Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2255 |
PHIL-101-01 |
Intro to Phil |
1.00 |
LEC |
Seeba, Erin |
MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
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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NOTE: 10 seats reserved for first-year students. |
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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. |
| 3159 |
PHIL-101-02 |
Intro to Phil |
1.00 |
LEC |
De Schryver, Carmen |
WF: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
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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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. |
| 3421 |
PHIL-102-01 |
Intro to Political Phil |
1.00 |
LEC |
Seeba, Erin |
MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
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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Also cross-referenced with CLASSICS |
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This course will consider some of the foundational issues of political philosophy such as the conflict between individual liberty and social welfare, the criteria for just distribution of wealth, the concept of equality, and the ideal forms of social cooperation. We will read from the works of some of the major political philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx. |
| 3160 |
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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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. |
| 2103 |
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. |
| 3162 |
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 25 |
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. |
| 3163 |
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. |
| 3337 |
PHIL-286-01 |
Philosophy and Europe |
1.00 |
SEM |
De Schryver, Carmen |
M: 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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Current assumptions about the history of philosophy, both in and outside of academia, by and large depict that history as "Western". This has led to the charge that philosophy is deeply Eurocentric, and it lies behind the various demands to decolonize philosophy. In this course, we will unpack this charge by tracing the philosophical idea of Europe in Kantian and post-Kantian European philosophy. The second half of the course builds on this foundation by engaging with a variety of decolonial critiques. We will consider Césaire's foundational Discourse on Colonialism before turning to considerations of how the "Orient"; "Africa" and "Latin America" have been fabricated by and within European colonialist and philosophical discourse. Finally, we will consider various routes out of philosophy's colonialist entanglements. |
| 3164 |
PHIL-335-01 |
Being, Life, Death: Heidegger |
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 CLASSICS |
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Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th century. Yet because of the myopia of the Anglo-American philosophic tradition, he has only recently begun to receive the attention he deserves in the English-speaking world. This seminar will make a careful study of Heidegger’s magnum opus, Being and Time. In addition to our reflection on the intrinsic meaning and merit of this book, we shall consider some of its important roots in the tradition and some of the ways in which it prepares the way both for Heidegger’s own radically transformed later thought and for the most recent trends in contemporary continental philosophy. |
| 3429 |
PHIL-355-01 |
Moral Theory and Pub Pol |
1.00 |
SEM |
Cooper, Dominick |
W: 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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The purpose of this course is to assist students in acquiring the skill in ethical reasoning and analysis needed for mature participation in society’s continuing debates over moral issues of public concern. The course will begin by examining some types of ethical theories and will proceed to consider a number of controversial social issues. Abortion, euthanasia, racial and sexual discrimination, world hunger, treatment of animals, and capital punishment are among the topics to be considered. |
| 3165 |
PHIL-378-01 |
Philosophy of Mind |
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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In this course we will investigate classical and contemporary theories of mind, such as dualism, logical behaviorism, materialism, and functionalism. Among the issues we will consider are what is the nature of the mental? Is the mind identical with or distinct from the body? What is the nature of consciousness? Is the mind a genuine cause? What, if anything, do contemporary investigations in cognitive science and artificial intelligence have to teach us about the nature of the mind? |
| 1500 |
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. |
| 1439 |
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) |
| 2533 |
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.) |
| 3428 |
POLS-339-01 |
Contemp&Postmod Thought |
1.00 |
LEC |
Smith, Gregory |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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SOC
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with PHIL |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 105, 219 or 220. |
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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. |