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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: 34261

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: Geoffrey G. Karabin

PHI 1050 - 002 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34262

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: Elizabeth A. Irvine

PHI 1050 - 003 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34263

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: Michael Olson

PHI 1050 - 004 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34264

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: Raoni Pascoal Padui

PHI 1050 - 005 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34266

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: Neil David Brophy

PHI 1050 - 006 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34267

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 10:30 am to 11:20 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: Michael J. Olson

PHI 1050 - 007 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34268

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: Raoni Pascoal Padui

PHI 1050 - 008 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34269

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: Neil David Brophy

PHI 1050 - 009 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34270

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: Christopher M. Davidson

PHI 1050 - 010 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34272

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: Christopher M. Davidson

PHI 1050 - 012 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34273

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: Ivan Alexi Kukuljevic

PHI 1050 - 013 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34275

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

PHI 1050 - 014 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34277

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.

PHI 1050 - 015 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34278

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 B. Ruth (P)

PHI 1050 - 016 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34279

PHI 1050 - 017 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34280

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: James Eric Butler (P)

PHI 1050 - 018 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34281

PHI 1050 - 019 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34282

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: James Eric Butler (P)

PHI 1050 - 020 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34283

PHI 1050 - 021 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34284

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: Jeffrey D. Gower

PHI 1050 - 022 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 31744

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: Jeffrey D. Gower (P)

PHI 1050 - 023 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34287

PHI 1050 - 100 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34288

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

PHI 1050 - A11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34290

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: 34291

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: 334292

PHI 1050 - D11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34293

PHI 1050 - E11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34294

PHI 1050 - F11 Intro to Philosophy CRN: 34296

PHI 2010 - 001 Logic & Critical Thinking CRN: 34301

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 08:30 am to 9:20 am 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. Paul Taylor Trussell (P)

PHI 2010 - 002 Logic & Critical Thinking CRN: 34302

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 09:30 pm to 10:20 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: Paul Taylor Trussel (P)

PHI 2010 - 003 Logic & Critical Thinking CRN: 34303

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MWF from 11:30 pm to 12:20 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: Yong Michael Kim (P)

PHI 2115 - 001 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 34304

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: Barbara Ann Hinze (P)

PHI 2115 - 002 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 34305

Enrollment: 0 of 5 students. Days: TR from 10:00 am to 11:15 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: James J. McCartney (P)

PHI 2115 - 003 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 34361

Enrollment: 0 of 5 students. Days: TR from 11:30 am to 12:45 pm Location: TBA

PHI 2115 - 004 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 34363

Enrollment: 0 of 5 students. Days: TR from 11:30 pm to 12:45 pm. 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: James J. McCartney (P)

PHI 2115 - 005 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 34367

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 02:30 pm to 03:45 pm. 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: James J. McCartney (P)

PHI 2115 - 006 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 334368

Enrollment: 0 of 5 students. Days: M from 04:00 pm to 05:15 pm

PHI 2115 - N03 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 34362

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

PHI 2115 - N04 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 34365

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

PHI 2115 - N06 Ethics for Health Care Prof CRN: 34360

Enrollment: 0 of 30 students. Days: TR from 10:00 am to 11:15 am Location: TBA

PHI 2140-001 Phil of Criminal Justice CRN 34371 Enrollment: 0 of 35

PHI 2180 - 001 Computer Ethics CRN: 34372

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 01:00 pm to 02:15 pm Location: TBA

Instructors: William M Fleischman (P) Attributes: Writing Enriched Requirement

PHI 2180 - 101 Computer Ethics CRN: 33385

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: R from 06:00 pm to 09:30 pm Location: TBA

Restrictions: Fast Forward 3; Course dates: 1/13/09 - 2/24/09; Restricted to Part Time Studies Students;

Instructors: William M Fleischman (P) Attributes: Writing Enriched Requirement

PHI 2400 - 001 Social & Political Phil CRN: 34375

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 01:30 pm to 02:45 pm Location: TBA

This course explores the historical evolution of “political cultures,” understood as the practical modes of intelligibility that dictate the very nature of politics by determining who qualifies as a political subject, what is visible as a political action, and how the spatio-temporal framework of politics is structured. The first section of the course is dedicated to analyzing the historical emergence and evolution of three major political configurations that have marked the history of the Euro-American world: natural political culture (Plato and Aristotle), ecclesiastical political culture (Augustine), and contractual political culture (Locke, Rousseau and other modern political theorists). The second section of the class will examine the specificity of our own socio-political ethos by studying contemporary debates on political liberalism, communitarianism, multiculturalism, radical democracy, minority rights, gender and race inequality, postmodernism, globalization and terrorism. Instructors: Gabriel Rockhill (P)

