History-Philosophy
指导老师:(历史)教授:C. Neel, T. Ragan, B. Rommel-Ruiz; Assistant Professors: D. Sanchez, J. Smith. (Philosophy) Professor: J. Lee; Associate Professors: A. Hernandez-Lemus, D. McEnnerney
The Departments of History and Philosophy offer a combined major. 该专业的入学必须通过申请，并且必须在大三第一学期结束前完成. 每个学生在两名顾问的指导下进行历史和哲学探究的综合课程, one from each of the sponsoring departments. Students may develop a program that focuses on a period (e.g.，中世纪，19世纪)，一个地区(如.g.，东亚，地中海)，或一个问题(如.g., the environment, feminism).
Major Requirements
The major requires up to 15 units, distributed as follows:
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专题课程(八个单元): These courses must be pre-approved by two faculty advisors, one from each department, to ensure that a coherent field-of-inquiry is being addressed. 1. A minimum of three blocks in each department. 2. 每个系至少修一门300级的课程. 3. 一门课程可能来自历史或哲学之外. |
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HY350/PH350 (one block): This course, co-taught at the 300-level by a Historian and a Philosopher, will focus on how the two disciplines think about a particular theme. It may be taken more than once, if taught on a different topic, and with approval from the student’s advisors may be used to satisfy the 300-level course requirements listed above under “Thematic Coursework.” |
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Senior Thesis (two blocks): 1. HY425 History–Philosophy Thesis; AND 2. PH425 History–Philosophy Thesis. The thesis is due by the last day of Block 6 in the senior year. The thesis will be co-supervised by two current tenured or tenure-track professors, 两个部门各派一个. |
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外语(最多四个模块): The language must be appropriate to the field of study and approved by the two advisors. Proficiency through the end of intermediate language instruction must be demonstrated, either through coursework or advanced placement (or some combination of the two). |
Courses
History
An introductory survey of human culture and society through the comparison of Europe and one other major area of the world from ancient to the modern period, focusing on fundamental topics in the development of world civilizations, including material culture, political organization, and aesthetics. The course will emphasize critical moments in historical development, thematic connections, 以及主要的文本和视觉来源. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. 符合学科写作要求. (Not offered 2023-24).
西方文明从古至今. Cultural, social, and political developments that shaped the modern world. The department offers this course in sections designated Europe or Atlantic World. Atlantic World includes the study of the heritage of Western civilization in the Western hemisphere. (Not offered 2023-24).
正如德国犹太哲学家沃尔特·本雅明所指出的那样, the march of progress is like a storm that leaves only ruins in its wake – ruined environments, ruined cultures, ruined bodies. Whereas some have sought refuge from these storms of progress in nostalgic attempt to retrieve – and, in some cases, return to – lost times, others have eschewed such romantic pursuits, seeking instead to forge alternative ways of being in the world, some modicum of a right life in the wrong one. After examining the destructive dynamics associated with capitalist modernity, 这门课程将把注意力转向在现代性废墟中蓬勃发展的反对环境和挑衅的声音. Although the course makes occasional forays into global history, the primary focus will be on 19th- and 20th-century Europe. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
东亚文明从古至今. Cultural, social and political developments that shaped East Asian nations and their place in the modern world. Introduces basics of historical method: contextualization, analysis, and critical evaluation of primary sources and their significance. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
An introduction to history through the study of a special subject in depth. Emphasis on the ways in which historians find and interpret the materials of the past. For students who do not complete the West in Time requirement in the History Department, a gateway to the History major. Topics designated according to the specialties of the faculty.
As a burgeoning turn-of-the-century metropolis, 德意志帝国的首都, 20世纪20年代早期酷儿文化的中心, the administrative center of the Nazi genocide, 冷战的前线城市, a hotbed of leftist activism in the 1960s, and a symbolic capital of post-Cold War Europe, the city of Berlin has played an outsized role in twentieth-century history. Using a wide array of primary documents (ranging from experimental films and mass-market novels to political manifestos and architectural plans), this course explores the history of Berlin from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In so doing, 它既使学生熟悉二十世纪欧洲历史的一些中心事件，又为如何运用文化和城市历史的工具提供了一个例子. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement.
Latin American history from pre-Columbian times to the present. 重点是殖民地墨西哥和秘鲁, the centers of Spanish power in the New World, and the political and social development of post-independence Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Introduces historiography and the basics of historical method: contextualization, 分析和批判性评价的主要来源和 their significance. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Aegean and Greek archeological, historical, literary, and philosophical texts, with emphasis on those ideas formative in shaping Western culture. The development and transformations of these ideas as reflected in selected texts from the early Christian era, 启蒙运动还是现代. The rise of individualism and its conflicts with community, ritual relationships to nature vs. separation and exploitation, 神学与经验次序的关系, and how psyche both forms and is formed by its relationships to community, nature, and god(s). Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Two block course that introduces the full sweep of American History from its pre-contact, 'New World' beginnings to the recent past. Students will experience how history is made, understood, revised, and debated. Themes include cultural encounters and adaptation complexities of ethnicity and immigration; movement; the success and failures of republican ideology, capitalism, individualism and community; and the formation of American cultures. (Not offered 2023-24).
