Abstract: This course covers the following topics: an introduction to philosophy; philosophy of religion; epistemology; the philosophy of mind; free-will and determinism; ethics and metaphysics.
Abstract: This seminar offers a review of recent historiographical approaches within the history of science. Students will read a wide variety of recent studies covering topics from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Emphasis will be placed on the intertwining of epistemology with institutions in various settings.
Abstract: Introduction to ethnographic practices: the study of and communicating about culture. Reading and discussion of classics of anthropological field work, contemporary critiques, and innovative practices. This course involves reading about how to do fieldwork, practicing fieldwork, reading ethnographies and about ethnography, and practicing writing ethnography. We will move from an overview of ethnography, to getting into the field, to writing fieldnotes, to analyzing data and writing a short ethnographic piece. We will, as you must in doing fieldwork and writing ethnographies, intersperse reading with fieldwork to theoretically inform both the fieldwork and the writing. The ethics of fieldwork and obligations to research subjects are discussed throughout the semester.
Abstract: This article briefly describes superultramodern science and philosophy. The terms superultramodern science and philosophy relate to the same system of thoughts, the system, which would conventionally appear to be philosophical and which is argued to be scientific. The system is constituted of some 6 components viz. The Superultramodern Epistemology, The Superultramodern Unification, The Superultramodern Physics, The Superultramodern Biology, The Superultramodern Mathematics, and The Superultramodern Metaphysics. The subcomponent The Superultramodern Doubt is foundational and the subcomponent The NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process) Theory is central to the system.
Abstract: Study of problems concerning our concept of knowledge, our knowledge of the past, our knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of ourselves and others, and our knowledge of the existence and properties of physical objects in our immediate environment.