PHI 2420 - 001 Philosophy of Women CRN: 34376

Enrollment: 0 of 20 students. Days: MWF from 11:30 am to 12:20 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: Sally J Scholz (P) Attributes: Cross-listed course, Diversity Requirement 2, Writing Enriched Requirement Comment: Cross-listed P&J

PHI 2450 -001 Catholic Social Thought CRN: 34377

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 2760 - 001 Philosophy & Literature CRN: 34378

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm Location: TBA

What do we tell when we tell our story? Who is this “I” that has a story of its own? Who are we as audience of our stories and of others’ stories? What does it mean to relate to others through their stories? Telling one’s story is always more than retelling one’s past. Through our stories we invent our selves, we find connections between events, we shape how we make sense of events, situations, and relationships. But the words and images we have at our disposal are never solely our own. We receive words and images from others and the world around us before we take up these words and images to make and remake ourselves. Likewise, we—as much as our stories—become something else as we address ourselves to others. Who am I, I who can tell a story about herself? Who are you who addresses yourself to me? How did we get here? Who have we become? What are the limits and obstacles of our becoming? Can we begin the story anew?

In this course we will examine the intersection between philosophy and literature within these questions of self-narration. Our inquiries will address in particular questions of representation and identity; of audience and receptivity; of embodiment, race, and gender; and of the limits of narration. We will study works by Hannah Arendt, John Barth, Frederick Barthelme, Roland Barthes, John Berger, Jorge Borges, Susan Brison, Judith Butler, Italo Calvino, Adriana Cavarero, Isak Dinesen, Michel Foucault, Jamaica Kincaid, Joyce Carol Oates, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Patricia Williams.

Instructors: Annika Thiem

PHI 2800-001 Philosophy of History CRN 34379

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

This course examines the historical development and transformation of the relationship between philosophy and history. We begin by analyzing philosophy in the era of chronology, prior to the massive historicization of philosophic practice around the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. We then concentrate on the fundamental changes that occurred in philosophic practice through the course of this transformation. These changes were linked to what historians have called the modern regime of historicity or a novel conception of historical time as a linear process of development in which the past becomes autonomous and the future is transformed into an open horizon of possibility. It is within the modern regime of historicity that the 19th-century utopian philosophical and political projects developed, and it is to these that we will turn our attention in the third section of the course. We will then concentrate on how these projects have played themselves out in the historical conjuncture that is our own, which is sometimes referred to as the era of the “end of history” or the “end of utopia.” Finally, we will examine some of the central debates in contemporary historiography in order to explore various “logics of history” and hone tools for explaining how history informs our present situation and outlines possibilities for the future. In addition to being a philosophy class, this course draws extensively on work from at least three other disciplines: history, sociology and political theory. Representative authors include: Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fukuyama, Castoriadis, Foucault, Wallerstein, Kracauer, Benjamin, and Koselleck.

Instructor: Gabriel Rockhill

PHI 2920 - 001 Asian Philosophies CRN: 34380

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 03:00 pm to 04:15 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)
Attributes: Diversity Requirement 3

PHI 3020 - 001 History of Ancient Philosophy CRN: 34383

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 3040 - 001 History of Early Mod Philosophy CRN: 34384

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: TR from 01:00 pm to 02:15 pm Location: TBA
This course covers six pivotal thinkers in European philosophy: Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant. Their works take shape during the scientific revolution and in an era of religious and political ferment; this is the era of Galileo and Newton, the Thirty Years’ War and the English Civil Wars, and the emergence of modern ideas of toleration and intellectual freedom. We will examine how philosophy interacts with these broader aspects of culture. Our major questions will be drawn from metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy: (1) What is there? (2) How do we know, and what counts as knowledge? (3) What are the ethical, social, and political implications of the answers given? Writing assignments will include short (2 page) and medium length (4-6 page) essays. Class meetings will be a mixture of lecture and discussion. Instructors: Julie Klein (P)

PHI 3050 - 001 Kant & 19th Cent Philosophy CRN: 3

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: Location: TBA
“What can I know, and how do I know it?” is one of the most significant philosophical questions of modernity. In his attempt to provide a final and comprehensive solution to the problem of knowledge, Immanuel Kant both revolutionizes our way of conceiving the knowing subject and the known object as well as provokes a number of questions concerning the nature of reality and truth. In this class, we examine what became the most riddling questions of the 19th century following Kant’s revolution—reading both his ardent supporters (Fichte) as well as his most significant critics (Schelling, Hegel). Instructors: Dalia T. Nassar (P)

PHI 3100-001 Augustine & Antiquity CRN: 34385

Enrollment: 0 students of 35 Days: MW 1:30 - 2:45 Location: TBA

This course is an exploration of the philosophical schools of Roman antiquity, culminating in a close look at Augustine’s reaction to that heritage. Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics, and Platonists are the dramatis personae. The stage is Roman imperial power. The plot concerns the liberation of desire from the designs of empire (or more generally, from the designs of imposed power). The denouement is an Augustinian critique of the classical ideal of self-rule. Readings: Virgil, Lucretius, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Augustine.

