Courses
This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses in this department for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.
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Spring 2012
| COURSE |
TITLE |
SCHEDULE/
UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS |
LOCATION |
INSTRUCTOR(S) |
| PHIL B102-001 |
Science and Morality in Modernity |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW |
Taylor Hall E |
Koggel,C. |
| PHIL B204-001 |
Readings in German Intellectual History |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH |
Taylor Hall, Seminar Room |
Seyhan,A. |
| PHIL B221-001 |
Ethics |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH |
Taylor Hall E |
Koggel,C. |
| PHIL B222-001 |
Aesthetics Nature and Experience of Art |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM T |
Russian Center Seminar Room |
Krausz,M. |
| PHIL B228-001 |
Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient and Early Modern |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM MW |
Dalton Hall 2 |
Salkever,S. |
| PHIL B240-001 |
Environmental Ethics |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW |
Taylor Hall B |
Brook,A. |
| PHIL B317-001 |
Philosophy of Creativity |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM TH |
Thomas Hall 118 |
Krausz,M. |
| PHIL B319-001 |
Philosophy of Mind |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH |
Taylor Hall B |
Brook,A. |
| PHIL B323-001 |
Culture and Interpretation |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM W |
Thomas Hall 251 |
Krausz,M. |
| PHIL B327-001 |
Political Philosophy in the 20th Century |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM T |
Dalton Hall 25 |
Salkever,S., Salkever,S., Salkever,S. |
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LEC: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM TH |
Dalton Hall 212A |
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LEC: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM F |
Dalton Hall 10 |
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| PHIL B372-001 |
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH |
Park 349 |
Eaton,E. |
| PHIL B380-001 |
Persons, Morality and Modernity |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM M |
Dalton Hall 6 |
Elkins,J. |
| PHIL B399-001 |
Senior Seminar |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M |
Thomas Hall 121 |
Dept. staff, TBA |
Fall 2012
Spring 2013
| COURSE |
TITLE |
SCHEDULE/
UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS |
LOCATION |
INSTRUCTOR(S) |
| PHIL B101-001 |
Happiness and Reality in Ancient Thought |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW |
Thomas Hall 116 |
Dostal,R. |
| PHIL B102-001 |
Science and Morality in Modernity |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH |
Taylor Hall F |
Vitale,S. |
| PHIL B211-001 |
Theory of Knowledge |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM T |
Thomas Hall 251 |
Krausz,M. |
| PHIL B228-001 |
Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient and Early Modern |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW |
Thomas Hall 104 |
Salkever,S. |
| PHIL B252-001 |
Feminist Theory |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH |
Thomas Hall 118 |
Koggel,C. |
| PHIL B310-001 |
Philosophy of Science |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM W |
Thomas Hall 251 |
Krausz,M. |
| PHIL B344-001 |
Development Ethics |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW |
Thomas Hall 118 |
Koggel,C. |
| PHIL B365-001 |
Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM T |
English House II |
Hedley,J., Salkever,S. |
| PHIL B399-001 |
Senior Seminar |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M |
Thomas Hall 118 |
Dept. staff, TBA |
2012-13 Catalog Data
PHIL
B101
Happiness and Reality in Ancient Thought
Spring 2013
What makes us happy? The wisdom of the ancient world has importantly shaped the tradition of Western thought but in some important respects it has been rejected or forgotten. What is the nature of reality? Can we have knowledge about the world and ourselves, and, if so, how? In this course we explore answers to these sorts of metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, and political questions by examining the works of the two central Greek philosophers: Plato and Aristotle. We will consider earlier Greek religious and dramatic writings, a few Presocratic philosophers, and the person of Socrates who never wrote a word.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
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PHIL
B102
Science and Morality in Modernity
Spring 2013
In this course, we explore answers to fundamental questions about the nature of the world and our place in it by examining the works of some of the central figures in modern western philosophy. Can we obtain knowledge of the world and, if so, how? Does God exist? What is the nature of the self? How do we determine morally right answers? What sorts of policies and political structures can best promote justice and equality? These questions were addressed in "modern" Europe in the context of the development of modern science and the religious wars. In a time of globalization we are all, more or less, heirs of the Enlightenment which sees its legacy to be modern science and the mastery of nature together with democracy and human rights. This course explores the above questions and considers them in their historical context. Some of the philosophers considered include Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, and Wollstonecraft.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
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PHIL
B103
Introduction to Logic
Not offered 2012-13
Logic is the study of formal reasoning, which concerns the nature of valid arguments and inferential fallacies. In everyday life our arguments tend to be informal and sometimes imprecise. The study of logic concerns the structure and nature of arguments, and so helps to analyze them more precisely. Topics will include: valid and invalid arguments, determining the logical structure of ordinary sentences, reasoning with truth-functional connectives, and inferences involving quantifiers and predicates. This course does not presuppose any background knowledge in logic.
