HNRS 183
Being Human: Identity in Age of Genomics and Neuroscience
Description: Seminar, three hours. Designed for College Honors students. Identity looked at through complex interplay of nature, nurture, consciousness, and philosophy, including exploration of current debates about race and IQ, sex, disability, and intelligence itself. Examination of way in which philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists, and biologists have thought about human nature to look for ethical guides about what genetic and neurobiological technologies to pursue or avoid. P/NP or letter grading.
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