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10200: Introduction to Philosophy#N#An introduction to some of the central questions of philosophy, concerning our knowledge of the external world, causation,God, mind and body, freedom, justice,and moral judgment, via analysis of classical and contemporary philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Mill, Kant, Russell, Wittgenstein and Rawls. (W) 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr.#N#11100: Critical Thinking#N#An informal analysis of inference and evidence employed in everyday arguments, including study of the principles held to justify forms of argument in morality, politics, the law and aesthetics. The aim of the course is to develop critical skills in reasoning and the evaluation of arguments, and sensitivity to the distinction between substantive argument and persuasive rhetoric, through a detailed analysis of examples drawn from a wide variety of sources, including the media. Attention will be paid to some elementary but critical distinctions relating to meaning, definition, and implication. 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr.
Addresses central themes of American Philosophy, through the work of authors such as Edwards, Emerson, James, Pierce, Dewey, Quine, Putnam, and Rorty. (W) 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr.
Topics offered each semester will be listed by the Philosophy Department. Prerequisites stated with course descriptions. Intended primarily for philosophy majors. 2 sem. hr./wk. plus conference; 3 cr.
Intensive study of the work of major philosophers (such as Plato, Hume, Kant, Hegel). Different philosophers featured in different semesters. (W) 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr.
30900: Social and Political Philosophy. An analysis of the concepts and principles employed in reasoning about the social and political aspects of human life, such as social structure and function, equality and justice, property and rights, social and political obligation.
This course extends the work of Philosophy 20200. The focus is on rigorously formulated systems of propositional and predicate logic, with emphasis on theorem-proving and the formalization of natural-language reasoning . Attention will be paid to the theory of relations, definite descriptions, the translation of elementary
A planned program of reading in philosophy to meet special needs of individual students, under guidance of a member of the department. Limited to upper seniors able to take a course before graduation when needed for graduate preparation. For advanced or specialized work beyond available offerings already completed. Permission of instructor required before registration. (W) Variable credit, but usually 3 cr./sem.
Craig Houser has a B.A. in art history from Carleton College, an M.A. from Hunter College, and a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. His scholarship focuses on modern and contemporary art in relationship to issues related to gender and sexuality, as well as institutional and social politics. He also has substantial experience working in museums as a curator and educator. He was a curatorial fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and an assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In addition, he was also an editor for College Art Association, which publishes the Art Bulletin and Art Journal. Houser’s publications include “Rachel Whiteread: Vienna Holocaust Memorial,” in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (University of California Press); “The Changing Face of Scholarly Publishing: A History of CAA’s Publications,” in The Eye, the Hand, the Mind: The College Art Association and the Visual Arts since 1911 (Rutgers University Press); and “Disharmony and Discontent: Reviving the American Art-Union and the Market for United States Art in the Gilded Age,” Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide 11, no. 2 (Summer 2012).
Suerynn Lee is a cartoonist and illustrator whose cartoons have been published in the New Yorker magazine. She earned her BFA in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. She is the Academic Advising Specialist for the Art Department at CCNY. Politarhos, Maria. Maria Politarhos. Photo Lab Manager.
Lise Kjaer received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2008. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in twentieth century and contemporary art, art history survey and MFA seminars. Her area of research includes issues of identity in modern and contemporary art, and global art history. Kjaer’s dissertation Awakening the Spiritual: James Turrell and Quakerism considered the artist’s light installations in view of his renewed interest in Quakerism, Quaker tenets, history and tradition. Current research involves an anthology (co-edited with Dr. Will Wroth) on the scholar Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s influence on twentieth century art, tracing the impact of the writer and curator’s publications, exhibitions and scholarly involvement with South Asian art on twentieth century American, Asian and European art and art history. Kjaer has previously received an MFA with Distinction from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland in 1992. She has exhibited internationally in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Poland and the United States, and been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, Bamse Kragh-Jacobsen’s Award, and been a fellow of NIFCA, a Nordic artist in residency program in Helsinki, Finland; The Danish Art Council’s Residency at Hirsholmen; TSKW, The Studios of Key West; The Danish Visual Artists’ Berlin Residency Program; and Jeckels Hotel AiR, Denmark. Along with her scholarly work in art history, Kjaer continues her art practice exhibiting sculptures and installation pieces that are often time-based, ephemeral and participatory inviting the viewer to become a part of the work.
Annette Weintraub is the founder of the Department’s Electronic Design and Multimedia program, and currently EDM Director. She teaches EDM courses in Design for the Web, BFA Thesis and Electronic Design I and in the DIAP MFA program. She is a media artist whose work is an investigation of architecture as visual language; her projects explore the dynamics of urban space, the intrusion of media into public space and the symbolism of space. Currently showing in “Sacred Journey: Walking as Mediation” at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, past exhibitions include ISEA 2011 in Istanbul, The Whitney Museum of American Art in the first Biennial to include internet art, at ICP [International Center of Photography], International Film Festival/Rotterdam, Thirteen/WNET TV’s Reel New York.Web, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires; FILE in Brazil; 5th Biennial of Media and Architecture in Graz and numerous other national and international venues. Commissions include: The Rushlikon Centre for Global Dialogue, CEPA, and Turbulence. She has also been a panelist in Computer Arts for the New York Foundation for the Arts [NYFA].
[email protected]. Maria Politarhos is a photographer who uses traditional photography, photo-printmaking and historic alternative photographic methods in her work. She studied photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology and The City College of New York, where she completed her MFA in 2000.
Andrew Harrington is a photographer and artist who explores the fragility of social relationships in a time of technological disruption and lies. His work exists in the intersection between digital photography, printing and traditional bookbinding techniques. He holds a BFA from Alfred University and an MFA in Photo Video and Related Media from The School of Visual Arts. Andrew has founded and maintains a book bindery under the name The Harrington Bindery that specializes in Medieval bookbinding techniques using archival materials and methods. His photographs and photobooks are in private collections in New York, Boston and Los Angeles.
Tom Thayer teaches in the Painting/ Drawing and Foundations area , and in the Studio MFA Program. Thayer utilizes a wide spectrum of mediums in his artistic practice, including animated videos, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, performance, collaborative work- shops, and experiments in empirical education. Often, these modes are presented together, in an immersive experience. His work has been exhibited at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Sculpture Center, The Kitchen, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK, ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT, MoMA PS1, White Columns, The Living Theater, Issue Project Room, Printed Matter, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, BBC Radio 3, and other national and international venues. He is represented by Derek Eller Gallery, New York and, as the collaborative team Miko + Thayer, by Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York.
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A City College graduate, and later Mathematics Professor, Jesse Douglas, was a recipient of the first Fields Medal in Mathematics -- regarded by the profession as the equivalent of the Nobel prize.