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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 This course focuses on a particular issue in the philosophy of education: how to both respect and cultivate the autonomy of one's students. Drawing primarily on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and Maria Montessori, we will explore autonomy-based approaches to education, from raising infants through developing mature adults.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 This course is a philosophical consideration of race and recognition, focusing specifically on the African-American experience. It seeks to guide students toward the creation of what bell hooks terms a "critical consciousness" as itself a form of critical thinking. Distribution area: humanities or alternative voices.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 An historical look at the philosophical development of method and at philosophical issues in conflicts (theoretical, evidentiary, and social) in science.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 This course will introduce students to some of the questions explored within the philosophy of feminism, question such as: What is it to be a woman Are women oppressed How do institutions of motherhood, marriage, and sex shape the lives of women To answer these questions, we will read works by Marilyn Frye, bell hooks, Andrea Dworkin, Susan Bordo and Christina Hoff-Summers. Distribution area: humanities or alternative voices.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 After developing a critical vocabulary through an examination of Hume's notion of taste, Kant's "reflective judgment," and Heidegger's reconceptualization of the work of art in "Building Dwelling Thinking," we apply this vocabulary to architecture using Karsten Ha rries, The Ethical Function of Archite cture, to help us critically assess the "aesthetic" governing Whitman's Penrose Library renovation project. Then moving from the "public" to the "private," we consider the sense of "aesthetics" at work in building your own home, using as a guide Wito ld Rybczynski's The Most Beautiful Hou se in the World. May be elected as A
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 Beginning with an examination of the claim of the beautiful in Elaine Scarry's On Beauty and Being Just, we will turn to experiment with the perception of sculpture in space working with reflections by Kant and Heidegger and public artworks on campus. This will lead to an examination of architecture in Karsten Harries The Ethical Function of Architecture , and the Japanese garden in Marc Keane ? The Art of Setting Stone s. Beyond the opening exercises in the aesthetic perception, you will design your own home with a garden. May be elected as Art History 241
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the differences between instrumental rationality and "poetic dwelling" as ways of thinking about nature. After reviewing the depiction of nature in first-year Core texts, we turn to Thoreau ? Wald en as a carefully staged confrontation with nature experienced from out of the intersection between dwelling and writing. To further explore this relationship, we consider several late essays by Martin Heidegger in which he develops the notion of "poetic dwelling." With this conceptual framework, we next turn to essays by such figures as Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez, whose nature writings address the challenge of dwelling in a contemporary American context. Themes of place, identity, and technology will be emphasized in our examination of these ess ays. Prerequis ite: completion of General Studies 145 and 1
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3.00 Credits
Does the nonhuman world have any intrinsic value or is it valuable only because of its relation to human interests That is, does anything besides humanity have "moral standing" If so, what is its basis Should we, for instance accord rights to all those creatures that are sentient If we do, will we have gone far enough, morally speaking What about those creatures that lack sentience What about the environment in which all creatures, human and nonhuman, live Does it have moral standing In answering these questions, we will consider the works of Aldo Leopold, Peter Singer, Karen Warren, Arne Naess, and Julian Simon, among others.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will study the nature of reality. Possible topics will include existence, causation, personal identity, determinism, and the mind/body relationship.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A study of the development of western philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Emphasis will be on the development of the British Empiricists and the Continental Rationalists.
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