HPS 2123 - THE DEATH OF NATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course traces the history of the scientific revolution from feminist and ecological perspectives. We will learn how to ask historically and philosophically informed questions from feminist perspectives regarding the emergence of modern science, the transformation of the premodern organic worldview into a mechanistic one (the death of nature), and the mutual relations of science and medicine and magic. We will value feminist perspectives, according to which the mechanistic worldview sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercialism, ecological risk, and the subordination of women. Finally, we will memorize narratives in outline concerning broader historical and philosophical problems raised by feminist history and philosophy in regard to magic, medicine and science.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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