Examines large-scale social structures and the question of 'ordinary' men and women from the seventh century C.E. to the present. 通过一系列的历史方法-文化, intellectual, political and social-and an emphasis on close reading of primary materials, students explore in what ways the histories of Islamic Civilization, Western Civilization, African Civilization, 和中亚文明是相互关联的历史，以及中东人如何批判他们自己的社会和同时代的社会. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
This course examines art and cultural history in Europe from Antiquity through to the twentieth century. 采用跨学科的观点, one which seeks to bring art history and history in critical dialogue with one another, the students and professors will interrogate the meta-narrative of “progress” across time. In many ways, succeeding periods engaged in conversations with their pasts to make claims of domination through pictorial and cultural production. But it is important, too, to examine counter-narratives made by subaltern groups of the various eras, 沿着性别的关键轴, sexuality, class, ethnicity, 种族和其他身份标志. Students will be called upon to think systematically about “who” they themselves are in order to engage with the past and explore human similarities, as well as differences, across a long period of time. Thinking systematically about the notion of “critical bias” and the need to analyze the past in its own terms, as well as in ours, will open up avenues to thinking about the present in new ways. We will examine the most important eras of European history, in particular, Ancient Greece and Rome, 中世纪和文艺复兴时期, the early modern period, and the more recent past. (Not offered 2023-24).
历史研究中的选定主题. Specific content and emphasis to be determined by the instructor.
20世纪20年代作为激进分子出现, right-wing fringe group seeking to rejuvenate Germany following its catastrophic defeat in the First World War, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party would go on to become one of the most destructive forces of the Twentieth Century. 首先考察了纳粹在大萧条之后的崛起及其统治的残暴, 本课程将深入探讨多方面的问题, and often contradictory, 战后重建欧洲社会的努力. In so doing, it will pay particularly close attention to the multiple 'afterlives' of fascism including the resurgence of neo-Nazi political movements, 法西斯形象的亚文化挪用, and the multifaceted attempts to memorialize and to “come to terms with” the manifold traumas of the Nazi years. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Born amidst the crucible of the First World War, 苏联试图实现一种进步主义, socialist vision, 地球上所有人都平等的乌托邦, nature would be conquered, and society would be freed from the destructive dynamics of capitalism. From the outset, however, 这些乌托邦式的蓝图的实施伴随着令人震惊的暴力行为——社会主义的梦想世界总是被它们的对立面所笼罩. Taking seriously both the utopian and the dystopian aspects of the soviet experiment, this course traces the violent emergence, the piecemeal realization, and the protracted decline of the Soviet Union. Relying heavily on literature, art, and film from the era, the course takes an explicitly cultural historical approach to soviet history. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
Broad approach to the history of American traditions and institutions from Anglo-American settlement to the outbreak of the Civil War, addressing Native American-Anglo American encounters; colonization and development of Anglo-American culture and society; African Slave Trade and the Plantation Economy; American Revolution; Jeffersonian Ideology and Westward Expansion; Jacksonian Democracy and the Industrial Revolution; the Politics of Slavery and Secession. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Broad approach to the history of the United States since the Civil War, focusing on multiple meanings of American freedom and the rise of the modern United States as a global power, including attention to Emancipation and Reconstruction; Industrialization, Migration, and Immigration; Civil Rights Movements and Protest Politics; the Great Depression, New Deal and WWII; American Foreign Policy and the Cold War; the Great Society, Vietnam, 以及对新政秩序的挑战. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement.
对希腊和/或罗马历史上某一时期(如罗马共和国末期或伯里克利雅典)或某一主题(如奴隶制或中产阶级的兴衰)的详细研究.
Introduces students to the history of native peoples primarily in North America. 这门课程包括个别土著群体的历史，以及美洲印第安人和各种欧洲人之间从接触之前到现在的关系. Examines a variety of primary and secondary materials to see patterns in the ways that Native Americans have been affected by the process of conquest, the ways in which Anglo-Europeans have responded to Native Americans, 以及美国印第安人成为美国“主流”文化的一部分并与之保持距离的方式. As a broader goal, we also look at the way 'history' is made, understood, and used by very different cultural traditions. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
本课程探讨国家的方式, church, and the people dealt with crime and viewed justice in Renaissance, early modern, and modern Europe. 注意异端邪说等话题, the witch craze, and treason and to what ordinary and great trials reveal about changing attitudes toward criminal justice. (Not offered 2023-24).
A survey of American history from the perspective of the environment, beginning with the biological and cultural invasion of the New World in 1492 and ending with current environmental problems and their historical roots. 话题包括印第安人vs. Euro-American views of nature, the impact of changing economic systems on the environment, and the impact of the landscape on various American cultures. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
Athenian Democracy. The Greeks with Near Eastern and Indo-European background. Panhellenic epic and religion, the polis, philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy. 注意整个希腊和拉丁文学形式, but no knowledge of ancient languages required. (Not offered 2023-24).
关注罗马的发展, 来自一个被国王统治的小城市, to a regional power ruled under a Republic. 课程将追溯罗马在意大利的扩张历程, its conflict with Carthage and will closely examine the end of the Republic. Individuals discussed will include the Gracchi, generals Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, 以及罗马最伟大的政治家(兼作家)西塞罗. (Also listed as Classics 216.)
The process of conquering the American continent from 1492 to the present. An examination of the variety of forms that Euro-American conquest took (exploration, religion, economic development, settlement, and military encounter), the impact of conquest on native peoples, 边疆的社会经济发展, and the lives that people led and lead in places considered frontiers. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement.
