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1.00 Credits
The second semester of a year-long series of presentations from faculty and invited speakers on topics of current philosophical interest. Students are expected to attend all the colloquia, read the papers beforehand, and, with mentors, prepare questions to be asked of the presenters. One credit hour for completion of two semesters of the series. Prerequisite: Philosophy 201 and philosophy major or minor. One credit hour. GORDON
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4.00 Credits
What makes an action good How ought we to live our lives What is the relationship between morality and luck To what extent do normative claims depend on empirical data What conditions must be met in order for one to be a moral agent Explores these and other questions by way of a mixture of classical and contemporary readings. Focuses especially on three prominent ethical theories--consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics--along with challenges to each of these models. Four credit hours. S.
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4.00 Credits
A philosophical treatment of several aspects of race and racism: ontological issues surrounding what race is; existential and phenomenological issues about embodiment as a visible racial minority; social and political issues regarding oppression, colonization, and discrimination; and ethical issues involving racial minorities in the American context. Four credit hours. S.
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4.00 Credits
Whether one views feminism as a philosophical school of thought, an interpretive strategy, a political movement, or a way of understanding culture and ideas, it has many faces; feminism is neither unified nor monolithic. Students examine several feminist frameworks (structures of political thought that shape feminism), their relationship to and difference from one another, and feminist issues that lie outside of those frameworks. Formerly offered as Philosophy 155. Four credit hours. S, U.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the new and challenging questions feminist theory has raised about the content, practice, values, and traditional goals of science. The objectives include deepening the student's knowledge of feminist philosophy and familiarizing students with some of the diverse literature in the field of feminist science studies. Topics include "standpoint" and social epistemologies; objectivity, value-neutrality, and universality claims of modern science; the social character of science; how implicit assumptions about gender, class, ethnicity, epistemic, and social values affect research and reasoning; and how the metaphors scientists use to explain phenomena condition the production of knowledge. Four credit hours. S, U. PETERSON
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of central philosophical issues in law. Topics include the nature of legal systems, the political, social, and ethical implications of laws, and their administration, justice, and legal reasoning. Readings from philosophers, jurists, and legal cases. Four credit hours. S.
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4.00 Credits
Listed as Astronomy 231. Four credit hours. N.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of ancient thought that also examines the social and cultural contexts in which that thought arises. Study of the Greek world through the ideas of the pre-Socratics, the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, the Skeptics, and the Stoics. Four credit hours. H. GORDON
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4.00 Credits
Modern philosophy arose out of conflict and concluded in the Enlightenment, but the path was not direct, and the development was not unequivocally progressive. Traces twists and turns of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy by way of close readings of some of the period's most important texts. Focuses on works of six philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. What are the sources and limits of human knowledge How are beliefs about the world justified What is the relationship between our minds and bodies What is the basis of moral agency and personal identity Is freedom compatible with determinism Four credit hours. H. MOLAND
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4.00 Credits
Uses philosophical theory to evaluate our experience of art forms such as film, painting, literature, and music. Considers questions such as: is art simply a matter of taste, or can it be held to objective standards What is beauty Are artworks that are not beautiful still art Is art valuable because it gives us pleasure or because it educates us Does art have social or political value, or is its value purely in the delight it gives the individual Our study of philosophical theory will be supplemented by consideration of specific works of art. Four credit hours. A. MOLAND
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