GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY COURSES AT IUPUI

SPRING 2008

 

P507  AMERICAN  PHILOSOPHY & ANALYTIC TRADITION  (3 cr.)

This course will examine the development of American philosophy with a special focus on its contribution to and influence on the American analytic tradition.  Attention will be given to the views of such philosophers as Charles Peirce, Josiah Royce, John Dewey, C.I. Lewis, Rudolf Carnap, W.V. O. Quine, Donald Davidson, Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, and Susan Haack, to philosophical movements such as New Realism and the Unity of Science Movement, and to historical events such as the rise of National Socialism in German and McCarthyism in the U.S.

26158      T              6:00P- 8:40P           ES 0014                  C. DE WAAL

 

P540  CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL THEORIES  (3 cr.)

Morality is a bit mysterious.  We all have moral convictions, but we often have trouble justifying them, and we frequently disagree over them.  Faced with this, we find ourselves with questions like these:  “Just what is wrong, or is it all just a matter of custom, preference, or personal taste?”  “What, if anything, really makes an action right or wrong, good or bad?”  Such questions are the topic of this course.  Readings are from classical and contemporary sources, e.g., the works of David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, W.D. Ross, A..J. Ayer, Ruth Benedict, Philippa Foot, J.L. Mackie, Gilbert Harman, and Judith Jarvis Thomson.  Grades are based on papers, tests, and class participation.

26156      R             6:00P- 8:40P           IT 159                     J. TILLEY

 

P548  CLINICAL ETHICS PRACTICUM  (3 cr.)

22244      ARR        ARR                        ARR                        J. EBERL

   Instructor’s authorization required.

 

P555  ETHICAL/POLICY ISSUES – INTL RES  (3 cr.)

This course examines ethical and policy issues that arise in the design and conduct of research involving human participants carried out by developed countries, principally in developing countries.  Case studies that highlight the difficulties in setting international standards for such issues as informed consent, the use of placebos, the obligations of study sponsors (public, private and philanthropic) will be used.  The course will discuss current efforts to develop national and international guidelines in research ethics, and offer a policy perspective on the development of ethics review committees, and harmonization of guidelines.  It uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine this subject and will, as appropriate, utilize guest faculty both from other schools and elsewhere.

28167      F              9:00A-11:40A         HS 3139                  E. MESLIN

   This course meets at the Center for Bioethics, in the Health Information & Translational Sciences Building, 410 West 10th Street.

 

P600  TOPICS:   PERSONS & PERSONAL IDENTITY  (3 cr.)

This course will familiarize students with various historical and contemporary philosophical approaches to the question, “What is the nature of human persons?”  We will address issues concerning the relationship of mind and body, the identity of persons through time and change, and the possibility of survival beyond death.

26160      MW       10:30A-11:45A         BS 3014                  J. EBERL

 

P600  TOPICS:  PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE  (3 cr.)

Philosophy of medicine traditionally limits the scope of medical care by focusing on illness, i.e. prioritizing people who have a disease, and directs care through the principle of informed consent, i.e. relying on the free decisions of putative patients.  But defining disease, and providing a philosophical account of its importance, and defining informed consent, and specifying its requirements in specific situations, continues to elude the most sophisticated analyses.  In this seminar, we will focus on these two challenges, especially in light of advances in science and technology that provide more opportunities to enhance the healthy state, rather than just treat disease, and that offer more varied and complex choices than could ever have been imagined previously.

26162      T              3:00P- 5:40P           HS 3139                  P. SCHWARTZ

   This course meets at the Center for Bioethics, in the Health Information & Translational Sciences Building, 410 West 10th Street.

 

P748  SEMINAR:  JOSIAH ROYCE  (3 cr.)

One of the giants of American philosophy, Josiah Royce (1855-1916) was a powerful intellect whose work fell out of fashion soon after his death.  In recent decades, however, his aura has lit up again:  his books and articles are getting republished, the Josiah Royce Society has been founded, conferences are beginning to be held regularly, and plans for a critical edition are being worked out.  This seminar will jump on that accelerating bandwagon and will make it its main objective to discern and appreciate the contemporary relevance of

Royce’s thought.  We will study in depth and in chronological order a selection of key texts

through which we shall explore the main tenets of Royce’s moral, epistemological, and metaphysical philosophy.  It will be up to each of us to see whether the spell of Royce’s genuine insights about our humanity is worth falling under.

26161      M             6:00P- 8:40P           ES 0014                  A. DE TIENNE

 

P803  MASTER’S THESIS IN PHILOSOPHY  (1-6 cr.)

24522      ARR        ARR                        ARR                        ARR

   Instructor’s authorization required.