This two-block course will survey the history of the Eurasian region from Eastern Europe to the Central Asian and Pacific areas of Eurasia, with an important theme being the rise and fall of the Russian Empire, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. The focus throughout will be on the ways in which religious, cultural, 种族认同是由, accommodated to, and resisted the construction of national boundaries and identities. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Soviet successor states in the 20th century. Topics including the collapse of the Empire during the First World War, the attempted ‘building of socialism’ in the Soviet period, the crisis of the Soviet system, and how Soviet conceptions of the relation between ethnicity and nationality shaped political and cultural identities before and after 1991. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Focus on the development of the Roman state in the late first century B.C. under the emperor Augustus. The city, its monuments, its art, its literature, 官僚主义与领土扩张, the role of women, and 各种社会和少数群体 will all be discussed. In particular, the course will emphasize important and influential literary figures, such as Horace, Ovid, Propertius, Virgil and Augustus himself. (Not offered 2023-24).
Traditional African states, Portugal and Africa, the slave trade, European conquest, occupation and administration. The African response to the European presence in terms of social change, the origins of a 'Europeanized' African elite and the beginnings of modern African politics. - Blasenheim,. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
非洲和柏林会议, 对欧洲殖民主义的主要和次要抵抗, political independence, conflicts between traditional and modern cultural patterns and ideologies, 一党专政和经济依赖. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Examines the origins of Chinese civilization, from the divination rituals of the theocratic Bronze Age Shang Dynasty to the mighty Han. Considers the great religious and philosophical traditions of China's axial age: Confucianism, Daoism, and others vying for influence in China's bloody 'Warring States' period. 学生将理解政治, economic, cultural and spiritual patterns that gave shape to classical Chinese civilization. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Mass culture, according to its many critics, consists of shallow forms of entertainment that commodify and erase “authentic” modes of cultural expression. 无论是先锋还是反主流文化的成员, 无论是在右边还是在左边, 大众文化的批评者忽略了它的创造性, world-making capacities, 而是寻求建立真实的, unmediated lives outside of the pop sensibilities of their times. Analyzing a variety of pop cultural artifacts alongside the political, artistic, and academic critiques of mass culture produced by both the left and the right, 本课程探讨大众文化及其在二十世纪漫长历程中的多方面不满. 主要关注二十世纪的欧洲, the course will make occasional forays into global history. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
这门课程将跟随中国动荡的历史和政治，从1900年的义和团运动到后毛改革. Using primary documents, personal accounts, and scholarly studies, students will assess China's political and cultural changes and continuities in historical context. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement.
本课程将追踪社会, political, 从1890年的第一次国会选举到90年代的财政危机，日本的文化发展. Using a wide range of sources, 学生将探索日本帝国的主要主题, World War, economic miracle, 以及作为亚洲领导人的麻烦角色. Major themes will include cross-cultural contact, world systems, and women's history. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
Focus on how conservative Roman republican ideals were reconciled with an increasingly Hellenized empire dominated by an imperial dynasty. 在简要回顾罗马历史之后, 这门课程将考察公元一世纪罗马帝国在胡里奥-克劳狄王朝统治下的发展. 课程将继续考虑帝国的演变和管理在随后的弗拉维安和安东尼王朝. The city, its monuments, its art, its literature, 官僚主义与领土扩张, the role of women, 各种社会和少数群体, 以及基督教的发展都会被讨论. (Not offered 2023-24).
The English colonies in America, their founding and development within the British Empire. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement.
The movement for independence and the corollary movement to restructure politics internally, from the end of the Seven Years’ War through the Revolution and Confederation to the adoption of the U. S. Constitution. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement.
美国在宪法下的最初发展经历了弗吉尼亚王朝和杰克逊民主. Party formation; conflicts in political economy; diplomacy; expansion; social and cultural growth. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
The causes, strategies, and impact of the Civil War on the United Sates. Slavery, sectional controversy, political crises; civilian and military life during the war; the successes and failures of Reconstruction; the problems of race. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement.
Cultural expression, and race relations in the aftermath of WWI; changing sexual and racial relations and the anti-modernist response in the 1920s; the Harlem Renaissance; the causes and consequences of the Great Depression and FDR and the New Deal; the coming of WWII. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Domestic politics and political realignments from Truman to Nixon; McCarthyism and the beginnings of the Cold War; covert action and direct intervention in U.S. foreign policy; Civil Rights; Black Power; feminism; and controversies regarding the American family. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
American foreign policy from the 'Vietnam Syndrome' to the end of the Cold War to the invasion of Iraq; Americans and the Islamic world; transformations of the Republican and Democratic Parties and the Office of the President; negotiating race in the post-Civil Rights era; the 'New World Order' and the new immigration; religion, families, and gender and their roles in partisan politics. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement.
Political independence in the 1810s in La Plata and Chile. The impact of immigration, urbanization, modernization, populism, nationalism, 军国主义和民主化. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Portuguese colonization, 新殖民经济中的政治独立, the Brazilian Empire, the Republic. The emergence of modern Brazil: populism, corporation and militarism. The institution of slavery and its legacy. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Spanish conquest and administration in New Spain and Peru, the Catholic Church, internal and external colonial economies, the Bourbon reforms and political independence in the 1820s; class, caste and gender during the colonial period. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
The Aztec and other Indian peoples’ influence in Mexican history and thought; Spanish colonial legacy; Enlightenment, Liberal, and Conservative political philosophies; Mexico’s relationship to the United States; roles of the Church and of violence from European encounter through Revolution (1910-1921) and into Mexico’s current precarious social and political situation. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement.
Emphasizes the intellectual precursors and historical development of the federal union of 1787 and of early American foreign policy. 将内战前的美国视为一个国家体系，并通过对美国联邦和早期外交政策的辩论，探讨了一系列国际关系中的理论问题. (Not offered 2023-24).
