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Lecture 4: Philosophy of Love

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This course is a seminar on the nature of love, approached as topics both in philosophy and in literature. Readings from recent philosophy as well as classic myths of love that occur in works of literature and lend themselves to philosophical analysis.

Lecture 3: Philosophy of Love

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Lecture 2: Philosophy of Love

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Lecture 1: Philosophy of Love

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Lecture 4: Philosophy of Film

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Session 4: Orson Welles, The Dead, The Magnificent Ambersons, expectations for student papers

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This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which it creates meaning through techniques that define a formal structure. There is a particular focus on aesthetic problems about appearance and reality, literary and visual effects, communication and alienation through film technology.

Lecture 3: Philosophy of Film

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Session 3: Beauty and the Beast, William James, Citizen Kane

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Lecture 2: Philosophy of Film

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Session 2: why study film?, realism and formalism, mathematics as an abstract art form, film and photography, Beauty and the Beast, Cocteau, Citizen Kane

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Lecture 1: Philosophy of Film

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Session 1: syllabus and course requirements, philosophy and film, student introductions, the humanist philosopher, Jean Cocteau, film as cultural communication, readings for the course, meaning and technique are inseparable

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Different Types of Plagiarism

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Anyone who has written or graded a paper knows that plagiarism is not always a black-and-white issue. The boundary between plagiarism and research is often unclean. Learning to recognise the various forms of plagiarism, expecially the more ambiguous ones, is an important step in the fight to prevent it.

1. SOURCES NOT CITED

‘The Ghost Writer’: The Writer turns in another’s work, word for word, as his or her own
‘The Photocopy’: The writer copies significant portions of text straight from a single source, without alteration
‘The Potluck Paper’: The Writer tries to disguise plagiarism by copying from several different sources tweaking the sentences to make them fit together while retaining more of the original phrasing.
‘The Poor Disguise’: Although the writer has retained the essential content of the source, he or she has altered the paper’s appearance slightly by changing key words and phrases
‘The Labour of Laziness’: The Writer takes the time to paraphrase most of the paper from other sources and make it all fit together, instead of spending the same effort on original work.
‘The Self-Stealer’: The writer ‘borrows’ generously from his or her previous work, violating policies concerning the expectation of originality adopted by most academic institutions.

2. SOURCES CITED (But Still Plagiarized!)

‘The Forgotten Footnote’: The writer mentions an authors name for a source, but neglects to include specific information on the location of the material referenced. This often masks other forms of plagiarism by obscuring source locations.
‘The Misinformer’: The writer provides inaccurate information regarding the sources, making it impossible to find them.
‘The Too Perfect Paraphrase’: The writer properly cites a source, but neglects to put in quotation marks the text that has been copied word-for-word, or close to it. Although attributing basic ideas to the source, the writer is falsely claiming original presentation and interpretation of the information.
‘The Resourceful Citer’: The writer properly cites all sources, paraphrasing and using quotations appropriately. The catch? The paper contains almost no original work! It is sometimes difficult to spot this form of plagiarism because it looks like any other well-researched document.
‘The Perfect Crime’: Well, we all know it doesn’t exist. In this case, the writer properly quotes and cites sources in some places, but goes on to paraphrase arguments from those sources without citation. This way, the writer tries to pass off the paraphrased material as his or her own analysis of the cited material.

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Lecture 26: Suicide, Part III: The Morality of Suicide and Course Conclusion

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:33:36 +0000

The lecture begins by examining the consequences a suicide has on both the person committing it and those around this person. The question is raised, however, whether this factor is the only one that counts morally, as utilitarians claim, or whether other factors matter morally as well, as deontologists claim. The moral relevance of a deontological prohibition against harming the innocent is considered. A concluding summary of the course is offered.

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