Paradoxes and Dilemmas (CLS-0040)

Summer 2025 · CLS 0040 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Introduction to fundamental themes in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. Paradoxes and dilemmas are frequently associated with moments of crisis and groundbreaking developments in the history of philosophy, as they lead to questions about basic presuppositions. Analysis of famous cases in the history of Western thought from Antiquity to the present including Meno’s paradox (knowledge), Zeno’s paradoxes (space, time, motion, and the infinite), the Euthyphro dilemma (justification), the liar paradox (truth), the Heap (vagueness), the Ship of Theseus (identity), Antigone (moral conflict), the voting paradox (choice), and the prisoner’s dilemma (action).

Course codes: CLS-0040, CLS 0040, CLS0040, CLS-40, CLS 40, CLS40, PHIL-0040, PHIL 0040, PHIL0040, PHIL-40, PHIL 40, PHIL40

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