Instructor: James Wetzel

PHI 3410 - 001 Thomas Aquinas CRN: 34386

Enrollment: 0 of 30 students. Days: TR from 01:00 pm to 02:15 pm Location: TBA
Thomas Aquinas is regarded by many—both fans and critics alike—as the greatest thinker of the Catholic tradition. What is it about Aquinas’s wisdom that has evoked such respect from so many different quarters? In this course, we will explore some of Aquinas’s most interesting teachings, including his views on the existence of God, creation, the immortality of the soul, faith and reason, knowledge and love, happiness, virtue, natural law, grace, Christ and the Eucharist. Since Thomas himself was a questioner, there will be ample room in the course for both critics and devotees of Aquinas’s views, as well as for those who simply want to learn more about the teachings of one of the world’s greatest thinkers. Instructors: Michael M. Waddell (P) Attributes: Cross-listed course, Writing Enriched Requirement Comment: Cross-listed with THE 2590 & HUM 2900

PHI 4610 - 001 Philosophy of Mind CRN: 334387

Enrollment: 0 of 35 students. Days: MW from 01:30 pm to 02:45 pm Location: TBA

Instructors: John Bova (P)

PHI 4610 - 002 Philosophy of Mind CRN: 334389

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

Instructors: John Bova (P)

PHI 4800 - 001 French Existentialism & Phenomenology CRN: 34392

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

An exciting period of philosophy took place in France from the thirties to the sixties during which a number of young thinkers took serious issue with traditional forms of Western philosophy. Stressing the lived experience of what it is to be human, they addressed such issues as perception, body, death, sexuality mass society, forms of communication, rationality. Their hope was to forge a new way of philosophizing that would be possible within the limits of a finite and fragile humanity. Instructors: Thomas W. Busch (P)

PHI 5000-001 Concepts of Space and Time CRN: 34395

Enrollment: 0 of 20 students. Days: MW from 03:00 pm to 04:15 pm

Attributes: A&S Research Requirement, Writing Intensive Requirement

Concepts of Space and Time: Space and time are two of the most intimate elements of our sensible experience. They have been variously described as absolute and relative, mathematical and phenomenological, real and ideal. In this course, we shall examine several technical definitions of space and time as required by science and as interpretations of everyday experience. We shall consider thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Newton, Leibniz, Kant, and Bergson.

Instructor: Helen Lang

PHI 5000 - 002 Hegel CRN: 34395

Enrollment: 0 of 20 students. Days: MW from 03:00 pm to 05:30 pm Location: TBA

Hegel was a Janus figure in the history of philosophy. He seemed to sum up the tradition of philosophy preceding him and also to anticipate not some crucial lines of development coming after him. He swivels between the past and the future. Indeed it has been said that many of the forms of contemporary philosophizing owe something important to him, either as developing some of his insights in different directions, or in reaction against or rejection of him. There is also the fact that he is often seen as a grandiose system builder whose thinking is abstracted from concrete actuality rather than engaged with it. Yet Hegel sought to respond in philosophy to what he perceived was the crisis of modern thought which seemed to lead to a fragmented sense of life, a fragmentation affecting all areas, such a politics, religion, science and art. Responding to this fragmentation Hegel proclaimed that “the true is the whole.” He claimed to develop a philosophy that was true to this truth of the whole. He believed also that if such a comprehension of the true was accomplished, our relation to actuality would be shown to entail reconciliation as well as crisis – reconciliation more ultimate than crisis.

This course will try to offer as comprehensive an oversight as possible on the whole of Hegel’s philosophical career, from early to late. We will look at Hegel between the past and the present, between the crisis and the claim of reconciliation, attempting to give an overview of his thinking from its earliest beginning to its more mature expression. We will situate Hegel in his era and look at some of the earliest writing which show him struggling between crisis and reconciliation. We will look at selected aspects of his major systematic works where he claims to work out the dialectical-speculative logic that alone for him is properly true to actuality. We will also look at selections from the Lecture series on art and religion and history which made him the most famous philosopher in Berlin in his later period ( the 1820s). We will also consider something of the continuing legacy of these works and lectures and the major questions his thinking still poses for us, agree we with him or not.

Instructor: William Desmond (P) 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)

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