| PHIL 102-01 |
Introduction to Ethics
Instructor: Jim Sias
Course Description:
An introduction to the philosophical study of morality, focusing on concepts of right and wrong, virtue and vice, and wellbeing. This course provides students the opportunity to hone their ethical reasoning skills by critically examining how some of historys most influential philosophers thought about issues in morality. Students will also develop more general skills, such as evaluating philosophical arguments, and expressing and defending their own ideas in writing.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| PHIL 103-01 |
Logic
Instructor: Jeff Engelhardt
Course Description:
The study and practice of forms and methods of argumentation in ordinary and symbolic languages, focusing on elements of symbolic logic and critical reasoning, including analysis and assessment of arguments in English, symbolizing sentences and arguments, constructing formal proofs of validity in sentential and quantificational logic.Offered every semester, or every three out of four semesters.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
EASTC 411 |
| PHIL 104-01 |
Practical Ethics
Instructor: Amy McKiernan
Course Description:
This course introduces students to contemporary debates in practical ethics. Course materials investigate how theoretical approaches to ethics apply to practical issues, including discussions of animal ethics, environmental ethics, reproductive ethics, civil disobedience, and the ethics of mass incarceration and the death penalty. This course is best suited for students interested in thinking about the relationship between ethical theory and practice, with an emphasis on how power, privilege, and responsibility intersect in our everyday lives.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
EASTC 411 |
| PHIL 180-01 |
Political Philosophy
Instructor: Matthew Draper
Course Description:
Cross-listed with POSC 180-01. An introduction to the history of political thought, focused on such problems as the nature of justice, the meaning of freedom, the requirements of equality, the prevalence of moral dilemmas in political life, the question of whether we ought to obey the law, and the importance of power in politics. We will also discuss how these issues continue to resonate today.This course is cross-listed as POSC 180.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 311 |
| PHIL 180-02 |
Political Philosophy
Instructor: POSC STAFF, Toby Reiner
Course Description:
Cross-listed with POSC 180-02. An introduction to the history of political thought, focused on such problems as the nature of justice, the meaning of freedom, the requirements of equality, the prevalence of moral dilemmas in political life, the question of whether we ought to obey the law, and the importance of power in politics. We will also discuss how these issues continue to resonate today.This course is cross-listed as POSC 180.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 104 |
| PHIL 201-01 |
Ancient Philosophy
Instructor: Emma Dyson
Course Description:
Cross-listed with CLST 200-01. This course is an introduction to central questions, claims and arguments in ancient philosophy, centering on the work of Plato and Aristotle. Potential questions include: What is the value of reason and knowledge? What is knowledge? Is it always better to be just than unjust? What constitutes a good human life? What kind of thing is a human being?
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 411 |
| PHIL 215-01 |
Existentialism
Instructor: Amy McKiernan
Course Description:
A study of existentialist thinkers, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus, who treat the human condition as irreducibly
individual and yet philosophically communicable, and for whom the experience of the existing individual is of primary importance in issues
ranging from one's relationship to God to the inevitability of death.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| PHIL 220-01 |
Biomedical Ethics
Instructor: Amy McKiernan
Course Description:
A study of ethical issues arising in the context of medical practice, biomedical research, and health related policy making, with focus on the ethical concepts, theories and reasoning methods developed to clarify and resolve these issues.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 314 |
| PHIL 258-01 |
Philosophy of Data
Instructor: Emily Kelahan
Course Description:
Cross-listed with DATA 198-01. This an introduction to philosophical issues arising in data science. Students will discuss, read and write about some important ethical issues that arise in the practice of data sciences, such as discrimination, privacy, consent, trust, and justice. To help clarify those issues, students will also learn about some connected issues in the epistemology and metaphysics of data science, such as the nature of statistical inference and of algorithms. Prerequisites: MATH 121 or DATA/COMP/MATH 180 or ECON 298. This course is cross-listed as DATA 198. Offered every semester.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
ALTHSE 08 |
| PHIL 261-01 |
Pierre Bourdieu and Symbolic Violence
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SOCI 313-01 and EDST 391-02.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 303 |
| PHIL 301-01 |
Metaphysics
Instructor: Jeff Engelhardt
Course Description:
This seminar will treat key issues in metaphysics, such as the self and personal identity, free will, universals and particulars, causation, reductionism, naturalism, realism and anti-realism, and the very possibility of metaphysics. Prerequisites: three prior courses in philosophy, at least two at the 200 level, or permission of the instructor.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
EASTC 108 |
| PHIL 401-01 |
Senior Seminar
Instructor: Emily Kelahan
Course Description:
A seminar focusing in depth on a selected philosophical topic, author or text with special emphasis on student philosophical writing and voice. Prerequisites: three prior courses in philosophy, at least one at the 300-level, or permission of the instructor.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 112 |