Philosophy
Departmental Representative:
Prof. Jeffrey Helzner
712 Philosophy
212-854-1581
jh2239@columbia.edu
OFFICIAL MAKEUP DATES FOR UNIVERSITY HOLIDAYS
May 31, replaces the Memorial Day holiday.
July 5, replaces the Independence Day holiday
NOTE
The University reserves the right to withdraw or modify the courses of instruction or to change the instructors as may become necessary.
Click on course title to see course description and schedule.
Summer 2013
Philosophy
PHIL S1401Q. Introduction
to Logic. 3 pts.
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
An elementary introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of modern
symbolic logic. Emphasis on the significance of symbolic logic for the
analysis of the meaning of sentences, and the evaluation of the validity
and soundness of arguments.
PHIL S2101D. History of
Philosophy I: Presocratics To Augustine. 3 pts.
Runs from the week of May 28 to Jul 05
Runs from the week of May 28 to Jul 05
Exposition and analysis of the positions of the major philosophers from the
pre-Socratics through Augustine.
PHIL S2201D. The History
of Philosophy, II: Aquinas through Kant. 3 pts.
Runs from the week of May 28 to Jul 05
Runs from the week of May 28 to Jul 05
A broad historical survey of major thinkers in early modern philosophy,
including Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and
Kant, focusing on the way each thinker deals with the challenge of
skepticism in developing an account of the nature of reality and how we
might come to know it.
PHIL S3252Q. Philosophy of
Language and Mind. 3 pts.
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
This course will survey the most fundamental issues about the nature of
language and the nature of the human mind. readings will consist of
selections from Descartes, Locke, Frege, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Quine,
Davidson, Kripke, McDowell, Burge and some more recent writings.
PHIL S3551Q. Philosophy of
Science. 3 pts.
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
Prerequisites: One philosophy course or instructor's permission.
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
Prerequisites: One philosophy course or instructor's permission.
Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific
knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries.