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Undergraduate Record 2021-2022 
    
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Undergraduate Record 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

PHIL 3620 - Science Fiction & Philosophy

Effective Start Date: 10/10/2019
Science fiction is a distinctively philosophical genre. Science fiction stories can cause us to question the bounds of what is possible, explore ethical questions that arise in alien circumstances, explore the nature of the self and the very nature of reality, and so on. This course will investigate philosophical questions via science fiction literature, and use philosophy to explore the nature of science fiction.

Credits: 3