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Courses
Teaching
Professor Tauber teaches at the BU Philosophy Department on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He offers courses in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology and medicine, and American philosophy.
As the Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Tauber teaches ethics at the Boston Medical Center.
- Fall 2008:
PH 251 Medical Ethics
This course offers a broad survey of medical ethics. We will begin with
establishing the basic characteristics of health, disease, and illness, and
then apply these categories to certain ethical issues in the clinical
setting (both general and particular cases). Our goal is to guide the
student in understanding the basic issues of contemporary debates in medical ethics within a philosophical framework. This will require learning basic moral reasoning and some technical knowledge of the medical scenario.
PH 471/671 Ecology and Literature
The genre of nature writing addresses environmental ethics, the metaphysics of nature, the epistemological relationship between nature and human experience, and the spiritual significance or meaning of nature. In environmental literature, each of these categories combine philosophical interpretations and arguments with a poetic sensibility. We will examine how an ecological sensitivity has been transmitted in literature as part of a larger philosophical project of presenting “nature” as a special concern for contemporary societies.
- Fall 2006:
PH 482 Topics in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy: Poetry and Philosophy
What is the relationship of poetry and myth to philosophical discourse? After considering how Plato set the dichotomy of poetry and philosophy, this course explores the “buried” presence of the poetic in his dialogues and in philosophy’s contemporary expression.
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