Fine Arts · Boston College
In this course, we go to the movies to think, not to escape from our everyday lives but to understand them more deeply. We will think about films and with films as they engage enduring philosophical questions such as how we know what is real, how we define the good, how we comprehend the fact of death, how we understand our own selves, and how we find meaning in life. Films will be paired with philosophical texts both from the history of philosophy as well as from contemporary philosophers writing specifically about film. We will cover a range of popular film genres: horror films that ignite q
