Focuses on the spread of ideas, particularly the kind which successfully replicate between minds, a.k.a. “memes.” Come learn some of the skills needed for becoming inoculated against dangerous ideas and a more responsible host to potentially good ones – including how to discern validity & invalidity, causation & correlation, and science & pseudoscience.

 

[ASYNCHRONOUS]

An examination of the philosophical study of morality, including the theory of right and wrong behavior, the theory of value (goodness and badness), and the theory of virtue and vice.Two questions are central: What is the best way for human beings to act? What is the best sort of human life?

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[M & W 10-12:20]

“All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was. Where do you want to start?” The deepest questions about life and death, personal identity, culture and science offer interesting answers in popular culture. This course is about Doctor Who, the longest-running science fiction TV show in history. Its central questions: Who is the Doctor? When is the Doctor? and What is the Doctor running away from now?

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[Tu & Th 10-12:20]

This course is an examination of a variety of moral theories as well as professional oaths and codes of ethics in order to clarify, analyze and propose solutions to significant contemporary ethical problems in biological research and medical practice. These may include abortion, genetic research on humans, animals and crops, stem cell research, advance directives, end-of-life issues, etc.

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[Asynchronous]

Engages debates at the heart of philosophy’s 2500-year-long global conversation. Subject matter drawn from a range of eras and places, including ancient Greece and Asia, early Christianity, and 18th & 19th century Europe. Come grapple with BIG questions about human knowledge, right and wrong action, and descriptions of the world at its most fundamental level.

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[Tu. & Th. 2-4:20]

An introduction to normative moral issues in current thought and life. Typical problems concern social justice, the relation of work to a concept of oneself, manipulation and indoctrination in a technological society and relationships between social success and human flourishing.

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[M & W 2-4:20]

This course will acquaint you with certain formal methods for representing and evaluating arguments. Like mathematics, the methods of logic are highly abstract and symbolic and make up a formal deductive system. The course develops sentential logic and introduces predicate logic. 

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[M & W 2-4:20]

Engages debates at the heart of philosophy’s 2500-year-long global conversation. Subject matter drawn from a range of eras and places, including ancient Greece and Asia, early Christianity, and 18th & 19th century Europe. Come grapple with BIG questions about human knowledge, right and wrong action, and descriptions of the world at its most fundamental level.

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[ASYNCHRONOUS]

An introduction to normative moral issues in current thought and life. Typical problems concern social justice, the relation of work to a concept of oneself, manipulation and indoctrination in a technological society and relationships between social success and human flourishing.

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[ASYNCHRONOUS]

A critical survey of the lasting contributions of philosophers from the Pre-Socratics to the Hellenistic period and beginnings of the Middle Ages. Come learn how Socrates "stuck it to the Man." Discover the bawdy inside jokes in Plato's dialogues. And understand why Aristotle trolled his former teacher and classmates. Along the way, you'll learn about their views on nature, their methods for rational thought, and their theories on ethics, politics, and art. 

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[M/ & W 10-12:20]