Healing Deconstruction - HS448 The negative impact of Jacques Derrida's method of linguistic investigation, known as "deconstruction" having run its course, is currently being used to investigate the area of religion with exciting and fruitful results.
Heretics and Saints in Early Modern Europe - HS447 The main thematic thrust of the course is to explore the fragments of classical philosophical problems and new streams of religious orthodoxy as they collide in a series of intellectual and pragmatic struggles in the Middle Ages.
Mountain Poets of China and Japan - HS409 There was a long standing tradition in both China and Japan of wandering poets and mountain hermits who expressed their experiences in nature in poetic terms.
Philosophy of Nature - HS146 Because of the number of serious environmental problems that face the modern world, the theories and images that guide our interaction with nature have become problematic.
Philosophy of Religion - HS147 This course examines the nature and justification of religious beliefs concerning the existence of god, the soul, and the afterlife.
Reason and Ethics - HS160 In this course we consider problems concerning the nature of ethics and the explanation of behavior as they arose in Greek philosophy and culture and as they are considered in contemporary discussions of ethics.
Seminar: Technology and Culture - HS395 The rise and development of technology is perhaps the most dramatic factor influencing the nature of the modern world.
The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment - HS182 This course represents a contextual approach to the study of the history of philosophy and combines the critical evaluation of philosophical theories with an examination of the cultural conditions...
The Danger of Words - Wittgenstein and Derrida - HS587 Language has usually been accepted as the key to reality, and in the case of science and philosophy, the more exact the language the closer one gets to the real nature of things.
The Future of Technology - HS185 At the present time there is a growing concern that developed technology may have produced more problems than it has solved.
Theories of Human Nature - HS193 A theory of human nature involves a vision of the individual self, its relation to the social community, and its relation to the natural world.
Tutorial: Family Resemblances - HS611 ...this tutorial examines several themes that weave themselves through various sections of the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Austin and Derrida..