Division III: Humanities
Quantitative Methods (QM)
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PHIL
B204
Readings in German Intellectual History
Not offered 2012-13
Course content varies. Study of selected texts of German intellectual history, introducing representative works of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Jürgen Habermas, Georg W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Werner Heisenberg, Immanuel Kant, G. E. Lessing, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schiller, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The course aims to introduce students to an advanced cultural reading range and the languages and terminology of humanistic disciplines in German-speaking countries, and seeks to develop their critical and interpretive skills.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as GERM B212
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PHIL
B209
Introduction to Literary Analysis: Philosophical Approaches to Criticism
Not offered 2012-13
Designated theory course. An introduction to various methods of reading the literary text from the perspective of critical methods informed by philosophical ideas. In their quest for self-understanding and knowledge, literature and philosophy share similar forms of inquiry and imaginative modeling. Selected literary texts and critical essays focus on questions of language, translation, understanding, and identity in their relation to history, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. One of the main objectives of the course is to provide students with the critical tools necessary for an informed reading of texts.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as GERM B209
Cross-listed as COML B209
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PHIL
B211
Theory of Knowledge
Spring 2013
Varieties of realism and relativism address questions about what sorts of things exist and the constraints on our knowledge of them. The aim of this course is to develop a sense of how these theories interrelate, and to instill philosophical skills in the critical evaluation of them. Discussions will be based on contemporary readings.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
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PHIL
B212
Metaphysics
Fall 2012
Metaphysics is inquiry into basic features of the world and ourselves. This course considers two topics of metaphysics, free will and personal identity, and their relationship. What is free will and are we free? Is freedom compatible with determinism? Does moral responsibility require free will? What makes someone the same person over time? Can a person survive without their body? Is the recognition of others required to be a person?
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
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PHIL
B221
Ethics
Fall 2012
An introduction to ethics by way of an examination of moral theories and a discussion of important ancient, modern, and contemporary texts which established theories such as virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, relativism, emotivism, care ethics. This course considers questions concerning freedom, responsibility, and obligation. How should we live our lives and interact with others? How should we think about ethics in a global context? Is ethics independent of culture? A variety of practical issues such as reproductive rights, euthanasia, animal rights and the environment will be considered.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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PHIL
B222
Aesthetics Nature and Experience of Art
Not offered 2012-13
Prerequisite: One introductory course in philosophy. Here are some questions we will discuss in this course: What sort of thing is a work of art? Can criticism in the arts be objective? Do such cultural entities answer to more than one admissible interpretation? What is the role of a creator's intentions in fixing upon admissible interpretations? What is the nature of aesthetic experience? What is creativity in the arts? Readings will be drawn from contemporary sources.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as COML B222
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PHIL
B225
Global Ethical Issues
Not offered 2012-13
The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and requires has become urgent in a context of increasing globalization, the emergence of new forms of conflict and war, high rates of poverty within and across borders and the prospect of environmental devastation. This course examines prevailing theories and issues of justice as well as approaches and challenges by non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class, and disability theorists.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as POLS B225
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
Counts toward International Studies Major
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PHIL
B228
Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient and Early Modern
Spring 2013
An introduction to the fundamental problems of political philosophy, especially the relationship between political life and the human good or goods. Readings from Aristotle, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Plato, and Rousseau.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as POLS B228
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PHIL
B231
Introduction to Political Philosophy: Modern
Fall 2012
A continuation of POLS 228, although 228 is not a prerequisite. Particular attention is given to the various ways in which the concept of freedom is used in explaining political life. Readings from Hegel, Locke, Marx, J.S. Mill, and Nietzsche.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as POLS B231
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PHIL
B238
Science, Technology and the Good Life
Not offered 2012-13
This course considers questions concerning what is science, what is technology, and what is their relationship to each other and to the domains of ethics and politics. We will consider how modern science defined itself in its opposition to Aristotelian science. We will examine the Cartesian and Baconian scientific models and the self-understanding of these models with regard to ethics and politics. Developments in the philosophy of science will be considered, e.g., positivism, phenomenology, feminism, sociology of science. Biotechnology and information technology illustrate fundamental questions. The "science wars" of the 1990s provide debates concerning science, technology, and the good life.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as POLS B238
