Lower-Division

Through the writings of Abbey, Peacock, and others, attempts to understand the interaction of human beings and the wilderness—especially as this interaction has developed in the U.S. Concern to understand the spiritual conditions under which this interaction might become less destructive to non-human organisms and ecosystems.

Introduction to core philosophical issues in the biological sciences. Covers such conceptual issues as the nature of evolutionary theory; choosing the unit of selection; the relationship between evolution and development; whether all biological phenomena are reducible to genes; and the definition of adaptions, and how to identify them.

A survey of key authors, texts, and issues constituting recent feminist philosophy. Authors such as Wollstonecraft, Beauvoir, Firestone, and Gilligan provide a background for more contemporary feminist explorations of rights, justice, autonomy, and responsibility. Questions about the relation of mind and body, emotions and belief, knowledge and situation, self and identity are also explored from various feminist perspectives.