Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 3178 |
PHIL-103-01 |
Ethics |
1.00 |
LEC |
Cooper, Dominick |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: 10 seats reserved for first year students
6 seats reserved for sophomores |
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An introductory study of values, virtues, and right action. Major concepts of ethical theory (goodness, responsibility, freedom, respect for persons, and morals) will be examined through a study of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill. The course is not primarily a historical survey, but rather attempts to clarify in systematic fashion both moral concepts and moral action. |
| 3179 |
PHIL-205-01 |
Symbolic Logic |
1.00 |
LEC |
Theurer, Kari |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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NUM
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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An introduction to the use of symbols in reasoning. Prepositional calculus and quantification theory will be studied. This background knowledge will prepare the student to look at the relation of logic to linguistics, computer science, mathematics, and philosophy. Students cannot receive credit for this course and Philosophy 255, Philosophy of Logic. |
| 3180 |
PHIL-221-01 |
Science, Reality & Rationality |
1.00 |
LEC |
Theurer, Kari |
R: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Much of modern philosophy has focused on efforts to understand the rise of physical science since the 16th century. This course will focus on 20th-century efforts by philosophers to characterize science, explain its effectiveness, and interpret its findings. |
| 3181 |
PHIL-246-01 |
Hum Rgts: Phil Foundations |
1.00 |
LEC |
De Schryver, Carmen |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUGI
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Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with HRST, PBPL |
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This course will survey and critically assess arguments in favor of the existence of human rights, arguments about the legitimate scope of such rights (who has human rights and against whom such rights can legitimately be claimed), and arguments about which rights ought to be included in any complete account of human rights. Specific topics will include (but not necessarily be limited to) the philosophical history of human rights discourse, cultural relativist attacks on the universality of human rights, debates concerning the rights of cultural minorities to self-determination, and controversies concerning whether human rights should include economic and social rights. |
| 3182 |
PHIL-255-01 |
Philosophy of Logic |
1.00 |
LEC |
Ryan, Todd |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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NUM
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Enrollment limited to 35 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course will introduce students to propositional and (first order) predicate logic, while engaging in philosophical reflection on a range of issues related to modern formal logic. In particular students will first study techniques for representing and analyzing arguments using the symbolism of each formal system. We will then consider some of the many philosophical issues surrounding formal logic, such as the nature of truth and inference, semantic paradoxes, and the attempt by Russell and others to use advances in formal logic to resolve traditional problems in metaphysics and epistemology. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and Philosophy 205, Symbolic Logic. |
| 3183 |
PHIL-281-01 |
Ancient Greek Philosophy |
1.00 |
LEC |
Ewegen, Shane |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course looks at the origins of western philosophy in the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. Students will see how philosophy arose as a comprehensive search for wisdom, then developed into the “areas” of philosophy such as metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. This course fulfills part two of the writing intensive (WI) requirement for the Philosophy major. |
| 3184 |
PHIL-288-01 |
Modern Philosophy |
1.00 |
LEC |
Vogt, Erik |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course will provide a survey of 18th century European philosophy; to be more precise, we will examine texts by representatives of both French and German Enlightenment thought. The first section of the course will focus on Rousseau's and Diderot's contributions to political and aesthetic thought; the second section will be concerned with Kant's epistemology and with some of his shorter texts on political and aesthetic thought. The goal of this course consists in both defining Enlightenment thought and unearthing the fateful dialectic at its very heart. Methodologically, this course will employ an approach owed to the tradition of Critical Theory. This course fulfills part two of the writing intensive (WI) requirement for the Philosophy major. |
| 3185 |
PHIL-289-01 |
Philosophy of Tragedy |
1.00 |
SEM |
Ewegen, Shane |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with CLASSCIVIL |
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Throughout the history of Western philosophy, ancient Greek tragedy has continued to be a source of great fascination. This course shall focus on a number of philosophical analyses of ancient tragedy, including those offered by Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Heidegger. Additionally, several ancient Greek tragedies will be read in order to test the validity of these philosophical analyses. We will see that philosophy itself, owing to this preoccupation with tragedy, takes on a tragic character through the guise of some of these thinkers |
| 3186 |
PHIL-328-01 |
Freud |
1.00 |
SEM |
Vogt, Erik |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with MNOR, WMGS |
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This seminar will concentrate on the works of Sigmund Freud. We will begin with Freud’s psychological writings, then move on to his more anthropological writings. Our aim will be to see how Freud’s psychological theories inform is arguments about religion and culture. |
| 3413 |
PHIL-343-01 |
Marxist Ethics |
1.00 |
SEM |
Cooper, Dominick |
T: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Karl Marx developed a variety of critical concepts to explain the nature of capitalism and its consequences for human flourishing. In this class, we’ll consider several of these concepts – freedom, exploitation, and alienation, to name a few – in Marx’s own work but also in the work of contemporary moral and political philosophers who engage with Marx's ideas. We will try to make sense of a Marxist ethical perspective, and how it can help us diagnose the ills of capitalism and shed light on alternatives to it.
This is not a traditional course on Marx himself, nor a survey of Marxism. Instead, we will read some of Marx’s writings, as well as contemporary philosophers who engage with Marx’s ideas in critical and constructive ways.
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| 1487 |
PHIL-399-01 |
Independent Study |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Independent, intensive study in a field of special interest requiring a wide range of reading and resulting in an extended paper. Normally there will be only a few meetings with the supervisor during the course of the semester. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment. |
| 1429 |
PHIL-466-01 |
Teaching Assistant |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Work conducted in close consultation with the instructor of a single course and participation in teaching that course. Duties for a teaching assistant may include, for example, holding review sessions, reading papers, or assisting in class work. In addition, a paper may be required from the teaching assistant. This course may count as one of the 11 total required for the major, but will not count as one of the six required “upper-level” (300 and above) courses. Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin.
(0.5 - 1 course credit) |
| 2400 |
PHIL-498-01 |
Senior Thesis Part 1 |
1.00 |
IND |
Staff, Trinity |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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A two-credit course culminating in an extended paper to be read by two or more members of the department. It may be organized like a tutorial or independent study. This is a required course for all students who wish to graduate with honors in philosophy. To be eligible for this course a student must have an A- average in the major or must successfully petition the department for an exemption. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (2 course credits to be completed in two semesters.) |
| 3365 |
RELG-335-01 |
Buddhist Ethics |
1.00 |
SEM |
Angowski, Elizabeth |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with PHIL |
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How do Buddhists understand what it means to live well with and for others? How do they imagine and sustain just institutions? To address these questions, this course examines the place of ethics and moral reflection in Buddhist thought and practice. The first third of the semester focuses on how Buddhists have framed abstract topics like the nature of being, the nature of the world, moral subjectivity, moral agency, the value of rationality, and so on. Next, we pay close attention to the formulation and application of moral guidelines in lived contexts. During the latter portion of the term, we study Buddhist approaches to contemporary social and political issues. |