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PHIL
B240
Environmental Ethics
Not offered 2012-13
This course surveys rights- and justice-based justifications for ethical positions on the environment. It examines approaches such as stewardship, intrinsic value, land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, Asian and aboriginal. It explores issues such as obligations to future generations, to nonhumans and to the biosphere.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as POLS B240
Counts toward Environmental Studies
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PHIL
B244
Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Not offered 2012-13
Cognitive science is a multidisciplinary approach to the study of human cognition. It goes from the abstract study of concepts of cognition at one end to well-defined empirical research into language and cognition and the specifics of cognitive modeling on computers at the other. Philosophy, linguistics, psychology, computer science, and neuroscience are the major contributors to cognitive science. Philosophy both contributes to and examines cognitive science.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
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PHIL
B245
Philosophy of Law
Not offered 2012-13
Introduces students to a variety of questions in the philosophy of law. Readings will be concerned with the nature of law, the character of law as a system, the ethical character of law, and the relationship of law to politics, power, authority, and society. Readings will include abstract philosophical arguments about the concept of law, as well as theoretical arguments about the nature of law as they arise within specific contexts, and judicial cases. Most or all of the specific issues discussed will be taken from Anglo-American law, although the general issues considered are not limited to those legal systems.
Division I: Social Science
Cross-listed as POLS B245
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PHIL
B252
Feminist Theory
Spring 2013
Beliefs that gender discrimination has been eliminated and women have achieved equality have become commonplace. We challenge these assumptions examining the concepts of patriarchy, sexism, and oppression. Exploring concepts central to feminist theory, we attend to the history of feminist theory and contemporary accounts of women's place and status in different societies, varied experiences, and the impact of the phenomenon of globalization. We then explore the relevance of gender to philosophical questions about identity and agency with respect to moral, social and political theory. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as POLS B253
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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PHIL
B253
Theory in Practice: Critical Discourses in the Humanities
Not offered 2012-13
An examination in English of leading theories of interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as ITAL B213
Cross-listed as COML B213
Cross-listed as ENGL B213
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PHIL
B254
Philosophy of Religion
Not offered 2012-13
An introduction to principle topics in the philosophy of religion: Does God exist? Is belief in God compatible with reason and science? Is God's existence compatible with deep suffering and pain? Does the fact that there are many religions show that there is no religious truth? Includes readings eastern and western traditions and from analytic and continental philosophy. Authors will include Aquinas, Aurobindo, Dalai Lama, Dennett, James, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
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PHIL
B259
Philosophy, Modern Physics and Ideals of Interpretation
Not offered 2012-13
In the modern era, interpretive ideals like objectivity, certainty and causality have been intensely scrutinized. Must there be a fact of the matter independently of all interpretive practices? Must there be a single right interpretation for all physical and cultural phenomena? Various readings will explore these and other questions. Prerequisite: One course in Philosophy or Physics or permission of an instructor. Sophomore standing.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Scientific Investigation (SI)
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PHIL
B293
The Play of Interpretation
Fall 2012
Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies and regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic sciences, and media and cultural studies, this course focuses on common problems of text, authorship, reader/spectator, and translation in their historical and formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual texts from different cultural traditions and histories will be studied through interpretive approaches informed by modern critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, popular culture, and film will illustrate how theory enhances our understanding of the complexities of history, memory, identity, and the trials of modernity.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as COML B293
Cross-listed as ENGL B292
Counts toward International Studies Major
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PHIL
B310
Philosophy of Science
Spring 2013
An examination of positivistic science and its critics. Topics include the possibility and nature of scientific progress from relativistic perspectives.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as BIOL B310
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PHIL
B317
Philosophy of Creativity
Not offered 2012-13
This course will address the following questions: What are the criteria of creativity? Is explaining creativity possible? Should we understand creativity in terms of persons, processes or products? What is the relation between creativity and skill? What is genius? What is creative imagination? Is there a difference between creativity in the arts and creativity in the sciences? What is the relation between the context of discovery and the context of justification? What is the relation between tradition and creativity? Is there a significant relationship between creativity and self-transformation?
