| Title: | Analytic Philosophy |
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| Course Section Number: | PHI-346-01 |
| Department: | Philosophy |
| Description: | PHI-346-01: Analytic Philosophy. The period spanning the late 19th to the early 20th centuries was a period of spectacular development in mathematics, natural science, and philosophy. New theories in physics---think Bohr and Einstein, for example---promised to reveal something about the deep structure of our universe. At the same time, sophisticated new techniques of mathematical logic and scientific approaches to psychology promised to make possible the rigorous scientific study of thought itself. Analytic philosophy developed in close connection to these developments in mathematics and natural science. The early analytic philosophers were keen to apply the newly developed tools of mathematical logic to solving (or dissolving) old philosophical problems by careful linguistic analysis. Using these tools, they went on to develop new theories of the structure of reality, and explanations of how it is possible for us to think, and to know, about what reality is like. In all of this work they aimed for clarity, precision, and the development of what they called "scientific philosophy". In this course, we will study some of the major themes and debates in early analytic philosophy by carefully considering work of some of the major philosophers of this period, including Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Quine. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 14, 2019 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/15/2019-05/02/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Goodrich Hall, Room 305
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| Faculty: | Carlson, Matthew |
| Requisite Courses: | Pre-Req: Take PHI-242 OR PHI-270 |
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