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What does "going green" really mean What is "sustainability " How do different fundamental ethical and political perspectives yield different approaches to and understandings of "environmentalism," "conservation," "stewardship," and "sustainable development" This course uses a combination of classic environmentalist texts (e.g., Thoreau, Leopold, Carson) and contemporary works to clarify and address the most hotly contested and urgent philosophical issues dividing the global environmental movement today. Various field trips and guest speakers help us philosophize about the fate of the earth by connecting the local and the global. B. Schult z. A
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PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing, or consent of instructor required; core background in genetics and evolution recommended. This course does not meet requirements for the biological sciences major. This course draws on readings in and case studies of language evolution, biological evolution, cognitive development and scaffolding, processes of socialization and formation of groups and institutions, and the history and philosophy of science and technology. We seek primarily to elaborate theory to understand and model processes of cultural evolution, while exploring analogies, differences, and relations to biological evolution. This has been a highly contentious area, and we examine why. We see to evaluate what such a theory could reasonably cover and what it cannot. W. Wimsatt, S. Mufwene. Winter. ( B)
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PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. This course is an in-depth analysis of what we mean by autonomy and how that meaning might be changed in a medical context. In particular, we focus on the potential compromises created by serious illness in a person with decision-making capacity and the peculiar transformations in the meaning of autonomy created by advance directives and substituted judgment. D. Brudney, J. Lantos. Winter. ( A)
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This course considers philosophical issues in the social science, such as the interaction of factual, methodological, valuational issues, problems special to the historical sciences, issues of scale and hierarchy, the use of quantitative and qualitative methods, models of rationality and the relation between normative and descriptive theories of behavior, the nature of teleology, functional organization and explanation, social adaptations, levels of selection, and methodological individualism, cultural and conceptual relativity, and heuristics and problems with and strategies for analyzing complex systems. W. Wimsatt. Winter. ( B)
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This course is a survey of influential contributions to metaphysics and epistemology, most or all in the twentieth-century Anglo-American tradition. J. Haugeland. Winter. ( B)
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From the 1890s to the present, the University of Chicago has been known for its prominent contributions to the humanities and philosophy. Our rich philosophical legacy has come from such figures as John Dewey, James H. Tufts, George Herbert Mead, Mortimer Adler, and Richard McKeon. This course focuses on the original "Chicago School," which was made famous in the 1890s by the pragmatist philosopher, educator, and reformer John Dewey and his circle (e.g., Mead; Tufts; such reformers as Jane Addams, the founder of Hull House). This School has had a profound effect on the shape of modern philosophy, and its influence continues to be felt both within and beyond the academy, not least in the political philosophy of President Barack Obama. Field trips and guest speakers enrich our appreciation of our local philosophical history . B. Schultz. Winter. (B)
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PQ: PHIL 30000 or equivalent required; prior exposure to analytic philosophy recommended. This course is a survey of recent theories of names, descriptions, and truth. We discuss the relation of reference to meaning, as well as the epistemological and metaphysical consequences drawn from theses about reference. After briefly reviewing classical sources (e.g., Frege, Russell, Tarski), we concentrate on current work by Searle, Kripke, Donnellan, Kaplan, Putnam, Evans, Davidson, and Burge. J. Stern. Autumn. ( B)
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Course readings are in the works of J. L. Austin, mainly How to Do Things with Words, and essays related to those lectures. If time permits, we consider later developments in the works of Grice and Cavell, among others. T. Cohen. Autumn. ( B) ( III)
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This book has been extraordinarily influential in Anglophone philosophy of mind and epistemology in recent years. (It also has a reputation for being quite difficult.) Basically, this course is devoted to reading through the text (and perhaps some ancillary materials). J. Haugeland. Autumn. (B)
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PQ: Five quarters of Latin or equivalent, or option to audit. This course is a study of one of the most influential works in the whole history of Western political thought-a primary foundation for modern ideas of global justice and the just war. We understand it in the context o f Cicero ? thought and its background in Hellenistic philosophy, and we also do readings in translation that show its subsequent influence. Optional translation sessions held in first hour of each clas s. M. Nussbaum. Winter . (A
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