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Douglas Lind: Teaching |
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Douglas Lind has developed and taught a number of courses at the University of Idaho. Below are descriptions, syllabi, and website links for some of his current and recent courses. For the complete list of courses click Here For courses taught through National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada and The Professional Education Group, Inc see Judicial/Legal Seminars |
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Core 101: Bioethics (syllabus) Fall 2003 and Core 102: Bioethics (syllabus) Spring 2004 |
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This year-long, freshmen-level course examines several historical and current topics at the interface of science, ethics, and law. Students are introduced to basic elements of biological science, jurisprudence, and ethical theory and reasoning through studying a variety of issues in biomedical, health care, and environmental ethics and policy. Issued covered include abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, cloning, genetically modified foods, human population growth and control, aging, eugenics, informed consent, HIV/AIDS, health care and poverty, sustainable development, legal enforcement of morality, and research ethics and methods. |
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Phil 452/EnvS 552: Environmental Philosophy Fall 2001 |
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Over the past three decades a new area of philosophical study has emerged — environmental philosophy. Philosophers have turned to the environment in practical response to the multitude of ecological problems modern industrial society has spawned, from the everyday air and water pollution with which many people live to wilderness destruction, ozone depletion, toxic waste dumpsites and lake beds, species extinction, and so on. This course will examine several such pressing environmental issues, using both philosophical and non-philosophical source material. After studying basic background material in analytic philosophy, especially classical philosophical approaches to ethical theory and moral valuation, we will survey the major approaches philosophers and other theoreticians have adopted toward confronting and resolving various environmental problems. This will take us through several readings into what could be called the “greening” of ethics, where we will inquire into the concept of “moral community,” i.e., the realm of objects (human “persons”, members of other species, places, things) entitled to moral consideration. We will also examine several so-called ‘radical’ ecological movements whose proponents maintain that the only way to resolve the current spate of environmental problems is by fundamentally transforming modern society and revising how we look at the human-nature relationship. During the final part of the semester we will search for philosophical justification in the competing and increasingly rancorous ecoactivism, environmental justice, wise use, and property rights movements. |
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Phil 490: Senior Seminar: Wittgenstein (syllabus) Spring 2003 |
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This course provides an introduction to the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It will concentrate on a number of Wittgensteinian ‘themes’ such as language-games, rule-following, forms of life, pictures, practices, and the relevance of philosophy, studying the development of these ideas within a cross-section of important Wittgensteinian texts. The course will follow a seminar format, requiring substantial class participation, and be writing intensive. |
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Phil 571: Ecological Jurisprudence (syllabus) Fall 2004 Grades |
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This course explores the nature of law at the intersection of nature and culture. The course begins with the consideration of the cultural dependency of law – whether the structure and content of law is culturally dependent or universal and independent of origin and background. From there, it examines the general nature of law as viewed throughout Western jurisprudential history, placing particular emphasis on the concept of property. From there the course turns to challenges to that Western framework that charge it with cultural hegemony and exploitation. The challenges begin within Western culture with the philosophy of Karl Marx. Then it moves outside the West to contemporary writings drawn mainly from African and American Indian perspectives. Throughout, the course students will consider influences from the philosophy of pragmatism. The course will follow a seminar format, requiring substantial class participation, and be writing intensive.
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