Richard Feynman
» Advanced Phonology
Lecture. This course focuses on phonological phenomena that are sensitive to morphological structure, including base-reduplicant identity, cyclicity, level ordering, derived environment effects, opaque rule interactions, and morpheme structure constraints....
» Advanced Semantics
Lecture. This course is the second of the three parts of our graduate introduction to semantics. The others are 24.970 \'Introduction to Semantics\' and 24.954 \'Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory\'. Like the other courses, this one is not meant as an overvie...
» Advanced Syntax
Lecture. This course is a continuation of 24.951. This semester the course topics of interest include movement, phrase structure, and the architecture of the grammar. Recommended CitationFor any use or distribution of these materials, please cite as follow...
» Ancient Philosophy
Lecture. This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and scientific tradition. We will examine a broad range of central philosophical themes concerning: nature, law, justice, knowledge, vi...
» Argument Structure and Syntax
Lecture. This course is a detailed investigation of the major issues and problems in the study of lexical argument structure and how it determines syntactic structure. Its empirical scope is along three dimensions: typology, lexical class, and theoretica...
» Arguments for the existence of thesoul, Part I
Lecture. The lecture focuses on arguments that might be offered as proof forthe existence of the soul. The first series of arguments discussed isthose known as \'inferences to the best explanation.\' That is, we positthe existence of things we cannot see s...
» Arguments for the existence of thesoul, Part III: Free
Lecture. Professor Kagan discusses in detail the argument of free will asproof for the existence of an immaterial soul. The argument consists ofthree premises: 1) We have free will. 2) Nothing subject to determinismhas free will. 3) All purely physical sys...
» Arguments for the existence of thesoul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
Lecture. The lecture begins with a continued discussion of the Cartesianargument and its weaknesses. The lecture then turns to Plato\'smetaphysical views in the context of his work, Phaedo. Thekey point in the discussion is the idea that in addition to the...
» Classics in Western Philosophy
Lecture. This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition, through the study of major figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. You will get to grips with questions that have been significant to philosophy from its b...
» Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study
Lecture. This course will consider the claim that there is no such thing as race, with a particular emphasis on the question whether races should be thought of as natural kinds: is our concept of race a natural kind concept? Is the term \'race\' a natural ...