Topics will include animal rights, biocentrism, deep ecology, ecofeminism, bio-regionalism, social ecology and sustainability. Special attention will be given to building an ethical vocabulary for interpreting the place of humans in relation to the nonhuman. PHI 244 Philosophy of Law Topics include the nature of law, the limits of law, and legal responsibility. An introductory course in modern symbolic logic. Techniques of deductive inference, including decision procedures and axiomatization, are studied in developing the propositional and predicative logics.
Some attention is given to metalogic and the philosophy of logic.
An investigation of the nature and importance of aesthetic experience and its objects, the possibility of standards of art and taste, and the relation of art to other areas of experience. Topics include art and morality, art and science, art and the environment. Readings from Tolstoy, Hume, Dewey, Langer, Bell, Danto, Dickie and Beardsley, among others. An analysis of current moral theories bearing on issues of gender equity, equality and ethical development. Designed to address advanced issues not covered in normal offerings.