Below is a listing of the classes being offered for Spring 2009. For information on specific times, days and instructors, please check  the Master Class Schedule on NOVASIS.  Click here for a PDF of courses offered this Spring

PHI 1050 - 001 Intro to Philosophy CRN:22305

31724 Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 08:30 am to 09:20 am Location: TBA
The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.

Instructors: Jessie Dern

PHI 1050 - 002 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22306

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 08:30 am to 09:20 am Location: TBA
The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.
Instructors: Michelle Falcetano

PHI 1050 - 003 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22307

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 09:30 am to 10:20 am Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.
Instructors:John Garner

PHI 1050 - 004 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22308

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 09:30 am to 10:20 am Location: TBA
The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.
Instructors: Timothy Jussaume

PHI 1050 - 005 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22309

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 9:30 am to 10:20 am Location: TBA
The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.
Instructors: Alexander Kratchman

PHI 1050 - 006 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22310

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 10:30 am to 11:20 am Location: TBA

Beginning with the earliest roots of the Western philosophic tradition, this course is designed as an introductory journey through some of the central figures and questions posed by this lineage.  Our central themes will consist of an inquiry into reality’s ultimate ground as well as an examination regarding the nature of the human being.  We will discover how different philosophers have answered the question of what reality and human nature are really like in diverse and sometimes contradictory manners.  Our initial set of philosophers—Plato, Anselm, and Augustine—reference an absolute reality that transcends the physical world.  We will then examine the possibility that Descartes makes the human being the foundation of philosophic thought.  Exploring the implications of such a move, Kierkegaard will explore a believer’s relation to the divine within such a context and, with the viewing of 1984, we will entertain the notion that reality could be defined solely upon political foundations.  Responding to the dystopia of 1984, we will then encounter Camus and his existential protest.  We will also take up Sartre’s early belief that humanity is absolutely free.  De Beauvoir will then critique Sartre by utilizing a more concrete and situated understanding of freedom.  To conclude, we will look at the work of Judith Butler and examine a reality where identities and essences are thought in fluid terms.

 Instructors: Geoffrey Karabin

PHI 1050 - 007 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22311

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 10:30 am to 11:20 pm Location: TBA
The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: Elizabeth A. Irvine

PHI 1050 - 008 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22312

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 11:30 am to 12:20 pm Location: TBA  Beginning with the earliest roots of the Western philosophic tradition, this course is designed as an introductory journey through some of the central figures and questions posed by this lineage.  Our central themes will consist of an inquiry into reality’s ultimate ground as well as an examination regarding the nature of the human being.  We will discover how different philosophers have answered the question of what reality and human nature are really like in diverse and sometimes contradictory manners.  Our initial set of philosophers—Plato, Anselm, and Augustine—reference an absolute reality that transcends the physical world.  We will then examine the possibility that Descartes makes the human being the foundation of philosophic thought.  Exploring the implications of such a move, Kierkegaard will explore a believer’s relation to the divine within such a context and, with the viewing of 1984, we will entertain the notion that reality could be defined solely upon political foundations.  Responding to the dystopia of 1984, we will then encounter Camus and his existential protest.  We will also take up Sartre’s early belief that humanity is absolutely free.  De Beauvoir will then critique Sartre by utilizing a more concrete and situated understanding of freedom.  To conclude, we will look at the work of Judith Butler and examine a reality where identities and essences are thought in fluid terms.

Instructors: Geoffrey Karabin

PHI 1050 - 009 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22313

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 11:30 pm to 12:20 pm Location: TBA
The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.
Instructors: Elizabeth A. Irvine

PHI 1050 - 010 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22314

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA
The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.
Instructors: Thomas W. Busch

PHI 1050 - 012 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22315

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 01:30 pm to 02:45 pm Location: TBA
The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.
Instructors: Sarah Elizabeth Vitale

PHI 1050 - 013 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22316

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 03:00 pm to 04:15 pm Location: TBA

The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.
Instructors: Sarah Elizabeth Vitale

PHI 1050 - 014 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22317

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 04:30 pm to 05:45 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Christopher B. Ruth

PHI 1050 - 015 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22318

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 08:30 am to 09:45 am Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: Christopher Noble

PHI 1050 - 016 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22319

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 08:30 am to 09:45 am Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: Adrienne St. Clair

