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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.150.201 (04)
Introduction To Greek Philosophy
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, W 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Bett, Richard
PHIL-ANCIEN
Introduction To Greek Philosophy AS.150.201 (04)
A survey of the earlier phase of Greek philosophy. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will be discussed, as well as two groups of thinkers who preceded them, usually known as the pre-Socratics and the Sophists.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, W 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Instructor: Bett, Richard
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/20
PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN
AS.040.109 (01)
Freshman Seminar: The Greeks and Their Emotions
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Asuni, Michele
Freshman Seminar: The Greeks and Their Emotions AS.040.109 (01)
This seminar is meant as an introduction to the study of ancient emotions, with a particular emphasis on how the ancient Greeks conceptualized, portrayed and lived their emotions through linguistic, literary and artistic expression. After an analysis of how the ancient Greek emotional experience differs from our own, we shall focus on the phenomenon of emotion as deeply rooted in the physical body, and in light of this we will contemplate (and question) its universality. You will also learn how to research and write a paper. Texts will be read in translation. No knowledge of ancient Greek required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Asuni, Michele
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.150.136 (02)
Philosophy & Science: An Introduction to Both
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Achinstein, Peter
COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI, MSCH-HUM
Philosophy & Science: An Introduction to Both AS.150.136 (02)
Philosophers and scientists raise important questions about the nature of the physical world, the mental world, the relationship between them, and the right methods to use in their investigations of these worlds. The answers they present are very different. Scientists are usually empiricists, and want to answer questions by experiment and observation. Philosophers don’t want to do this, but defend their views a priori. Why? Can both be right? Readings will present philosophical and scientific views about the world and our knowledge of it. They will include selections from major historical and contemporary figures in philosophy and science. The course has no prerequisites in philosophy or science.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/20
PosTag(s): COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI, MSCH-HUM
AS.150.219 (01)
Intro to Bioethics
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Bok, Hilary
PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, BEHB-SOCSCI, MSCH-HUM
Intro to Bioethics AS.150.219 (01)
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
A survey of the earlier phase of Greek philosophy. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will be discussed, as well as two groups of thinkers who preceded them, usually known as the pre-Socratics and the Sophists.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Bett, Richard
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN
AS.150.136 (03)
Philosophy & Science: An Introduction to Both
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Achinstein, Peter
COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI, MSCH-HUM
Philosophy & Science: An Introduction to Both AS.150.136 (03)
Philosophers and scientists raise important questions about the nature of the physical world, the mental world, the relationship between them, and the right methods to use in their investigations of these worlds. The answers they present are very different. Scientists are usually empiricists, and want to answer questions by experiment and observation. Philosophers don’t want to do this, but defend their views a priori. Why? Can both be right? Readings will present philosophical and scientific views about the world and our knowledge of it. They will include selections from major historical and contemporary figures in philosophy and science. The course has no prerequisites in philosophy or science.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI, MSCH-HUM
AS.150.136 (04)
Philosophy & Science: An Introduction to Both
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Achinstein, Peter
COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI, MSCH-HUM
Philosophy & Science: An Introduction to Both AS.150.136 (04)
Philosophers and scientists raise important questions about the nature of the physical world, the mental world, the relationship between them, and the right methods to use in their investigations of these worlds. The answers they present are very different. Scientists are usually empiricists, and want to answer questions by experiment and observation. Philosophers don’t want to do this, but defend their views a priori. Why? Can both be right? Readings will present philosophical and scientific views about the world and our knowledge of it. They will include selections from major historical and contemporary figures in philosophy and science. The course has no prerequisites in philosophy or science.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/20
PosTag(s): COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI, MSCH-HUM
AS.150.136 (01)
Philosophy & Science: An Introduction to Both
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Achinstein, Peter
COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI, MSCH-HUM
Philosophy & Science: An Introduction to Both AS.150.136 (01)
Philosophers and scientists raise important questions about the nature of the physical world, the mental world, the relationship between them, and the right methods to use in their investigations of these worlds. The answers they present are very different. Scientists are usually empiricists, and want to answer questions by experiment and observation. Philosophers don’t want to do this, but defend their views a priori. Why? Can both be right? Readings will present philosophical and scientific views about the world and our knowledge of it. They will include selections from major historical and contemporary figures in philosophy and science. The course has no prerequisites in philosophy or science.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/20
PosTag(s): COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI, MSCH-HUM
AS.150.201 (03)
Introduction To Greek Philosophy
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Bett, Richard
PHIL-ANCIEN
Introduction To Greek Philosophy AS.150.201 (03)
A survey of the earlier phase of Greek philosophy. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will be discussed, as well as two groups of thinkers who preceded them, usually known as the pre-Socratics and the Sophists.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Bett, Richard
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN
AS.150.201 (02)
Introduction To Greek Philosophy
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, W 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Bett, Richard
PHIL-ANCIEN
Introduction To Greek Philosophy AS.150.201 (02)
A survey of the earlier phase of Greek philosophy. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will be discussed, as well as two groups of thinkers who preceded them, usually known as the pre-Socratics and the Sophists.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, W 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Instructor: Bett, Richard
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/20
PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN
AS.150.219 (02)
Intro to Bioethics
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Bok, Hilary
PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, BEHB-SOCSCI, MSCH-HUM
Intro to Bioethics AS.150.219 (02)
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Our minds are often thought to be exhaustively and intimately known to us. Despite this philosophers deeply disagree about the natures of the mental states and events which make up our minds. And there is equally little agreement as to what makes such states and events count as mental in the first place. This course will investigate the nature of different aspects of mind and their interrelations. Students will explore debates and puzzles about the nature of perception, memory, imagination, dreaming, pain and bodily sensation, emotion, action, volition and those states commonly classed as propositional attitudes: knowledge, belief, desire and intention. This will put us in a position to ask what if anything unifies such phenomena as mental.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/20
PosTag(s): COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-MIND
AS.150.219 (10)
Intro to Bioethics
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Bok, Hilary
PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, BEHB-SOCSCI, MSCH-HUM
Intro to Bioethics AS.150.219 (10)
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Our minds are often thought to be exhaustively and intimately known to us. Despite this philosophers deeply disagree about the natures of the mental states and events which make up our minds. And there is equally little agreement as to what makes such states and events count as mental in the first place. This course will investigate the nature of different aspects of mind and their interrelations. Students will explore debates and puzzles about the nature of perception, memory, imagination, dreaming, pain and bodily sensation, emotion, action, volition and those states commonly classed as propositional attitudes: knowledge, belief, desire and intention. This will put us in a position to ask what if anything unifies such phenomena as mental.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-MIND
AS.150.219 (13)
Intro to Bioethics
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Bok, Hilary
PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, BEHB-SOCSCI, MSCH-HUM
Intro to Bioethics AS.150.219 (13)
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, W 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, W 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
In this course we will examine major issues in the philosophy of law, including the nature of law, the role of the Constitution in legal decisions, and the justification of punishment. No previous knowledge of law or philosophy is required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Moyar, Dean
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): INST-PT, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.423 (01)
Theory of Knowledge
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Williams, Michael
COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-MIND
Theory of Knowledge AS.150.423 (01)
An advanced introduction to the central problems, concepts and theories of contemporary philosophical epistemology (theory of knowledge). Topics to be explored will includes: what is knowledge (and why do we want it)?; theories of justification (foundationalism, the coherence theory, etc.); externalism and internalism in epistemology; skepticism, relativism and how to avoid them. Reading from contemporary sources.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Williams, Michael