African cultural backgrounds, African slavery in colonial British America and the U. S. to 1860; free Black people from 1790 to 1860 and antislavery movements. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement.
S. since the Civil War. Black Reconstruction; Black urban settlement; literary and artistic movements in the 1920s; civil rights struggles; recent social and political expressions. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement.
A thematic survey of Korean history from the earliest times to the present covering social, cultural and political developments from the Three Kingdoms period through the Silla unification, Koryo and Choson dynasties to the modern era. Special emphasis on the twentieth century. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
This course treats gender roles and family life throughout the European past, 比较关注其他历史文化的家庭和非人灵长类动物群体的关系. It emphasizes the historical agency of women and children generally elided from traditional master narratives of Western Civilization, demonstrating how feminist and ethnohistorical approaches can reveal their experience. Course materials will include historiographical and anthropological literature as well as primary documents, 文学作品和视觉资源. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
How have science and religion come to be seen as such different enterprises? 当他们试图理解自然世界的运作和精神启示时，“魔法”在设定社区之间的界限方面发挥了什么作用? This course examines the intertwined histories of what we now call magic, science, and religion, through Babylonian, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, and Latin sources, 从古代到近代早期. (Not offered 2023-24).
This is an introductory level course that explores the historical processes that have formed South Asia. Topics include British colonialism; nationalism and anti-colonialism; social and religious reform movements; independence and Partition; and the economic, political, and social issues facing the postcolonial nation-states of South Asia. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
本课程探讨了南亚社会中性别和性关系的变化. Key topics covered in this course include the impact of colonialism, nationalism, and socio-religious reform movements; law and the postcolonial state; the cultural politics of sexuality; masculinities; and local and transnational feminisms. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement.
The course examines the interaction between Europeans and the natural world from the Renaissance to the present. It looks at how nature shaped the ways Europeans lived and worked and how, in turn, they thought about and behaved toward nature. In particular, 探索科学革命的影响, industrialization, and mass culture on the changing interplay between nature, society, and culture. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Educational institutions and their relationship to society from the Renaissance to the present. The rise of mass education and its impact on the structure and purpose of the educational system. (Not offered 2023-24).
Development of an Islamic world through formation of key institutions of Islamic urban life, the changing relationships of tribal and agrarian societies to urban society, 以及公共空间和私人空间的区分. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
分析中东地区日常生活中的各种生活经历和自由与权威问题. Attention to the impact of modernity on gender roles and social order in the Middle East. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
The pre-contact history of Anasazi and Athabascan peoples from anthropological and mythological perspectives; the causes and consequences of the Spanish entrada and attempts at missionization of the Indian peoples of New Mexico and the California coast; development of mestizo society; the arrival of the Anglo-Americans and the Mexican-American War. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
The adaptation of Native American and Hispanic peoples to Anglo-American culture and politics; the causes and consequences of the loss of Hispanic lands; the evolution of family life and religious practices; indigenous views of modernity. Films, artistic expression, and works of fiction as well as historical sources. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Explores key themes in Southern history from colonial settlement through the American Civil War. 考察美国南部的独特性, and how Southern life was shaped by slavery, particularly in the ways the plantation economy informed Southern political culture, gender and race relations. Other important issues include: Anglo-American encounters with Native Americans, the Great Awakening, the American Revolution, Jeffersonian republicanism, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, 以及南方民族主义的兴起. (Not offered 2023-24).
Explores key themes in Southern history from colonial settlement through the American Civil War. 考察美国南部的独特性, and how Southern life was shaped by slavery, particularly in the ways the plantation economy informed Southern political culture, gender and race relations. Other important issues include: Anglo-American encounters with Native Americans, the Great Awakening, the American Revolution, Jeffersonian republicanism, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, 以及南方民族主义的兴起. (Not offered 2023-24).
This course provides an overview of the history of human rights. 我们考察了不同的人权谱系, chart the shifting meanings of “human” and “rights” over time, 并探讨权利适用方面的争论. Key topics include the philosophical foundations of rights; capitalism, imperialism, and rights; universalism vs. cultural relativism; and the complementary discourse of humanitarianism.
Exploration of Europeans’ expressions of identity and community from the close of Mediterranean antiquity to the Black Death of the fourteenth century. Consideration of literary texts, social organization, and ritual practices, with emphasis on Christian Europe as continually self-defining against its pagan and Muslim frontiers. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
Scientific, religious and artistic achievements of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
The birth of the modern state and the creation of modern society. 从16世纪宗教改革和宗教战争结束到17世纪的危机, as well as the making of the constitutional order in England and the absolutist state in France. Political, social, and cultural perspectives. (Not offered 2023-24).
Causes and the social and political effects of the French Revolution, the Revolutions of 1848, and the Industrial Revolution. Particular attention to the process of revolutionary change and to political movements including liberalism, Marxism, and nationalism. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
The course analyzes the origins of 'modernity' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Beginning with the Scientific Revolution, it then looks at the social and political environment that made the 'Republic of Letters' possible. 各种各样的原始文献, including social and political criticism, novels and poetry, painting and sculpture, will be examined. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
通过代表性作家的作品考察欧洲思想从近代早期到近代的变化, philosophers, political theorists, 科学家和艺术家(包括洛克, Galileo, Hegel, Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, Foucault, and others). The relationships between these changes and social developments. (Not offered 2023-24).
