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2017-2018 Scripps Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!

Courses

Descriptions are provided for courses offered at Scripps College and offered as part of joint or cooperative programs in which Scripps participates. For those courses that may appear under more than one discipline or department, the full course description appears under the discipline or department sponsoring the course and cross-reference is made under the associated discipline or department. Numbers followed by, for example, “AA,” “AF,” or “CH,” indicate courses sponsored by The Claremont Colleges as part of joint programs, i.e., Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.

Please refer to the Schedule of Courses on the Scripps Portal published each semester by the Office of the Registrar for up-to-date information on course offerings.

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.
 

Music
  

  • MUS 177C SC - Violin

    Individual instruction on the violin. Half-hour lessons earn half-course credit per semester; hour lessons earn full-course credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 177D SC - Violin

    Individual instruction on the violin. Half-hour lessons earn half-course credit per semester; hour lessons earn full-course credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 187 SC - Special Topics in Music

    This course is designed to explore music through musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, performance practice and research, or interdisciplinary studies. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 187A SC - The Relationship between Sacred Music and Sacred Spaces of Italy.

    This course aims to immerse the students in a “virtual voyage” to Italy, through the interrelated mediums of music and architecture. The imposing architectural presence of temples, churches, palazzos, gardens and ruins and their relationships to music provide a lense to explore issues of aesthetics. Students will engage in comparatively identifying and critically understanding the categories of architectural artifact and musical work.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 189 SC - Junior Recital

    This course is open only to performance concentration majors. The recital must feature a minimum of 30 minutes of repertoire representing several style periods.

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 170A , MUS 170B , MUS 170C , MUS 170D , MUS 171A , MUS 171B , MUS 171C , MUS 171D , MUS 177A , MUS 177B , MUS 177C , MUS 177D  or equivalent music study, and approval of performance concentration status by full music faculty and teacher of performance area by the end of sophomore year. Instructor permission required. 
    Course Credit: Half course


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Students will register for senior thesis in spring of their senior year. Full music faculty approval of performance or composition concentration required by spring of sophomore year. For general music majors: written thesis, 50 pages minimum. For performance concentration majors: Senior Recital (minimum 50 minutes of repertoire representing several style periods with comprehensive program notes). For composition concentration majors: Senior Recital of original compositions and portfolio of composition manuscripts (minimum 30 minutes with comprehensive program notes).

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 199 SC - Independent Study in Music: Reading and Research

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

Neuroscience
  

  • NEUR 095L JT - Foundations of Neuroscience

    An introduction to the nervous system and behavior that explores fundamental issues in neuroscience from a variety of perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on technological advances, experiments and methodologies that have most influenced our understanding of the nervous system. The class will be divided into three groups that will rotate through four 3-week modules covering the history and philosophy of neuroscience, the electrical nature of the nervous system, the chemical nature of the nervous system, and cognition and the nervous system. The course will end with a final integrative module that brings together fundamental principles developed throughout the course. Intended primarily for first- and second-year students. Permission of instructor required of third- and fourth-year students. Lecture, discussion, and laboratory. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 188L KS - Senior Thesis Project in Neuroscience

    Seniors may apply to do laboratory or field investigation with a faculty member. The topic should be chosen by the end of the junior year. In this course, library and lab materials are developed, research begun, and seminar discussions held with faculty and students in the field of concentration. This is the first course for students doing a two-semester senior project. Registration in this course will be followed by registration in NEUR190L KS.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every Semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 189L KS - Senior Thesis Summer Research Project in Neuroscience

    Students who intend to satisfy a two-semester senior thesis project by conducting a substantial research project during the summer after their junior year should enroll in this course in the fall semester following their research. No course credit is awarded for this course. Typically registration in this course would be followed by registration in NEUR190L KS  . This course is graded Pass/Fail. There is no lab fee for this course.

