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1.00 Credits
This course will provide both a survey and close readings of some of the most significant thinkers in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics. Its scope will include 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century positions in aesthetics; moreover, texts interrogated in the course will engage different artistic fields such as literature, painting, music, cinema, and new media. 1.00 units, Seminar
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What is history This question will be considered by asking what sort of things historical events are, such that they can be known, and what sort of thing historical knowledge is, such that it constrains our understanding of the past. Topics include the ontological status of past events, causation in history, the nature of evidence, objectivity and narrative structure. This course will also include the writing of a historical monograph based on primary sources. 1.00 units, Seminar
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It is generally agreed that a nation and its citizens have moral rights and obligations with respect to one another. But do these rights and obligations extend beyond national boundaries Does a wealthy nation have an obligation to provide aid to starving citizens of other nations Do wealthy individuals have an obligation to alleviate the suffering of persons with whom they do not share nationality This course seeks to assist students in formulating and evaluating answers to these and other questions concerning international relations. 1.00 units, Lecture
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The purpose of this course is to assist students in acquiring the skill in ethical reasoning and analysis needed for mature participation in society's continuing debates over moral issues of public concern. The course will begin by examining some types of ethical theories and will proceed to consider a number of controversial social issues. Abortion, euthanasia, racial and sexual discrimination, world hunger, treatment of animals, and capital punishment are among the topics to be considered 1.00 units, Seminar
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Environmental law and policy regulate and constrain our interactions with and use of the natural environment. These regulations and constraints presuppose, at least implicitly, notions of the value of the natural environment and its components and what that value means for our obligations to our fellow humans, to non-humans, and to inanimate features of nature. The course will examine the ethical underpinnings of current environmental law and policy in light of these presuppositions and involve students in an effort to develop an adequate and systematic ethical basis for environmental law and policy. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This seminar, the culmination of the Cognitive Science minor, will examine selected issues in cognitive science in depth, with a different issue selected for each offering of the course. Possible topics may include: vision and consciousness; the origins of language; the philosophy and psychology of knowledge; animal mentation. 1.00 units, Seminar
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In this course we shall consider what philosophers mean by metaphysics and examine some central metaphysical puzzles in contemporary western philosophy, such as the existence of universals and the nature of both causation and personal identity. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
A study of the foundation of ethics including such topics as the justification of moral beliefs, moral relativism, the nature of moral language (cognitivism, emotivism, naturalism), the relation of interests to ideals and theories of moral judgment and exemplarism.Students will be given the opportunity to work through a number of personal and social issues in an attempt to test theories in the context of practical decision-making. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Physical body seems immediately given in ordinary experience. Yet it has been explained in a remarkable number of ways, for example as mathematical (insofar as it consists of dimension, length, breadth and depth, and can be measured) or as material and so unavailable to mathematical analysis; it can be explained as an intellectual or as a merely psychological construct produced when we experience sensible change. In this course, we shall consider several important concepts of body in themselves and as they relate to other problems, particularly the problem of mind. 1.00 units, Seminar
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0.25 Credits
Recent advances in neuroscience are transforming the study of the mind into the study of the brain. In this laboratory sequence to accompany Philosophy 374, Minds and Brains, students will learn the techniques of "brain reading" employed in contemporary cognitive neuroscience. The laboratory sequence especially emphasizes functional neuroimaging, working with data collected at the nearby Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center. Students may also volunteer to participate in brain scanning experiments; in this case, data in the lab may originate in one's own brain, adding new meaning to the philosopher's maxim, "know thyself." 0.25 units, Laboratory
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