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3.00 Credits
M. Tumulty This course examines the historical and contemporary debates about the nature of the mind. These questions are considered: How do minds (or their states or products) manage to be about things Are all minds conscious How serious is the difference between first-person and third-person perspectives on mental activity What beyond consciousness is required for self-hood What grounds our concept of mental health What kind of mind makes individuals responsible for their behavior
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3.00 Credits
Staff Moral theory concerns what makes acts right or wrong, what makes people good or bad. In addressing these issues, the course also considers the following questions: Do moral stands apply universally, or are they relative to one's culture, religion, or other moral framework Can we reconcile the impartiality of morality with the partiality we feel toward certain people, such as parents, spouses, or children Are there ethical principles that apply in all circumstances, or is morality fundamentally a case-by-case affair This course centers primarily on contemporary approaches to these questions, with the aim of enabling students to address these questions critically and rigorously.
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3.00 Credits
H. Sindima This course introduces the nature, methods, and issues of contemporary African philosophy. The course focuses on the ways in which African systems of thought inform a way of life. Students examine the concepts of life, person, community, time, and knowledge in African thought, and explore the ways these concepts have influenced contemporary African social and political life. Senghor's philosophy of African personality, Nkrumah's Consciencism, and Nyerere's Ujamaa are discussed
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3.00 Credits
M. Thie This study of primary feminist, womanist, mujerista analyses from a variety of political and philosophical frameworks gives special attention to the categories of difference and other(s), as these have affected marginalized people. Topics explored include interconnections among oppressions (e.g., race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age), violence against women in relation to other forms of violence (e.g., militarism, contemporary colonization, and rape of the earth), barriers separating women, and embodiment.
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3.00 Credits
Staff David Hume, Adam Smith, and Thomas Reid are three of the leading figures of the 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment, and their works continue to exercise a growing influence. This course focuses on their conceptions of human action, human nature, and morality. While they are all figures in a single national tradition, each developed importantly different conceptions of these issues, and each still figures prominently in current debates. The examination of their work is an exploration of a crucial period in the history of philosophy and also of crucial rival conceptions of agency and moral value.
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3.00 Credits
E. Witherspoon, Staff This is an umbrella course designed to allow students to delve into specific topics in epistemology or metaphysics. The study situates each problem in its appropriate historical context thus allowing student access to the approaches to a given issue offered in Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and recent works. The course brings students inside some problems and methods that lie at the heart of philosophy by inquiring into issues such as the structure of knowledge, our basis for making claims about other minds, possible worlds, skepticism, and the justification of belief. Prerequisites: a course in philosophy, preferably PHIL 335 or PHIL 340, or permission of instructor.
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0.50 Credits
Staff This 0.50 credit course is organized around a series of campus visits by philosophers working in some area of contemporary philosophical research. The area varies from year to year and, although it is a stand-alone course, often coincides with the topic of a seminar being offered in the same semester. Prerequisites: two courses in philosophy or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
M. Clark, Staff This course studies the thought of a central figure in the history of philosophy. A different thinker is the subject of the seminar in different years. The seminar is primarily for majors in philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
J. Balmuth, E. Witherspoon This seminar is a detailed study of the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. This course first examines his early work in relation to problems about the nature of logic and language raised by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, and then it uses Wittgenstein's later work to explore the nature of meaning and the concept of mind. Throughout, this course attempts to articulate the character and purpose of philosophical inquiry. Prerequisite: three philosophy courses or permission of the instructor. A prior course in logic is recommended.
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3.00 Credits
M. Thie The seminar in the philosophy of religion has a contemporary focus and broadly concerns itself with the interplay between philosophical inquiry, religious reflection, political vision, and moral psychology. The precise theme of the seminar varies from year to year. Recent history has taken the seminar into the question of patriarchy, the phenomenon of radical evil, guilt and forgiveness, and the persistence and place of myth in philosophy.
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