Division III: Humanities
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PHIL
B319
Philosophy of Mind
Not offered 2012-13
This seminar focuses on contemporary analytic philosophy of mind. The exact topics will vary from year to year. Possible topics include: consciousness and the unity of consciousness, personal identity, emotions, psychological explanation, mental illness, neurophilosophy, externalism and the extended mind hypothesis, embodied cognition, artificial minds, philosophy and cognitive science, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy and psychoanalysis.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as CMSC B319
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PHIL
B321
Greek Political Philosophy Aristotle: Ethics and Politics
Fall 2012
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as POLS B320
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PHIL
B323
Culture and Interpretation
Fall 2012
This course will pursue such questions as the following. For all objects of interpretation--including works of art, music, literature, persons or cultures--must there be a single right interpretation? If not, what is to prevent one from sliding into an interpretive anarchism? Does interpretation affect the nature or the number of an object of interpretation? Does the singularity or multiplicity of interpretations mandate such ontologies as realism or constructivism? Discussions will be based on contemporary readings.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as COML B323
Counts toward International Studies Major
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PHIL
B324
Computational Linguistics
Not offered 2012-13
Introduction to computational models of understanding and processing human languages. How elements of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence can be combined to help computers process human language and to help linguists understand language through computer models. Topics covered: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, generation and knowledge representation techniques. Prerequisite: some background in linguistics or computer science.
Cross-listed as CMSC B325
Cross-listed as LING B325
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PHIL
B326
Relativism: Cognitive and Moral
Not offered 2012-13
Cognitive relativists believe that truth is relative to particular cultures or conceptual schemes. In an analogous way, moral relativists believe that moral rightness is relative to particular cultures or conceptual schemes. Relativistic theories of truth and morality are widely embraced in the current intellectual climate, and they are as perplexing as they are provocative. This course will examine varieties of relativism and their absolutistic counterparts. Readings will be drawn from contemporary sources.
Division III: Humanities
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PHIL
B327
Political Philosophy in the 20th Century
Not offered 2012-13
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as POLS B327
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PHIL
B329
Wittgenstein
Not offered 2012-13
Wittgenstein is notable for developing two philosophical systems. In the first, he attempted to show that there is a single common structure underlying all language, thought and being. In the second, he denied the idea of such a structure and claimed that the job of philosophy was to free philosophers from bewitchments due to misunderstandings of ordinary concepts in language. The course begins by sketching the first system. We then turn to his rejection of the earlier ideas as outlined in Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty. We also examine contemporary interpretations of Wittgenstein's later work.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as GERM B329
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PHIL
B330
Kant
Fall 2012
The significance of Kant's transcendental philosophy for thought in the 19th and 20th centuries cannot be overstated. His work is profoundly important for both the analytical and the so-called "continental" schools of thought. This course will provide a close study of Kant's breakthrough work: The Critique of Pure Reason. We will read and discuss the text with reference to its historical context and with respect to its impact on developments in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion as well as developments in German Idealism, 20th-century phenomenology., and contemporary analytic philosophy. Prerequisite: PHIL 102 or at least one 200 level Philosophy course.
