 (Four lectures) (weeks AND Tu Metaethics (8 x 1.5 hr seminars) (Graduates also welcome) Philosophy Graduate Common Ends of action Tu. 10 (Six lectures) (weeks Kant s Ethics and Kantian Ethics F. 11 (Six lectures) (weeks tbc) (Graduate students welcome) Kant s Ethics and Kantian Ethics F. 3 (6 x 1.5 hr seminars) (weeks tbc) (Graduate students welcome) Philosophy Board DR T. LEWENS Bioethics F. 3 (weeks Four lectures PROF. E. J. CRAIG Hegel M. 11/F. 10 (Eight lectures) (weeks DR E. P. JAMES Themes from Nietzsche s The Gay Science and Beyond Good and Evil Tu. 11 DR S. Y. J. GOLOB Nietzsche s Genealogy of Morality F. 2 (Four lectures) (weeks DR M. FRASCA-SPADA, DR N. JARDINE AND DR A. BREITENBACH (HPS) Sources of Knowledge: Kant Th. 10 Logic seminar Th Philosophy Common (Graduate students welcome) Set Theory W. 11 PROF. B. J. HEAL Knowledge of other minds Tu. 11 (Four lectures) Consciousness W. 11 (Four lectures) MS J. CHEN Capabilities, Needs and Interests Tu. 2 (Four lectures) Logic seminar Th Philosophy Common (Graduate students welcome) Quine Th. 2 (Four lectures) Wittgenstein s Philosophical Investigations rule following Tu. 12 (Four lectures) (weeks (Also Part II, paper 2 and paper 9) MR F. STEINBERGER Understanding and truth conditions Th. 2 (Four lectures) (weeks The logic of plurals W. 10 (Four lectures) (weeks DR FRASER MACBRIDE Contemporary Theories of Mathematics M. 10 Conditionals W. 10 (Four lectures) (weeks DR S. BANGU (HPS) Philosophy of Mathematics Th. 11 (weeks continued >

4 122 LECTURE-LIST MICHAELMAS TERM 2009 [SPECIAL NO. 1 PHILOSOPHY TRIPOS, PART II (continued) Wittgenstein s Philosophical Investigations M. 12 (weeks 1 8) Tu. 12 (Twelve lectures) (Also Part II, paper 2 and paper 8) International and Intergenerational Justice Tu. 11 Rawls and Nozick M. 10 (Also Part IB, Paper 7) Patriotism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism M. 2 (Four lectures) DR C. BROOKE (PPSIS) Distributive justice from Mill to Rawls F. 11 Faculty of PPSIS (Also Part IB, Paper 7) DR E. PERREAU-SAUSSINE (HISTORY) Free markets: for and against TBA (Six lectures) (weeks DR C. JONES (PPSIS) The idea of war in twentieth century political thought F. 2 (Four lectures) Hume s On the Standard of Taste. Th. 10 (Four lectures) DR J. BRYAN Plato s aesthetics Th. 3 (Four lectures) Extended Essays and Dissertations Research Tools in Philosophy. M. 16 Nov. 3 4 [Also Part IB students] Philosophy Board Wittgenstein s Tractatus M. 12 (weeks Th. 11 (Ten lectures) (Also Part II paper 1) Wittgensteinian Themes M. 12, Tu. 10 (Four lectures) (weeks 7 and 8) Feminism M. 11 (Four lectures) DR C. CHAMBERS Political liberalism, communitarianism and multiculturalism Tu. 9 PROF. R. GEUSS Marxism F. 9 (GENDER STUDIES) 1 x 2 hr M.Phil in Gender Studies seminar 10 12, Friday February 5th DR P. PARVIN (HISTORY) Multiculturalism and toleration Tu. 2 (Four lectures) (weeks Marxism: from Engels to the Frankfurt School W. 2 PROF. R. GEUSS Introduction to Aesthetics M. 9, W. 9 (Sixteen lectures) Revision seminar (2 x 1 hr) M. 2 (weeks 1 and 2) (Also Part IB, paper 7) PROF. J. HEAL Topics in Aesthetics Th. 11 (Four lectures) OTHER PART II OPTIONS IN PROF. M. SCHOFIELD (CLASSICS) Plato (Sixteen lectures) M /Tu Classics MR N. DENYER AND DR SINIOSSOGLOU (CLASSICS) Plato Theaetetus (sixteen lectures) W. 10/F Classics DR J. I. WARREN (CLASSICS) Pleasure M. Th. 9 (Sixteen lectures) 1.11 Classics DR J. BRYAN (CLASSICS) Philosophy and dialogue M. 4 G.19 Classics MR N. C. DENYER, PROF. SEDLEY AND DR R. B. B. WARDY (CLASSICS) Aristotle on nature and change W. 12/F. 12 (Sixteen lectures) 1.11 Classics DR J. I. WARREN (CLASSICS) Pleasure Tu Classics MR N. C. DENYER, PROF. SEDLEY AND DR R. B. B. WARDY (CLASSICS) Aristotle on nature and change Tu. 12 (Four classes) 1.11 Classics

5 SPECIAL NO. 1] LECTURE-LIST MICHAELMAS TERM GRADUATE COURSES (Eight seminars x 1.5 hrs) W. 2 Philosophy Common PROF. T. CRANE (Eight seminars x 1.5 hrs) Common W. 2 Philosophy (Four seminars x 1.5hrs, weeks W. 2 Philosophy Common M (weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8) Philosophy Common M (weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8) Philosophy Common M (weeks 2 and 4) Philosophy Common Teaching and Research skills Research tools in Philosophy. Centre M. 12 Oct. 2 3 Graduate Teaching and research skills AND OTHERS Teaching skills workshop Th (4 workshops) Philosophy Board Teaching and research skills Logic seminar (also Part II, paper 8) Th Philosophy Common Logic reading group W Philosophy Common Ethics and organisations F. 2 (Four lectures) (weeks (Also Part II, Paper 3) Ethics and organisations (Four x 1.5 hr seminars) F (weeks (Also Part II, Paper 3) Philosophy Common DR L. RADOILSKA Population-level Bioethics Th (Six x 1.5 hr seminars) (weeks 3 8) (Also Part II, Paper 3) Philosophy Board or Philosophy Common DR J. N. BUTTERFIELD Philosophy of Physics (Eight x 1.5 hr seminars) Mondays, Meeting 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences Metaphysics Tu. 2 (8 x 1.5 hr seminars). (Also Part II, Paper 1) Philosophy Board Logic seminar (also Part II, paper 7) Th Philosophy Common Logic reading group W Philosophy Common AND Metaethics Tu (Eight x 1.5 hr seminars) (Also part II, paper 3) Philosophy Graduate Common Objects of Thought W (Eight x 1.5 hr seminars) (Also Part II, paper 2) Philosophy Board or Philosophy Common Kant s Ethics and Kantian Ethics F. 11(Six lectures) (weeks tbc) (Also Part II, paper 3) Kant s Ethics and Kantian Ethics F. 3 (Six x 1.5 hr seminars) (weeks tbc) (Also Part II, paper 3) Philosophy Board DR J. N. BUTTERFIELD Philosophy of Physics (Eight x 1.5 hr seminars) Mondays, Meeting 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences Metaphysics Th (8 x 1.5 hr seminars). (Also Part II, Paper 1) Philosophy Board Logic seminar Th Philosophy Common Logic reading group W Philosophy Common continued >