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Courses for Summer 2016

Title Instructor Location Time All taxonomy terms Description Section Description Cross Listings Fulfills Registration Notes Syllabus Syllabus URL Course Syllabus URL
PHIL 001-910 INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY PURPURA, GARY MW 0630PM-0930PM Philosophers ask difficult questions about the most basic issues in human life. Does God exist? What is real? What can we know about the world? What does it mean to have a mind? Do I have free will? What should I do? How should we live together? Do our lives have meaning? This course is an introduction to some of these questions and to the methods philosophers have developed for thinking clearly about them.
    Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only) HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE SECTOR; ONLINE COURSE FEE $150
    PHIL 001-920 INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY CURRY, DEVIN CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493 TR 0115PM-0505PM Philosophers ask difficult questions about the most basic issues in human life. Does God exist? What is real? What can we know about the world? What does it mean to have a mind? Do I have free will? What should I do? How should we live together? Do our lives have meaning? This course is an introduction to some of these questions and to the methods philosophers have developed for thinking clearly about them.
      Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only) HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE SECTOR
      PHIL 002-920 ETHICS MEYER, MILTON CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493 MR 0530PM-0920PM Ethics is the study of right and wrong behavior. This introductory course will introduce students to major ethical theories, the possible sources of normativity, and specific ethical problems and questions. Topics may include euthanasia, abortion, animal rights, the family, sexuality, bioethics, crime and punishment and war.
        Society sector (all classes) SOCIETY SECTOR
        PHIL 003-900 HIST ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY CHATURVEDI, ADITI TR 0700PM-0830PM This course is an introduction to philosopy in the ancient world. While today, philosophy is considered a branch of academic inquiry, many of the ancient Greeks and Romans, however, held a radically different conception of the discipline. For them, philosophy was nothing less than an entire way of life--not just a set of doctrines or arguments, but an orientation and set of lived practices, a conscious and continual reforming of the self in light of some principle or principles. In this course, we will examine the major movements and figures of ancient philosophy. Major figures will include Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Skeptics.
          History & Tradition Sector (all classes) HISTORY & TRADITION SECTOR; ONLINE COURSE FEE $150
          PHIL 072-910 BIOMEDICAL ETHICS MCANINCH, ANDREW W 0500PM-0800PM This course is an introduction to bioethics, focusing on ethical questions arising at the beginning and end of life. Topics will include procreative responsibilities, the question of wrongful life, and prenatal moral status as well as questions of justice related to markets for sperm, eggs and gestation. We will also attend to dilemmas at the end of life, including the authority of advance directives, euthanasia and the allocation of life-saving therapies.
            Society sector (all classes) SOCIETY SECTOR; ONLINE COURSE FEE $150
            PHIL 076-900 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY GUERRERO, ALEXANDER CANCELED An introduction to some central issues in social and political philosophy: liberty, equality, property, authority, distributive justice. Readings from Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Marx, Rawls, Nozick.
              ONLINE COURSE ONLY