Course offerings

Summer 2013 course offerings

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PHIL 2070 DE Philosophy of the Environment    Professor N. Evans

Environmental Philosophy asks questions such as: How has 'nature' been conceptualized in the Western philosophical tradition, in aesthetics, science, and ethics? What arguments have been offered for the view that humans are superior among creatures? What connections might there be between the ways that nature, humankind, and animals have been conceptualized and the ways that humans have tended to act toward the non-human natural environment? This course may cover such topics as: climate change, resource extration and justice, biotechnology, obligations to future generations, risk assessment and discount rates, species lost, conservation vs. preservation.

PHIL 2220 DE Philosophy and Literary Art   Professor J. Arel

The course will engage with literary art forms (fiction, drama, poetry, and film) for philosophical goals. Possible emphases include the use of literary works to express philosophical topics; philosophical investigations of hte nature of literary art forms; and philosophies of interpretation of such art forms. (e.g., classical poetics, hermeneutics, deconstruction, analytical aesthetics).
 

PHIL 3040 DE Philosophy of Law    Professor N. Feuerhahn

This course is an introduction to the main topics in the philosophy of law. It aims to give students a philosophical grounding in such issues as the purpose and nature of law, the relationship between law and individual freedom and the question of international law. Thinkers studied may include St. Thomas Aquinas, John Stuart Mill, and H.L.A. Hart. The course may also include an examination of the way in which controversial ethical and social issues are treated under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.