PHIL 0180 Introduction to Modern Logic(Fall & Spring)

1. Logic Requirement:PHIL 0180 is required of all majors and minors and should be completed by the end of the sophomore year.

PHIL 0180 Introduction to Modern Logic(Fall & Spring)

(K. Khalifa, H. Grasswick)

2. History Requirements(to be taken by the end of the junior year):

PHIL 0201 Ancient Greek Philosophy (Fall)

(M. Woodruff)

PHIL 0250 Early Modern Philosophy (Spring)

(L. Besser)

3. ESP (Ethics and Social & Political Philosophy)

PHIL 0205 Human Nature and Ethics (Spring)

(L. Besser)

PHIL 0206 Contemporary Moral Issues (Fall)

(S. Viner)

PHIL 0209 Philosophy of Law (Spring)

(S. Viner)

PHIL 0285 Idea of the Ethical (Fall)

(S. Bates)

PHIL 0322 Liberalism and its Critics (Spring)

(S. Viner)

4. ELMMS (Epistemology, Language, Metaphysics, Mind, Science)

PHIL 0214 Science and Society (Fall)

(H. Grasswick)

PHIL 0220 Knowledge and Reality (Spring)

(K. Khalifa)

PHIL 358 Rationality and Cognition (Spring)

(K. Khalifa)

Additional Electives:

PHIL 0150 Introduction to the Philosophical Tradition (Spring)

(M. Woodruff)

PHIL / GSFS 0234 Philosophy and Feminism CW (Fall)

(H. Grasswick)

PHIL 0286 / CMLT 0286 Philosophy & LiteratureCW (Fall)

(M. Woodruff)

PHIL/RELI 0320 Seminar in Buddhist Philosophy (Spring)

(W. Waldron) Register through Religion Dept.

Seminars:

PHIL senior & junior majors must take two 400-level seminars. We do not recommend taking two such seminars at the same time. Joint majors must take one 400-level seminar. PHIL minors must take at least one course at either the 300- or the 400-level.

PHIL 0418 - Nietzsche & Greek Thought (Spring)

(M. Woodruff)

PHIL 0430 Metaphysics and Epistemology(Fall)

(K. Khalifa)

Winter Term 2016:

(these classes count as electives towards the PHIL major but do not satisfy particular requirements)

JWST/PHIL 1016 Hannah Arendt: The Politics of Philosophy (Winter)

Hannah Arendt was one of the most dynamic and original thinkers of the twentieth century. She once described her philosophy as “thinking without banisters,” which meant engaging the ideas and events of her time without ideological preconditions. Topics of her work included the Holocaust and Israel, race theory and racism in America, nationalism, totalitarianism, and moral responsibility under dictatorship. Controversial but always innovative, her work provides an immediate gateway to the discussion of ethics, politics, and the purpose of philosophy. We will read selections from her Eichmann in Jerusalem ,Responsibility and Judgement, Origins of Totalitarianism, and The Jewish Writings. We will also watch interviews and the feature film from director Margarethe von Trotte, Hannah Arendt (2012). PHL (E. Jacobson, a visiting winter term instructor)

PHIL 1017 The Pragmatists and Environmental Pragmatism (Winter)

William James and John Dewey approached philosophy as a practical necessity for interpreting, evaluating, criticizing, and redirecting culture. In this course we will introduce their philosophies – along with the philosophies of Charles S. Peirce, Jane Addams, and George Herbert Mead – and explore their continuing relevance for current struggles, with an emphasis on environmental problems. Our principal focus will be Dewey, the foremost representative of American pragmatism. We will dedicate at least a full day each week to environmental pragmatism, a contemporary movement among philosophers who are struggling to think more perceptively, imaginatively, and effectively about environmental issues. Course work will culminate in a philosophical analysis of a chosen environmental problem. PHL (S. Fesmire, a visiting winter term instructor)