    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 190L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Neuroscience, Second Semester

    Senior laboratory or field investigation research is culminated and results are summarized in a written thesis and formal presentation. This is the second semester course for those doing a two-semester research thesis.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 191 KS - One-Semester Thesis in Neuroscience

    All students who intend to complete a one-semester thesis should enroll in this course. Students are required both to submit a substantive written thesis, which may involve experimental work, analysis of datasets previously collected by other researchers, or a critical analysis of the literature, and to make a formal presentation. Students register for this course during the semester in which the one-semester thesis is written and due. There is no lab for this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

Ontario Program
  

  • ONT 101 PZ - Critical Community Studies

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

Philosophy
  

  • PHIL 030 JT - Knowledge, Mind and Existence

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 032 PO - Ethical Theory

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 034 PO - Philosophy of Law

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 037 PO - Values and the Environment

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 038 PO - Bioethics

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 039 PO - Women, Crime and Punishment

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 040 PO - Ancient Philosophy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 042 PO - History of Modern Philosophy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for the description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 043 PO - Continental Thought

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 043 PZ - Continental Thought

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 046 PO - Feminism and Science

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 052 PZ - Philosophy of Religion

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 060 PO - Logic

    See the Pomona College Catalog for the description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 062 PZ - Chance and Scientific Reasoning

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 080 PO - Philosophy of Mind

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 081 PO - Epistemology

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 084 PZ - Islamic Philosophy

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 090 SC - Introduction to Philosophy

    Introduction to the basic questions and investigations of modern Western philosophy, including: the nature of knowledge, truth, and reality; the existence of god; the possibility of free will; the nature of morality; the requirements of morality; the relative merit of various political theories; and the meaning of life.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 096 JT - God and Philosophy: A Conflict in Reason

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  
  

  • PHIL 101 HM - History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 101B CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Plato

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 101C CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Aristotle

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 101D CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Stoics, Skeptics, and Epicureans

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 102 PO - Science and Values

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 103 PO - Philosophy of Science: Historical Survey

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 103 PZ - Philosophy of Science: History

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 104 HM - History of Philosophy: Contemporary Period

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 104 PO - Philosophy of Science: Topical Survey

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  

  • PHIL 106 PO - Philosophy of Biology

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 109 SC - The New Science and New Social Order in Early Modern Philosophy

    (CGU) This course is an introduction to early modern philosophy through the study of selected influential philosophical works of thinkers in the Western tradition such as Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke, David Hume, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. We will begin with an examination of the role of skepticism in the challenge to the authority of the Scholastic scientific model, and the importance of finding a rational method for the “New (mechanical) Science.” The theme of skepticism and the challenge to divine authority will reemerge in our study of the social-political writing of the period, which culminated in the American and French revolutions at the end of the 18th century.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 112 SC - History of Philosophy: Ancient

    The following movements and figures in ancient philosophy are considered: the Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Skepticism. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 113 SC - Early Modern Philosophy: The Rationalists

    (CGU) The basic aim in this course is to study the ideas, texts, and arguments of the “Rationalists” (Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche and Leibniz) of the seventeenth century. Arguments concerning the nature of ideas, bodies, minds, laws and the proper method of philosophical and scientific enquiry will be examined.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 114 SC - History of Analytic Philosophy

    The course introduces students to early 20th-century Analytic philosophy, including works by Anscombe, Ayer, Austin, Carnap, Frege, Moore, Quine, Russell, and Wittgenstein. We will examine different methods of analysis and how these were employed to address philosophical problems regarding knowledge, reality, and language.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 118 SC - History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant

    This is an introduction to some of the great modern philosophers, including Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. We will focus on their distinctive approaches to the nature of the self, experience, reason, imagination, understanding, knowledge, and reality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 119 SC - History of Existentialism

    In this course, we will read and analyze the major works of important figures in the existentialist and phenomenological movements, focusing on the questions of human freedom, subjectivity, and meaning. Readings may include works by Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Husserl, and many other thinkers of this time period to gain an understanding of existentialist thought.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 125 SC - Classical Chinese Philosophy

    This course examines representative schools of Chinese philosophical thought from the classical period: Confucianism, proto-Daoism, and their critics. We will read selections from both primary texts and contemporary scholarship, and discuss early Chinese conceptions of cosmology, human nature, moral cultivation, and epistemology.


