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Nishiten Shah

Nishiten Shah

Philosophy

Professor of Philosophy

413-542-8556 Please call the college operator at 413-542-2000 or e-mail info@amherst.edu if you require contact info@amherst.edu Cooper House Room 202

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Fall 2009

  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • The Social Construction of Knowledge

Spring 2010

  • Freedom and Responsibility
  • Normative Ethics

Fall 2010

  • Evolution and Morality
  • Introduction to Philosophy

Spring 2011

  • Freedom and Responsibility
  • Normative Ethics

Fall 2013

  • Philosophical Questions
  • Relativism and Toleration

Spring 2014

  • Normative Ethics
  • Seminar: Ordinary Language Philosophy

Fall 2014

  • Philosophical Questions
  • Relativism and Toleration

Spring 2015

  •  Ethics
  • Freedom and Responsibility

Fall 2015

  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
  • Relativism and Toleration

Spring 2016

  • Ethics
  • Philosophical Questions

Fall 2016

  • Freedom and Responsibility
  • Relativism and Toleration

Spring 2017

  • Philosophical Questions
  • Seminar: Speech and Harm

Fall 2017

  • Seminar: Reasons for Belief and Action.

Spring 2018

  • Ethics
  • Seminar: Racial Justice and Injustice

Fall 2018

  • Freedom and Responsibility
  • Relativism and Toleration

Spring 2019

  • Philosophical Questions

Fall 2019

  • Philosophical Questions
  • Progress?

Fall 2020

  • Seminar: Speech & Harm

Spring 2021

  • Ethics
  • Philosophical Questions

Fall 2021

  • Freedom and Responsibility
  • Progress?

Fall 2022

  • Ethics

Spring 2023

  • Philosophical Questions
  • Philosophy: Insight or Illusion?
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