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Introduction to Environmental Ethics

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L30 Phil 235F

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L30 Phil 299

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Students receive credit for a faculty-directed and approved internship. Registration requires completion of the Learning Agreement which the student obtains from the Career Center and which must be filled out and signed by the Career Center, the site supervisor, and the faculty sponsor prior to beginning internship work. Credit should correspond to actual time spent in work activities, e.g., 8-10 hours a week for 13 or 14 weeks to receive 3 units of credit; 1 or 2 credits for fewer hours.

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Medicine is an institution that enjoys considerable social authority, an occupation that enjoys enduring prestige, and a research area that enjoys substantial public and private funding. Philosophy of medicine is an investigation into what we know about medicine and public health, and how we know it. What is medical knowledge, and where does it come from? What counts as good evidence that treatments are safe and effective, or that environmental pollutants harm health? How should we understand the concepts of health and disease, or decide what counts as a legitimate medical or psychiatric condition - and who are "we" to decide? How do concepts, methods, and findings in the health sciences influence, and/or reflect, industry, activist, public, patients' and policymakers' values? The overall goal of the course is to develop a habit of reasoned, reflective engagement with research and practice in 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. 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.

L30 Phil 3001

Philosophy of Medicine

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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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L30 Phil 306G

Philosophy of Language

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Introduction to Semantics

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An introduction to philosophical' analyses of the nature of mind, especially those developed by contemporary philosophers. The focus will be on questions such as the following: What is a mind? How does it relate to a person's brain? How does it relate to a person's body and the external world? Can a mind exist in a very different kind of body (e.g., a computer or a robot)? Does thinking require a language-like code? If so, can non-linguistic species think? What is it to have a mental image or to experience pain? Prereqs: 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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This class aims to provide an advanced engagement with some of the key themes and methodologies within feminist theory and feminist analyses of applied issues. We will begin with consideration of a fundamental question: who are the subjects of feminist theory? This question will lead us to consider controversies concerning how to define the category "woman." We will also explore the ways in which various feminist theorists understand the sex/gender distinction and how those concepts are related and distinguished. Next, we will turn to theories of gender-based inequality, in particular we will examine various accounts of gendered oppression and investigate the concept of intersectionality as essential element of any theory of oppression. In the second half of the class, we will engage with several applied issues, including: feminist analyses and disagreements over selling sexual services such as in pornography, prostitution and surrogacy, the gendered division of labor and its impacts on women's equality as well as the racial dimensions of the problem and potential solutions, and the role of sexual violence in gender-based inequality (including engagement with the #metoo movement and its critics).

L30 Phil 327

Philosophy of Religion

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Legal Conflict in Modern American Society

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Thousands of lawsuits are filed daily in the state and federal courts of the United States. The disputes underlying those lawsuits are as messy and complex as the human, commercial, cultural and political dynamics that trigger them, and the legal processes for resolving those disputes are expensive, time-consuming and, for most citizens, seemingly impenetrable. At the same time law and legal conflict permeate public discourse in the United States to a degree that is unique in the world, even among the community of long-established democracies. Online and print media covering national and local news, business, sports and even the arts devote an extraordinary percentage of available "column space" to matters of legal foment and change, and those matters - - and the discourse around them - - shape our political, commercial and cultural lives, as well as the law itself. The overarching objective of the course is to prepare our undergraduates students to participate constructively in that discourse by providing them with a conceptual framework for understanding both the conduct and resolution of legal conflict by American legal institutions, and the evolution of - - and values underlying - - the substantive law American courts apply to those conflicts. This is, at its core, a course in the kind of legal or litigation "literacy" that should be expected of the graduates of first-tier American universities.

