# PHIL 169: Nozick's \_Philosophical Explanations\_ Semester: Spring | Year offered: 2024 | Link: [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/127359) **Undergraduate seminar.** A close reading of Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick’s neglected masterpiece *Philosophical Explanations*. Topics include philosophical methodology, the identity of the self, why there is something rather than nothing, knowledge and skepticism, free will and determinism, the foundations of ethics, and the meaning of life. --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-syllabus.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-syllabus.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting1.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting1.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting2.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting2.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting3.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting3.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting4.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting4.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting5.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting5.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting6.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting6.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting7.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting7.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting8.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting8.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting9.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting9.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting10.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting10.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting11.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting11.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf phil169-2024-meeting12.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4776/files/2025-12/phil169-2024-meeting12.pdf) ---