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This seminar examines ethical issues that lie at the intersection of markets and health. Examples include paternalism and the ban on trans fats, access to essential drugs and the justifications for intellectual property rights, and the morality of markets in body parts and reproductive labor. Readings will be drawn from philosophers such as Debra Satz, Peter Singer, Robert Nozick, Elizabeth Anderson, Ronald Dworkin, and Frances Kamm. The purpose of the course is to provoke critical thinking about normative issues in public policy.
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Explores, from various angles, periods, and points of view the idea of America as: an experiment in republicanism on a scale never before attempted; the New World; a promised land; a frontier space; a slave nation; or a dream (albeit often dashed). Examines critically the shifting images, ideologies, and mythologies surrounding the idea of America as portrayed through fiction, film, music, sports, art, poetry, and political theory.
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From "The Battle Of Algiers" to "Do The Right Thing," film has been used as a medium in which to explore social issues and conflict. This course will critically examine a selection of documentary and narrative films in order to compare their different approaches to representing social issues. We will also learn the essential aspects of social issue filmmaking (in both the documentary and narrative forms) and how journalistic research methods inform the process. Classes will include a short video project, script writing workshops, and lectures from guest speakers who work in the industry.
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Derek Parfit's On What Matters is a lengthy, densely argued, and immensely ambitious work, which seeks to show that the most plausible versions of Kantianism, Contractualism, and Consequentialism all converge on a single normative theory which is therefore the best justified moral theory. In reaching this conclusion, Parfit defends the objectivity of reasons for action and sheds light on the key questions of metaethics and normative ethics. We shall go through this book, scrutinize its arguments, and ask if it achieves its goals.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar will serve as an open-ended discussion of the many issues raised by the intersection of law and psychoanalysis as understandings of human action and motive. Readings include works by Freud, Camus, Shakespeare, Kafka, as well as various law cases.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to the classical myths in their cultural context and in their wider application to human concerns (such as creation, sex and gender, identity, transformation, and death). The course will offer a who's who of the ancient imaginative world, study the main ancient sources of well known stories, and introduce approaches to analyzing modern myths.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The social, political, and cultural history of ancient Greece from ca.750 B.C. through the time of the Peloponnesian War (404 B.C.). Special attention is paid to the emergence of the distinctively Greek form of political organization, the city state, and to democracy, imperialism, social practices, and cultural developments. Emphasis is placed on study of the ancient sources, methods of source analysis, and historical reasoning.
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A study of the causes and consequences of one small city-state's rise to world empire, through analysis of primary sources in translation. Emphasis on the development of Roman society, and the growth and demise of the Republican form of government.
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What philosophy of history belongs to Greek and Roman historians? How did the ancient historians themselves ask this question? Was their theory and practice as marked with change as has been European and American historiography since the 18th century? Finally, why has contemporary practice begun a turn back to classical narrative historiography? This course will cover major Greek and Roman historians, ancillary classical theory, and some pertinent contemporary philosophers of history.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to a wide variety of different religious experiences in Rome during republican times and under Augustus. Topics will include civic cult, domestic religion within the household and local neighborhood, and the introduction of foreign cults into the city of Rome. We will be using a range of ancient sources such as literary texts, inscriptions, archaeological data, artistic representations, coins, and the topography of sacred spaces inside and outside the city.
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