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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
An exploration of the many "feminisms" which pattern the rich and expanding field of feminist theory. Focus will be on feminism's intersection with many of the important theoretical movements of the 20th century, e.g., American Pragmatism, French philosophies, Marxism, Postmodernism, with special emphasis on Postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, Black, Lesbian, and Gay Studies, etc. Possible theorists are: Butler, Kristeva, Irigaray, Lorde, Hooks, Wittig, de Lauretis, Belsey, Minh-ha. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Race is a social construct that begs a number of philosophical questions, such as those of identity, inter-subjectivity, justice, rationality, and culturally different ways of knowing. The course will examine, among others, philosophical reflections on race by the following thinkers: Douglass, West, Fanon, Vasconcelos, Appiah, Bernsaconi, Outlaw, Levinas, Mendieta. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
History of 20th Century Analytic Philosophy. A study of the Anglo-American tradition that involves careful attention to logic, language, and analysis of concepts. Philosophers covered include Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Carnap, Austin, Quine, and Davidson. Prerequisite: Philosophy 201. 1 unit - Genova.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the existential, phenomenological, and postmodern traditions that arise in the 20th century in Germany and France. Philosophers covered may include, among others, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze, and Derrida. Prerequisite: Philosophy 201. 1 unit - Riker.
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3.00 Credits
In depth study of an important period, idea, text or philosopher. Courses offered under this rubric will vary from year to year. Block 6: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Shakespeare and the Philosophers. In this upper-division interdisciplinary seminar, students will explore the philosophical contexts for Shakespeare's plays. Themes this course will explore include individual authority and the construction of power, the rise of science, self-fashioning, and the efficacy of the individual, doubt and loss of the world. Readings will include selections from the most influential contemporaries and near contemporaries of Shakespeare. We'll explore Machiavelli's The Prince, Bacon's New Atlantis, Montaigne's Essays, and Descartes' Meditations in conversation with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Othello, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Prerequisite: 200 or 300 level lit course in CO, English or other lit or consent of instructor. (Also listed as Comparative Literature 352 and English 326.) 1 unit - Evitt, Genova.
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3.00 Credits
A study of one or more major texts by a single important philosopher. Possible texts for study might include, among others: Plato, Republic; Aristotle, Metaphysics; Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy and The Passions of the Soul; Spinoza, Ethics; Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature; Kant, Critique of Pure Reason; Hegel, Philosophy of Right; Heidegger, Being and Time; Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations; Derrida, Margins of Philosophy. Prerequisite: Philosophy 201. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the traditional questions of metaphysics, such as those concerning the existence and nature of God, the nature of Being, realism and idealism, identity, causation, freedom and determinism, and the relation of mind and body. Readings from traditional and contemporary philosophers. Prerequisite: 2 units in philosophy. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 Credits
A probing into the question of what it means to live a good human life in a contemporary world dominated by capitalism, abstract individualism, and psychic and social fragmentation. Readings from contemporary philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and social theory. 1 unit - Riker.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of what the discovery of unconscious mental functioning means in relation to philosophical problems in ethics, philosophical psychology, social theory, and theory of meaning. The course is grounded in the work of Freud and may include such post-Freudians as Lacan, Cixous, Winnicott, Klein, and Kohut. Prerequisite: 2 units in philosophy. 1 unit - Riker.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore a range of attempts to explain the emotions and their place in human life. Fear, pride, hope, disappointment, love, and regret will be studied both for their own sake and as sources of insight into the nature of meaningful action. Attention will be paid to the phenomenology and moral psychology of emotions and to such questions as how they might be justified and what sort of knowledge they may be able to provide. Prerequisite: 2 units in philosophy. 1 unit - Furtak.
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