{"id":47,"date":"2013-08-28T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:46:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/","title":{"rendered":"General info"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/files\/2013\/08\/PHIL-102-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3042 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/files\/2013\/08\/PHIL-102-1.png\" alt=\"Image of bust of Socrates with the words: &quot;PHIL 102, Introduction to Philosophy with Christina Hendricks&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/files\/2013\/08\/PHIL-102-1.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/files\/2013\/08\/PHIL-102-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/files\/2013\/08\/PHIL-102-1-225x150.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 85vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Philosophy 102 at the University of British Columbia, Spring 2018<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>PHIL 102 is an introductory philosophy course focused on ethics and\/or social &amp; political philosophy. In this version of the course we will look at two sets of questions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Just what is philosophy, anyway? This is a difficult question to answer, it turns out, and we will mainly be looking at philosophy in the &#8220;Western&#8221; tradition (because that is what your instructor knows the most about). Related questions we will consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is distinctive about philosophical questions, philosophical discussions, philosophical texts? How do philosophers think, speak, write, act?<\/li>\n<li>What is the value of philosophy? What do we get out of thinking, speaking, writing philosophically?<\/li>\n<li>How can we see philosophical approaches beyond work done in philosophy classes or by teachers or researchers in philosophy? How can we see philosophy out in the world around us?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. How can philosophy help us think about matters of life and death?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What have philosophers said about topics such as how we should live, what&#8217;s important in life, how we should approach our own mortality, our responsibilities for the lives and deaths of others?<\/li>\n<li>What do you think about these arguments?<\/li>\n<li>Can philosophical approaches help us think about these issues in a better way than we might have done otherwise?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/about\/syllabus\/\">Syllabus<\/a> for the course<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/about\/collaborative-guidelines\/\">Collaborative guidelines<\/a> for the course:<\/strong> we&#8217;ll work on these together in class.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Contact info for instructor: Christina Hendricks<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Christina&#8217;s email: <a href=\"mailto:christina.hendricks@ubc.ca\">christina.hendricks@ubc.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christina&#8217;s main website:<a href=\"http:\/\/chendricks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> http:\/\/chendricks.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christina&#8217;s blog, &#8220;You&#8217;re the Teacher&#8221;:<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christina on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clhendricksbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@chendricksUBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Christina&#8217;s office hours for Spring 2018<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mondays, 12-1p (BUCH E, 375) <strong>note change from earlier!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wednesdays, 11a-12p (BUCH E, 375)<\/li>\n<li>Also by appointment (just talk to me to set up a separate appointment)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>TAs for the course <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(see syllabus (above) for contact info)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8212; Jeremy Dawson<br \/>\n&#8212; Jade Hadley<br \/>\n&#8212; Phyllis Pearson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Credit for image at the top of this page: Image of Socrates is from: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Louvre,_Socrates-Sculpture.jpg\">Bust of Socrates from the Louvre<\/a>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:CherryX\">CherryX,<\/a> licensed <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>, on Wikimedia Commons. This image as you see it here, with the words added, is licensed <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA 4.0.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Background texture for this site by Vasili Hartikainen, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tiled-bg.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Web Gallery of Tile-able Website Backgrounds<\/a>, licensed <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/buttons\/88x31\/png\/by.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"39\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All content on this site, unless otherwise stated and with the exception of any blog posts written by students, is licensed <a title=\"CC-BY Canada 2.5 license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC-BY 4.0,<\/a> Christina Hendricks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy 102 at the University of British Columbia, Spring 2018 PHIL 102 is an introductory philosophy course focused on ethics and\/or social &amp; political philosophy. In this version of the course we will look at two sets of questions: 1. Just what is philosophy, anyway? This is a difficult question to answer, it turns out, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;General info&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[1234873],"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}