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  • Pl 186: Political Philosophy

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    This course will address one or more issues in contemporary political theory and/or the history of political thought. Topics may include the nature of democracy; liberalism; distributive justice; human rights; the moral and legal regulation of warfare; the status of positive law; social choice theory; the relations between the market and the state. The work of figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hobbes, Mill, Machiavelli, and Rawls will be discussed. Not offered 2012–13.
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  • Pl 187: Natural Justice

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    This course examines the unorthodox view that morality is a natural phenomenon—the product of a combination of biological and cultural evolution. It reviews and criticizes the traditional arguments used to deny both moral natu-ralism and moral relativism, notably the Naturalistic Fallacy. It assesses the success of the approach advocated by evolutionary biologists and psychologists. It examines the evidence from laboratory experiments on fairness and justice. Finally, it attempts to synthesize all these strands using the theory of games as a unifying framework. Not offered 2012–13.
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  • Pl 188: The Evolution of Cognition

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    By many measures, Homo sapiens is the most cognitively sophisticated animal on the planet. Not only does it live in a huge variety of habitats, and not only has it transformed its environment in unprecedented ways, but it is also responsible for such cultural artifacts as language, science, religion, and art. These are achievements that other species, however successful they may be in other respects, have not accomplished. This course investigates the cognitive, behavioral, and environmental bases for humans’ surprising cultural dominance of our planet. Possible topics include the evolution of language, the evolution of morality, the evolution of religion, the evolution of cooperation, and the advent of technology, math, science, and the Internet. Contact the instructor to find out what the topic in any given term is. Not offered 2012–13.
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  • Pl 191: Biomedical Ethics

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    A survey of issues in bioethics, tailored for pre-med students (though non-premeds are welcome to attend UNLESS they have previously taken Pl 183, in which case they may not). General topics in bioethics will be covered in the first part of the course (may include issues like: abortion and reproductive rights, cloning, stem-cell research, organ transplantation and sale, informed consent, euthanasia, research ethics - human and animal). The second part of the course will focus on issues of particular concern to students intending to pursue a career in medicine, including: professional ethics, doctor-patient confidentiality, the ‘therapeutic privilege’ and truth-telling, informed consent, participation in biomedical research. Instructor: Cowie.
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  • Pl 8: Right and Wrong

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    This course addresses questions such as: Where do our moral ideas come from? What justifies them? How should they guide our conduct, as individuals and as a society? What kind of person should one aspire to be? Topics the course may deal with include meta-ethical issues (e.g., What makes an action right or wrong? When is one morally responsible for one’s actions? How should society be organized?) and normative questions (e.g., Is eating meat morally acceptable? What should we tolerate and why? What are society’s obligations toward the poor?). In addition, the psychological and neural substrates of moral judgment and decision making may be explored. The course draws on a variety of sources, including selections from the great works of moral and political philosophy (e.g., Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, Hobbes’s Leviathan, Kant’s Groundings for a Metaphysics of Morals, and Rawls’s A Theory of Justice), contemporary discussions of particular moral issues, and the science of moral thought. Instructors: Cowie, Quartz.
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  • Pl 9: Knowledge and Reality

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    The theme of this course is the scope and limitations of rational belief and knowledge. Students will examine the nature of reality, the nature of the self, the nature of knowledge, and how we learn about the natural world. Students will be introduced to these issues through selections from some of the world’s greatest philosophical works, including Descartes’s Pascal’s Hume’s Berkeley’s and Kant’s A variety of more contemporary readings will also be assigned. Instructors: Manning, Hitchcock, Velasco.
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  • Pl 90 ab: Senior Thesis

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    Required of students taking the philosophy option. To be taken in any two consecutive terms of the senior year. Students will research and write a thesis of 10,000–12,000 words on a philosophical topic to be determined in consultation with their thesis adviser. Limited to students taking the philosophy option. Instructor: Staff.
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  • Pl 98: Reading in Philosophy

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    An individual program of directed reading in philosophy, in areas not covered by regular courses. Instructor: Staff.
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  • Pl 99: Causation and Responsibility

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    This course will examine the interrelationships between the concepts of causation, moral responsibility, and legal liability. It will consider legal doctrines of causation and responsibility, as well as attempts within philosophy to articulate these concepts. Questions to be addressed include: Can you be morally or legally responsible for harms that you do not cause? Is it worse to cause some harm, than to unsuccessfully attempt it? Is it justified to punish those who cause harm more severely than those who attempt harm? When, if ever, can the ends justify the means? What constitutes negligence? Is it worse to cause some harm, than to allow it to happen (when you could have prevented it)? Instructor: Hitchcock.
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