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Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

L30 Phil 3801

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L30 Phil 3991

We live in a society that places enormous value on progress, innovation, novelty, improvement, and the like. In this course, we will engage in a sustained, critical investigation of this value-structure. We will ask what difference it might make to the quality of a life-to its goodness, and to the goodness of the experience of living it-whether it is conceived and structured as a progression towards something external to it (no matter what that something happens to be), or whether it is instead conceived and structured as an open-ended activity engaged in for its own sake. Doing so will allow us to ask about a different set of values, one that includes such things as maintenance, preservation, stability, and reliability. If the dominant ethical imperative of the present is "Always do better tomorrow than you did today" (an ethic of improvement), the alternative ethical imperative we'll be considering would be "You did well today; now do it again tomorrow" (an ethic of repetition, we might call it). In investigating these seemingly opposed value-structures, we'll also ask about their potential connections with, for example, boredom, anxiety, and burnout-and other ethical/psychological maladies prevalent today. Philosophy 3991 must be taken by all philosophy majors who are not writing an honors project. Prerequisite: Senior standing, major in philosophy; preference given to those majors not pursuing Honors. Credit 3 hours.

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Introduction to Latin American Philosophy - Contemporary Topics

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The main goal of this course is to familiarize students with a distinct philosophical corpus closely linked to the postcolonial conditions of cultural production in the Latin American region. The selected works will expose the connections between as socio- political reflection and intellectual development, and the characteristics of "situated knowledge" related to questions of coloniality, interculturality, and decolonization. Different approaches to transcendental issues, to questions of temporality, subjectivity and Being, will be developed vis a vis diverse conceptions of historicity, positionality, power and resistance. Factors of race, gender, inequality and cultural diversity will be discussed as part of the introduction of issues such as indigeneity, miscegenation, creolization, archipelagic thought, and the like. Some of the authors to be studies in the course are: Leopoldo Zea, Enrique Dussel, Santiago Castro Gomez, Nelson Maldonado Torres, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Walter Mignolo, Anibal Quijano, Bolivar Echeverria, Sylvia Wynter, Rita Segato, Maria Lugones, et al.

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This class considers contemporary literature in normative ethical theory and its methodology. We will consider contemporary forms of Consequentiailism, Deontology, and Virtue Ethics. For example, we will discuss the difference between objective and subjective forms of moral evaluation and the the theoretical problems each is trying to solve. We will consider the methodology of comparing and contrasting thought experiments in ethics, which is at the base of normative intuitionism, which is, roughly, the view that refining our intuitive responses enables us to discover the true moral principles. We will also consider how both Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics have developed over the past 30 years. Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 300-level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.

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Normative Ethical Theory

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The Hellenistic Age, traditionally dated from the death of Alexander and his (Macedonian) Empire at 323 BCE to the birth of Augustus' (Roman) Empire in 31 BCE, gave the West three of its most innovative and influential schools of philosophy: Epicureanism, Skepticism, and Stoicism. This course investigates the central features of their thought. Special attention is paid to the still-relevant debates between the Stoics and Skeptics about the possibility of knowledge, to the disagreements among all three schools about the issues of freedom, responsibility, and determinism, and to their ethical theories. Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 300-level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.

L30 Phil 4530

Hellenistic Philosophy

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L30 Phil 480

History of Analytic Philosophy

This course will begin with the reaction of G.E. Moore to the dominant idealism of the 19th century, together with the advances in formal approaches launched by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. It will engage in the rise of ordinary language philosophy through the later work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as the important influence of the Vienna Circle and the rise and fall of Logical Positivism/Empiricism, culminating in the resurgence of metaphysics with the work of Saul Kripke. The course will close with a look at philosophy that is still in the analytic tradition after analytic philosophy itself had been abandoned. Prerequisites: One previous course in philosophy at the 300 level, graduate standing, or permission of instructor.

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Undergraduate Independent Study

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L30 Phil 497

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Prerequisites: senior standing, a 3.5 minimum grade point average overall, a 3.5 minimum grade point average in philosophy courses, a 3.5 grade point average in Advanced Philosophy courses, level 300 and above, and the permission of the department. Applications and further information are available in the Department of Philosophy. See further: artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/undergrad/honors.html SEE DEPARTMENT FOR SECTION REGISTRATION

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