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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Scientists and philosophers of science are increasingly attuned to the critical and legitimate roles that nonscientists - policymakers, publics, communities, stakeholders, activists, citizens, and subjects, to name a few - can play in inquiry. Their values, expertise, or refusal can make or break a research program and its impacts. Likewise, scientific evidence and technologies can lend their weight to extrascientific projects, whether scientists intend this or not. This course is about the relationships between science and nonscientists and the impacts these have, or ought to have, on scientific knowledge production and communication. On the one hand, we'll consider practices labeled transparent, participatory, and community-based research; community inclusion and engagement; citizen science; and efforts to democratize science. Under what conditions do these make science more or less trustworthy, reliable, or objective? On the other hand, we'll examine nonscientists' uptake, interpretation, and deployment of scientific projects. How might these advance, hinder, or change the aims of science, or the activities of scientists? Our research will be anchored in the literatures on science and values, feminist philosophy of science, and social epistemology of science, with forays into research ethics (broadly construed) and philosophy of the special sciences.

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L30 Phil 5315

Normative Ethical Theory

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L30 Phil 5530

Hellenistic Philosophy

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.

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L30 Phil 5801

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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