PHI 1050 - 017 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22320

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 10:00 am to 11:15 am Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: Neil David Briphy

PHI 1050 - 018 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22321

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 10:00 am to 11:15 am Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: Michael Olson

PHI 1050 - 019 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22322

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 11:30 am to 12:45 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: Neil David Brophy

PHI 1050 - 020 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22323

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 11:30 am to 12:45 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: Michael J. Olson

PHI 1050 - 021 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22324

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 01:00 pm to 02:15 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: Christopher M. Davidson

PHI 1050 - 022 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22325

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 02:30 pm to 03:45 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: Christopher M. Davidson

PHI 1050 - 100 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22326

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. M 06:10 - 08:50 Location: TBA

The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.  Instructor: Christopher B. Ruth

PHI 1050 - 101 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22326

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. r 06:00 - 09:30 Location: TBA

The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world.  Instructor:

Attributes: Fast Forward course. Dates 8/27-10/8. Restricted to Part Time Studies

PHI 1050 - A11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22328

Enrollment: 0 of 12 students. Days: MW from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA F from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: John Immerwahr (P)

PHI 1050 - B11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22329

Enrollment: 0 of 12 students. Days: MW from MW from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA F from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA  The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: John Immerwahr (P)

PHI 1050 - C11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22330

Enrollment: 0 of 12 students. Days: MW from MW from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA F from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: John Immerwahr (P)

PHI 1050 - D11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22331

Enrollment: 0 of 12 students. Days: MW from MW from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA F from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: John Immerwahr (P)

PHI 1050 - E11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22332

Enrollment: 0 of 12 students. Days: MW from MW from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA F from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: John Immerwahr (P)

PHI 1050 - F11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 22333

Enrollment: 0 of 12 students. Days: MW from MW from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA F from 12:30 pm to 01:20 pm Location: TBA The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. The goal of this course will be to introduce students to major texts in the history of philosophy and familiarize them with some of its most important questions. About a third of the course will be spent on ancient and medieval philosophy, with its struggle to answer questions about the nature of reality and its political and metaphysical significance. Then we will move to the moderns, bringing up questions about how it is that we come to know the external world. The course will conclude with the major contemporary critics of modernity and capitalism, critics that attempt to examine the very project of what philosophy does or can do in the modern world. Instructors: John Immerwahr (P)

PHI 2010 - 001 Logic & Critical Thinking CRN: 22334

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 08:30 am to 9:20 am Location: TBA

Logic occupies the site where philosophy and mathematics converge. For this reason, the study of logic has been of interest not only to philosophers and mathematicians but also to linguists, psychologists, lawyers, computer scientists, and cognitive scientists. This course will introduce students to the study of classical logic by presenting the fundamentals of informal, categorical, syllogistic, sentential, and first-order predicate logic. The objective of the course will not only be to develop critical reasoning skills and techniques for conceiving equivalence, implication, and inference that are useful in a variety of disciplines (as well as preparing for graduate entrance exams such as the LSAT and MCAT), this course will prepare students for further study in mathematical disciplines such as set theory, category theory, game and decision theory, etc, as well as provide the necessary background for a fuller understanding of key philosophical concepts such as meaning, sense, affect (viz., in psychoanalysis), and reflection.
 
While the majority of our time will be spent working through the mechanics and techniques of formal logic, we will at important conceptual transitions (for example, between sentential and predicate logic) raise some key philosophical questions surrounding the need to make these transitions, for it is these questions that have surrounded not only the developments in logic that we are studying but also the very limits (if there are any) of logic. By the end of the semester, we will hopefully have come to a better understanding not only of the utility of logic (how it is valuable for the disciplines mentioned above) and the basic mechanics of logic (how it works) but also take a first glimpse at the “essence” of logic (why we have logical systems) Instructors: Yong Dou Kim

