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SPRING 2025Feminist Philosophy.
In this advanced philosophy course we will explore the nature of gender and gender oppression. Course topics include: the sex/gender distinction; gender and race; gender and class; masculinity and patriarchy; gender and the law; pronouns and gendered language; trans and non-binary experience; gender eliminativism. Philosophy of Abortion and Reproductive Healthcare. This is an advanced, discussion-based philosophy seminar, focused on philosophical issues related to abortion and reproductive healthcare in the US. Much of the debate about abortion in the US happens in starkly philosophical terms, and so, engages with philosophical questions. And these are difficult questions: they are ethical questions about rights and metaphysical questions about the nature of personhood; questions about religion, and the law, and its relationship to morality; questions about gender and race and class and structural injustice, and how any of that might bear on the issue of abortion in the US. In this course, we’ll examine many of these questions in depth, but importantly, our aim will not be to come to a final verdict on these issues. Instead, one of the overarching goals of this course is to equip students with the philosophical concepts and the intellectual tools they need in order to think through these debates for themselves. And more generally, the goal is to give students a sense for the complexity of this topic and to empower them to think critically about the issue of abortion in the US |
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