Courses:
Session II
Philosophy
106 - Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Owen Flanagan, Visiting Professor of Philosophy
A study of central issues in moral philosophy from
ancient Greece to the present day. Topics include the nature of morality,
conceptions of justice, views of human nature and their bearing on
questions of value, and competing tests of right and wrong.
Credit: 1.0
Course Fee: $2,000
Lectures: M,W,F 9:00 - 11:40
Location: Pendleton East 127
The Wellesley College Summer School is very pleased
to welcome back to Wellesley for the summer, Owen Flanagan, Chair
of the Duke Department of Philosophy. He was previously Class of
1919
Professor
of Philosophy
and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wellesley College.
Professor Flanagan brings to the Summer Session a
wealth of experience and knowledge as demonstrated by the following
abbreviated list of his academic achievements and published works.
In 1993-94 Flanagan was President of the Society for Philosophy
and Psychology.
In 1998, he was recipient of the Romanell National Phi Beta Kappa
award, given annually to one American philosopher for distinguished
contributions to philosophy and the public understanding of philosophy.
In 1999, he was invited
by the Mind and Life Institute to attend a small conference in
Darhamsala, India with the Dalai Lama on the
topic of "Destructive Emotions." A book on the meetings,
Beyond Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Collaboration With the
Dalai Lama narrated by Daniel Goleman, appeared in 2003.
Besides writing many articles, reviews, and contributions to colloquia,
Flanagan has written or edited the following books:
The Science of the Mind (MIT press, 1984; 2nd edition, 1991)
Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology, edited with
Amelie O. Rorty (MIT Press, 1990)
Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (Harvard University
Press, 1991),
Consciousness Reconsidered (MIT Press, 1992)
Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life (Oxford University
Press, 1996)
The Nature of Consciousness edited with Ned Block and Güven Güzeldere
(MIT Press, 1998)
Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind (Oxford
University, 1999)
Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain Co-edited
with Gary Fireman and Ted McVay (Oxford University Press, 2002)
The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile
Them (Basic 2002).
His most recent book is *The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World*
(MIT Press 2007).
He was awarded a Fulbright Research Award in 2001-2002 to study Buddhist and
Hindu conceptions of the self. In 2006 he gave the Templeton research Lectures
at USC in Los Angeles on *Human Flourishing in the Age of Mind Science.*
Owen Flanagan on Wikipedia
Published works on MIT Press
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