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Course Listing for PHILOSOPHY - Spring 2027 (ALL: 01/25/2027 - 05/14/2027)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
3022 PHIL-101-01 Intro to Phil 1.00 LEC Ewegen, Shane F: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 10 seats reserved for first-year students, 10 seats for sophomores.
  An introduction to fundamental topics and concepts in the history of philosophy, e.g., rationality, wisdom, knowledge, the good life, the just society, and the nature of language. This course is especially appropriate for first-year students or students beginning the college-level study of philosophy. Students contemplating majoring in philosophy are strongly urged to make this their first philosophy course.
3023 PHIL-103-01 Ethics 1.00 LEC Cooper, Dominick TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 9 seats reserved for first-year students, 9 seats for sophomores.
  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.
2759 PHIL-217-01 Philosophy and Literature 1.00 LEC Vogt, Erik M: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with MNOR
  We shall study a number of philosophic works with literary significance and a number of literary works with philosophic content in order to raise the question of what the difference is between the two. This course may be used to fulfill the Literature and Psychology minor requirements.
3024 PHIL-228-01 Animal Ethics 1.00 LEC Cooper, Dominick TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Who is the animal? In an effort to explore this and related questions this course will serve as a philosophical investigation into the essence of non-human animals. Major philosophical and political theories regarding the status, value, and autonomy of non-human animals will be explored. Additional efforts will be made to address the discourse of animal rights, animal husbandry, and animal suffering, as well as broader issues of human rights insofar as they relate to and affect the non-human animal. Through a philosophical inquiry into the nature of animality, we will see that our understanding of animals bears immediately upon our understanding of the human being and of human rights. Thus, the question ‘who is the animal’ will lead us directly into the most pressing of philosophical questions – who is the human being?
3058 PHIL-251-01 Phenomenology 1.00 SEM De Schryver, Carmen TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Phenomenology was one of the defining philosophical movements of the 20th Century, and it remains a lively tradition of inquiry and philosophical development today. This course provides an introduction to the Phenomenological tradition, drawing on both foundational texts in the history of the movement - such as Husserl's Ideas I and Heidegger's Being and Time - and contemporary investigations. The course will attempt to define the Phenomenological method and its distinctive conception of "phenomena," and will consider selected domains of Phenomenological inquiry, such as affect, music, time, gender, disability, incarceration, animality, or technology.
2762 PHIL-283-01 Early Modern Philosophy 1.00 LEC Ryan, Todd TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The history of Western philosophy from approximately 1600 to 1750, with major attention given to Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. This course fulfills part two of the writing intensive (WI) requirement for the Philosophy major.
3002 PHIL-285-01 20th Cent Analytic Philosophy 1.00 LEC Theurer, Kari T: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Early analytic philosophers were frustrated by philosophical disputes that they perceived as hopelessly obscure and unclear. They aimed to radically reshape philosophy by grounding it in science, logic, or ordinary language. We will aim to understand these attempts by thinking through the following questions. Are you ever justified in believing a philosophical claim that contradicts common sense? Is Sherlock Holmes "real"? Are numbers real? Where are they? What is truth? How should we evaluate claims - like those of math, logic, or ethics - that don't seem to depend on science for their truth? Are all philosophical disputes ultimately just linguistic disagreements? As we think through these questions, we will come to understand the driving forces that shaped analytic philosophy as we understand it today.
2763 PHIL-292-01 Being Human 1.00 SEM Ewegen, Shane MF: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  What does it mean to be human? How does being human differ from, say, being a plant or an animal? What sorts of abilities and activities belong to the human being "by nature," or is it within the very nature of the human to exceed and/or oppose itself to nature? This course will examine a number of philosophical and literary texts from within the Western (and especially German) intellectual traditional that have attempted to answer these questions, including certain major texts by Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt.
2765 PHIL-332-01 Fanon 1.00 SEM De Schryver, Carmen W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA GLB  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with HRST
  This course explores Frantz Fanon's philosophical output from 1952 to 1961. Through a series of close readings, we will consider Fanon's contributions to psychiatry, critical philosophy of race, phenomenology, decolonial theory, and Africana philosophy. In the final part of the course, we engage with a number of Fanon commentators to enter into ongoing debates surrounding Fanon's work. Some of the issues we will discuss include the nature of race; the legitimacy of violence in revolution; the connection between psychiatry and society; the place of women in anti-colonial struggle; the question of humanism; and the meaning of decolonization.
2766 PHIL-351-01 Aesthetics 1.00 SEM Vogt, Erik T: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course will provide both a survey and close readings of some of the most significant thinkers in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics. Its scope will include 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century positions in aesthetics; moreover, texts interrogated in the course will engage different artistic fields such as literature, painting, music, cinema, and new media.
3059 PHIL-390-01 Advanced Logic 1.00 LEC Ryan, Todd TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA NUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Much of the most exciting work done in logic in the last forty years has been in the area of non-classical logics-that is, logical systems other than standard propositional and predicate logic. Many of these systems are extensions of classical logic, while others are rivals to it. In this course we will look at several of the most innovative systems of non-classical logic, including Many-valued Logics, Fuzzy Logic and Intuitionist Logic. In each case, we will examine the philosophical motivations behind the new system as well as the modifications to classical logic they entail.
2042 PHIL-399-01 Independent Study 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  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.
1171 PHIL-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  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)
2186 PHIL-499-01 Senior Thesis Part 2 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  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. In order 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.)
2859 POLS-105-01 Intro Pol Philosophy 1.00 LEC Sklaroff, Miranda MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with PHIL
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: 13 seats reserved for First Year students, 9 seats for sophomores, and 3 seats for Juniors who have declared a POLS Major. No Seniors unless by Permission of Instructor.
  An introduction to the philosophical study of political and moral life through a consideration of various topics of both current and historical interest. Topics include environmentalism, ancients and moderns, male and female, nature and nurture, race and ethnicity, reason and history, and reason and revelation.
2873 POLS-339-01 Contemp&Postmod Thought 1.00 LEC Smith, Gregory TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with PHIL
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 105, 219 or 220.
  This course will deal with philosophical developments of moral and political significance in the 20th century. Using the writings of selected authors, such as Heidegger, Sartre, Gadamer, Marcuse, Strauss, Foucault, and Habermas, it will focus on various modern movements of thought: existentialism, critical theory, neo-Marxism, hermeneutics, feminism, deconstructionism, and postmodernism. Readings will be from primary sources.