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 125 HM - Ethical Issues in Science and Engineering

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  
  
  

  • PHIL 130 SC - Philosophy of Mind

    What is the nature of mind? In this course we investigate the traditional mind/body problem as well as the following issues: Individualism in psychology, self-knowledge, mental causation, and the philosophical significance of recent work in the cognitive sciences.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 132 CM - Philosophy of Cognitive Science

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.l

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 132 SC - The Substance of the Soul

    This course will survey a peculiar branch of modern philosophy, “Rational Psychology.” Rational psychology postulated the existence of a simple, immaterial substance responsible for sensation, perception, judgment, and volition. This substance has variously been referred to as “thinking substance,” or simply as “the soul.”

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 134 SC - Knowledge and Mind

    This course is a philosophical investigation of knowledge and mind. What is rational belief? What is truth? What are sensory or perceptual states? When is a sensory or a perceptual state a rational warrant for belief? Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Hegel, Lewis, Sellars, Wittgenstein, Rorty, Davidson, and others.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 134 CM - Special Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  
  

  • PHIL 137 SC - Skepticism

    In this course we will discuss various arguments (old and new) for different versions of skepticism, the view that our beliefs about some subject matter are ungrounded, unjustified, irrational, or otherwise defective. These skeptical arguments oblige us to clarify the nature of evidence, probability, rationality, and the significance of disagreement among peers.

    Prerequisite(s): One philosophy course or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  

  • PHIL 138 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy of Language and Mind

    A philosophical investigation into thought and reference and the relations between language and mind. How are these abilities possible, and how are they best to be understood? Readings from Mill, Husserl, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Kaplan, Putnam, Dummett, Evans, Burge, Dretske, Fodor, Grice, Searle and Derrida.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  

  • PHIL 140 HM - Environmental Philosophy

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 141 CM - Free Will, Responsibility, and Determinism

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 144 SC - Logic and Argumentation

    An introduction to the identification and formal evaluation of arguments as they naturally occur. We will, in addition, investigate scientific and probabilistic reasoning, though no prior technical competence is assumed.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  

  • PHIL 146 SC - History of Analytic Philosophy

    The course introduces students to early 20th-century Analytic philosophy, including works by Anscombe, Ayer, Austin, Carnap, Frege, Moore, Quine, Russell, and Wittgenstein. We will examine different methods of analysis and how these were employed to address philosophical problems regarding knowledge, reality, and language.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 146 SC - Temptation and the Will

    Since before Plato, philosophers have been puzzled by how it is that an individual can act freely and deliberately against better judgment. Yet acting against our better judgment, and “giving in to temptation,” would appear to be facts it makes little sense to dispute. In this course, we aim to investigate such patterns of self-defeating behavior-addictions, “bad habits,” etc., with an eye towards a consideration of such questions as: What is self-control? What makes a “will” strong or weak? Is the self unified? Readings will be drawn from historical and contemporary philosophical sources as well as from the contemporary behavioral sciences.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 149 JT - Topics in Philosophy: Agency and Action

    The distinction we draw between what we do and what we undergo—between the active and the passive in our lives—is fundamental to our self-understanding. In this course we investigate the nature of and the puzzles and problems associated with agency and action. Topics to be considered will be drawn from: the causal theory of action, reasons explanation and the role of the normative in the understanding of action, the will and weakness of will, the relation between intention and action, mental action and mental agency, and the relevance of work in the cognitive and the neurosciences to an understanding of agency. This course should be of interest to students of the social, cognitive, and behavioral sciences as well as to students of philosophy.

