American Philosophy

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(formerly PHI 3180) This is a course that focuses on the Social and Political Philosophy of the United States, which includes the rich traditions of American Pragmatism through figures like Emerson, Dewey and Thoreau, as well as African- and Caribbean-American Philosophy, American feminist and post-feminist theory, American Environmentalism including the debates over wilderness between Muir and Pinchot, as well as the influences of European ideological and political philosophy on American culture, including work by Tocqueville and Arendt. This course will include a survey of American constitutionalism, republicanism and socialism, as well a survey of some of the Indigenous Political Philosophy that emerged in the Americas in the 19 th and 20 th century.