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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years A study of three recent thinkers who have had a powerful influence on contemporary intellectual life, and on our assessment of the Enlightenment legacy of the modern world.
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4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) An examination of classical and modern attempts to see and explain what drama is. The course also considers how some dramas can illuminate the nature of theory. Themes include: dramatic situations and structures of ethical life; plot vs. character in dramatic action; drama’s narratological closure and the problem of historical reference; the question “what is modern drama ”Readings include classical to modern theorists (Aristotle to Szondi) and dramatists (Aeschylus to Brecht).
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) An exploration of central issues in 20th-century European philosophy. The focus is on the challenges to traditional humanism posed by the successes of modern science and technology, the fragmentation of social and political life, and the de-centering of the subject in psychoanalysis, linguistics, and literary modernism. Texts include works by Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Levinas, and Derrida.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years A study of how philosophical themes have been developed in recent fiction and an examination of the relationship between philosophy and literary criticism.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years A critical examination of influential attempts to understand the nature of the cinematic medium. Questions raised include: Is film a fine art Must a movie “re present reality” if it is to succeed as a movie Are there certain insights into human experience that are better expressed through film than through other media Readings include Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin, and Stanley Cavell. Also offered as CIN 3716.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years An investigation of classical, m o dern, and contemporary theories of desire and sexuality, with an emphasis on the relationship between familial and other social institutions and on the formation of individual identities. Readings include works by Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Freud, Foucault, and contemporary feminist and queer theorists.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years An investigation of philosophical accounts of the nature of mind, including issues like: What does it mean to have a mind How are mind and body related Could animals or machines have minds How are accounts of the mind important for our understanding of freedom, immortality, human nature, and religion
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) What, if any, moral and political obligations does art have Should public policy promote some kinds of art and discourage others This course addresses these and related questions via works from across the arts and philosophical texts.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) An examination of debates among 20th-century philosophers and anthropologists over whether morality, knowledge, or rationality itself are in any sense “relative” to culture, to history, or to both. Both“relativistic” and “anti-relativistic” positions are criticalexamined, along with their relevance to current interdisciplinary topics like multiculturalism and colonialism.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Spring A forum for second-semester juniors with two distinct aims: (a) to facilitate the formulation of (i) a senior thesis prospectus, (ii) an outline, (iii) a bibliography, and (iv) a schedule for the composition, during the senior year, of a satisfying 40-page senior thesis; and (b) to introduce the mainstreams of contemporary thought and interpretation in philosophy. Senior thesis topics need not deal with the topic of the junior seminar. Open to nonmajors with permission of instructor.
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