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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An examination of the rise of modern science and the intellectual revolution in the attitude and orientation towards the universe. The displacement of the older world view and the new hypothesis that nature is inherently mathematical in structure. Galileo's project of the mathematization of nature, and its significance for the experimental methods, and understanding of human nature and culture. A 4 credit hour version is offered as Philosophy 265.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the ethical, social, political, historical, and spiritual dimensions of human relations with nature. Course will explore recent developments in environmental theory, including deep ecology, ecological feminism, social ecology, bioregionalism, as well as alternative conceptions of nature in native and primary peoples. The history of American environmentalism and activism will also be addressed. Also listed as Environmental Studies 270.
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4.00 Credits
This course will consider the relationship between ethical theories and our treatment of other animals. We will examine relevant ethical theories probably including at least Utilitarianism, rights-based and contract-based ethical theories. These theories will be examined in their applications to problems surrounding our treatment of non-human animals including consuming animals as food, using animals for experimentation, and the recreational use of animals. In addition, this course will consider issues surrounding our ascription of various mental states or capacities to animals including the ability to feel pain, possessions of interests and desires, and the ascription of awareness, self-awareness, and language to animals.
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4.00 Credits
Ethical life depends upon identifiable intellectual capacities as well as virtues of character. This course aims to develop the intellectual virtues that are a necessary condition of an ethical life. This requires two sorts of skills-those of critical thinking and of dialogue. The first set of skills enables the analysis of arguments, exposure of fundamental assumptions, and the rigorous statement of criticism of arguments and underlying ethical issues. The second set of skills enables a sympathetic approach to other's moral values and ethical frameworks, the ability to mediate ethical discussions, seek shared ground, formulate issues in non-prejudicial or unnecessarily judgmental terms, the ability to re-frame ethical problems and open new ground for discussion. This course will cultivate these skills while engaged in analysis and discussion of some of the most pressing moral difficulties we face.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Seminar
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent Study
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3.00 Credits
Post Modernism is the reigning philosophical and artistic movement today. Contemporary artworks and philosophers are casually described as Post-Modern, though pinning down just what that means can be difficult. In this class, we will try to identify what Post-Modernism is and how it differs from earlier movements, especially Modernism and the Enlightenment. We will trace its birth and development across the last half-century in America and Europe. We will be focusing on its philosophical representatives, though we will examine how these ideas can take artistic form.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Field Experience
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An examination of existential thought through the texts of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, and others; a study of the existential concepts of dread, freedom, subjective truth, bad faith, and authenticity.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to the movement of phenomenology, its methods and theories, through the writings of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre. Topics include the phenomenological reduction, lived experience, embodiment, intersubjectivity and the other, and existential psychology.
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