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PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. PQ for ECON 26800: ECON 26500 and consent of instructor. This course shows how scientific constraints affect economic and other policy decisions regarding energy, what energy-based issues confront our society and how we may address them through both policy and scientific study, and how the policy and scientific aspects can and should interact. We address specific technologies and the policy questions associated with each, as well as with more overarching aspects of energy policy that may affect several, perhaps many, technologies. S. Berry, G. Tolley. Autumn.
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PQ: Consent of program chair. Open only to students who are majoring in public policy. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Must be taken for P/F grading. Students must make arrangements with the program chair before beginning the internship. Students write a paper about their experience working for a government agency or nonprofit organization. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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PQ: Open only to students who are majoring in public policy. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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PQ: Open only to fourth-year students who are majoring in public policy. Must be taken for a quality grade. Autumn.
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PQ: Open only to fourth-year students who are majoring in public policy. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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This course examines the notion of "meaning" as it relates to human life, paying particular attention to the connections between living a meaningful life and living a morally good life. All of us want to live meaningful lives. And many people wonder about the meaning of life itself. But what exactly do we mean by "the meaning of life" And how does that idea relate to finding mean ing wit hin our lives or to liv ing meaningfu lives Many of us want to live morally good lives. That is, we want to be morally virtuous-to act justly toward others, to fulfill our duties, to be generous and kind. But how does the notion of a meaningful life relate to that of a morally good life Philosophical texts are the main sources for this course, but we also explore film and imaginative literature (e.g., Cormac McCarthy' s nove l The Road). M. Lott. Winter.
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PQ: Basic knowledge of concepts and principles of symbolic logic. Course not for field credit. This course is an introduction to the concepts and principles of symbolic logic. We learn the syntax and semantics of truth-functional and first-order quantificational logic, and apply the resultant conceptual framework to the analysis of valid and invalid arguments, the structure of formal languages, and logical relations among sentences of ordinary discourse. Occasionally we venture into topics in philosophy of language and philosophical logic, but our primary focus is on acquiring a facility with symbolic logic as such. J. Bridges. Autumn.
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Sartre' s philosophical masterwork , Being and Nothingness (1943), remains one of the pivotal works of the twentieth century. Besides introducing a then-new philosophical strain to France (i.e., phenomenology), the book exerted a deep influence on the development of the whole of Continental thought. It is a classic today, which deserves a study of its own. Thus, it appears that that ambitious work deals with issues that have become central again in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind, on both sides of the Analytic/Continental divide, and puts forward a comprehensive view about them. So, in discussion with Sartre, we try to say something about intentionality and reality, mind and world. Text in English . J. Benoist. Spring. (B)
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This course is a discussion of how philosophical issues are raised and addressed by movies through an examination of a particular film genre. The genre to be considered: film noir. We focus on ten Hollywood film noirs from the 1940s and 1950s. Topics include the pictorial and dramatic representation of the relation between thought and action, the nature of agency, and the problem of fate. We also secondarily touch on questions concerning the ontology and aesthetics of film (e.g., What is a movie What is it to give a reading of a movie What is a film genre ). We see and discuss a film each week and read several pieces of criticism about each film. J. Conant, R. Pippin. Autumn. ( A)
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This lecture/discussion course examines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's intellectual development, from the time he wrote Sorrows of Young Werther through the final stages of Faust. Along the way, we read a selection of Goethe' s plays, poetry, and travel literature. We also examine his scientific work, especially his theory of color and his morphological theories. On the philosophical side, we discus s Goethe ? coming to terms with Kant (especially t he latter 's Third Critiq ue) and his adoption of Schellin g's transcendental idealism. The theme uniting the exploration of tvarious works of Goethe is the unity of the artistic and scientific understanding of nature, especially as he exemplified that unity in "the eternal feminine." German is not required, but helpful . R. Richards. Winter. (A) (V)
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