The “revolt against reason.” The effects of World War I and the Great Depression on society and politics. 浅析布尔什维主义和法西斯主义的吸引力. 尤其关注墨索里尼和希特勒对自由政府的成功挑战以及西班牙内战. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
第二次世界大战及其对欧洲的影响，1939-2000. The outbreak, course, and the effects of the War, 包括东欧共产主义的出现, European integration, and the 'economic miracle' in western Europe. 消费社会的出现, the spread of popular culture, 以及大众教育的发展. 关注非殖民化和移民的挑战符合批判性观点:社会不平等的要求. (Not offered 2023-24).
Herodotus, 有时被称为“谎言之父”,' and Thucydides, sometimes called the first political scientist, treated as the first historians. Study of the ways of conceiving history and its relation to the peoples and periods explored. No Greek or Latin required. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Critical issues in the philosophy of history and historical methodology as seen from the standpoint of the historian and the philosopher. (由个别安排提供.) (Not offered 2023-24).
Selected topics in the history of one or more world regions. 主题的集中程度由教师决定.
Analysis of sexual roles and sexual practices in the world before the concept of ‘sexual identity’ emerged in the late nineteenth century. Examination of how different religious traditions such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, and Buddhism have viewed sex, and exploration of a wide variety of topics including pornography, prostitution, and same-sex sexual behavior throughout the pre-modern world. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
After examination of the birth of ‘sexuality’ in late nineteenth-century Europe, exploration of the acceptance of and resistance to this new conceptual model throughout the world. Attention to heterosexuality and homosexuality, intersexuality, and ‘perversion,，最后分析 contemporary cultural wars over sexuality in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
Social, intellectual, and spiritual ferment between the Investiture Contest of the 1170s and the death of Francis of Assisi in 1226, 特别关注东地中海的扩张主义意识形态和拉丁基督教世界的信仰多样性. Readings in primary sources for military action in the Middle East, pogroms in the Rhineland, saints’ lives, 以及对异端团体的迫害, 以及近期主要的历史批评著作. (Not offered 2023-24).
Examines the representation of history in film. 它将一系列电影与史学文献中的重大主题和问题进行比较，并提出电影应该如何坚持历史学科的学术标准的问题. 学生将阅读电影和学术历史学家之间的重要辩论，并探索电影历史呈现的可能性和局限性.
An examination of the relationships, both similarities and differences, of history and literature. Using selected theoretical texts from Aristotle to the present, 传统叙事历史文本, experimental histories, fictions based on imagined thoughts and actions of historical figures, and comparisons of historical/biographical texts and historical novels, 本课程探讨历史写作和文学写作的不同和/或相似的目的和功能, and the truth claims of each as forms of narrative and knowledge. In addition, we will read history literally and literature historically in order to interrogate the uses and limitations of both forms of writing. (Not offered 2023-24).
We live in a haunted landscape, an environment that, to quote Vladimir Nabokov, is filled with objects and places “through which the past shines.” Although some of these vectors of the past – monuments, for example, or even museums – can serve to strengthen structures of domination in the present, this is not always true. Indeed, old houses, city streets, and discarded objects can retain traces of their original contexts; haunted palimpsests of layered time that, 至少一些理论家是这么认为的, 能打开通往不同未来的道路吗. Analyzing a diverse array of texts from a range of disciplines this course explores how our visions of the past (and our conceptions of the future) are, to a large extent, 受建筑环境的影响. As a 300-level course, the class will culminate in a 15-page research paper. (Not offered 2023-24).
A junior seminar organized around comparative analysis of a common theme or topic, employing both historical and political science approaches to analysis and research. Designed principally for History/Political Science majors, 但其他人可以在导师同意的情况下被录取.
An examination of the effect of total war, extremism, and economic crisis on politics and society, 特别关注法西斯主义, the resistance, post World War II revival, 以及前卫艺术等文化运动, futurism, and existentialism. (Not offered 2023-24).
This 300-level, co-taught course brings together historical and philosophical methodologies to explore a rotating theme, such as: “African History and Philosophy,“科学史与科学哲学。,” or “The Philosophy of History.” Although conceived as a cornerstone course for the History-Philosophy Major, all are welcome. Students may take the course more than once, if taught on a different topic. With approval from the student’s advisors, 它可以用来满足“专题课程”中列出的300级历史哲学课程要求.”
Chinese ways of life and thought and the interaction of local social patterns with government and elite ideals. Focuses on the last great dynasty, the Qing. With Emphasis on Writing. May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Formation of the new nation that Hitler said in 1933 the world would not recognize. Germany’s catalysis of European and world transformations, as well as its institution of dictatorship and genocide at home. Political, economic, social/cultural, intellectual, and military aspects of German experience. (Not offered 2023-24).
An examination of traditional and new methods of studying the past and an exploration of the debate over the nature and the meaning of history. Designed primarily for history majors, but others may be admitted with the consent of the department. 符合学科写作要求.
Students learn how to develop a research topic, advanced library and primary document research, and historical research design and organization. Students meet regularly to discuss their work in progress. Usually, a central text is also discussed throughout the semester. (一学期的扩展课程.) (Not offered 2023-24).
Students learn how to develop a research topic, advanced library and primary document research, and historical research design and organization. Students meet regularly to discuss their work in progress. Usually, a central text is also discussed throughout the semester. (一学期的扩展课程.) (Not offered 2023-24).
An advanced seminar on selected topics and themes in historical study.
独立的，主要来源的研究. Particular content and emphasis of the paper to be determined in consultation with supervising professor. 在紧接HY 410的街区内拍摄.