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-MIND
AS.150.219 (09)
Intro to Bioethics
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Bok, Hilary
PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, BEHB-SOCSCI, MSCH-HUM
Intro to Bioethics AS.150.219 (09)
Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
In this course, we will consider various philosophical issues related to disability. What counts as a disability? What obligations do we have, both as individuals and as a society, to people with disabilities? What counts as respecting people with disabilities, and what counts as unjustifiable discrimination against them?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Bok, Hilary
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.331 (01)
Themes from the Philosophy of Religion
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Lossau, Jens Tammo
PHIL-ETHICS, PHIL-MIND
Themes from the Philosophy of Religion AS.150.331 (01)
Religion has always been a contested and extensively debated topic throughout the history of philosophy, and the topics from the philosophy of religion are still relevant today. In this course, we will look at several of those topics: what is religion? Do we have reason to believe or not believe in God? How does God relate to the world (or are there many Gods)? How can we understand religious practice? And what role (if any) should religion play in our society?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Lossau, Jens Tammo
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/18
PosTag(s): PHIL-ETHICS, PHIL-MIND
AS.150.498 (01)
Modal Logic and Its Applications
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Bledin, Justin
COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI
Modal Logic and Its Applications AS.150.498 (01)
In the first part of the course, we'll investigate the theory of modal logic, considering its syntax, semantics, and proof theory. We'll then turn to some its philosophical applications: epistemic logic, counterfactuals, deontic logic, intuitionistic logic, and the metaphysics of time.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Bledin, Justin
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/20
PosTag(s): COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-LOGSCI
AS.150.473 (01)
Classics of Analytic Philosophy
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Williams, Michael
Classics of Analytic Philosophy AS.150.473 (01)
A reading of some of the classic philosophical works in 20th Century Analytic Philosophy, beginning with G. Frege and ending with V.O. Quine.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Williams, Michael
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.150.476 (01)
Philosophy and Cognitive Science
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Gross, Steven
COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-MIND
Philosophy and Cognitive Science AS.150.476 (01)
This year's topic is perception. Questions will include: In what ways might perceptual states be like and unlike pictures? Does what we believe affect what we perceive? Is linguistic comprehension a kind of perception?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Gross, Steven
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): COGS-PHLMND, PHIL-MIND
AS.150.486 (01)
Moral Imagination
Lebron, Christopher Joseph
PHIL-ETHICS
Moral Imagination AS.150.486 (01)
This course explores the relationship between moral principles and how we use imagination to put or fail to put principles to work. We will read widely and eclectically in exploring this relationship.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.483 (01)
Evidence, Foundations of Probability, and Speculation
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Achinstein, Peter
PHIL-LOGSCI
Evidence, Foundations of Probability, and Speculation AS.150.483 (01)
The course examines major theories about the meaning of evidence and probability, and in terms of these provides answers to the questions “What is a scientific speculation?” and “When, if at all, is speculating important or even legitimate in science?” No preview study of evidence or probability is required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-LOGSCI
AS.211.265 (02)
Panorama of German Thought
WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Tobias, Rochelle
GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-GERM, INST-PT, INST-GLOBAL
Panorama of German Thought AS.211.265 (02)
This course introduces students to major figures and trends in German literature and thought from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. We will pay particular attention to the evolution of German political thought from the Protestant Reformation to the foundation of the German Federal Republic after WWII. How did the Protestant Reformation affect the understanding of the state, rights, civic institutions, and temporal authority in Germany? How did German Enlightenment thinkers conceive of ethics and politics or morality and rights? How do German writers define the nation, community, and the people or das Volk? What is the link between romanticism and nationalism? To what degree is political economy, as developed by Marx, a critical response to romanticism? How did German thinkers conceive of power and force in the wake of World Wars I and II? What are the ties that bind and rend a community in this tradition? We will consider these and related questions in this course through careful readings of selected works.
