Course Offerings (Fall 2022)
Philosophy Courses
Fall 2022
Courses marked with * contribute to satisfying General Education Requirements
*PHIL 1000: Introduction to Philosophy
Major works on such themes as appearance and reality, human nature, nature of knowledge, relation of mind and body, right and good, existence of God, and freedom and determinism.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | TTh 9:00 - 10:20 | Blakley | 203 Tureaud |
| 002 | TTh 10:30 - 11:50 | Blakley | 203 Tureaud |
| 003 | MWF 10:30 - 11:20 | Wells | 220 Coates |
| 004 | MWF 10:30 - 11:20 | Connor | 220 Stubbs |
| 005 | MWF 11:30 - 12:20 | Wells | 220 Coates |
| 006 | TTh 12:00 - 1:20 | Johnson | 209 Coates |
| 007 | TTh 12:00 - 1:20 | Staff | 134 J C Miller |
| 008 | TTh 1:30 - 2:50 | Staff | 134 J C Miller |
PHIL 2010: Symbolic Logic 1
Classical propositional and first-order predicate logic; syntax and semantics of formal languages; translation between formal languages and English; formal methods of proof.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | TTh 12:00 - 1:20 | Roland | 019 Allen |
*PHIL 2020: Ethics
Classical and recent theories of obligation and value, including works of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hume, and Nietzsche; topics including freedom, rights, justification of moral judgments.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | MWF 9:30 - 10:20 | Severud | 220 Stubbs |
| 002 | TTh 10:30 - 11:50 | Kelley | 220 Coates |
| 003 | TTh 1:30 - 2:50 | Blakley | 220 Stubbs |
| 004 | MWF 2:30 - 3:20 | Wells | 209 Coates |
| 005 | MWF 3:30 - 4:20 | Wells | 209 Coates |
PHIL 2023: Philosophy of Art
Philosophical theories of beauty, art, and art criticism.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | MWF 1:30 - 2:20 | Cogburn | 220 Coates |
PHIL 2033: History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
A section of PHIL 2034 (HNRS Tutorial: History of Philosophy) is available to accompany this course. Introduction to philosophy through a study of some of the main writings of classical and medieval philosophy.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | TTh 10:30 - 11:50 | Nathan | 102 Tureaud |
PHIL 3090: Freidrich Nietzsche
Major works of Nietzsche studied in the context of the three periods of productivity and evolution of his thought.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | TTh 3:00 - 4:20 | Blakley | 220 Stubbs |
PHIL 4014: Jewish Thought
The course familiarizes the students with the different questions of Jewish philosophy in the modern and contemporary period in Europe mainly. Our study will particularly emphasize how new trends and ideas emerged in Judaism due to the influence of historical and sociological changes in the surrounding societies, and how these changes led to a variety of possible Jewish trends in philosophies, identities, and expressions.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | TTh 12:00 - 1:20 | Rethelyi | 162 Coates |
PHIL 4786: Selected Topics: Graham Harman
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | MWF 11:30 - 12:20 | Cogburn | 103 Coates |
PHIL 4786: Selected Topics: Well-Being
What is of ultimate benefit and harm to beings like us? Could something be good for you in the most basic and fundamental way even if you were not at all interested in it? Is a life that starts out poorly but gets better over time better than one that starts out well but gets progressively worse? These are some of the central questions of well-being - or quality of life or welfare - that we will investigate in this course. Depending on student interest, we will also address a cluster of topics on related issues such as the nature of happiness, the nature of pleasure, and the meaning of life.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 002 | TTh 1:30 - 2:50 | Kelley | 127 Coates |
PHIL 4924: Aristotle
Prereq: PHIL 2033 or equivalent. Topics from Aristotle's Metaphysics, Physics De Anima, and the logical treatises.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | TTh 3:00 - 4:20 | Nathan | 112 Audubon |
PHIL 4945: Problems in Political Philosophy
Prereq: PHIL 1000 or 2020 or 3052 or equivalent. Freedom, obligation, authority, justice, law, the state, and revolution.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | TTh 4:30 - 5:50 | Goldgaber | 027 Allen |
PHIL 4948: Phenomenology: Heidegger's Being and Time
Prereq: PHIL 2035 or 4936 or equivalent. Contemporary phenomenology.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | M 3:00 - 5:50 | Raffoul | 202 Coates |
PHIL 7901: Seminar in Analytic Philosophy
Philosophy of language, metaphysics, realism, anti-realism, and philosophy of logic and mathematics.
| Section | Date & Time | Instructor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | W 3:00 - 5:50 | Roland | 103 Coates |