An interdisciplinary, primary source-based thesis on a subject of interest to the student. Independent study format with regular consultation between the student and the faculty supervisors.
An interdisciplinary, primary-source based thesis on a subject of interest to the student and approved by two faculty supervisors, 一本是哲学，一本是历史. Independent study format with regular consultation between the student and the faculty supervisors.
Directed reading and preparation of a thesis.
(Summer only 2023-24).
Philosophy
An examination of the origins of Western philosophy as it arose in ancient Greece. 课程从前苏格拉底时期的哲学家开始, 以柏拉图和亚里士多德的哲学为中心, and closes with the important Hellenistic traditions of Stoicism, Skepticism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, and Neoplatonism. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
Aegean and Greek archaeological, historical, 文学和哲学文本, 强调西方文化的形成思想. The development and transformations of these ideas as reflected in selected texts from the early Christian era, the Enlightenment, and the Modern Age. 我们关注的是作为人类意味着什么, and the relation of individuals to community, nature, 以及荷马等作家的神性, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Descartes, Goethe, Nietzsche, and Heidegger (Also listed as History 116 and Philosophy 116.) Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
An introduction to critical thinking and conceptual argument, this course will cover basic principles of logic as they pertain to philosophical writing and thinking. Students will master essential skills for reading and evaluating arguments, engage with a variety of methods and styles of philosophical inquiry, and learn techniques of composition that enhance the clarity and elegance of their written work. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: CP requirement.
An exploration of the questions of what constitutes a good human life, 做一个有道德的人意味着什么, and whether reasoning about ethical and moral values can be objective. Texts may include works by Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Nietzsche, among others. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement.
Through a study of the literary style of certain philosophical texts and the philosophical significance of selected literary works of art, 本课程将研究不同写作模式的比较能力，以解决传统的哲学问题，并阐明人类经验的特定特征. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement.
An introduction to philosophy through works of science fiction. 许多深刻的问题 nature of reality and the nature of humanity have been raised in sci fi and discussed in philosophical essays. Students in this course will consider a wide range of important philosophical questions with the help of mutually illuminating works of philosophy and science fiction. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Generally regarded as the first existentialist, Søren Kierkegaard wrote a remarkable variety of texts with profound philosophical, spiritual, and literary significance. This course is a survey of his works and an introduction to the existential tradition, 以克尔凯郭尔的传记为背景. 它涉及诸如焦虑之类的主题, faith, despair, love, selfhood, ethics, possibility, God, and the meaning of life.
An exploration of the conceptual roots of discrimination against racial and ethnic groups, women, and minoritized people. The course examines the ways in which self-professed ideals of equality have been inconsistently realized; investigates relations between patriarchy, racism, and capitalism; and considers the role of reason in both advancing and hindering justice and equity. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement.
This course explores how 17th and 18th century European philosophers critiqued the religious epistemology and way of being that reigned for a millennium in the West. In contrast, they proposed novel ways to attain knowledge and to conceive of the powers and limitations of the human mind. These philosophies helped create a “modern mind”: one that demands rational arguments and/or empirical evidence to establish knowledge, that doubts authorities claiming to know metaphysical realities, that demands freedom to pursue its individual life, and that is prone to nihilism. This kind of mind, increasingly dominant globally, appears natural and underlies a problematic way of being in the world. Philosophers studied may include Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche. (Not offered 2023-24).
A study of the evolution of philosophical “modernity” and of the “modern” concept of the subject or self. 这门课程包括专业伦理学, epistemological, and metaphysical developments from the mid17thcentury to the mid-19th, 在中世纪哲学中. The course also includes a critique from the margins of modern Europe, 质疑“欧洲”这个概念,” “Modernity,” “Enlightenment” and “Reason,” which are key to the European project of modernity. Modernity is more than an intellectual initiative; it is the expansion of a way of life that has encompassed the world. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement.
Experimental and occasional courses taught by either visiting professors or permanent staff. 在此标题下开设的课程 will vary from year to year.
An exploration of the philosophical thought of American philosophers, focusing on those associated with transcendentalism and pragmatism, with an emphasis on their conceptions of nature, the construction of truth, and their theories of individualism. Thinkers to be read can include Emerson, Thoreau, Pierce, James, Dewey, Whitehead, Mead, Santayana, Rorty, and Cavell. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement.
An exploration of the development of French philosophy from the interwar period to the present. 以巴黎为背景, 本课程探讨戏剧性的社会和政治挑战如何影响法国哲学反思的路径, 促使思想家对知识的基础提出质疑, morals, and politics, leading ultimately to what might be called a “decentered” cosmopolitanism. Taught in Paris. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement.
哲学课程:按主题或历史组织的课程，涉及哲学中的一个主题或一组相关主题, to be taught as an extended format course over one semester or part of a semester. 主题每年都会有所不同. .25 unit (Not offered 2023-24).
A thematically or historically organized course dealing with a single topic or set of related topics in philosophy, to be taught either during half-block or as a one-semester extended format course. 主题每年都会有所不同. (Not offered 2023-24).
考察哲学的发展，从它的起源，在古典希腊到早期的现代时期在欧洲, culminating in Kant’s philosophical revolution. This two-block course introduces major figures in the history of Western philosophy, 选定的哲学研究领域, 以及今天仍然相关的核心问题. The course may incorporate some amount of non-Western thought, to provide comparative perspectives. (Not offered 2023-24).
