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Selim Berker
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity
Selim Berker
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity
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PHIL 256: Becausal Relations

Semester: Fall
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Year offered: 2021
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Link: Course Website

Graduate seminar. Contemporary work on the 'because' of grounding, the 'because' of causation, and the 'because' of rationalizing basis, with a particular focus on applications in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of law, and other normative disciplines.


Attachments
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-syllabus-revised3.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting1-grounding-crash-course1.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting2-grounding-crash-course2.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting3-transitivity-of-grounding.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting4-iterated-grounding.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting5-grounding-pluralism.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting6-grounding-causation1.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting7-grounding-causation2.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting8-application-metaethics.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting9-basing-crash-course.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting10-basing-relata.pdf
  • picture_as_pdf phil256-meeting11-becausal-theory-of-knowing.pdf

Selim Berker
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Mailing address:
Department of Philosophy Harvard University
25 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Office location: Emerson 201
Office hours: Fridays, 12:45–2:45 p.m.

email sberker@fas.harvard.edu
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