Through readings, film and other media this course explores debates about knowledge, truth, reality, religion,morality, politics, and the meaning of...
Questions about knowledge and reality, mind and body, morality and justice, truth and beauty,sex and gender, God
A study of selected works by great philosophers from Socrates to the present. Stress will be laid on the systematic unity of the thought of individual...
Apparently simple conceptions sometimes especially capture our imagination. Examples: Descartes's "I think, therefore I am," McLuhan's "the medium is...
An introduction to basic principles of reasoning and critical thinking designed to enhance the student's ability to evaluate various forms of...
This course develops students' ability to approach disputed questions by seeing them from both sides, so that they reach their own view only after...
This half-course treats the major work(s) of some philosopher or philosophical school announced annually. The development of the philosophers' ideas...
Basic philosophical ideas in Indian, Chinese and Japanese thought. Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism and Zen are compared as...
Witches: who they were, why they were thought to be witches by themselves and others, what was done to them and why? The course will treat a number of...
Modern formal logic including argument structure, propositional logic and elementary quantification. Applications to everyday reasoning and to...
A survey of decision theory, game theory, systems analysis and other recent technical developments combined with a consideration of rationality and...
Economic life and economic science in philosophical perspective. Classical and contemporary philosophers are studied on such issues as property and...
An introductory discussion dealing with such issues as the demarcation between science and pseudo-science, the notion of scientific explanation, the...
Astronauts age more slowly. Time can have a beginning. Space and time are curved. All these surprising claims are consequences of Einstein's...
An examination of several key issues arising out of the present environmental crisis. Sample topics include: to what extent the environmental crisis...
Our changing relationship to the natural world, and ability to affect Earth's future, bring urgent philosophical questions with real-world...
An investigation of some of the philosophical questions raised by Freud's theory of the unconscious, of the status of Freud's theory as a "science,"...
A study of philosophical approaches to evil from the Enlightenment to the present day. Topics include the existence of evil as a challenge to...
Techniques of moral analysis and evaluation are studied in the context of practical moral issues concerning the good life, the rights of the...
An introduction to ethical issues that arise in the delivery of health care such as human experimentation, informed consent, and the allocation of...