Philosophy
Courses
PHIL 130: Symbolic Logic
Credits 3PHIL 155: Ancient Greek Philosophy
Credits 4PHIL 180: Existentialism
Credits 3PHIL 230: Topics in Aesthetics
Credits 3Introductory course in aesthetics. Examines a topic or issue that is of importance to historical or contemporary philosophical aesthetics. Topics include the experience of art and the philosophical implications of its creation and reception; the relationship between politics and art; and the cultural impact of various art media, including but not limited to, literature, film and classical representational pieces. Depending upon the topic, readings chosen from works by classical and contemporary philosophers, art critics and artists themselves.
PHIL 250: Modern Philosophy
Credits 4PHIL 252: Philosophy and Film Theory
Credits 4PHIL 280: Seminar
Credits 4PHIL 310: Philosophy of Law
Credits 4"What is Law" in the context of legal structure, power, rule and obligation. This course examines the relations between legal rules and the rules of ethics and custom, the case for civil disobedience, the difference between law and mere coercion, the social and ethical foundation of law and legitimacy, the limits of law and the state, citizens' rights against the state and one another, and the norms of our legal system, their beneficiaries and alternatives.
PHIL 315: Marxism
Credits 4PHIL 330: Postcolonial Theory
Credits 4PHIL 350: 19th Century Philosophy
Credits 4PHIL 362: Western Political Philosophy II
Credits 3PHIL 363: Bioethics
Credits 4PHIL 365: Philosophy of Language
Credits 3PHIL 460: Contemporary Philosophy
Credits 4PHIL 480: Seminar
Credits 4PHIL 487: Senior Capstone Experience I
Credits 3Students in this course will develop their research and writing skills in preparation for writing a thesis length essay in PHIL 488 Senior Capstone II. Participants will learn to do research and writing by way of library instruction, peer-review writing, and bibliographic development. This teaching-learning process will necessarily involve "awakening the 'teacher within'" by requiring all participants to assume the role of teaching the seminar some aspect of their research. The essays the students produce in this seminar will subsequently be evaluated by the Philosophy Department as a whole and not solely by the seminar's instructor of record.