PHI 2010 - 002 Logic & Critical Thinking CRN: 22335

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 01:30 pm to 2:45 pm Location: TBA Argument, or discourse that claims to give reasons for believing something, is a familiar and ubiquitous part of our legal, scientific, economic, political, and moral life. Without arguments—that is, without giving each other reasons for holding certain claims as true and others as false—society could not be held together, unless one supposes that force or habit could do the job for a time. Logic is the study of the formal dimension of arguments. As such it uniquely belongs at once to philosophy, alongside ontology, epistemology, ethics, etc., and to mathematics, where it distinguishes a sub discipline on the same level as algebra, geometry, or analysis. In this course, we shall try to do justice to logic’s double classification by setting up a conversation between philosophy and mathematics, weaving back and forth between formal proofs and elucidations carried out in the less formal but more searching language of a thought which orients itself according to philosophy’s fundamental questions. Without conflating the two, this conversation will hopefully shed light on both philosophical and mathematical ideas through their mutual elucidation. The course will comprise three units, introducing respectively what are known as 'informal logic', 'formal logic', and 'metalogic'. In the first two parts of the course, we will learn how to build and use some typical logical-mathematical systems—categorical, sentential, and predicate logic—while reflecting upon their philosophical motivation (why build them?) and their particular components (do they work?). At this stage, the drive is toward greater formalization, while at the same time we will remark upon the challenge to formalization that persists in the form—or formlessness—of ordinary language. By the end of Unit Two, you will be empowered to use some basic logical systems to assist your thinking about an endless variety of issues, and also to think about the limits of such systems from the outside. Unit III will introduce you to the interesting techniques and deep concepts of metalogic—the philosophical and mathematical reflection on logical systems and their limitations, which made it possible to think about the very idea of a logical system, about the implications and limitations of this idea, from the inside. The results studied in this section form a key part of the intellectual inheritance of the late nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. They are vital for understanding recent developments in philosophy, mathematics, physics, and information theory which impact the orientation of contemporary life. Moreover, they are often deep, surprising, and beautiful. The leading idea of this part of the course is “incompleteness”, referring to the results first proved by the logician Kurt Gödel in 1931 and subsequently known as the 'First and Second Incompleteness Theorems'. These theorems forever changed our philosophical picture of logic and its powers. Their consequences are still being thought through at the cutting edge of our civilization. You might say that in 1931, logic started talking about itself, and we are still interpreting what it had to say. Instructors: John Bova

PHI 2010 - 003 Logic & Critical Thinking CRN: 22336

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm Location: TBA Argument, or discourse that claims to give reasons for believing something, is a familiar and ubiquitous part of our legal, scientific, economic, political, and moral life. Without arguments—that is, without giving each other reasons for holding certain claims as true and others as false—society could not be held together, unless one supposes that force or habit could do the job for a time. Logic is the study of the formal dimension of arguments. As such it uniquely belongs at once to philosophy, alongside ontology, epistemology, ethics, etc., and to mathematics, where it distinguishes a subdiscipline on the same level as algebra, geometry, or analysis. In this course, we shall try to do justice to logic’s double classification by setting up a conversation between philosophy and mathematics, weaving back and forth between formal proofs and elucidations carried out in the less formal but more searching language of a thought which orients itself according to philosophy’s fundamental questions. Without conflating the two, this conversation will hopefully shed light on both philosophical and mathematical ideas through their mutual elucidation. The course will comprise three units, introducing respectively what are known as 'informal logic', 'formal logic', and 'metalogic'. In the first two parts of the course, we will learn how to build and use some typical logical-mathematical systems—categorical, sentential, and predicate logic—while reflecting upon their philosophical motivation (why build them?) and their particular components (do they work?). At this stage, the drive is toward greater formalization, while at the same time we will remark upon the challenge to formalization that persists in the form—or formlessness—of ordinary language. By the end of Unit Two, you will be empowered to use some basic logical systems to assist your thinking about an endless variety of issues, and also to think about the limits of such systems from the outside. Unit III will introduce you to the interesting techniques and deep concepts of metalogic—the philosophical and mathematical reflection on logical systems and their limitations, which made it possible to think about the very idea of a logical system, about the implications and limitations of this idea, from the inside. The results studied in this section form a key part of the intellectual inheritance of the late nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. They are vital for understanding recent developments in philosophy, mathematics, physics, and information theory which impact the orientation of contemporary life. Moreover, they are often deep, surprising, and beautiful. The leading idea of this part of the course is “incompleteness”, referring to the results first proved by the logician Kurt Gödel in 1931 and subsequently known as the 'First and Second Incompleteness Theorems'. These theorems forever changed our philosophical picture of logic and its powers. Their consequences are still being thought through at the cutting edge of our civilization. You might say that in 1931, logic started talking about itself, and we are still interpreting what it had to say. Instructors: John Bova

