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PHIL 275A: Ethics and Politics of Public Service (ETHICSOC 133, PHIL 175A, POLISCI 133, PUBLPOL 103D)

Ethical and political questions in public service work, including volunteering, service learning, humanitarian assistance, and public service professions such as medicine and teaching. Motives and outcomes in service work. Connections between service work and justice. Is mandatory service an oxymoron? History of public service in the U.S. Issues in crosscultural service work. Integration with the Haas Center for Public Service to connect service activities and public service aspirations with academic experiences at Stanford.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Reich, R. (PI)

PHIL 276: Political Philosophy: The Social Contract Tradition (PHIL 176)

(Graduate students register for 276.) Why and under what conditions do human beings need political institutions? What makes them legitimate or illegitimate? What is the nature, source, and extent of the obligation to obey the legitimate ones, and how should people alter or overthrow the others? Answers by political theorists of the early modern period: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-4
Instructors: Hills, D. (PI)

PHIL 276A: Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSHIS 133, CLASSHIS 333, HUMNTIES 321, PHIL 176A, POLISCI 230A, POLISCI 330A)

Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Ober, J. (PI)

PHIL 278A: The Ethics of Environmental Choices (EARTHSYS 178, EARTHSYS 278, PHIL 178A)

(Formerly PHIL 278/378.) The institutional and individual dimensions of environmental choices. On the institutional side, examine externalities, the tragedy of the commons, sustainable development and environmental policy. On the individual side, discuss individual responsibility, intrinsic value, and moral pluralism. Focus is on decision making including the role of risk analysis, the rate of discount for effects on future generations, cost-benefit analysis, and scientific epistemology.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-4

PHIL 279: Collectivities (POLISCI 336J)

Issues about the nature of collective action, shared intention, and cooperation, the role of sociality in the nature of mind, problems of preference and judgment aggregation, and, quite generally, different ways of thinking about the relationship of I to we. Enrollment limited to 30.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4

PHIL 280: Metaphysics (PHIL 180)

Traditional philosophical riddles involving the notion of existence including: the ontological argument for the existence of God; the problem of intuitively true, negative existential statements; the sorites paradox; and the question of why there is anything at all. Conceptual tools philosophers use to address these questions, from nonexistent objects to possible worlds. Meta-metaphysics.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4
Instructors: Crimmins, M. (PI)

PHIL 280A: Realism, Anti-Realism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism (PHIL 180A)

Realism and its opponents as options across a variety of different domains: natural science, mathematics, ethics, and aesthetics. Clarify the various conceptions that fall under these terms and outline the reasons for and against adopting realism for the various domains. Highlight the general issues involved. Prerequisites: 80, 181
Terms: Win | Units: 2-4

PHIL 281: Philosophy of Language (PHIL 181)

The study of conceptual questions about language as a focus of contemporary philosophy for its inherent interest and because philosophers see questions about language as behind perennial questions in other areas of philosophy including epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and ethics. Key concepts and debates about the notions of meaning, truth, reference, and language use, with relations to psycholinguistics and formal semantics. Readings from philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Grice, and Kripke. Prerequisites: 80 and background in logic.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4
Instructors: Crimmins, M. (PI)

PHIL 282: Truth (PHIL 182)

Philosophical debates about the place in human lives and the value to human beings of truth and its pursuit. The nature and significance of truth-involving virtues such as accuracy, sincerity, and candor.
Terms: Win | Units: 4
Instructors: Hills, D. (PI)

PHIL 284: Theory of Knowledge (PHIL 184)

Competing theories of epistemic justification (foundationalism, coherentism, and externalism) against the background of radical scepticism. Readings from contemporary sources. Prerequisite: 80 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-4
Instructors: Alonso, F. (PI)
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