| | 01 | M-W---- | 2:30P-3:50P | TBA | Heil | Dec 16 2024 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 35 | 35 | 3 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 8:30A-9:50A | TBA | Kvanvig | See instructor | 35 | 5 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 4:00P-5:20P | TBA | Colacchia | See instructor | 35 | 15 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 02 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Colacchia | See instructor | 35 | 30 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | In this course we focus on some of the most important texts in the history of Western philosophy in order to discuss a wide range of central philosophical problems. We typically consider, for example, the existence of God, the justification of claims to knowledge, and the requirements of a good human life, including the demands of morality. Among the philosophers most likely to be studied are Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. Our goal is not just to appreciate the genius of some great philosophers but also to grapple with the current philosophical problems they have bequeathed to us. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Brown | See instructor | 35 | 21 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 02 | M-W---- | 8:30A-9:50A | TBA | Koziolek | No final | 30 | 16 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 03 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Koziolek | No final | 30 | 26 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | An investigation of a range of contemporary moral issues and controversies that draws on philosophical ethics and culturewide moral considerations. Topics may include: racism, world hunger, war and terrorism, the distribution of income and wealth, gender discrimination, pornography, free speech, lesbian and gay rights, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, and animals and the environment. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 8:30A-9:50A | TBA | Wellman | Dec 12 2024 8:00AM - 10:00AM | 35 | 13 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 02 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Baril | No final | 33 | 33 | 8 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 03 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-3:50P | TBA | Baril | No final | 32 | 32 | 8 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | This course explores how consciousness is created in the brain and body. This course will integrate biological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives to investigate the nature of the mind. Utilizing an experiential approach, we will study how perception-action links give rise to consciousness and shape our subjective understanding of the world. Concepts will include sensory-motor integration, spatial and temporal awareness, sense of self and sense of agency. Students will gain a broad understanding of both historical milestones in the development of "enactivism" and current experimental techniques enabling research into perception, embodiment, presence, virtual and augmented reality, and the neural correlates of consciousness. This course is for first-year, non-transfer students only. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 8:30A-9:50A | TBA | Harrison, Gulledge | Dec 12 2024 8:00AM - 10:00AM | 0 | 20 | 6 | | |
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| | Description: | Americans are increasingly skeptical about the future of their democracy and about our ability to pursue equality and social justice within the existing political system, and many people identify irresolvable disagreement, political extremism, and partisan polarization as causes of the current crisis in American democracy. In this course, we will study disagreement, extremism, and polarization using insights and methods from philosophy, political science, and empirical psychology, with the aim of understanding
these phenomena and the social and political challenges they pose. Our questions will include whether it is possible for reasonable people to disagree, whether democratic deliberation requires a background of agreement or "shared facts," how our moral psychology shapes our political beliefs, whether prejudice and bias can be eliminated from political thinking, and whether there are some political positions that are so extreme they should not be taken seriously. There are no prerequisites for this course and no background in philosophy, political science, or psychology will be assumed |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 8:30A-9:50A | TBA | Vollbrecht | See instructor | 35 | 1 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Bell | See instructor | 35 | 35 | 15 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 02 | M-W---- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Bell | See instructor | 35 | 35 | 13 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 03 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Gulledge | See instructor | 35 | 35 | 13 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 04 | -T-R--- | 4:00P-5:20P | TBA | Gardner | See instructor | 35 | 35 | 17 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | [TBA] | See department | 0 | 0 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | Philosophy of Medicine is an investigation into what doctors know and how they know it. This course will investigate the following questions: What is disease? What is health? How do we classify disease? What counts as good evidence and good evidential reasoning in medicine? Is medicine a science? If so, what makes it distinctive as a science? What kinds of evidential roles do case studies play in medicine? How should we measure and compare outcomes in clinical trials and in systematic reviews? What is the appropriate relationship between medicine and the basic sciences or between medicine and the public health sciences (e.g., epidemiology, biostatistics, economics, behavioral science)? What role, if any, should private industry (e.g., the pharmaceutical industry, the health insurance industry) play in shaping the practice of medicine? How should we define and measure "effectiveness" in medicine? Do values inform decision making about health policy, and, if so, how? The overall goal of the course is to develop a reasoned, reflective approach to research and practice in medicine through the critical analysis of texts and case studies in the history of medicine. Students do not need a background in philosophy to take this course. This course is intended to be of special interest to pre-health professionals and to philosophy and science majors. For graduate students in philosophy, this course satisfies the seminar requirement. Extra assignments will be provided to satisfy graduate course work; students should consult the instructor for details. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 4:00P-5:50P | TBA | Dimarco | See instructor | 35 | 35 | 7 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | A survey of major philosophical problems concerning meaning, reference, and truth as they have been addressed within the analytic tradition. Readings that represent diverse positions on these focal issues will be selected from the work of leading philosophers in the field, for example: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Davidson, Quine, Kripke, and Putnam. Students are encouraged to engage critically the ideas and arguments presented, and to develop and defend their own views on the core topics.
Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 100 or 200-level, or permission of the instructor. Priority given to majors in Philosophy & PNP.
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 4:00P-5:50P | TBA | Entwistle | See instructor | 35 | 28 | 0 | | Desc: | All students will be waitlisted. Priority given to Philosophy and PNP majors and minors. |
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| | Description: | An introduction to epistemology, which is concerned with questions about knowledge, belief, evidence, and intellectual conduct and character. This course focuses on selected issues in epistemology with the aim of providing a survey of contemporary work. Possible topics include the nature of knowledge and justification, probability, epistemic norms of assertion and action, philosophical skepticism, the value of knowledge, disagreement, intellectual virtue, and epistemic injustice. Prerequisite: one course in Philosophy at the 100 or 200 level, or permission of the instructor. Priority given to majors in Philosophy & PNP. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Hazlett | See instructor | 35 | 19 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 8:30A-9:50A | TBA | Sommers | See instructor | 35 | 21 | 0 | | Desc: | All students will be waitlisted. Priority given to Philosophy and PNP majors and minors. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 4:00P-5:20P | TBA | Gais | Dec 18 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 18 | 3 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Craver | Dec 17 2024 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 35 | 23 | 0 | | Desc: | All students will be waitlisted. Priority given to Philosophy and PNP majors and minors. |
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| | Description: | This course overviews the leading contemporary conceptions of social justice, including utilitarian, liberal, libertarian, communitarian, and deliberative-democratic theories, and their implications for the design of political, economic, and social institutions. In addition, this course will examine special topics such as justice between generations, global justice, and the rights of resistance or disobedience. Note: This course counts towards the undergraduate Political Theory subfield. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Lovett | Dec 16 2024 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 40 | 11 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | Intensive readings of great works in the history of ethics, especially by Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill. Topics may include: the sources of moral knowledge, the nature of practical moral judgment, the moral role of emotion and desire, weakness of will, moral autonomy, and the universality of moral norms.
Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 100 or 200-level, or permission of the instructor.
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Baxley | No final | 35 | 35 | 3 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Watson | No final | 35 | 35 | 3 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 4:00P-5:20P | TBA | Brown | Dec 13 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 35 | 32 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 4:00P-5:20P | TBA | [TBA] | No final | 0 | 14 | 1 | | Desc: | Priority given to Philosophy and PNP majors and minors. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-3:50P | TBA | Judaken | Paper/Project/TakeHome | 35 | 21 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Kvanvig | Dec 16 2024 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 19 | 4 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | -T----- | 9:00A-11:50A | Wilson / 104 | Baril | See instructor | 0 | 9 | 0 | | Desc: | Democracy in the United States faces several related challenges, including political polarization, extremism, and a shortage of reasoned moral and political debate. Many Americans believe our democracy is in crisis and are increasingly skeptical that political progress and social justice can be achieved in our democratic system. This course aims to engage with the crisis of American democracy by examining the practice of reasoning about values, which is a key component of "civil society," i.e. the norms, practices, and non-state institutions that constitute a democratic society. Students will study a selection of moral and political issues, learn strategies for reasoning with others about them, and organize a series of "Dinner & Dialogue" events designed to model constructive moral and political discourse. This course is part of the Civil Society Initiative; for more information: https://philosophy.wustl.edu/civil-society-initiative Enrollment is limited, so all students will initially be wait-listed. Students who wish to enroll should complete the following brief questionnaire: https://philosophy.wustl.edu/civil-society-questionnaire Students who fill out the questionnaire by April 1st will be notified about enrollment by April 16th. For more information on the course, contact anne.m.baril@wustl.edu. |
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| | Description: | A selective investigation of one or two advanced topics in the philosophical understanding of society, government, and culture. Readings may include both historical and contemporary materials. Possible topics include: liberalism, socialism, communitarianism, citizenship, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, social contract theory, anarchism, and the rights of cultural minorities. Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 300-level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Wellman | Dec 18 2024 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 19 | 20 | 6 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 4:00P-5:20P | TBA | Koziolek | See instructor | 15 | 8 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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