Much attention has been paid to Plato's logoi (arguments). Less attention has been paid to his mythoi (stories). In this course we will examine Plato's myths and their relation to his deductive arguments. We will encounter stories about the Greek gods, love, the soul, and the afterlife. We will read the Euthyphro, the Symposium, the Apology, the Phaedo, the Republic, and secondary literature on these dialogues. No previous coursework in philosophy is required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Cummings, Cara Rei
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN
AS.213.374 (01)
Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
GRLL-ENGL
Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy AS.213.374 (01)
This course explores the themes of existentialism, including the meaning of existence, the nature of the self, authenticity and inauthenticity, the inescapability of death, the experience of time, anxiety, freedom and responsibility to others, in literary and philosophical works. It will be examined why these philosophical ideas often seem to demand literary expression, or bear a close relation to literary works. Readings may include writings by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Rilke, Kafka, Simmel, Jaspers, Buber, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL
AS.300.399 (01)
Cinema and Philosophy
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Marrati, Paola
Cinema and Philosophy AS.300.399 (01)
Do movies have anything to say about philosophical problems? Why is contemporary philosophy so interested in cinema? What are the most productive ways of bringing films and philosophy into conversation?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Marrati, Paola
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.306 (01)
Feminist and Queer Theory: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality-Intersectional Feminist Theory
M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Hussein, Rima
Feminist and Queer Theory: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality-Intersectional Feminist Theory AS.363.306 (01)
In this course, we will get to know intersectional feminist philosophy through the lens of a Black feminist epistemology. What does this mean? That means that we will focus on how the contributions of Black feminist authors can bring out the specific political and philosophical nature of an intersectional theoretical framework.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Instructor: Hussein, Rima
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.365.100 (06)
Feminism
W 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Kosch, Michelle
Feminism AS.365.100 (06)
Women as a group, in comparison with men, hold less political and economic power, work more hours while being paid less, and are more likely to be victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and harassment. These differences are dramatic and are historically and geographically widespread. Feminists are people who find this state of affairs objectionable, and who wonder how it was brought about, how it is maintained, and what can be done to ameliorate it. Philosophers are people who ask questions that can seem to non-philosophers to be very elementary (however interesting and hard they may actually be). This course surveys some philosophical contributions to feminism. Our questions will include: What is oppression? sexism? objectification? Can family structures be just or unjust? What is it to be a person (in the moral sense)? What is it to be autonomous in the sphere of reproduction? What are women? What is gender? And the like.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Instructor: Kosch, Michelle
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/14
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.365.100 (05)
Moral Relativism
M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Korzukhin, Theodore M
Moral Relativism AS.365.100 (05)
Moral disagreement is a puzzling phenomenon, and perhaps a deep one that tells us something about the nature of morality. One familiar response to apparently irresolvable moral disagreements is moral relativism: the view that what is right and wrong is somehow relative to individuals, or to cultures. But even if we reject relativism, the question how we know what we know about morality remains: if we can say nothing on this score, we might end up moral skeptics. We shall look at some recent research in moral psychology (including the evolutionary perspective on morality) to help us understand where our moral judgments come from, and to what extent we can trust them.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Instructor: Korzukhin, Theodore M
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/14
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.213.271 (01)
Trust: Literature and Philosophy
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Yonover, Jason Maurice
Trust: Literature and Philosophy AS.213.271 (01)
Fake news, policing crises, political polarization, and the like challenge us to reevaluate the notion of trust. The course takes up this challenge with the help of both literary and philosophical texts that shall assist us in posing, and trying to answer, questions such as the following: What or whom should we trust (ourselves, others, neither)? Is it possible and sometimes even preferable not to trust? Or should we cultivate trust in society? If so, how? Authors may include ETA Hoffmann, Hegel, Nietzsche, and others.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Yonover, Jason Maurice
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.223 (01)
Philosophy and Infinity.
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Host, Alexander Stoltzfus
Philosophy and Infinity. AS.300.223 (01)
What is the infinite? Can we comprehend it? Can we experience it? In this course we will explore various ways in which philosophers in the western tradition have answered questions such as these. In the first half of the semester, we will examine theoretical treatments of the infinite that inform how we understand the fabric of our world, from the ordinary objects around us to more sublime concepts of God, space, time, and mathematics. In the second half, we will turn to arguments in aesthetics and ethics that reveal an interplay between infinity and finitude occurring before our very eyes. Philosophers we will cover include Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Russell, Levinas, and Arendt. Throughout, we will ask such fundamental questions as, what is the starting point of philosophy? what is its methodology? what can it achieve in terms of knowledge? and in terms of practice?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Host, Alexander Stoltzfus
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.213.271 (02)
Trust: Literature and Philosophy
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM, Th 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Yonover, Jason Maurice
Trust: Literature and Philosophy AS.213.271 (02)
Fake news, policing crises, political polarization, and the like challenge us to reevaluate the notion of trust. The course takes up this challenge with the help of both literary and philosophical texts that shall assist us in posing, and trying to answer, questions such as the following: What or whom should we trust (ourselves, others, neither)? Is it possible and sometimes even preferable not to trust? Or should we cultivate trust in society? If so, how? Authors may include ETA Hoffmann, Hegel, Nietzsche, and others.
