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The schoolyard wisdom about "sticks and stones" does not take one very far: insults not only take the form of words, and even words have effects. What kind of injury is an insult? Is it infliction determined by the insulter or the insulted? What does it reveal of the character of each and of the character of society and its conventions? What is its role in social and legal life (from play to jokes to ritual to war and from blasphemy to defamation to hate speech)? Philosophical, anthropological, psychoanalytic, and legal approaches to the questions are emphasized. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 290Y. (Formerly Insults and Intentions.) Prerequisite(s): two from courses 91, 93, and 94; and satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 22. (General Education Code(s): W.)
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A study of correct reasoning, concentrating on developing the skills necessary to distinguish logically correct from logically incorrect arguments. The emphasis is on modern symbolic logic, although the traditional theory of the syllogism is also covered. (General Education Code(s): IH, Q.) (F)
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An introduction to the main areas of philosophy using both classic and contemporary sources. Focuses on central and enduring problems in philosophy such as skepticism about the external world, the mind-body problem, and the nature of morality. (General Education Code(s): IH.)
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A consideration of ethical issues and theories focusing on the foundation of moral value and the principles governing character and behavior. Designed to extend and develop the student's abilities in philosophical reasoning about ethics. (General Education Code(s): IH.)
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An examination of the conceptual and moral issues that arise in connection with such topics as abortion, racism and war and violence, world hunger, humans and their interactions with the nonhuman environment. The readings are drawn from recent philosophical articles on these topics. (General Education Code(s): IH.)
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A survey of recent movements in European thought, such as phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, continental feminism, and poststructuralism, with some attention to their 19th-century precursors. Selections from major philosophical treatises are supplemented with literary works. (General Education Code(s): IH.)
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This course is an introduction to the moral issues raised by our interactions with nonhuman animals and with the rest of the natural environment. The course will relate traditional moral theories to contemporary literature on the ethics of nature conservation and environmental protection. The course is intended as a first course in philosophy as well as a first course in ethics; therefore, questions concerning the nature of philosophical inquiry and the ways in which philosophical inquiry is different from inquiries conducted within other disciplines will also be addressed. (General Education Code(s): IH.)
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Is there a general school of philosophy endemic to Latin America? Would it have to appeal to quintessential Western philosophical questions regarding knowledge, values, and reality? If not, why not, and would it then still count as philosophy? What difference do ethnic and national diversity, as well as strong political and social inequality, make to the development of philosophical questions and frameworks? Course explores a variety of historically situated Latin American thinkers who investigate ethnic identity, gender, and socio-political inequality and liberation, and historical memory, and who have also made important contributions to mainstream analytical and continental philosophy. (Also offered as Latin American&Latino Studies 80E. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts, E.)
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Many philosophical problems have origins in puzzles and paradoxes. One of the most famous is Zeno's paradox of motion. Among others are paradox of the heap (Sorties paradox), Newcomb's puzzle (puzzle about rational decision making), Problem of the Many (problem about material objects), and Liar paradox (paradox for semantics). Over long history of philosophy, many such puzzles and paradoxes have been discovered; some have been solved, and others have yet to be solved. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.)
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Serves science and non-science majors interested in bioethics. Guest speakers and instructors lead discussions of major ethical questions having arisen from research in genetics, medicine, and industries supported by this knowledge. (Also offered as Biomolecular Engineering 80G. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) (General Education Code(s): T6-Natural Sciences or Humanities and Arts.)
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Provides a philosophical perspective concerning the revolution in the understanding of science that generated the so-called "science wars." Introduces the changed philosophical understanding of science shared and presupposed in the fields of science, technology, and society. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.)
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Introduction to core philosophical issues in the biological sciences. Covers such conceptual issues as the nature of evolutionary theory; choosing the unit of selection; the relationship between evolution and development; whether all biological phenomena are reducible to genes; and the definition of adaptions, and how to identify them. (Also offered as Biology: Molecular Cell & Dev 80R. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) (General Education Code(s): T6-Natural Sciences or Humanities and Arts.)
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A survey of what philosophers have said about the nature of science and scientific change. Emphasis is placed on whether science is best characterized as the gradual accumulation of truth or whether truth is irrelevant to scientific change. (General Education Code(s): T6-Natural Sciences or Humanities and Arts.)
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Survey of ancient Greek philosophy of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Begins with Socrates and the pre-Socratics, then undertakes an intensive study of Plato and Aristotle. Course then surveys the main developments that follow: Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism. (General Education Code(s): W satisfied by taking this course and either course 93 or 94.) Prerequisite(s): course 9; courses 11 or 22 or 24 or 28 or any 80 course; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements.
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A study of the historical background and the present relevance of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. (General Education Code(s): W satisfied by taking this course and either course 91 or 94.) Prerequisite(s): course 9; courses 11 or 22 or 24 or 28 or any 80 course; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements.
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A critical study (based on original texts) of Locke, Berkeley, and especially Hume on the nature of knowledge, perception, causation, morality, religion, and political society. (General Education Code(s): W satisfied by taking this course and either course 91 or 93.) Prerequisite(s): course 9; courses 11 or 22 or 24 or 28 or any 80 course; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements.
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Study of philosophical movement called the Vienna Circle, named so chiefly for intellectual excellence of its members, but also for external historical reasons. Course pays careful attention to intercultural aspects of ideas of the Vienna Circle: intellectual climate under which these ideas were formed, how thoughts of its members found an echo outside of Austria, and how they made a lasting influence on philosophical thinking in England and in U.S.
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Intensive study of Kant's philosophy, particularly his epistemology and metaphysics developed in his Critique of Pure Reason. Prerequisite(s): course 91 or 93 or 94. Enrollment limited to 70.
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A study of some European philosophers of the 19th century, with particular attention to Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. (Formerly course 108.) Prerequisite(s): course 91 or 93 or 94.
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French phenomenology includes primarily the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Additional topics include the nature of consciousness and agency. Course includes discussion of French feminists' reactions to Simone de Beauvoir and Emmanuel Levinas. (Formerly course 109, Phenomenology to Poststructuralism) Prerequisite(s): course 91 or 93 or 94.
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The three major poststructuralist philosophers are Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze. After studying their rejection of phenomenological accounts of consciousness and agency—as well as their program for studying power, bio-power, multiplicity, difference, and repetition—current critics , such as Slavoj Zizek and Judith Butler ,are also read for contrast between the methods of phenomenology, genealogy, and critical theory. Prerequisite(s): course 91 or 93 or 94.
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A close study of early and late texts by Martin Heidegger, especially Being and Time. Prerequisite(s): course 91 or 93 or 94. Enrollment limited to 45.
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Study of recent work in continental philosophy. Topics vary. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior philosophy majors.
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Study of classical American philosophers, specifically Emerson, Peirce, James, and Dewey, with emphasis on their views of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of religion. Some attention is also paid to recent pragmatic tendencies in American philosophy. Prerequisite(s): course 91 or 93 or 94.
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An examination of the beginnings of analytic philosophy, with primary interest in the reformulation of traditional philosophical problems by Frege, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein. Some attention is also paid to the development of Vienna Circle logical positivism (Schlick, Carnap, Waismann). Prerequisite(s): course 91 or 93 or 94. Enrollment limited to 39. May be repeated for credit.
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