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This course will focus on issues that arise in contemporary public debate concerning matters of social justice. Topics will likely include: euthanasia, gay marriage, racism and racial profiling, free speech, hunger and global inequality. Students will be exposed to multiple points of view on the topics and will be given guidance in analyzin
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- linguistics and philosophy
- pleasure
- desire
- satisfaction
- objectivity
- environmentalism
- animal rights
- immortality
- egoism
- skepticism
- relativism
- toleration
- utilitarianism
- deontology
- virtue
- moral theory
- global justice
- equality
- social justice
- race
- gender
- poverty
- sex
- welfare
- freedom
- death penalty
- gay marriage
- sexuality
- pornography
- free speech
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This course focuses on the study of problems concerning our concept of knowledge, our knowledge of the past, our knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of ourselves and others, and our knowledge of the existence and properties of physical objects in our immediate environment.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- knowledge
- belief
- foundationalism
- reliabilism
- epistemology
- ontology
- theory
- reliable
- thoughts
- feelings
- existence
- objects
- properties
- physical
- noumenal
- environment
- partial
- external
- world
- skepticism
- empirical
- a priori
- truth
- justified
- justification
- true
- false
- probability
- externalist
- logic
- decision
- choice
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