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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Philosophy
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Casper Storm Hansen
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Casper Storm Hansen
Course/Module description:
This course will cover paradoxes concerned with (1) time, space, and infinity, (2) language, self-reference, and vagueness, and (3) rationality.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Explain each paradox as a way to generate a contradiction from apparently true premises using apparently correct inferences
- Identify the philosophical issues that the paradoxes reveal to be badly understood
- Outline and criticize the major proposed solutions
- Formulate and defend their own positions regarding the paradoxes
- Assess the costs and weaknesses of their own positions
- Write a clear and well-argued paper
- Utilize constructive feedback on their writing
- Give constructive feedback to other students’ writing
Attendance requirements(%):
None, but grade depends on attendance
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
The course will be organized so that, in most cases, a new topic is introduced by the lecturer in the last half of each session and discussion about it follows in the first half of the next session. The students must write a paper at the end of the course about a paradox of their choice, and they will be given the opportunity to get feedback on several draft versions before then. The grade will be based on both the paper and participation in discussion
Course/Module Content:
- Zeno's paradoxes and supertasks
- Paradoxes of sets and infinity
- The liar and other semantic paradoxes
- The St. Petersburg paradox
- The two envelopes paradox
- Newcomb's paradox
- The Sleeping Beauty paradox
- The surprise exam
- The sorites paradox
Required Reading:
TBD
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 25 %
Project work 75 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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