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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Investigates philosophical issues concerning race and gender. Themes include the role of cultural and biological criteria in defining these concepts; the roles of race and gender in personal identity; the nature of racism, sexism, and their variants; and policy implications such as affirmative action and the civil status of homosexual relationships. Cross-listed with WMST 108.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A general introduction to philosophy as well as a survey of Asian contributions to philosophy, focusing on the Indian and Chinese traditions. Examines questions concerning how best to live one's life, what can be known, the relation between mind and body, whether there are minds and bodies, and the nature of the universe.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 1 hour; extra reading, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines a number of philosophical themes as depicted in film and/or other media of reflective popular culture. Four or five films are screened; each is examined for the philosophical issues it raises. Themes may include integrity, love, spirituality, meaning, identity, and morality.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Focuses on aspects of our distinctively human capacity to lead a meaningful life, especially investigating aspects of the nature of the mind and human freedom. The nature of death and its place in the context of a meaningful life is discussed.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Topics include examination of the nature of divinity and the nature of evil, the influence of the concept of God upon philosophical history, ideals, and values, and the riddle of an after-life.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. Discusses how contemporary philosophers have examined human understanding as exemplified in science.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A historical and contemporary examination of the role philosophy has played in nurturing the human spirit in the face of other philosophical efforts to demythologize the soul into neural functions or even mere congeries of atoms in motion in the void.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An inquiry into some of the moral issues arising from business life, such as conflicts of interest, responsibility to consumers, corporate culture and character, and the morality of competition. Also considers the history of ethics and the history business as an institution.
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Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A philosophic consideration of ethical problems that arise from the use and exploitation of the environment. Topics covered include workplace pollution hazards; environmental pollution and protection of collective natural resources; the rights of future generations; the rights of animals; the protection of endangered species.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Develops the basic elements of the concept of personhood, and how persons are alleged to be crucially different from non-human animals. Various theories are considered about what is essential to us as individuals and what makes us the same person over time. Explores the relationship between these metaphysical issues and moral issues, such as euthanasia, animals' rights, and abortion.
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