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COURSE INFORMATION
Course Schedule
Fall 2009 »
Spring 2010 »
Class Schedule - updated Mar 18, 2010
For courses offered in other departments, see the complete class schedule from the Registrar.
Fall 2009
| Number/Section/Name |
Days |
Time |
Room |
Instructor |
| PHIL 115-01 |
Problems of Philosophy |
MWF |
09:40 am-10:40 am |
MAIN 002 |
Geoffrey Gorham |
| *First Year Course only* |
| PHIL 115-02 |
Problems of Philosophy |
MWF |
10:50 am-11:50 am |
MAIN 002 |
Geoffrey Gorham |
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| PHIL 120-01 |
Introduction to Symbolic Logic |
MWF |
01:10 pm-02:10 pm |
OLRI 100 |
Janet Folina |
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| PHIL 120-02 |
Introduction to Symbolic Logic |
MWF |
02:20 pm-03:20 pm |
OLRI 100 |
Janet Folina |
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| PHIL 125-01 |
Ethics |
TR |
09:40 am-11:10 am |
MAIN 111 |
William Wilcox |
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| PHIL 125-02 |
Ethics |
TR |
03:00 pm-04:30 pm |
MAIN 002 |
Martin Gunderson |
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| PHIL 136-01 |
Indian Philosophies |
TR |
01:20 pm-02:50 pm |
MAIN 002 |
Joy Laine |
| *Cross-listed with ASIA 136-01* |
| PHIL 160-01 |
Foundations-Political Theory |
MWF |
03:30 pm-04:30 pm |
CARN 206 |
Franklin Adler |
| *Cross-listed with POLI 160-01* |
| PHIL 194-01 |
Rivers, Humans and Environmental Justice |
TR |
01:20 pm-02:50 pm |
MAIN 003 |
Ping Wang |
| *Cross-listed with ENGL 194-01 and ENVI 194-04; First day attendance required.* The Minnesota, Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers converge nearby and provide the context for our class. We begin with a consideration of Native American perspectives on the three rivers. In September we plan to take a weekend canoe trip on the Minnesota River under the direction of the Healthy Nations Program of the American Indian Center. Our consideration of Native American perspectives will raise questions of ownership and property rights and lead to consideration of environmental justice as well as the environment as a human rights issue. The written work for the course will include creative writing such as poems, short stories and reflections as well as philosophical writing such as conceptual analysis and arguments for ethical and political positions related to environmental justice and human rights. There are no prerequisites. |
| PHIL 194-01 |
Rivers, Humans and Environmental Justice |
TR |
01:20 pm-02:50 pm |
MAIN 003 |
Martin Gunderson |
| *Cross-listed with ENGL 194-01 and ENVI 194-04; First day attendance required.* The Minnesota, Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers converge nearby and provide the context for our class. We begin with a consideration of Native American perspectives on the three rivers. In September we plan to take a weekend canoe trip on the Minnesota River under the direction of the Healthy Nations Program of the American Indian Center. Our consideration of Native American perspectives will raise questions of ownership and property rights and lead to consideration of environmental justice as well as the environment as a human rights issue. The written work for the course will include creative writing such as poems, short stories and reflections as well as philosophical writing such as conceptual analysis and arguments for ethical and political positions related to environmental justice and human rights. There are no prerequisites. |
| PHIL 229-01 |
Environmental Ethics |
MWF |
01:10 pm-02:10 pm |
MAIN 002 |
Diane Michelfelder |
| *Cross-listed with ENVI 229-01* |
| PHIL 230-01 |
Ancient/Medieval Philosophies |
MWF |
02:20 pm-03:20 pm |
MAIN 111 |
Geoffrey Gorham |
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| PHIL 235-01 |
Existentialist Metaphysics |
MWF |
03:30 pm-04:30 pm |
MAIN 002 |
Diane Michelfelder |
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| PHIL 360-01 |
Philosophy of Science |
MWF |
10:50 am-11:50 am |
CARN 105 |
Janet Folina |
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| PHIL 394-01 |
Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy |
TR |
01:20 pm-02:50 pm |
HUM 102 |
William Wilcox |
