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| 0810-5046-01 | Possible Worlds in the Philosophy of Science and in the Arts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | FACULTY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN THE ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course description
The aim of this course is to examine the explanatory power latent in the theoretical framework called "possible worlds" in order to explicate various questions in literature and the arts.
The intuitive core of the "possible worlds" framework is the Leibnizian idea that our world is not the only possible one; that there are other possible worlds
beside the actual one. The topic of possible worlds has given rise in the last few decades to a wide interdisciplinary literary corpus. Initially the central focus of discussions was on philosophical logic and ontology, the framework has since been applied in many other disciplines of our culture.
The course will examine how the discourse on alternative possible worlds can illuminate various issues in philosophy of science, literature and the arts.