Daniel Singer

Current Courses

• PHIL2620 - Introduction To Epistemology And Metaphysics: Knowledge And Reality

  Two basic assumptions of academic research are that there are truths and we can know them. Epistemology is the study of knowledge, what it is, how it is produced, and how we can have it. Metaphysics, the study of the basic constituents of reality, the study of being as such. In this introduction to metaphysics and epistemology, we will ask hard questions about the nature of reality and knowledge. No philosophy background is required for this course.

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• PHIL5620 - Topics In Epistemology

  This seminar will cover topics of interest to contemporary epistemologists. Possible topics may include skepticism, accounts of knowledge and justification, virtue epistemology, formal epistemology, social epistemology, feminist epistemology, meta-epistemology and epistemic normativity.

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Past Courses

• LGIC1710 - Intro Logic

  This course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.

• LGST1000 - Ethics & Social Resp

  This course explores business responsibility from rival theoretical and managerial perspectives. Its focus includes theories of ethics and their application to case studies in business. Topics include moral issues in advertising and sales; hiring and promotion; financial management; corporate pollution; product safety; and decision-making across borders and cultures.

• PHIL1000 - Intro to Philosophy

  Philosophers ask difficult questions about the most basic issues in human life. Does God exist? What can we know about the world? What does it mean to have a mind? How should I treat non-human animals? Do I have free will? This course is an introduction to some of these questions and to the methods philosophers have developed for thinking clearly about them.

• PHIL1710 - Intro Logic

  This course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.

• PHIL2620 - Intro Epist and Metaphysics

  Two basic assumptions of academic research are that there are truths and we can know them. Epistemology is the study of knowledge, what it is, how it is produced, and how we can have it. Metaphysics, the study of the basic constituents of reality, the study of being as such. In this introduction to metaphysics and epistemology, we will ask hard questions about the nature of reality and knowledge. No philosophy background is required for this course.

• PHIL3330 - Topics in Ethics

  This seminar for philosophy majors will cover selected topics in ethics. The content will vary from semester to semester.

• PHIL4998 - Directed Honors Research

  Open only to senior majors in philosophy. Student arranges with a faculty member to do an honors thesis on a suitable topic.

• PHIL5620 - Topics in Epistemology

  This seminar will cover topics of interest to contemporary epistemologists. Possible topics may include skepticism, accounts of knowledge and justification, virtue epistemology, formal epistemology, social epistemology, feminist epistemology, meta-epistemology and epistemic normativity.

• PHIL5710 - Intro Logic

  This graduate-level course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.

• PHIL6000 - Proseminar

  An intensive seminar for first-year doctoral students, with readings drawn from recent and contemporary eistemology and metaphysics, broadly construed. Students will develop their abilities to present and discuss philosophical texts, and to write and revise their own papers.

• PHIL7000 - Dissertation Workshop

  Registration required for all third-year doctoral students. Third-year students and beyond attend and present their dissertation work or their preliminary exam prospectus. From time to time, topics pertaining to professional development and dissertation writing will be discussed.

• PHIL9998 - Teaching Practicum

  Supervised teaching experience. Four semesters are required of all Doctoral students in philosophy.

• PHIL9999 - Independent Study

  Directed readings in consultation with individual faculty members.

Knowledge @ Wharton

• Election Statistics, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/06/2024
• Robots Are Taking Over Low-skilled Jobs — and Changing Votes, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/05/2024
• Crypto Politics: Liberals’ and Conservatives’ Confidence in Cryptocurrencies, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/05/2024
• Leadership and Elections | Mike Useem, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/05/2024
• Automation Is Harming Low-skilled Workers and Possibly Their Voting Preferences, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/01/2024
• Jud Coplan, Vice President, Product Marketing, Airbnb, Knowledge @ Wharton - 10/31/2024
• Neil Patel, Founder of NP Digital, Knowledge @ Wharton - 10/31/2024
• World Series | Election Analytics, Knowledge @ Wharton - 10/30/2024
• What Lies Ahead for the Federal Debt, Interest Rates, and the U.S. Economy, Knowledge @ Wharton - 10/29/2024
• A Look Ahead: What’s Next for the U.S. Economy After the Presidential Election?, Knowledge @ Wharton - 10/29/2024