Division III: Humanities
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PHIL
B338
Phenomenology: Heidegger and Husserl
Section 001 (Fall 2011): Husserl and Heidegger
Not offered 2012-13
This upper-level seminar will consider the two main proponents of phenomenology--a movement in philosophy in the 20th century that attempted to restart philosophy in a radical way. Its concerns are philosophically comprehensive: ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and so on. Phenomenology provides the important background for other later developments in 20th-century philosophy and beyond: existentialism, deconstruction, post-modernism. This seminar will focus primarily on Edmund Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. Other writings to be considered include some of Heidegger's later work and Merleau-Ponty's preface to his Phenomenology of Perception.
Division III: Humanities
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PHIL
B344
Development Ethics
Spring 2013
This course explores the meaning of and moral issues raised by development. In what direction and by what means should a society "develop"? What role, if any, does the globalization of markets and capitalism play in processes of development and in systems of discrimination on the basis of factors such as race and gender? Answers to these sorts of questions will be explored through an examination of some of the most prominent theorists and recent literature. Prerequisites: a philosophy, political theory or economics course or permission of the instructor.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as POLS B344
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
Counts toward International Studies Major
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PHIL
B352
Feminism and Philosophy
Not offered 2012-13
It has been said that one of the most important feminist contributions to theory is its uncovering of the ways in which theory in the Western tradition, whether of knowledge, morality, or politics has a hidden male bias. This course will explore feminist critiques of traditional moral theory by examining early accounts of an ethic of care that challenge the ethic of justice that has dominated moral theory in the liberal tradition. We then turn to feminist revisions to and expansions of these early accounts of care ethics -- including contemporary work exploring the implications and applications of feminist ethics for issues in the contemporary global context.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as POLS B352
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PHIL
B365
Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare
Spring 2013
The course explores the relationship between love and art, "eros" and "poesis," through in-depth study of Plato's "Phaedus" and "Symposium," Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and "Antony and Cleopatra," and essays by modern commentators (including David Halperin, Anne Carson, Martha Nussbaum, Marjorie Garber, and Stanley Cavell). We will also read Shakespeare's Sonnets and "Romeo and Juliet."
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as ENGL B365
Cross-listed as COML B365
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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PHIL
B371
Topics in Legal and Political Philosophy
Not offered 2012-13
This is a topic course. Topics vary.
Division I or Division III
Cross-listed as POLS B371
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PHIL
B372
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Not offered 2012-13
Survey of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study of how to program computers to behave in ways normally attributed to "intelligence" when observed in humans. Topics include heuristic versus algorithmic programming; cognitive simulation versus machine intelligence; problem-solving; inference; natural language understanding; scene analysis; learning; decision-making. Topics are illustrated by programs from literature, programming projects in appropriate languages and building small robots.
Division II and Quantitive
Cross-listed as CMSC B372
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PHIL
B380
Persons, Morality and Modernity
Not offered 2012-13
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as POLS B380
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PHIL
B381
Nietzsche, Self and Morality
Not offered 2012-13
This course examines Nietzsche's thought, with particular focus on questions concerning the nature of the self and morality. The texts for the course are drawn mostly from Nietzsche's own writing, but these are complemented by some contemporary work in moral philosophy and philosophy of mind that has a Nietzschean influence.
Cross-listed as POLS B381
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PHIL
B395
Topics: Origins of Political Philosophy
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Political
Fall 2012
This is a topics course. Course content varies
Division III: Humanities
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PHIL
B398
Senior Seminar
Senior majors are required to write an undergraduate thesis on an approved topic. The senior seminar is a two-semester course in which research and writing are directed. Seniors will meet collectively and individually with the supervising instructor.
Division III: Humanities
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PHIL
B399
Senior Seminar
The senior seminar is a required course for majors in Philosophy. It is the course in which the research and writing of an undergraduate thesis is directed both in and outside of the class time. Students will meet sometimes with the class as a whole and sometimes with the professor separately to present and discuss drafts of their theses.
Division III: Humanities
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PHIL
B403
Supervised Work
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PHIL
B416
Discussion Leader
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