PHI 2115 - 001 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 22337

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 10:00 am to 11:15 am Location: TBA

This section of Ethics for Healthcare Professionals will be a discussion-based examination and analysis of the ethical issues embedded in clinical practice. Drawing heavily on narrative, research, and clinical literature from nursing and medicine, we will reflect on some of the morally salient elements of clinical decision making, with particular emphasis on the interaction and relationships between patients and their healthcare team, patients and their families, healthcare professionals and healthcare institutions, and individual members of various healthcare teams. We will also spend some time talking about the role of ethics in policy-formation, and the interplay between hospital/institutional policy and decisions at the bedside. This course is geared toward future clinicians. Non-clinicians are welcome to take the course, but need to be aware of the professional focus of the readings and assignments. Note: This is a discussion-based course. Students who are not willing to actively prepare for and participate in class discussion should not enroll in this course Instructors: Sarah-Vaughan Brakman

PHI 2115 - 002 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 22338

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 11:30 am to 12:45 am  This section of Ethics for Healthcare Professionals will be a discussion-based examination and analysis of the ethical issues embedded in clinical practice. Drawing heavily on narrative, research, and clinical literature from nursing and medicine, we will reflect on some of the morally salient elements of clinical decision making, with particular emphasis on the interaction and relationships between patients and their healthcare team, patients and their families, healthcare professionals and healthcare institutions, and individual members of various healthcare teams. We will also spend some time talking about the role of ethics in policy-formation, and the interplay between hospital/institutional policy and decisions at the bedside. This course is geared toward future clinicians. Non-clinicians are welcome to take the course, but need to be aware of the professional focus of the readings and assignments. Note: This is a discussion-based course. Students who are not willing to actively prepare for and participate in class discussion should not enroll in this course Instructors: Sarah-Vaughan Brakam

PHI 2140-001 Phil of Criminal Justice CRN 22339 Enrollment: 0 of 35

Days: TR 01:00 pm to 2:15 pm Location: TBA This course begins and spends most of its time, examining the debate between opposed views on 19 issues in crime and criminology. Then Sr. Helen Prejean , spiritual advisor to two men on death row, gives her eyewitness account of  their wrongful executions.  She gives much evidence of the innocence of Joseph O'Dell, executed by Virginia in 1997, and of Dobie Gillis Williams, executed by Louisiana in 1999.

The teacher style is primary lecture with extensive use of the blackboard.  There are three tests, each on one-third of the course material.  The student must do two of three assigned five-page paper topics.

The required texts are:  Thomas Hickey, ed., Taking Sides: Clashing views in Crime and Criminology, 8th ed. (Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw Hill; Sr. Helen Prejean, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, (New York: Vintage Books, 2005)

Instructor: Joseph Betz

PHI 2190 - 001 Freedom CRN: 22340

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 01:30 pm to 02:45 pm Location: TBA Freedom is a term with a multitude of meanings, a chimera whose definition changes over time and space and is shaped by factors as varied as religion, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class. An elusive concept that cannot be easily defined, freedom nonetheless remains critical for examining political projects. We will begin this course by examining how freedom figured as the political goal of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thinkers and writers. We will ask how freedom is distinct from liberty in these projects. After exploring this philosophical background, we will turn to two case studies, which are more closely connected than we might think at first glance: 1) The civil rights movement and contemporary critical race theory; and 2) the current debates on religious freedom, liberation theology, and “post-secularity.”

Text may include Immanuel Kant, G.W. Hegel, John Locke, Karl Marx, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, bell hooks, Cornel West, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Jon Sobrino, Talal Asad, and Saba Mahmood.

Instructors: Annika Thiem

PHI 2300 -001 Philosophy of Law CRN: 22341

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 11:30 pm to 12:45 pm Location: TBA  Law ( jus, juris in Latin),  a more abstract term than laws (leges in Latin), will be the primary subject matter of this course. Is law something specific; is it an ideal; is it the will of a sovereign or a constitutional assembly or a judge; is it a process? How does it relate to ethics; to rights; to justice; to politics? The course will both begin and end by asking some of these fundamental philosophical questions concerning the law. We will also consider legal reasoning and discuss how laws are created and how law is developed.  In this setting we will also analyze the influence of the facts of the case at hand, prior judicial and legislative holdings, social background facts, and the moral values of the judge and of the society on legislators and  judges who attempt to fashion and create law that is relevant for the times. This analysis of legal decision-making will include statutory law, common law, and Constitutional law. We will also consider specific issues in the law, such as crime and punishment, the death penalty, racism, sexual orientation, affirmative action and feminist legal theory.

