METAETHICS

• Department: Philosophy
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

For the Fall of 2018, the topic will be Theophrastus's short treatise, "On First Principles". We will read this in tandem with Aristotle, Metaphysics, Lambda (an earlier version of which Theophrastus seems to be criticizing) and Plato, Timaeus (a work which provides the backdrop to Metaphysics, Lambda). The aim will be to get clear about what Plato, Aristotle, and their interlocutors have in mind when they speak of principles and causes.

• Department: Philosophy
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3 points

PRERESEARCH SEMINAR

Required for all first-year PhD graduate students in the Biological Sciences program. The research of members of the faculty is presented.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN APPLIED PROB & RISK

A colloquiim in applied probability and risk.

• Department: Statistics
• R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 1 points

THEOR-TRANSMISSN/COMMUN FORMN

TRANSMISSION

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
An introduction to the issue of community formation, lineage, genealogy, transmission, and translation, both theoretically and within specific religious traditions.

• Department: Religion
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

JAPANESE RELIGION

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Como
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED SEM-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I

ADV SEM ETHNO I:THRY CARIBBEAN

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Topic is "Caribbean Music Theories" (C. Washburne).

• Department: Music
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SOUND,NATURE,ARCHIVE-LAT AMER

• Department: Music
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Students in the Biological Science PhD program only. Independent research in approved thesis sponsor laboratories.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-12 points

KOR LIT & COLONIAL MODERNITY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Hughes
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN METAPHYSICS

• Department: Philosophy
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

TPCS IN PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

This course focuses on an advanced topic in the philosophy of language.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karen Lewis
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

PHILOS OF PHYSICS:QUANTUM MECH

The various attempts to solve the problem of measurement in Quantum Mechanics. Emphasis on theories without a collapse of the wave-function, such as non-local hidden-variables theories and the many-worlds interpretation. Related topics such as self-measurement and Quantum Cosmology.

• Department: Philosophy
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

This course will focus on contemporary debates about the problems and possibilities of democratic citizenship, with some attention to the roots of these debates  in earlier discussions of democracy.   The readings will address three large questions:  
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What are the responsibilities of democratic citizenship and are ordinary people capable of meeting them?
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Can ordinary citizens of a democracy play a meaningful role in shaping policies that promote their collective interest? 
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What are the institutional conditions and requirements for democratic citizenship? 
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• Department: Philosophy
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

KOREAN HISTORICAL TEXTS

SEM ON KOREAN HISTORICAL TEXTS

We will read and discuss pertinent historical primary and secondary sources in Korean and Chinese. The material will be tailored to students’ research interests.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jungwon Kim
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH IN RELIGION I

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Guided individual research.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Euan Cameron
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• Instructor: Michael Como
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Gary Dorrien
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
  Info
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katherine Pratt Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 1-6 points

THESIS PREPARATION SEMINAR

The purposes of the Seminar are (a) to aid graduates in developing and refining material for their dissertation; (b) to give graduates experience in presenting material to a philosophical audience in an informed and supportive environment; (c) to give graduates experience in critically discussing presented material, and thereby to see how their own presentations and work can be developed to withstand critical examination. The Seminar is restricted to Columbia graduate students in their third or later years, and all such students are strongly encouraged to attend. No faculty (other than the organizer) will be present. Those attending the seminar will be expected to make one or more presentations of work in progress. The material for a presentation may range from a near-final draft of a chapter, to an early critical overview of an area with an outline plan for an approach to some chosen problem. We will attempt as far as possible to organize the presentations in such a way that they are grouped by subject-matter, and provide a rational path through the territory we cover.

• Department: Philosophy
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

JOB PLACEMENT SEMINAR

• Department: Philosophy
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points