This course is an introduction to the topic of personal identity as treated in the theory of knowledge and in metaphysics.
Readings are contemporary and interdisciplinary.
Topics include mind and body, memory, artificial intelligence, and cultural relativism. 212 Ethics This course is an introduction to philosophy focused on ethical thinking. Its fundamental aim is to occasion the clarification of our thought concerning how to live, what sorts of persons to be, which kinds of actions and principles to affirm and which not in our relations to others. We will pursue this inquiry by reading classical texts, contemporary dialogues and essays on ethics, and decided cases in law. We will constantly apply moral theory to environmental problems in the enterprise of formulating an adequate environmental ethic.