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Johns Hopkins University - Prometheus Editorial Workshop

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Johns Hopkins University - Undergraduate Seminar: Morality and Law

This course will examine recent debates concerning the relationship between moral values and the law. Limited to philosophy majors and minors only.
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Johns Hopkins University - Greek Philosophy: Plato and His Predecessors

A study of pre-Socratic philosophers, especially those to whom Plato reacted; also an examination of major dialogues of Plato with emphasis upon his principal theses and characteristic methods. Cross-listed with Classics
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Johns Hopkins University - Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

An in depth study of Hegel’s first masterpiece, with special attention to the transitions between the various shapes of consciousness. This class will meet Tuesday and Thursday between March 23 and May 06, 2010 Prereq: Students must have read the Phenomenology prior to taking the seminar.
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Johns Hopkins University - Addiction, Depression, and the Self

An examination of the moral implications and effects of addiction, depression and Pharmacological treatments for depression on our conception of our own agency. Prereq: 150.219 (Bioethics), 150.220 (Introduction to Moral Philosophy), or permission required.
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Johns Hopkins University - Existentialism and the Project of Creating Oneself

This course will be an examination of possibility and significance of self-definition in the context of existentialism via a consideration of works by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus.
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Johns Hopkins University - The Ethics of Food

Eating is an essential human activity: we need to eat to survive. But alas, we need not eat well to survive, and many of us don’t. This course is about eating well—eating in a way that’s morally responsible, aesthetically pleasing, healthy, and that gives meaning to our lives. We’ll consider these ethical questions: Is it morally wrong to make animals suffer and to kill them in order to eat them? Does it depend upon the animal (e.g. cows vs. clams)? What are the environmental and social consequences of various eating habits (e.g.vegetarianism, veganism, eating locally, eating organic)? Do these environmental and social consequences generate moral obligations to adopt (or to abandon) the relevant eating habits? Should we eat in ways that express and honor our humanity, our cultures, our religions, and our family traditions—or is this comparatively unimportant? We’ll also consider government policies that affect our food choices: How can government policy shape our food choices? Given the individual and collective costs of certain food choices, should government policy aim to shape our food choices, or is that unacceptably paternalistic? Does the government have different responsibilities to shape children's food choices than adults’ food choices?
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Johns Hopkins University - Topics in Jewish Philosophy: Heresy

This course will study the history and transformations of the Jewish concept of ‘Apikorsut’ – a unique kind of heresy that refers to a rabbinic scholar turned into a heretic, while maintaining a tense dialogue with mainstream Rabbinic culture and community. We will particularly interested in the following questions: What makes a dissenter into an Apikoires? How does the Apikoires defer from the apostate? Why was philosophy as a whole considered (since the Late Middle Ages) as a discipline of Apikorsut?
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Johns Hopkins University - Introductions to the Foundations of Logic, Mathematics and Computation

This course replaces 150.218 Introduction to Logic and 150.420 Intermediate Symbol Logic. These courses were based on the sort of basic logic course that has been standardly taught by Philosophy departments for at least fifty years. But much has happened since then, and it is high time to begin introducing students to the more exciting developments earlier on so that they can get a sense for where the action is. Since the 1950's there have been major developments in the areas of lambda calculus and category theory and results such as the Curry-Howard isomophism showing how these are related to logic. For example, conclusions of arguments correspond to the existence of data types and proofs correspond to programs. In general, the course explores fundamental formal systems and their formal interpretations. Apart from covering basic systems of logic, we will look at different manners of interpreting basic mathematical concepts such as those of set, element, number, ordered pair, function, and mapping. Students enrolled at the 420 level will attend the same lectures and sections as 228 students but will investigate the material at a deeper level through more penetrating homework assignments.
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Johns Hopkins University - Philosophy of Religion from Plato to Nietzsche

How should one understand the relation between reason and religious faith? Are there rationally compelling arguments for belief in the existence of God? If not, are the ethical demands of religious faith problematic? And if religious faith is not founded on reason, what is the best explanation for it? We will examine these and related questions via influential writings from Plato, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche.
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