An introduction to the study of logical reasoning through formal languages. Students will use a variety of tools to evaluate and construct arguments, 包括句子逻辑语言和一阶语言，满足批判性视角:定量推理的要求. Meets the Critical Learning: FRL requirement.
An introduction to contemporary issues in the philosophy of science, focusing on the nature of science; scientific epistemology; values and objectivity in science; and relationships between science and society. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
An exploration of the nature of language and its relation to thought and reality. Specifically, we will consider communication and coordination between people, as well as language’s essential role in conceptual thought. Readings will be mostly contemporary Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Considers the meanings, problems, and possibilities of contemporary identity politics. Explores different approaches toward identity and politics, including liberal, existential, 以及传统主义的理解. Traces the emergence of a new kind of identity politics out of racial, feminist, and queer movements of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. 评估当代的身份和讨论 politics, in relation to both the history of Western thought and contemporary multicultural societies. 讨论的作者可能包括洛克, Sartre, MacIntyre, Fanon, Young, Taylor, Butler, Azoulay, and Alcoff. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
探讨古典唯心主义哲学的主要著作, considered in contexts of Greek, Roman, Biblical, and medieval political orders. Addresses the tensions between philosophical visions of the good and democratic or republican politics. Texts discussed may include works by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, or Pizan, as well as Biblical sources. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
Investigates leading modern and contemporary political philosophers, highlighting the ways these thinkers sought to break with tradition and rethink political membership, ethical obligations, and governmental authority in light of the evolution of modern states and societies. Addresses tensions 在宣布人类平等和在正式致力于包容性民主原则的国家出现新形式的等级和排斥之间. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
This course explores the ethical dimensions of humans’ relationships with the environment and one another, focusing on environmental ethics as developed in and through practice as well as theory. We will consider topics such as animal ethics, land and ecological ethics, ecofeminism, environmental justice, climate ethics, and intergenerational ethics. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement.
This course deals with the creation and appreciation of works of the imagination, including such questions as: what is art?我们该如何评价艺术作品?艺术如何丰富我们的生活?
对多重公平概念的考察, equity, and justice in relation to climate change, and how calls for justice and fairness are used both to reinforce and to challenge existing power relations, within and among nations. Prerequisites: None. 1 unit. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
What does education mean and what are its purposes and values? Topics examined: education vs. schooling; education for critical consciousness vs. conservation of values; training vs. the search for wisdom; how can students learn to educate themselves, and how can schools, administrators and teachers aid in education? (Not offered 2023-24).
对存在主义传统中几位思想家的研究, which has its origin in the 19th century writings of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and includes such 20th century authors as Heidegger and Camus, among others. 涉及的问题包括自由, authenticity, meaning, the absurd, the predicament of the contingent individual, 以及哲学本身的目的. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement.
An examination of different ways of understanding the mind, 从二元论和唯物主义的经典论点开始，然后转向当代的观点，这些观点试图避免将精神和身体分开，或将一个简化为另一个. 思想心理学:考虑具体化的思想的各种功能以及思想和物理概念之间的区别. 1个单元- Furtak(2023-24年度不提供).
19世纪末和20世纪主要的精神分析观点在理论上对潜意识的概念, case studies, and fiction. Emphasis on unconscious processes as they relate to the formation of identity. Readings from such authors as Freud, Jung, Klein, Winnicott, Kohut, and Yalom. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.
弗洛伊德和科胡特的介绍性研究以及他们的理论在当代精神分析中的转变. 学生将阅读杰出精神分析学家的作品，并与他们会面，他们将提出理解精神分析理论和治疗行动的新方法. We will also explore how psychoanalysis can be used in the interpretation of culture, especially art and theater. 1 unit. Taught in part in Chicago at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.
An exploration of the work of Sigmund Freud designed to introduce the wide-ranging scope and the dramatic evolution of his thought. Beginning with his collaboration with Josef Breuer in Studies on Hysteria (1895), the course continues with a careful examination of Freud’s approach to dream interpretation, 他对性心理发展的描述, 以及他关于无意识过程的细致理论. On the basis of this review of classical psychoanalytic theory, 然后，课程深入探讨弗洛伊德将精神分析作为文化批评工具的争议性但有影响力的使用, 同时也转向弗洛伊德在20世纪20年代和30年代对他的基本理论模型的不断修正. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
This course explores central issues in philosophy from a cross-cultural, comparative perspective. Drawing on classical and contemporary texts, the course covers topics such as ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and conceptions of the self from a comparative point of view. The challenge of comparing concepts and traditions across cultures is discussed. (Not offered 2021-22). Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
The development of Indian philosophy from its roots in the Vedic tradition of Hinduism. 这门课的重点是道德, epistemological, and metaphysical systems that grew out of the Hindu tradition and on the challenges to this tradition posed by Buddhism and by 20th century developments. (符合多元文化和批评的要求.) (Also listed as Asian Studies 220) 1 unit - Lee Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
非洲主题的探索, Caribbean, and North American thought, this course looks closely at ways in which philosophers of the African diaspora have responded to colonialism, the process of decolonization, and the postcolonial situation. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement.
A survey of philosophical writings by Latin-American authors in the social and historical context of the region. Texts studied include Indigenous philosophies of the pre-Hispanic tradition, as well as those of the colonial and postcolonial periods. Particular attention will be devoted to issues that are central to this philosophical tradition, such as identity, 教育意识, and philosophies of liberation. Our readings draw from Aztec or Maya sources, as well as from Leon-Portilla, Vasconcelos, Paz, Freire, Gutierrez, Dussel. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
An exploration of feminism through the lens of philosophy, this course will involve both classic and 当代女性主义思想的作品. 话题可以从政治哲学和伦理学到 epistemology and metaphysics, 包括与身体有关的问题, race, class, sexuality, work, family, 科学、气候变化或残疾. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement.