Instructors: James J. McCartney

PHI 2400 - 001 Social & Political Phil CRN: 34375

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 11:30 pm to 12:20 pm Location: TBA

Social and Political Philosophy is an examination of the nature and formation of society.  Throughout the semester we will explore various theories of the structure of political life, justice, equality, liberty, crime and punishment, and revolution.  Contemporary issues in social theory and practice will be used to enliven our discussion of some of the classical texts in political theory.  Instructors: Sally Scholz

PHI 2410-001 Philosophy of Sex & Love CRN 22343 Enrollment: 0 of 35 students

Days: TR from 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm Location: TBA  This class will survey the history of the meaning of love and sex, and their relation to one another. Instructors: Dalia Nassar

PHI 2420 - 001 Philosophy of Women CRN: 22344

Enrollment: 0 of 20 students. Days: MW from 1:30 am to 2:45 pm Location: TBA

In this course students will critically examine the way women have been portrayed in some of the canonical texts of western philosophy as well as compare and contrast various  contemporary feminist theories.  In part our goal is to sustain a cooperative learning environment in which we look deeply at Feminist Theory and the Feminism Movement from a variety of perspectives.  Students also will be challenged to explore how various theories address certain social practices and affect other oppressed social groups.

Instructors: Katie H. Grosh Attributes: Diversity Requirement 2, Writing Enriched Requirement

PHI 2420 - 002 Philosophy of Women CRN: 22345

Enrollment: 0 of 20 students. Days: MW from 3:00 am to 04:15 pm Location: TBA

In this course students will critically examine the way women have been portrayed in some of the canonical texts of western philosophy as well as compare and contrast various  contemporary feminist theories.  In part our goal is to sustain a cooperative learning environment in which we look deeply at Feminist Theory and the Feminism Movement from a variety of perspectives.  Students also will be challenged to explore how various theories address certain social practices and affect other oppressed social groups.

Instructors: Katie H. Grosh Attributes: Diversity Requirement 2, Writing Enriched Requirement 

PHI 2450 -001 Catholic Social Thought CRN: 22346

Enrollment: 0 of 12 students. Days: MWF from 11:30 am to 12:20 pm

This course is designed to examine the last century of Catholic Social Thought from Rerum Novarum to present.  In 1891, Leo XIII makes it clear that Catholic Social Thought is grounded in the social and political philosophy of Thomas Aquinas.  Reflections, therefore, on the Aristotelean-Thomistic understanding of the virtues (especially the distinction between justice and charity) and their respective duties will serve for making clear the basic principles of Catholic teaching.  Aquinas’ reliance on Augustinian thought is also reiterated in this tradition.  In Catholic Social Thought the axiological nature of our social, political, and economic systems are analyzed philosophically as well as scripturally.  The duty of the Church to be a voice in evaluating these systems is confirmed in several papal encyclicals as well as several pastoral letters of the American bishops.  This rich tradition of social philosophy and moral theology may one day cease to be what the Center for Concern has termed the Church’s “best kept secret.”

Instructors: Daniel T. Regan (P) Attributes: Cross-listed course Comment: Cross-listed P&J

PHI 2900 - 001 Philosophy of Religion CRN: 22347

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR 1:30 pm to 2:15 pm Location: TBA
This course will examine several problems that have vexed the Jewish and Christian religions, considering these problems from philosophical perspectives (i.e., perspectives that begin from reason rather than faith). We will focus on three questions in particular: What, if anything, can we know about God? What is the relationship between faith and reason? And if God is all good, all knowing, and all powerful, then why does evil exist? Popular films will be used to spark discussion and introduce classical readings about these questions. Instructor: Michael Waddell
 

