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Margaret Alison Wylie
HUM 596
Seattle Campus

Humanities Research Seminar

Exploration of current research in the Humanities and the study of the arts. Offered by specially selected U.W. faculty and visiting scholars in the arts and humanities.

Class description

This seminar is linked to the 10th Annual Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, which will be hosted by the University of Washington, March 7-9, 2008. It is intended for graduate students in any area of the social sciences or humanities who share in interest in questions about the presuppositions of social inquiry. These include foundational questions in social theory; models of explanation and canons of evidence characteristic of the social sciences; and ethical and political problems that are distinctive of research involving human, social subjects. The seminar will provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of work on these issues by keynote speakers and participants in the 2008 Roundtable. A set of common readings based on the Roundtable program will be the focus of bi-weekly seminar discussions; participants in the seminar will have an opportunity to meet the keynote speakers and will be expected to attend the Roundtable.

Information about the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable (including previous programs and links to the Roundtable Special Issues of Philosophy of the Social Sciences) is available at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/Roundtable.html

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The information above is intended to be helpful in choosing courses. Because the instructor may further develop his/her plans for this course, its characteristics are subject to change without notice. In most cases, the official course syllabus will be distributed on the first day of class.
Last Update by Margaret Alison Wylie
Date: 12/29/2007