Race is a social construct that invites a number of philosophical questions, such as those of identity, inter-subjectivity, justice, rationality, and culturally different ways of knowing. The course will examine, among others, philosophical reflections on race by the following thinkers: Douglass, West, Fanon, Vasconcelos, Appiah, Bernsaconi, Outlaw, Levinas, Mendieta. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement.
An exploration of classical Chinese philosophy (~600-200 BCE). The course focuses on primary texts in English translation – the Analects of Confucius, Mozi, Mengzi, Laozi (the Daodejing), Zhuangzi, and Xunzi– and considers topics and themes such as ethics, moral development, governance, and human nature. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement.
An exploration of trends in European philosophy since the Second World War. Movements covered may include phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, and posthumanism. 所涉及的哲学家包括, among others, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Levinas, Arendt, Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida. 1 unit
An in-depth study of an important period, idea, text or philosopher. 在此标题下开设的课程 will vary from year to year. 1 unit
A study of one or more major texts by a single important philosopher. 可能的学习文本包括, among others: Plato, Republic; Aristotle, Metaphysics; Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy and The Passions of the Soul; Spinoza, Ethics; Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature; Kant, Critique of Pure Reason; Heidegger, Being and Time; Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations. (Not offered 2023-24).
对现实本质的深入研究, this course will require students to consider the world in strange and challenging ways. 所涵盖的具体主题将有所不同, 但可能包括:空间和时间, 上帝的存在和本质, causation, freedom and determinism, and the nature of persons. Readings will be from historical and contemporary sources. 1 unit
This course focuses on philosophical questions concerning knowledge and belief, for example, 信念是如何获得和证明的, 知识的可能局限, 信仰冲突的人们之间的互动, and issues of epistemic justice. Readings will be from historical and contemporary sources. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
An advanced investigation into pressing ethical issues we face today. Students will work to develop both nuanced understandings of the issues as well as their own positions on them. 1 unit (Not offered 2023-24).
Examines works of influential recent or contemporary political philosophers, with a focus on debates raised initially by the works of prominent liberal theorist John Rawls. 讨论的概念或主题反映了当代政治哲学的核心问题:正义和自由主义, discourse and the public, equality and law, representation and diversity, sovereignty, and human rights, 能力和全球化. In addition to Rawls, authors discussed may include, Habermas, Sandel, Charles Mills, Iris Young, and Sen. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.
考察德国反法西斯学者将马克思主义哲学与弗洛伊德精神分析相结合而形成的激进的跨学科社会哲学, in an effort to understand the promise and dangers of mass societies. 该课程既涉及批判理论的起源，也涉及当代现代主义和后现代主义的变体. Authors discussed may include Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Althusser, Habermas, Foucault, and more recent thinkers. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
This 300-level, co-taught course brings together historical and philosophical methodologies to explore a rotating theme, such as: “African History and Philosophy,“科学史与科学哲学。,” or “The Philosophy of History.” Although conceived as a cornerstone course for the History-Philosophy Major, all are welcome. Students may take the course more than once, if taught on a different topic. With approval from the student’s advisors, 它可以用来满足“专题课程”中列出的300级历史哲学课程要求.”
探索无意识心理功能的发现与伦理学哲学问题的关系, philosophical psychology, social theory, and theory of meaning. The course is grounded in the work of Freud and may include such post-Freudians as Lacan, Cixous, Winnicott, Klein, and Kohut. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.
Explores a range of theoretical attempts to explain the emotions and their place in human life. Emotions such as fear, anxiety, hope, love, and regret will be studied both for their own sake and as sources of insight into the nature of meaningful experience. Attention will be paid to the distinction between momentary passions and abiding affective dispositions, and to such questions as how emotions might be justified and what sort of cognition they involve.
The most widely read and translated Japanese philosophers of the modern era, Nishida Kitarô and Nishitani Keiji flourished in the early through late twentieth century. Their distinctive school of thought builds upon both European and Asian sources in an effort to comprehend the fundamental character of experience, the limits of reason, and the possibility of overcoming nihilism. (Not offered 2023-24).
An interdisciplinary, primary-source based thesis on a subject of interest to the student and supervised by two faculty supervisors, 一本是哲学，一本是历史. Independent study format with regular consultation between the student and faculty supervisors.
对一位在世哲学家著作的考察, especially as this contemporary work relates to broader traditions and themes in philosophy. When possible, the philosopher in question will participate in the seminar.
Independent study for advanced students who wish to do work supplementary to that offered in the Catalog.
Independent study for advanced students who wish to do work supplementary to that offered in the Catalog.
Year-long, 针对哲学高级学生的扩展形式研讨会，以哲学系座谈会演讲者的工作和哲学话语的实践为中心. Course emphasizes critical engagement with contemporary philosophical research. Pass/Fail Only. 1 unit
一个或多个哲学家对某一特定哲学问题或问题的深入的个人探索. Must be taken prior to Senior Seminar (PH 476). Arranged by the student and the department in Block 7 of the student’s junior year. 1 unit
Revision and presentation of senior essays. Students collaborate in substantial revision of their essays and the development of oral presentations of their research. 课程在公共场合达到高潮 学生作业报告. Pass/Fail Only. 1 unit