PHI 2900-002 Philosophy of Religion CRN 22348

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR 2:30 - 3:45 Location: TBA This course will examine several problems that have vexed the Jewish and Christian religions, considering these problems from philosophical perspectives (i.e., perspectives that begin from reason rather than faith). We will focus on three questions in particular: What, if anything, can we know about God? What is the relationship between faith and reason? And if God is all good, all knowing, and all powerful, then why does evil exist? Popular films will be used to spark discussion and introduce classical readings about these questions. Instructor: Michael Waddell

PHI 2920 - 001 Asian Philosophies CRN: 22349

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 04:00 pm to 05:15 pm

An introduction to several important philosophical traditions in Asia. We'll focus on basic ideas in the Hindu tradition (India), two key early works in the Taoist tradition (China), and both the early form of Buddhism (India) and its later developments, especially Zen (China, etc.). Written work includes several short reaction-to-texts papers, one exam, and two longer (but less than 10 pages) papers. Instructors: Michael H. Prosch (P)
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PHI 2990 - 001 TOP Philosophy of Interpretation CRN: 22350

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 02:30 pm to 03:45 pm How does one interpret a text, understand another culture, dialogue with another person? Our focus will be the role that interpretation plays in any attempt to understand. We will consider what is involved in understanding/interpretation, what the goals of understanding/interpretation are, and finally, what it means for a text, a person, or a culture to bear "meaning". In other words, what is the meaning of meaning?

Instructors: Dalia T. Nassar
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PHI 2990 - 002 TOP Nature, Culture & Science  CRN: 22351

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 04:00 pm to 05:15 pm 

What do we mean when we say "nature"? A concept that is relatively recent, nature has come to have various, often mutually exclusive or contradictory meanings. In this class we will trace the history of the concept nature and consider the ways in which culture and science have influenced our understanding of "nature" and worked with or against nature over the last two thousand years. Instructors: Dalia T. Nassar

PHI 3020 - 001 History of Ancient Philosophy CRN: 22354

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 11:30 pm to 12:45 pm Location: TBA

Plato, Aristotle and selected pre-Socratic and Hellenistic philosophers in the context of ancient and classical Greek civilization. Instructors: Helen S. Lang (P)

PHI 3030 - 001 History of Medieval Philosophy CRN: 22355

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 10:00 pm to 11:15 pm Location: TBA One of the major forces that shaped medieval thought was the intermingling of philosophy and the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam).  This course will introduce students to the history of medieval philosophy by examining how the relationships among philosophy and these religions unfold in major thinkers’ engagements with issues like the relationship between faith and reason, natural theology, divine naming, creation, God’s foreknowledge, predestination, the problem of evil, the nature and immortality of the soul, free will, personhood, happiness, virtue, natural law, etc.  Authors to be studied will likely include: Augustine, Boethius, Avicenna, Anselm, Al-Ghazali, Averroes, Maimonides, Bonaventure, and Aquinas. Instructors: Michael M. Waddell

PHI 3720 - 001 Marx & Marxism CRN: 22356

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW 3:00 to 4:15  Location: TBA 

In this course we will critically examine the genesis and evolution of Marxist thought and its appropriations in the 20th century. We will explore the ways critical Marxists challenged the more authoritarian versions of Marxism and consider the appropriations of Marxian thought for social and political criticism. Key thematics that we will explore will include commodity, alienation and reification, surplus value, ideology, revolution, hegemony, subjectivity, and culture. We will also contemplate what Marx’s ideas can mean for us today. What are the legacies of Marxism? In what different ways might Karl Marx’s questions and critique of society have new value today, as the finance economy has come into crisis?

Texts may include Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg, Lukács, Gramsci, and Althusser. Instructors: Annika K Thiem

PHI 4140-001 Philosophy of Contemporary Music CRN: 22357

Enrollment: 0 students of 35 Days: TR  4:00 - 5:15 Location: TBA

In this course, we will define music as contemporary if it is popular with performers and audiences who are young and/or in touch with what is culturally current. Since nothing becomes popular without support from broad institutional forces, we will study the way popular music forms a soundtrack for the social and economic powers, practices and beliefs that, in turn, make that music popular. The properly philosophical aspect of our study will involve defining what is musical about popular music.  The cultural theoretical aspect of our study will involve defining how pop, rock, hip hop, dance, punk, funk, soul and jazz music contribute to the institutional forces which support it.  In both studies we will privilege space over time, ethnography over history, imagination over the Law and simulation over autonomy.  We will identify the significance of contemporary music in terms of its dependence on commodity fetishism, its politics of resistance (somehow deeply rooted in nostalgia), its covert racism and sexism, and in the reservoir of alcohol and drugs that fuels its culture industry.  We will also discuss issues associated with file-sharing and the intimidating practices of the RIAA.

