{"id":27,"date":"2014-06-06T19:46:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T19:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2022-10-19T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:04:23","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/?page_id=27","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/archimedes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28\" src=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/archimedes.png\" alt=\"archimedes\" width=\"630\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/archimedes.png 630w, https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/archimedes-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/archimedes-624x290.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My teaching typically includes courses in epistemology and philosophy of mind. You can read my teaching statement <a href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Barnett-Teaching-Statement.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction to Philosophy\u00a0for Interested Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philosophy concerns some of the biggest questions that have ever been asked, questions like <i>What is the right way to live?<\/i>, <i>What do we really know?<\/i>, <i>Is there a God?<\/i>, and <i>Do we have free will?.<\/i>\u00a0 Philosophers don\u2019t ask these questions as mere idle curiosities.\u00a0 We try to formulate clear answers to them, and to evaluate whether our answers are true by considering the arguments on all sides.<\/p>\n<p>There are many subfields within philosophy, but some of the most prominent include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Ethics:<\/b>\u00a0 What is right way to live?\u00a0 What are our moral obligations to other people?<\/li>\n<li><b>Epistemology:<\/b> What do we really know?\u00a0 Which of our beliefs are rational?\u00a0 Can it ever be reasonable to believe without evidence?<\/li>\n<li><b>Political philosophy:<\/b>\u00a0 How should society be organized?\u00a0 Is it fair for some people to have so much while others have so little?<\/li>\n<li><b>Metaphysics:<\/b>\u00a0 Is there a God?\u00a0 Do we have free will?\u00a0 What is the fundamental nature of reality?<\/li>\n<li><b>Philosophy of Science:<\/b> Does science represent the world objectively in a way that non-scientific ways of understanding do not?\u00a0 What is the scientific method, and how does it work?<\/li>\n<li><b>Philosophy of Mind:<\/b> Do you have an immaterial soul?\u00a0 Is there some part of you that might survive death?\u00a0 What is the mind, and what is its relationship to the body and brain?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Past Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Seminar in Epistemology\" href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/?page_id=408\">Seminar in Epistemology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Perception and Epistemology\" href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/?page_id=434\">Perception and Epistemology (co-taught with Imogen Dickie)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Minds &amp; Machines\" href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/?page_id=116\">Minds and Machines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Riddles of Existence\" href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/?page_id=93\">Riddles of Existence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/?page_id=321\">Belief, Truth, and Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IAD-Spring-2013-syllabus.pdf\">Intellectual Autonomy and Dependence<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My teaching typically includes courses in epistemology and philosophy of mind. 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Introduction to Philosophy\u00a0for Interested Students Philosophy concerns some of the biggest questions that have ever been asked, questions like What is the right way to live?, What do we really know?, Is there a God?, and Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjamesbar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}