A survey of topics such as the meaning of life, nature of mind, existence of God, value theory, normative ethics, and applied ethics.
A survey course that explores normative ethics, metaethics, questions about moral knowledge, and various applied ethical issues including the death penalty and factory farming.
An applied ethics course on select contemporary topics including global poverty, animal ethics, the death penalty, genetic enhancement, drug legalization, gun control, and interrogational torture.
A course that surveys topics including the ethics of bluffing, whistleblowing, sexual harassment, romance in the workplace, sweatshop labor, advertising, the moral limits of markets, and the social responsibility of corporations.
Investigates the rational underpinnings of modern medicine. This includes an inquiry into the evidence-based medicine movement, whether we are justified in believing claims about the effectiveness of modern medical interventions, and whether the history of medicine should make us skeptical of current medical theory.
A study of applied ethics relating to the practice of medical and biological science. Topics include the ethics of truth-telling between doctors and patients, advanced directives, euthanasia, abortion, whether the distinction between treatment and enhancement is morally significant, and more.
A course that investigates the ethics of belief as well as skeptical problems concerning the external world, other minds, and the problem of induction. We discuss the value, source, structure, and nature of knowledge itself.
This course investigates questions about the existence and nature of time, causation, persons, free will, material objects, abstract entities, and truth. We also discuss why there is something rather than nothing.
This course investigates conceptual questions about science. What is the difference between science and pseudoscience? What are theories? What is the nature of scientific explanation, confirmation, and progress? Does science really justify belief in unobservable entities and processes?
A course that surveys questions about the existence of God, the relationship between faith and reason, the nature and role of religious experience, the relationship between God and ethics, and whether it is rational to believe in miracles.
This course investigates whether or to what extent life is meaningful. Here, we examine views about the relationship between meaning, welfare, morality, death, and the afterlife.
This is an introductory course to symbolic logic. In it, we apply formal methods to understand how we should translate and deduce conclusions from information that is taken for granted. To this end, we explore two systems in detail: sentential and quantificational logic.