PHI 4150 - 001 Philosophy & Film CRN: 22358

 Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 3:00 am to 4:15 am Location: TBA

This course will explore the relationship between film and philosophy.  We will begin by examining the philosophic debates about the historic emergence of film and its links to various conceptions of the nature of human thought.  This will lead us to the question of the relationship between film and the unconscious as well as to the problem of the connections between the appearance of film (c. 1895) and the development of psychoanalysis (c. 1900).  Against the backdrop of this first major section of the course, we will then examine the links between film and temporality since the “seventh art” is often considered to by the art of time par excellence.  In particular, we will concentrate on the nature of time, memory, and history as well as on the temporal models used to think the history of film.  In the final section of the course, we will situate film in a larger context in order to inquire into the relationship between film and the other arts, film and politics, and film and the new media of the televisual and digital age.  Through the course of our investigation, we will have the opportunity to discuss the role of technology in the arts, competing descriptions of human thought, theories of memory, psychoanalysis and its description of the human psyche, modes of representation and revelation proper to film, rival conceptions of temporality, competing historiographical paradigms, narrative structure within and outside of film, theories of ideology, the politics of film, the emergence of new digital technology, and many other topics proper to the study of philosophy and film. 

 In addition to being presented with some of the major philosophic issues in film and media studies, students are expected to come away from the course with a solid grasp of some of the major movements in film history (including the first “films,” early avant-garde cinema, Surrealism, classic Hollywood cinema, Italian Neo-Realism, the French New Wave, New German Cinema, the Hong Kong “School,” and contemporary independent film).  They will also be made familiar with some of the most important film and media theorists of the 20^th and early 21^st centuries (Baudrillard, Bazin, Bellour, Musser, Williams).  Finally, they will be exposed to the ideas of important philosophers whose work can be related, directly or indirectly, to issues in film (Adorno, Benjamin, Bergson, Deleuze, Freud, Rancière, Sartre, Plato).  Instructors: Gabriel Rockhill

PHI 5000-001 Bioethics and the Law CRN: 22360

Enrollment: 0 of 20 students. Days: TR from 02:30 pm to 03:45 pm

Attributes:  A&S Research Requirement, Writing Intensive Requirement
This seminar will explore the relationship between bioethics and American law as it has developed over the last three decades.  After summarizing how statutory law, common law and constitutional law work, we will consider the following topics:  basic concepts and principles of bioethics, assisting and monitoring reproduction, cases involving children, avoiding reproduction, human subject research, access to health care, and aging, death and dying.  We will use a Casebook adopted by many law schools, Bioethics and the Law, produced by Janet L. Dolgin and Lois L. Shepherd.  A second edition of this Casebook is being prepared and should be available by the fall.

Instructor: James J. McCartney

PHI 5000 - 002 Religion, Politics Philosophy CRN: 22361

In this seminar we will discuss secularism as a central tenet of modern liberal political thought and will examine the contemporary critiques of secularism. We will interrogate not only how the relationship between politics and religion has been theorized by philosophers and critical thinkers, but also ask what their texts assume as the core problematic to which their accounts then respond. What roles of religion within politics are made possible, envisioned, or banished by these thinkers? How does “secularity” delimit and engender “religion” as a political problem? How does “secularity” create its own peculiar religiosity? How does secularity animate investments in modernity, liberal democracy, the nation-state, and sovereignty? Finally, we will probe the resurgent interest in “political theologies” and ask what kinds of “theologies” these considerations intend to be. Readings may include Hobbes, Spinoza, Kant, Locke, Marx, Schmitt, Benjamin, and contemporary thinkers such as Talal Asad, Hent de Vries, Wendy Brown, Charles Taylor, Joan Scott, and José Casanova.
 

Instructor: Annika Thiem Attributes: A&S Research Requirement, Writing Intensive Requirement

PHI 6000 - 001 Research Seminar CRN: 32001

Enrollment: 0 of 10 students. Days: TBA Location: TBA Instructors: Julie Klein (P)