| This course will focus on some central topics in contemporary Anglo-American (or "analytic") social and political philosophy. We begin with John Rawls¿s theory of justice as it evolved from its first articulation in 1958 to its final in 2001. We¿ll then likely move on to questions about what sort of equality, if any, is an attractive social goal and then to issues about global justice. What duties do members of one society have to members of others? |
| PHIL 489-01 |
Senior Seminar |
TR |
03:00 pm-04:30 pm |
MAIN 011 |
Joy Laine |
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Spring 2010
| Number/Section/Name |
Days |
Time |
Room |
Instructor |
| PHIL 115-01 |
Problems of Philosophy |
TR |
01:20 pm-02:50 pm |
MAIN 009 |
Janet Folina |
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| PHIL 119-01 |
Critical Thinking |
TR |
09:40 am-11:10 am |
HUM 112 |
Geoffrey Gorham |
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| PHIL 125-01 |
Ethics |
MWF |
09:40 am-10:40 am |
MAIN 002 |
Diane Michelfelder |
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| PHIL 125-02 |
Ethics |
TR |
09:40 am-11:10 am |
CARN 105 |
William Wilcox |
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| PHIL 160-01 |
Foundations-Political Theory |
MWF |
12:00 pm-01:00 pm |
CARN 206 |
Franklin Adler |
| *Cross-listed with POLI 160-01* |
| PHIL 227-01 |
Bioethics |
MWF |
01:10 pm-02:10 pm |
MAIN 011 |
Martin Gunderson |
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| PHIL 231-01 |
Modern Philosophy |
TR |
01:20 pm-02:50 pm |
MAIN 111 |
Geoffrey Gorham |
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| PHIL 294-01 |
Human Rights and Healthcare |
MWF |
02:20 pm-03:20 pm |
MAIN 010 |
Martin Gunderson |
| This course will explore legal and ethical foundations of human rights that relate to health care. Human rights are used to protect human subjects in biomedial research and to support claims for adequate health care. Both areas raise legal and ethical issues. The use of human rights to protect human research subjects raises issues of informed consent, privacy, and individual autonomy. The use of human rights to secure health care resources raises issues about what level of health care ought to be supported and what constitutes a just distribution of health care resources. This in turn raises questions about what is to count as a disease or disability and who is responsible to provide the resources to which people have a right. Behind all of these specific ethical issues is the need to balance global standards of care with the diverse values of local cultures. No prerequisites. |
| PHIL 294-02 |
Philosophy of Technology |
MWF |
02:20 pm-03:20 pm |
MAIN 011 |
Diane Michelfelder |
| Most of the time we use technology without giving it a second thought - particularly a second, philosophical thought: How do technological innovations add not only to the contents of our world but shape the very contours of our world and our experience within it? This question is a key one for the philosophy of technology, a sub-field of inquiry aimed giving the material environment of our lives its philosophical due. In this course we will look at technology from a variety of perspectives, such as phenomenological, critical, and actor-network theory. We will consider questions such as: What is the relationship between technology and "the good life"? Between technology and democracy? What are some of the ethical and social issues raised by newer technologies, such as nanotechnology, information technology, and the interface between them? What is technology anyway? Our readings will be drawn from both classic and contemporary sources whose authors include Jacques Ellul, Martin Heidegger, Albert Borgmann, Andrew Feenberg, Don Ihde, Hubert Dreyfus, Luciano Floridi, Paul Virilio, and Bruno Latour. |
| PHIL 327-01 |
Darwin/Nietzsche/Freud |
MWF |
01:10 pm-02:10 pm |
MAIN 001 |
David Martyn |
| *Cross-listed with GERM 327-01.* Please see detailed course description under GERM 327-01. |
| PHIL 327-02 |
Darwin/Nietzsche/Freud |
MWF |
09:40 am-10:40 am |
HUM 215 |
David Martyn |
| *Course cross-listed with GERM 327-02.* |
| PHIL 364-01 |
Philosophy of Language |
TR |
03:00 pm-04:30 pm |
MAIN 111 |
Joy Laine |
| *Cross-listed with LING 364-01* |
| PHIL 369-01 |
Advanced Symbolic Logic |
TR |
09:40 am-11:10 am |
MAIN 001 |
Janet Folina |
| *Cross-listed with MATH 369-01* |
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