Introduction to Philosophy: God, Knowledge and Consciousness

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  • 12 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Starts on June 9, 2021
  • Ends on August 25, 2021

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Syllabus

  • How to construct and analyze philosophical arguments
  • How to write clearly and communicate complicated ideas effectively
  • Arguments for and against the existence of God
  • The distinction between epistemic and practical rationality
  • Theories of Knowledge
  • Physicalist and Non-Physicalist theories of consciousness
  • Free Will and Determinism
  • Personal Identity

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Caspar Hare
Professor of Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Balcarras
Digital Learning Lab Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divisions and degree-granting programs, as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.

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