Offered alternate years. This course is an introduction to philosophy focused on literature and philosophic literature. Offered alternate years. This course examines science as a distinctive way of approaching the world with a unique methodology associated with truth. Particular attention to the characterization of scientific objectivity and the views of knowledge and reality this entails.
Readings are primarily contemporary.
Offered every third or fourth year. 305 Philosophy of Emotion Traditional conceptions of objectivity devalue the influence of emotion in rationality. This course examines a variety of approaches to thinking that insist on the importance of feeling. Readings from cognitive psychology, ethics and moral psychology, cultural anthropology and feminist theories of knowledge. Offered every third or fourth year.