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In the wake of the increasing significance of media technologies in all realms of society, media theory has moved to the center of discussion within the humanities. This course will introduce philosophical theories and texts that take a broad approach to the new media and communication technologies. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course is a historical survey of the writings of African-American women as they have historically attempted to negotiate fundamental philosophical questions of the "race problem" and the "woman problem." To this extent, we will be inserting black women's voices into the philosophical canon of both race and feminism. Along with exploring and contextualizing the responses and dialogues of women writers, like Anna Julia Cooper with their more famous male contemporaries such as Du Bois, up to more contemporary articulations of black women's voices in what is known as hip-hop feminism, we will ask the question of whether there is a particular black feminist thought, epistemology, and thus philosophy. 1.00 units, Lecture
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In the last several decades, feminist philosophy has developed with new vitality. It has influenced such diverse areas of philosophy as ethics, politics, and epistemology. Its contributors represent both Anglo-American and European philosophical traditions. This course will introduce students both to some of the major contributors and to the ways in which they have influenced various areas of philosophy. (May be counted toward women, gender, and sexuality.) 1.00 units, Seminar
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An intensive examination of some philosophical discussions of race and racism. Topics include the origins of European racism, the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic racism, the conceptual connections between racist thinking and certain canonized philosophical positions (e.g., Locke's nominalism), the relationship between racism and our notions of personal identity, the use of traditional philosophical thought (e.g., the history of philosophy) to characterize and explain differences between European and black African cultures, the possible connections between racism and Pan-Africanism, the nature of anti-Semitism, and recent attempts to conceptualize race and racism as social constructions. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will provide a survey of 20th-century neo-Marxist and post-Marxist theories that have constituted a break with central aspects of "classical" Marxism (of the 2nd and 3rd International), while attempting to remain faithful to the Marxist project in other aspects. We will examine the neo-Marxist and post-Marxist critiques of Marxist reductionism (economic determinism and class reductionism); their critiques of the Marxist concept of totality, as well a their critiques of the Marxist concept of revolution. We will also trace the neo-Marxist and post-Marxist displacement from economy to politics, from "society" to the concepts of the "political" and the "cultu 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will survey and critically assess arguments in favor of the existence of human rights, arguments about the legitimate scope of such rights (who has human rights and against whom such rights can legitimately be claimed), and arguments about which rights ought to be included in any complete account of human rights. Specific topics will include (but not necessarily be limited to) the philosophical history of human rights discourse, cultural relativist attacks on the universality of human rights, debates concerning the rights of cultural minorities to self-determination, and controversies concerning whether human rights should include economic and social rights. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An introductory survey of classic and contemporary texts (translated into English) in Latin American Philosophy. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Rousseau is a pivotal figure in the philosophical tradition, standing between the proto-modern authors and the turn toward "history," German Idealism, Romanticism, "stream of consciousness" in the modern novel, and on and on. We will approach Rousseau's philosophical corpus through a reading of the Discourses, The Social Contract, Emile, and the Reveri 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course will introduce students to propositional and (first order) predicate logic, while engaging in philosophical reflection on a range of issues related to modern formal logic. In particular students will first study techniques for representing and analyzing arguments using the symbolism of each formal system. We will then consider some of the many philosophical issues surrounding formal logic, such as the nature of truth and inference, semantic paradoxes, and the attempt by Russell and others to use advances in formal logic to resolve traditional problems in metaphysics and epistemology. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course looks at the origins of western philosophy in the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. Students will see how philosophy arose as a comprehensive search for wisdom, then developed into the "areas" of philosophy such as metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. This course fulfills part two of the writing intensive (WI) requirement for the Philosophy major. 1.00 units, Lecture
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