    Prerequisite(s): One course in philosophy.
    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 150 SC - Philosophy of Feminism

    Examines several different theories of feminism, their relation to traditional political theories, and their analyses of the causes and solutions to women’s oppression. The course considers as well specific moral and political issues relevant to feminism: abortion, motherhood, reproductive technologies, and pornography.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 151 SC - Feminist Ethics

    This course will explore feminist approaches to ethics, including the ethics of care, maternal ethics, lesbian ethics, and other feminist ethics, how they contrast with traditional approaches to ethics, and the controversies they have generated. The application of feminist ethics to specific issues of importance to women, such as abortion, reproductive technologies and health care, will also be considered.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 154 SC - Philosophy of Social Sciences

    What are the methods appropriate to the study of human actions, institutions, and culture? Are the aims and methods of the social sciences different from those of the natural sciences? Ought they to be? We begin with an investigation of the dispute between “naturalists” and “anti-naturalists” in the social sciences and, then, turn to a consideration of such issues and areas of dispute as: explanation and prediction in the social sciences, methodological individualism versus holism, interpretivist social science, the appeal to rationality in the understanding of behavior, the challenge of relativism and the claims of objectivity.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 155 SC - Ethics of the Beginning and End of Life

    This course focuses on the unique moral issues that arise at the beginning and end of life: procreative responsibility, anti-natalism, prenatal genetic screening, disability, surrogacy, cloning, abortion, suicide, euthanasia, and end of life care. These topics will be discussed from both the individual and the social ethical perspectives.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 155 PZ - Islam v. Islam

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Prerequisite(s):
     
    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  

  • PHIL 160 SC - Ethical Theory

    This course will focus on classic Western ethical theory and on contemporary metaethical critiques of these theories. The objectivity, possibility, and meaning of morality will be among the issues addressed.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 162 SC - Political Philosophy

    What is the proper role of public social and political institutions? This course will survey the contemporary attempts to answer this question across the political spectrum. Readings will include libertarian, liberal, communitarian, Marxist, and feminist political theory.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 164 SC - Ethical Theory Seminar: The Moral Deal

    If we were to construct a society, which rules might we agree to follow? This fundamental contractualist question underlies much of modern moral/political theory. In this course, we will analyze various ways of posing and answering this question, including classic and contemporary contract theories, and discuss the value of grounding our moral/political principles on what people might agree to under various bargaining conditions.

    Prerequisite(s): Ethical Theory or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 168 SC - The Rational and the Irrational

    The assumption of rationality plays a critical role both in our common sense understanding of ourselves and in the foundations of the behavioral and social sciences. This course is devoted to an examination of the nature and status of this assumption. Considerable attention will be paid to self-deception and to weakness of will. Readings drawn from contemporary philosophy and cognitive psychology.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 169 SC - Responsibility, Guilt, and the Person

    The course will examine concepts of responsibility and guilt and their relation to the notion of autonomous agency. Under what circumstance is a charge of responsibility justified? What sorts of considerations undermine such a charge? We will also investigate the following: the status of the insanity defense, competing theories of punishment, and the notion of desert. Readings will be drawn from contemporary sources.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 170 SC - Faith and Reason

    An examination of questions such as: (1) Can God’s existence be proved? (2) Does the existence of evil prove that there can be no God? (3) Is religious faith ever rational? (4) What are the alternative, secular explanations of our universe, and how could we decide which is most probable? We will read from historical and contemporary sources.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 171 CM - Health, Measurement, and Justice

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  
  

  • PHIL 185L PO - Topics in Epistemology, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 185N JT - Topics in Neurophilosophy

    This course is an examination of selected issues at the intersection of contemporary philosophy and neuroscience. Topics may include the philosophical, theoretical, and empirical bases of social (cognitive) neuroscience; the neurobiology of belief attribution and “mind-reading”; the metaphysical relationship between the mind and the brain; the nature of sensory modalities; as well as the bearing of the neurosciences on issues in the theory of action.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 186E PO - Heidegger and the Tradition

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 186H PO - Topics in History of Modern Philosophy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 186K PO - Kant

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 187C PO - Tutorial in Ancient Philosophy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 190 SC - Senior Seminar

    A seminar for students writing a thesis with a substantial component in philosophy. The seminar will introduce students to methods of philosophical research and analysis, focusing on using these methods in the development of their theses.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 199 SC - Independent Study in Philosophy: Reading and Research

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics
  

  • PPE 160 PO - Freedom, Markets, and Well-Being

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

Physics
  

  • PHYS 017 PO - Physics in Society

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
 

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