PHI 300-001 – Philosophy of Pornography
Prof. Natalie Nenadic
TR 3:00-5:30 (8 week course 1/24/13 – 3/28/13)
This course will situate the issue of pornography within philosophical debates surrounding slavery, political liberty, and freedom. Through a close examination of the lived reality of pornography, we will question conventional views that cast pornography as sexual liberation. Among the authors we will read are Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Gail Dines, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Wollstonecraft.
PHI 300-002 – Philosophy of Sport
Prof. Clare Batty
TR 9:30-10:45 a.m.
What is a sport? What is the nature of sportsmanship? Does playing a sport involve a special kind of knowledge? Is cheating ever morally permissible? Does using performance-enhancing drugs count as cheating? Are sports beautiful? These and other questions will be the focus of this introduction to the philosophy of sport.
PHI 300-003 – Philosophy of Biology
Dr. Alexandra Bradner
TR 9:30-10:45 a.m.
There is little more exciting right now than currrent developments in the life sciences. This course will offer students an introduction to debates over the units of selection, the concept of fitness, adaptationism, evolutionary psychology, intelligent design, and other issues. We will set these issues in their historical and philosophical context, from Aristotle and Darwin up to the 21st century.