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  • PHIL 311: Robotics and the Transhuman Future

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    The field of cognitive robotics presents us with profound philosophical questions. Can robots be used to model or replicate human cognitive functions? How would robust robotic artificial intelligence change the world we live in? What would it mean to be human in a fully automated world? To begin to answer these questions we will create simple mechanical reasoning devices and discuss their relevance to philosophical theories of life and mind. We will use LEGO beams, plates, gears, motors, and a RCX micro controller board programmed in the LEGO or NQC (Not Quite C) language along with various sensors and motors to construct small autonomous robots. These robots will be used to try to re-create and explore the strengths and weaknesses of some recent experiments in the field of cognitive robotics.
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  • PHIL 313: Ethics in Science,Engineeri ng,and Inform ation Technology

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    Advanced sciences and high technologies constantly challenge our notions of ethics and morality. In this class we will look at ethical theories that seek to give guidance to scientists, engineers, and other technologists whose work is not only changing the way we live our lives but also our very understanding of life and our place in the universe. Students will look at case studies on topics such as: biotechnology, ethical decision-making in the technological design process, engineering disaster analysis, ethics and information technology, technology design and its impact on the traditional social contract.
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  • PHIL 315: Existentialism

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    Existentialism points to the philosophical significance of human existence itself: to do philosophy means to take oneself seriously as an embodied, finite subject, existing in the world and relating to other subjects. Existentialist thought is both a historical movement in philosophy and a methodology of philosophy. In this class, we will read several prominent existentialist philosophers and examine relevant themes such as the ethics of ambiguity, anxiety and dread, passion and desire, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, finitude and the divine, freedom and choice.
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  • PHIL 325: Environmental Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    This course examines the philosophical problems that emerge with sustained reflection on environmental issues. These problems include: the moral standing of non-human entities, the status of “value” in nature, and the status of “nature” itseas something other than human, and vice versa.
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  • PHIL 338: Philosophy of Emotion

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    A philosophical study of emotion, raising definitional, epistemological, metaphysical, and value questions about emotion. The course includes the study of particular emotions, such as love, compassion, fear, and pride, and makes use of information about emotions from the sciences and social sciences.
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  • PHIL 340: Buddhism and Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    From its historical beginnings in India to Japanese Zen and its eventual introduction to the West, Buddhism has had a distinctive and important impact on philosophical thought. The course will focus on the metaphysical, psychological, ethical, aesthetic, and practical dimensions of Buddhist teachings. Course content and historical emphasis will vary.
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  • PHIL 350: Topics in Moral Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    The aim of this course is to examine recent research and scholarship dealing with a wide range of problems and issues of concern to philosophers who are working in the area of practical philosophy. Some possible topics include: the roles of reason and emotion in moral motivation and judgment, the objectivity of value, the nature of moral identity, social dimensions to moral experience, advanced work in the theory of justice, the scope and limits of morality, the relationship between morality and self-interest, and the character of rational action.
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  • PHIL 355: American Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    This course surveys major themes and thinkers that define America’s distinct philosophical tradition. Stress will be on the origins of “Pragmatism” as a philosophicalmovement. Our focus will be on the classical thinkers: Emerson, Thoreau, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Mead, and extend to cover the “Neo-Pragmatism” of RichardRorty, Hilary Putnam, Cornell West, Stanley Cavell, and others. Course content and emphasis may vary.
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  • PHIL 360: Philosophy of Art and Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    An inquiry into the nature of art and literature. This course includes consideration of such topics as: The Possibility of Defining “Art,” Artistic Imagination, Creativity andGenius, the Purpose of Art, The Interpretation, and Critical Evaluation of Artworks and Works of Literature, Art and Literature in Everyday Life, and The Intriguing Relationship between Philosophy and Literature.
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  • PHIL 368: Philosophy and Film

    3.00 Credits
    Sonoma State University

    A turn to film and film studies in search of contemporary culture’s handling of philosophical themes. The course will develop strategies to study the hidden philosophical significance found within selections from film genres. Such study is indebted to the work of Stanley Cavell and his project to find in film the voices of a repressed American philosophy. Work from throughout critical theory will be considered.
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