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department Philosophy (X) |
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 4
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
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Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
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Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
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Ethical issues in public health are too often reduced to a simple conflict between an individual and society. The goal of this course is to go beyond such rudimentary treatments and grapple with the ethical issues in all their complexity. This challenge requires that we engage the issues at the intersection of normative and evidential concerns â the so-called âfact-valueâ divide. To this end, the course explores three ethically-and-empirically fraught issues: social justice, research ethics, and individual versus social responsibility, using lead contamination as a case study. Readings drawn from the disciplines of philosophy, public and environmental health, the social sciences, history, law, and policy will inform our discussion and treatment of these issues. Grading is based on a test, three short papers, and class participation.
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
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Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
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Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
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Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
We all know that the context in which something is said has a significant impact on communication. âI now pronounce you man and wifeâ has a certain significance when uttered by a clergyman in a church that is not had when the same sentence is uttered by a child playing with dolls. The sentence âThat was the most brilliant thing youâve ever saidâ means one thing when uttered sincerely and the opposite when uttered sarcastically. Some of the words in our language seem to have different meanings in different contexts. âForeignâ means one thing uttered in America and another when uttered in France. The purpose of this course is to study the relationship between context and meaning and how context impacts communication. Weâll study, among other things, words that depend on context for their meanings, utterances that actually perform an action (like the clergymanâs pronouncement), sarcasm, metaphor, and irony, and weâll examine different theories that attempt to explain these phenomena. Course requirements include two exams and two papers.
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Credits: 3
Score: 8.350637 Details | Listing | Web page
This course will examine the question of the meaning of human freedom on the basis of careful reading of major portions of Dante Alighieri's La Divina Commedia. The study will be an integrated approach that draws together elements from the disciplines of literature, psychology (especially the theories of Jung), philosophy, and theology. Based on an analysis of the text and discussion of selected critical literature, students will be asked to reflect on Dante's interpretation of the nature of freedom, how it functions in the formation of personal identity, and the role of imagination in the formation of culture and worldviews. In this context we will discuss the specifically Christian and medieval character of Dante's imagination as well as the problem of finding appropriate metaphors to situate these issues in the transformed historical context of contemporary life. The basic assumption of the course is that Commedia, while framed in terms of the fourteenth-century medieval culture, can speak vividly and directly to modern readers in terms of human experiences which are universal and fundamental, regardless of differences in time and place. Fall.
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