Schedule varies by section.
Sec 001 – Lecture – Monday/Wednesday, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Sec 201 – Recitation – Friday, 10:15 AM – 11:14 AM
Sec 202 – Recitation – Friday, 12:00 PM – 12:59 PM
This is a course on philosophical topics surrounding love and sex. We will touch on issues in all areas of philosophy including ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and epistemology. You will develop the sorts of skills fundamental to philosophy: understanding and reconstructing arguments, evaluating arguments, and developing your own argumentative abilities. You will also acquire theoretical tools that might be useful for thinking about your own love and sex lives, and the lives of those around you.
Sec 001 – Lecture – Monday/Wednesday, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Sec 201 – Recitation – Friday, 10:15 AM – 11:14 AM
Sec 202 – Recitation – Friday, 12:00 PM – 12:59 PM
Fall 2023
Humans are often motivated and act to benefit the well-being of others. In this course, we will explore altruism as a process and investigate its affective, cognitive, behavioral, social, and ecological components. We will investigate questions such as, what are the causes, conditions, and impediments of altruism? Can altruism be developed within individuals, and if so how? What would an altruistic society look like, and how might it be achieved?
Fall 2023
Podcasting has become one of the most popular ways of disseminating the voice, supplanting radio. It has even been a primary driver of the growth of music streaming services like Spotify. This creative-critical seminar situates the podcast historically, analyzes current instantiations of the genre, and teaches hands-on skills to create your own podcasts. The course also frames podcasts as a form of asynchronous dialogue that can be critically engaged with and utilized as a mechanism to comment on societal issues.