INTRODUCTION TO CURRENT MORAL & SOCIAL ISSUES
Course# 50:730:105:01
T/TH 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Professor Young
GEN ED: EAV
Introduction to moral theory and application to selected contemporary issues. Possible topics include abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, punishment, equality, sexism, racism, affirmative action, privacy, obligations to the world’s needy, treatment of animals, drug use, and the meaning of life.
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Course# 50:730:111:01
M/W 3:45 pm – 5:05 pm
Professor Rooney
GEN ED: EAV
An exploration of central philosophical problems, such as truth, justice, mind, and person, with a view to surveying the field and locating particular philosophical specialties within it such as logic, ethics, and metaphysics.
READING SEMINAR
Course# 50:730:190:01
M 9:05 am – 11:15 am, meets every other Monday
Professor Agule
In this small, seminar-style course, students will work through either one significant book or a similarly substantive collection of essays, with the topic varying by semester. Students will engage in intensive close reading of the philosophical texts, identifying particular arguments, premises, and claims for assessment during student discussion in the seminar meetings. The course meets for 1/3 the time of a regular course, that is, on average one hour a week (or two hours every other week). This course can be repeated up to three times for credit. (Note that there is also a similar course in Religion, 50:840:190, which can be taken up to an additional three times).
AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY
Course# 50:730:216:01
Cross listed with 50:014:216:01
M/W 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm
Professor Agule
GEN ED: GCM (Global Communities)
Africana (or African-American) philosophy, the modern intellectual tradition of the African diaspora in North America and the Caribbean, deals with philosophical issues related to identity, race, and culture; the phenomenon and experience of oppression and liberation; and contemporary philosophical concerns about the black past, present, and future.
SELF AND IDENTITY
Course# 50:730:222:01
T/TH 9:35 am – 10:55 am
Professor Denehy
GEN ED: EAV (Ethics and Values)
An exploration of the nature of the self, with emphasis on the conditions for remaining the same person over time and the relation between selfhood and moral responsibility.
DEBATING ETHICAL ISSUES ACROSS DISCIPLINES
Course# 50:730:240:01
T/TH 11:10 am – 12:30 pm
Professor Wall
GEN ED: EAV (Ethics and Values), XPL (Experiential Learning)
Critical examination within social philosophy of sex, gender, sexual identity, and sexuality. Topics include ways we understand sexual attraction and desire, how we determine our sexual identity, ideas of femininity and masculinity as they are reinforced through cultural and social norms, the regulation of sexuality and marriage, the publicity of sex and sexuality, and the relationship and tension between multiculturalism and feminism. Class includes applications of concepts to contemporary debates concerning parenting, pornography, sex education, same sex marriage, harassment law, and transgenderism.
BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Course# 50:730:249:01
T/TH 8:00 am – 9:20 am
Professor Denehy
GEN ED: EAV
Exploration of moral issues in medicine and medical research. Course will typically focus on issues raised by the creation and termination of life and include topics such as abortion, stem cell research, cloning, prenatal screening for disability, right to medical care, human experimentation, genetic enhancement and eugenics, animal experimentation, the diagnosis of death, and euthanasia.
BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Course# 50:730:249:90
Online
Professor Gentzel
BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Course# 50:730:249:92
Professor Gentzel
BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Course# 50:730:249:94
Professor Gentzel
BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Course# 50:730:249:96
Professor Gentzel
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
Course# 50:730:258:01
M/W 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm
Professor Agule
GEN ED: EAV (Ethics and Values)
Introduction to philosophical issues concerning the nature of law and its relation to morality and to power. Focuses on the concept of justice and punishment, the function of law, and types of legal argument. Legal materials include cases drawn from constitutional law, contracts, torts, and criminal law.
PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN FILM
Course# 50:730:264:90
Online
Professor Young
GEN ED: AAI (Art, Aesthetics, and Theories of Interpretation)
An exploration of classic philosophical questions as represented in film. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) truth, skepticism, relativism, personal identity, determinism, artificial intelligence, and the problem of evil. Film representations of these classic questions will be identified and evaluated from the perspective of various philosophers, possibly including Plato, Russell, James, Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Locke, Hume, and others.
ETHICS AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
Course# 50:730:329:01
M/W 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm
Professor Rooney
GEN ED: EAV (Ethics and Values)
Exploration of moral and social issues pertaining to emerging technologies. Topics covered include human enhancement, artificial intelligence, robotics, reproductive technology and cloning, and artificial life.