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Philosophy 100: Knowledge and Reality

This course is an introduction to philosophy. The course has two main objectives:

1. to give you a sense of what philosophers think about and why; and
2. to develop your philosophical skills, and your critical and argumentative skills more generally.

We achieve this through consideration of some perennial philosophical problems, e.g., the existence of God, reason and faith, personal identity and immortality and the nature of knowledge and justified belief. We will draw on readings by important figures in the history of philosophy as well as contemporary authors.

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Philosophy 715: Self-Knowledge

This is a graduate seminar on "self-knowledge" - that is, knowledge of one's own mental states. Among the questions we will consider are:

• Is there anything unique about self-knowledge and, if so, what makes it difference from knowledge of other kinds of truths?
• What is introspection? How do we gain access to the content of our mental states?
• Do we have privileged access to our own minds?

In addition to reading some of the classic papers on self-knowledge, we will look at some recent work on the topic.

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