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3.00 Credits
This course examines Chan/Zen history debates over this history, and the impact of Chan/Zen. J. Ketelaar. Autumn.
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This course is a history of Shinto from ancient times to the present. We examine key texts along with cultural, philosophical, religious, and political dimensions relevant to different historical periods. Texts in English. J. Ketelaar. Winter.
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This course is a reading and discussion of nineteenth and early twentieth-century historical political documents, including such forms as memorials, decrees, local gazetteers, diplomatic communications, and essays. G. Alitto. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
How are mass violations of human rights thought up What scientific theories and political doctrines have been invented and implemented to justify genocide and mass incarceration These questions serve as our starting point for the course where through an exploration of different political ideologies and scientific theories we learn how human rights violations were reasoned and justified. Readings of both primary and secondary sources in the first part of the course present theories and ideologies that have informed and set the ground for human rights violations. In the second part of the course, we focus on the aftermath of genocide and killing and ask how individuals and groups explain their participation in these acts. N. Vaisman. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of how notions of masculinity and femininity have influenced the history of science, technology, and medicine since 1600. We examine topics that include the rise of women in scientific and medical institutions and the ongoing debates about whether men and women have (or have had) different ways of understanding the natural world. A. Winter. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. This course does not meet requirements for the biological sciences major. 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, A. Winter. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This lecture/discussion course explores the background of the American Revolution and the problem of organizing a new nation. The first half of the course uses the theory of revolutionary stages to organize a framework for the events of the 1760s and 1770s, and the second half of the course examines the period of constitution-making (1776 to 1789) for evidence on the ways in which the Revolution was truly revolutionary. T. Cook. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Knowledge of German helpful. This lecture/discussion course examines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's intellectual development, from the time he wrote Sorrows of a 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 and his adoption of Schelling 's transcendental idealism. The theme uniting the exploration of the various works of Goethe is the unity of the artistic and scientific understanding of nature, especially as he exemplified that unity in "the eternal femini ne." R. Richards. Win
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The act of reading is at once private and public. It is inscrutable-silent, personal, and intimate; yet it is also a necessary and central element in all social and cultural change. Not least, our own knowledge as historians depends on it. The idea that the practice of reading is itself historical-that it may change over time and according to context-is therefore both exciting and unsettling. This course is devoted to exploring that idea in depth. We attempt both to trace a history of reading practices over the long term and to assess critically the approaches that may be adopted to recovering such a histor y. A. Johns. Winter
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3.00 Credits
This lecture/discussion course focuses on efforts to give an evolutionary account of mind and moral judgment. We consider individual theorists of such evolutionary accounts (e.g., Darwin, Spencer, James, Lorenz, Wilson, Sober, Dennett); recent evolutionary psychologists (e.g., Tooby and Cosmedes, Gigerenzer); and critics of such efforts (e.g., G. E. Moore, Gould, Flew). Topics include the evidence for evolutionary theories of mind, the naturalistic fallacy, naturalistic constructions of cognition, and altruism. R. Richards. Autumn.
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