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1.00 Credits
Hegel's most famous work, The Phenomenology of Spirit, will be studied in depth. Attention will be paid to the significance of the work on our subsequent tradition, both philosophical and cultural. Enrollment limited. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Nietzsche is one of those thinkers whose influence on our culture has been far wider than the number of people who have actually read him. Through a careful study of this 19th century thinker's major works we shall examine his own claim to be thinking the most challenging thoughts of the next century. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor 1.00 units, Seminar
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Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th century. Yet because of the myopia of the Anglo-American philosophic tradition, he has only recently begun to receive the attention he deserves in the English-speaking world. This seminar will make a careful study of Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time. In addition to our reflection on the intrinsic meaning and merit of this book, we shall consider some of its important roots in the tradition and some of the ways in which it prepares the way both for Heidegger's own radically transformed later thought and for the most recent trends in contemporary continental philosophy. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
Treating people justly means treating them similarly when they are relevantly similar and differently when they are relevantly different. Accordingly, if public policy is to be just in its effects on persons, it too must reflect similarities and differences among them. Profound disagreements quickly arise though when we ask which differences and similarities are relevant when, where, and how. One apparent difference between individuals is gender. When, where and how is gender relevant to public policy This course will tackle this question by examining a variety of public policy issues which centrally involve gender in some important way. Among the issues which may be covered are gender discrimination, reproduction and public policy, alleged differences between male and female moral outlooks, and the roles that public policy can or does play in creating, sustaining, and changing gender differences and their significance. Enrollment limited. 1.00 units, Lecture
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0.25 Credits
No Course Description Available. 0.25 units, Laboratory
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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, 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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We shall study carefully selected works of the genuine founder of metaphysics as a discipline, Aristotle, and his great predecessor, Plato, for whom metaphysics did not yet exist. In so doing, we shall get a clearer sense of what metaphysics is and, in addition, study a number of important metaphysical problems both in their metaphysical and pre-metaphysical formulations. These will include the problem of first principles, the nature of being and non-being, the good and its relation to being, form and the problem of causality. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This laboratory is required for all students concurrently enrolled in Philosophy 373-01, and mandatory for senior majors. In it we shall work with problems presented by different concepts of space and time, focusing particularly on the issue of what constitutes evidence and how that evidence shapes definitions of space and time. Students will work together in pairs or small groups to solve problems in physics/astronomy using concepts learned in class. This seminar/laboratory is required of senior philosophy majors. (1 4 course credit.) Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
A survey of the new sciences of the mind. We will discuss the nature of representation, perception, and cognition, and the prospects for an empirical science of the human mind. Disciplines illuminating these issues include philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and neuroscience. (Students enrolling in Philosophy 220 must also enroll in Philosophy 371-01 with permission of the instructor.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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