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Spring 2012 Phl 1020 Ethics and Society


INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS & SOCIETY

PHIL 1020-003 TR 11:00a-12:15 a.m. -- NORTH CLASSROOM 1313

PHIL 1020-007 TR 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- NORTH CLASSROOM 1313

INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS AND SOCIETY

Spring 2012 Dr. David Hildebrand (david.Hildebrand@ucdenver.edu)

Fall 2011 PHIL 4101 PRAGMATISM: CLASSICAL AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 4101-001/PHIL 5101-001/HUM & SSC 5101-001

Dr. David Hildebrand
Fall 2011, MW 2:00- 3:15 P.M.
Honi Haber Library, Plaza M-108

Description: Perhaps the three most important questions for our nation of immigrants have been: Who are we? What do we believe? Should we accept the views of our forefathers? In addressing these questions, American philosophers have both accepted and rejected their intellectual heritage. In their most critical moments, American philosophers argue that philosophy must reassert itself as an active, constructive, and ethical force in human life. Doing this means shaking and breaking many traditional philosophical distinctions including those between: mind and body, fact and value, appearance and reality, self and society, probability and certainty, and language and world. This course will survey the classic philosophical themes developed and sustained by prominent 19th and 20th century philosophers, with a focus upon American Pragmatism. We'll begin right away with classical American Pragmatism (including Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey) and proceed to look at how these major thinkers' pragmatic themes both influenced and were echoed by a range of 20th century thinkers including Rorty, Putnam, West, Quine, and others.

Fall 2011 Phl 1012 Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy: Relationship of the Individual to the World 

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PHIL 1012-004/31723
(Dr. David Hildebrand, CU Denver, Fall 2011)
MW 11:00 a.m. - 12: 15 p.m. Room: North Classroom 1321

Spring 2011 Phl 4220 Philosophy of Art

PHIL 4220/5220, HUM 5220

Spring 2011 TTH 2-315 p.m.

Dr. David Hildebrand

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Spring 2011 Phl 1020 Ethics and Society

Philosophy 1020: ETHICS AND SOCIETY 

Spring 2010 Dr. David Hildebrand (hilde@yahoo.com)
PHIL 1020-007 TR 11:00a-12:15 p.m. at MC 04  

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Spring 2005 Phl 4102 American Ethics

AMERICAN ETHICS

PHIL 4102-3/71600 and PHIL 5102-3/72217
TR 4:00PM - 5:15PM

Course Description: The philosophical tradition of ethics has focused upon such notions as duties, consequences, and character and has sought, since Plato, to find the summum bonum or “highest good.” There is, however, a strain of American philosophers who could not constrain their conceptions of moral experience within traditional approaches. Moral life was messier than the tradition portrayed—more complex, more novel, and prone to both chance and the currents of evolution. This course seeks to identify the ways in which there is an “American Ethics” that is not only different from its Western forebears but is somehow emblematic of our country. To do this we will examine a number of representative American philosophers, methods, and/or problems from the 19th+20th century. Pragmatist ethics will form a central portion of the course but we will look at figures that both preceded and followed the pragmatists in order to see American ethics in a larger framework.

Course texts: Available at Auraria and Big Dog Textbooks (1331 15th Street). Also, if you desire, online (see, for example, http://used.addall.com). If you buy your book online, make sure (1) that it is the correct edition, and (2) that you have it in time for class. See also http://www.bigdogtextbooks.com here in Denver.

Spring 2006 Phl 4812 Dewey

Seminar on John Dewey, Spring 2006

PHIL 4812 001/PHIL 5812 001

Spring 2007 Phl 1020 Ethics and Society

INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS & SOCIETY Spring 2007

Dr. David Hildebrand

Summer 2007 Phl 1020 Ethics and Society

INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS AND SOCIETY PHIL 1020-001

Summer 2007, 1st Term

Dr. David Hildebrand
TTh 9:45 A.M.—to140 p.m. (NC 1326)

Fall 2007 PHIL 4101 PRAGMATISM: CLASSICAL AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

PRAGMATISM:
CLASSICAL AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

Dr. David Hildebrand, UCDHSC
Fall 2007, TTh 4-515 PM; PL 211
PHIL 4101-001/PHIL 5101-001; HUM/SSC 5101-001

Description

Perhaps the three most important questions for our nation of immigrants have been: Who are we? What do we believe? Should we accept the views of our forefathers? In addressing these questions, American philosophers have both accepted and rejected their intellectual heritage.
In their most critical moments, American philosophers argue that philosophy must reassert itself as an active, constructive, and ethical force in human life. Doing this means shaking and breaking many traditional philosophical distinctions including those between: mind and body, fact and value, appearance and reality, self and society, probability and certainty, and language and world.
This course will survey the classic philosophical themes developed and sustained by prominent 19th and 20th century philosophers, especially American Pragmatism. We'll begin with Emerson's Transcendentalism before we spend considerable time on classical American Pragmatism (including Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and G.H. Mead). Contemporary pragmatism will also be carefully explored by examining the work of two important inheritors of classical pragmatism, Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam.

Spring 2009 Phl 1020 Ethics and Society

INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS AND SOCIETY
Spring 2009, Dr. David Hildebrand, (hilde@yahoo.com)

PHIL 1020-005, TTh, 8:30-9:45 a.m.   (PL 114)
PHIL 1020-006, TTh 10-11:15 a.m. (PL 114)

 

Courses

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2012

12 Fall PHIL 1111: Freshman First Year Seminar; syllabus TBA.