College(Interdeptmnt) Courses 261 - About Time: Philosophy, Physics, and Psychology

The concept of time is a source of significant historical debate and active contemporary research across multiple subject areas, including philosophy, physics, and psychology. In this course, we will cover topics like: whether time passes, whether the future is open, paradoxes of time travel, arguments against the existence of time, relativity theory, entropy, quantum gravity, psychological time biases, and how the brain represents time. The course will engage students in a range of multi- and interdisciplinary assessments activities, including paper writing, experiments, coding and data analysis, problem sets, argument analysis, group presentations, and oral debates.

Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors