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• PHIL 100 Utopias 6 credits

  What would a perfect society look like? What ideals would it implement? What social evils would it eliminate? This course explores some famous philosophical and literary utopias, such as Plato’s Republic, Thomas More’s Utopia, Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, and others. We will also consider some nightmarish counterparts of utopias, dystopias. One of the projects in this course is a public performance, such as a speech or a short play.

  Held for new first year students

  • Offered: Fall 2023
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: Argument and Inquiry Seminar Writing Requirement

  • PHIL  100.02 Fall 2023

  • Faculty:Anna Moltchanova 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
  • FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm

• PHIL 221 Philosophy of Law 6 credits

  This course provides students with an opportunity to engage actively in a discussion of theoretical questions about law. We will consider the nature of law as it is presented by natural law theory, legal positivism and legal realism. Then we will deal with responsibility and punishment, and challenges to the idea of the primacy of individual rights from legal paternalism and moralism. We will next inquire into the explanations of why individuals should obey the law, and conditions under which civil disobedience is justified. Finally, we will discuss issues raised by feminist legal theory and some theories of minority rights.

  • Offered: Winter 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
  • Tags: Philosophy Prac/Value Theory Legal Studies Social Thought Studies in Ethics Public Policy Ethics

  • PHIL  221.00 Winter 2024

  • Faculty:Anna Moltchanova 🏫 👤
  • Size:25
  • T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm

• PHIL 232 Social and Political Philosophy 6 credits

  We will study several prominent late twentieth century philosophers writing about social and political justice and representing a variety of views, such as liberalism, socialism, libertarianism, communitarianism, feminism and post-modernism. The following are some of the authors we will read: John Rawls, Gerald Cohen, Robert Nozick, Charles Taylor, Iris Marion Young, Seyla Benhabib, Jurgen Habermas, Jean-Francois Lyotard.

  • Offered: Spring 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
  • Tags: Social Thought Philosophy Prac/Value Theory Pub Pol Social Policy & Welfar

  • PHIL  232.00 Spring 2024

  • Faculty:Anna Moltchanova 🏫 👤
  • Size:25
  • T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm