Philosophy and Pop Culture

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

This course explores perennial philosophical concerns, such as the nature of reality, the limits of knowledge, the possibility of free will, the conflict between liberty and authority, and the meaning of life, through various expressions of popular culture. This includes literature, film, TV series, comics and graphic novels, social media, advertisements, and sport. Students also reflect on the nature of popular culture itself, the status of information, the relation between society and spectacle, the rise of artificial intelligence, and the prospect of the post-human.