Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2490 |
PHIL-101-01 |
Intro to Phil |
1.00 |
LEC |
Seeba, Erin |
TR: 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. |
| 2990 |
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. |
| 2177 |
PHIL-205-01 |
Symbolic Logic |
1.00 |
LEC |
Ryan, Todd |
TR: 8:00AM-9:15AM |
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. |
| 2991 |
PHIL-228-01 |
Animal Ethics |
1.00 |
LEC |
Cooper, Dominick |
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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Also cross-referenced with CLASSICS |
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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? |
| 3037 |
PHIL-249-01 |
Philosophy and Film |
1.00 |
LEC |
Seeba, Erin |
WF: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
|
GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 20 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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What is cinema? Can cinema be a distinctive art? Does artistic achievement in film depend on making proper use of the distinct affordances of the medium? This course explores the nature and value of cinematic art and our engagement with it, including philosophical questions about understanding, appreciating and evaluating cinema: How do films create meaning and engage our desires and emotions? On what basis should we evaluate films? Is it OK to love bad movies? Why are we drawn to horror films and tragedies if they produce negative feelings like fear, disgust and sorrow? What are the ethics of spectatorship? We examine these issues through major texts in film theory and philosophy alongside concrete analyses of particular films. |
| 2665 |
PHIL-256-01 |
Philosophy of Food |
1.00 |
SEM |
Seeba, Erin |
WF: 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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What is food and what does it mean to regard something as food? Our culinary choices, practices of production and consumption and habits of mind reflect a variety of values-moral, personal, cultural, aesthetic. This class examines the philosophical significance of food in each domain through questions about what we owe to animals, the relationship between food and environmental justice, the concept of sustainability, as well as how our personal and cultural identities intertwined with the way we cook and eat: What does the food we eat say about who we are? Is the desire for culinary authenticity morally suspect? What is cultural appropriation and why is it bad? What influences our judgments of some foods as delicious or disgusting? Is there an ethics of appreciation? |
| 2045 |
PHIL-283-01 |
Early Modern Philosophy |
1.00 |
LEC |
Ryan, Todd |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 2666 |
PHIL-288-01 |
Modern Philosophy |
1.00 |
LEC |
Ewegen, Shane |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
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. |
| 2667 |
PHIL-306-01 |
Anxiety, History, Language |
1.00 |
SEM |
Ewegen, Shane |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
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 offer a survey of some of the major schools in 20th century European thought, such as existentialism, phenomenology, feminism, western Marxism, deconstruction, and beyond. Thinkers may include: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Simone De Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and others. Topics may include: the role of anxiety in self-understanding; the world-forming structures of language; the role of ideology in social / political structures; the problematic character of patriarchy, and the various philosophical attempts to dismantle it. |
| 2985 |
PHIL-339-01 |
The Birth of Modern Ethics |
1.00 |
SEM |
Ryan, Todd |
TR: 2:55PM-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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The seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries were an extraordinarily fruitful period in the development of modern ethics. As philosophy began to free itself from traditional religious belief, thinkers were led to pose such fundamental questions as what motivates human behavior? Are all of our actions ultimately selfish or do we have a natural concern for the well-being of others? Are there objective moral truths knowable by reason or do we judge human behavior based on feeling? What reason do we have to be moral even when doing so appears not to be in our own self-interest? Among the authors to be discussed are Hobbes, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Butler and Hume. |
| 2104 |
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. |
| 1188 |
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) |
| 2286 |
PHIL-499-01 |
Senior Thesis Part 2 |
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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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.) |
| 2727 |
POLS-105-01 |
Intro Pol Philosophy |
1.00 |
LEC |
Sklaroff, Miranda |
MW: 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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This course is not open to seniors. |
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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 Instructor Permission. |
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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. |