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This course is a survey of Eastern philosophy. The topics addressed may include: ethics, death, reality, self, and knowledge. The schools of Eastern philosophy studied may include: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. In studying Eastern philosophy, students will be exposed to, and learn appreciation for, different perspectives on traditional philosophical issues. Students will develop and refine their ability to offer criticism of philosophical positions and will develop the ability to form their own educated views on philosophical issues.
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Any person who is conscious of death has wondered: How should we think about death? How is death connected with the human quest for meaning? And will I continue to live in some way after I die? These questions have occupied humankind from earliest times and perhaps penetrate the issue of the self more deeply than any other. This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. What does it mean to say that a person has died? Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would an immortal life actually be desirable? Is death an evil, something to be feared? Is there some objective, overarching meaning to life? Or is it the case, as nihilists claim, that human existence is "absurd" and has no meaning at all?
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a broad survey of the problems, theories, and critical tools developed by feminist thinkers from a philosophical perspective and is organized around two questions: what does philosophy have to contribute to feminism, and what does feminism have to contribute to philosophy? With respect to the first question, possible topics may include the relationship between sex and gender, nature and culture, the materiality of bodies and the social processes of normalization, as well as forms of structural injustice and oppression at the intersection of sex, gender, sexuality, race, and class. With respect to the second question, possible areas of inquiry may include Feminist Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, Feminist Aesthetics, and Feminist Theories of Agency.
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Are religion and science opposed to one another? Does science show that religious beliefs are unwarranted or irrational? Was the universe created? Does the universe have a purpose? Is life ultimately reducible to chemistry? Do recent developments in physics provide support for traditional religious beliefs? Are there inherent limits to what science can tell us about the nature of reality?
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3.00 Credits
This course explores fundamental questions of human existence through the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The films we will consider include Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, Vertigo, The Birds, and North by Northwest. Among the topics we will consider are the nature of good and evil, the meaning of life, the nature of love, and appearance and reality.
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3.00 Credits
This course will begin with the basis of scientific reasoning: abduction or "inference to the best explanation." We will learn why scientific reasoning is needed and works, why scientific experiments are designed the way they are, and why science is our most reliable guide to knowledge of the human body and the physical world. Throughout the semester, numerous reasoning methods and scientific skills will be developed, many of which are relevant to the health sciences. In the end, the student will also be able to recognize pseudoscience, understand the limits of scientific reasoning, and appreciate its value for living the good life.
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This course poses and responds to the following critical inquiries: Where do we look for goodness in a collapsing civilization? How can we live well when vice is rewarded? Why are we drawn to the chaos of tyranny instead of the order of law? Can we find anything substantial remaining in a world of virtual reality? What can we know at this moment when falsity awaits us at every turn? These are human questions. These are ancient questions. These are the questions of the first great Western philosopher and the themes of his most famous dialogue. It is a story of lust and love, a struggle between force and persuasion, an account of traitors and citizens, a drama of laughter and sadness, an effort of destruction and creation, and a movement from fantasy to truth. These are the topics of the only book we will read in this class, a work as timeless as it is timely-these are the subjects of Plato's Republic. Cross-listed as PHIL 385.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the thought of five existentialist philosophers: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Beauvoir. We will supplement our study of existentialist philosophy with discussion of existentialist novels by Camus, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. In exploring the thought of the existentialists we shall address such questions as: What is authentic human existence? Is God dead? Is there any ground for ethical judgments? Are human beings free? How should one face death?
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3.00 Credits
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