Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology (2021, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. Brian Barnett): chapters include epistemic justification; sources of knowledge; skepticism; epistemic value, duty, and virtue; epistemology, probability, and science; social epistemology; feminist epistemologies
Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind(2019, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. Heather Salazar): chapters include Descartes and substance dualism; behaviourism and materialism; functionalism; qualia; freedom of the will.
Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetics (2021, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. Valery Vinogradovs): chapters include ancient aesthetics; beauty in art and nature; the nature of art; art and emotions; art and morality; aesthetics and politics
Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics (2019, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. George Matthews): chapters include ethical relativism; divine command theory and natural law; ethical egoism and social contract theory; virtue ethics; utilitarianism; Kantian Deontology; feminist ethics; evolutionary ethics.
Introduction to Philosophy: Logic (2020, Rebus, CC BY) (Ed. Benjamin Martin): chapters include what is logic?; evaluating arguments; formal logic; informal fallacies; necessary and sufficient conditions.
Philosophy of Science (Ed. Eran Asoulin): chapters include empiricism; Popper’s conjectures and refutations; Kuhn’s normal and revolutionary science; the sociology of scientific knowledge; feminism and the philosophy of science; the problem of induction; explanation
Social and Political Philosophy (Eds. Sam Rocha and Douglas Giles): chapters include the ideal society; the state of nature and the modern state; human rights, liberty, and social justice; radical social theories
This course is an introduction to exploring and understanding arguments by explaining what the parts of an argument are, how to break arguments into their parts and how to create diagrams to show how those parts relate to each other.
Recognizing the correctness or incorrectness of steps is crucial to evaluate arguments critically. This skill is honed by working in two virtual labs: ProofLab, where one learns to construct complex arguments in a strategically guided way, and TruthLab, where the emphasis is on finding counterexamples systematically..
This course will introduce you to the basic concepts and methods of moral and political philosophy. Its primary focus is on the development of moral reasoning skills and the application of those skills to contemporary social and political issues.
This course introduces the concept of environmental ethics, a philosophy that extends the ethical concepts traditionally applied to human behavior to address the entire natural world. The course outlines the history of environmental ethics, discusses the idea of environmental justice, and explores how our views about the natural world have changed over time.
