PHIL 521

Spring 2012 All Classes

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Seminar Contemporary Problems

Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Intensive study of selected problems or topics in contemporary philosophy.

Approved for letter grading when offered for 4 hours; approved for S/U grading when offered for 2 hours - only available for Stage 3 Philosophy PhD students. May be repeated in the same or separate terms. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor for non-philosophy graduate students.

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PHIL 521 class schedule data for spring 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51971	Lecture-Discussion	1DK	4:00PM -5:50PM	T	402 Gregory Hall	Korman, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 2 hours Section Info: TOPIC: Ordinary Objects. We will examine some issues in material-object metaphysics centering on the question of what sorts of highly visible, macroscopic things there are? Eliminativists maintain that there are far fewer than we ordinarily take there to be. Permissivists maintain that there are far more things, right before our eyes, than we ordinarily take there to be. Our aim is to assess the viability of a conservative view, which permits only ordinary objects and nothing out of the ordinary. We will survey the main arguments for eliminativism and permissivism?concerning vagueness, arbitrariness, causation, persistence, and identity?and the wide range of responses to these arguments. We will also examine the status of the intuitions that underwrite the conservative view, by examining attempts to explain away or debunk these intuitions. This section is open to Philosophy Stage III students only and graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory on the 2 hour credit. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	39210	Lecture-Discussion	DK	4:00PM -5:50PM	T	402 Gregory Hall	Korman, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Ordinary Objects. We will examine some issues in material-object metaphysics centering on the question of what sorts of highly visible, macroscopic things there are? Eliminativists maintain that there are far fewer than we ordinarily take there to be. Permissivists maintain that there are far more things, right before our eyes, than we ordinarily take there to be. Our aim is to assess the viability of a conservative view, which permits only ordinary objects and nothing out of the ordinary. We will survey the main arguments for eliminativism and permissivism?concerning vagueness, arbitrariness, causation, persistence, and identity?and the wide range of responses to these arguments. We will also examine the status of the intuitions that underwrite the conservative view, by examining attempts to explain away or debunk these intuitions. This section is letter-graded for 4-hour credit. 500-level courses are graduate courses, and are intended for graduate students only.