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- Conservation Philosophy and the Law
- This course will study the writings of leading conservation philosophers and examine the extent to which their ideas have
influenced federal and state policy and law. Issues to be studied will include biocentrism, homocentrism, utilitarianism, preservation of wild area, economic analysis, natural resource planning, and integrated resource management. Students should have a solid working knowledge of
natural resources policy and law.
- Philosophy and Society
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- Social and Political Philosophy
- Systematic discussion and analysis of such philosophic ideas as community, freedom, political power, and violence. Approved for arts and
sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
- International Human Rights
- Examines international human rights movement and the philosophical issues it raises. Topics include history and documents of the human
rights movement, nature and grounds of human rights, skeptical doubts about human rights, and relevance of human rights to foreign policy. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum.
- Contemporary Political Philosophy
- Provides a survey of recent approaches to political philosophy: liberalism(John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin); libertarianism (Robert
Nozick); communitarianism (Michael Sandel, Alastair MacIntyre); and feminism (Alison Jaggar). Topics and readings may vary with instructor.
- Philosophy of Science
- Examines major concepts and problems of scientific thought: explanation, confirmation, causality, measurement, and theory construction.
- Seminar in Environmental Philosophy
- The focus of our class discussion this semester will be a series of topics in environmental philosophy. I will begin by presenting an
overview of the field, and then we will move into a discussion of economic decision-making. We will discuss some basic concepts in neo-classical environmental economics, problems of using contingent evaluation in evaluating environmental goods, and economic concepts of
sustainability. If there is interest, we may also discuss the new field of ecological economics. From here we will move to a discussion of future generations and global environmental justice. Next we will discuss some recent developments in ecology and environmental history that have
been stimulated by the rise of post-modernism in the humanities. We will conclude by discussing some fundamental questions in value theory.
- Philosophy and Social Policy
- Studies philosophical approaches to social and political issues such as abortion, bioethics, environmental preservation, human rights, and
reverse discrimination. Gives attention to strengths and weaknesses of philosophical treatments of these issues.
- Seminar in Environmental Philosophy
- Philosophical examination of several different approaches to environmentalproblems: : : economic, juridical, political,
ecological. Discusses specific environmental problems, focusing on their moral dimensions, e. g. wilderness preservation, animal rights, and land use and urban planning.
- Seminar in Philosophy of Science
- Topics connected with development of nature of science; structure of scientific theories; testing hypotheses. Theory of decisions in
science and ethics. Basic conceptions and models of abstraction in the history of science.
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