Philosophy (PHIL)

Philosophy

Pierre S. duPont Foundation

HONORS: An Honors Program in philosophy is offered for qualified students.

Department Head: Nathaniel Goldberg

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

N. Melina Bell, Ph.D.—(2005)-2011
Professor of Philosophy and Law
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Gregory J. Cooper, Ph.D.—(1999)-2016
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
 

William C. Dudley, Ph.D.—(2017)-2017
Professor of Philosophy
President of Washington and Lee University
Ph.D., Northwestern University

Nathaniel Goldberg, Ph. D.—(2008)-2011
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Georgetown University

Paul Gregory, Ph.D.—(2002)-2019
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Illinois

Li Kang, Ph.D.—(2019)-2019
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Syracuse University

Matt Lamb, Ph.D.—(2022)-2022
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Rochester

Omar Quiñonez, Ph.D.—(2021)-2021
Mudd Center for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Emory University

Angela Sun, Ph.D.—(2022)-2022
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Michigan

Erin Taylor, Ph.D.—(2016)-2021
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

Fernando Zapata, Ph.D.—(2021)-2021
Ted Delaney Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Binghamton University
 

NOTE: The philosophy courses are numbered according to the following schemes. With a few exceptions, all PHIL classes are open to all students and satisfy FDR HU.

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

• •  Philosophy major leading to BA degree

Minor

• •  Philosophy minor

Courses

• •  PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy
• •  PHIL 104 - Introduction to Moral and Political Philosophy
• •  PHIL 105 - Introduction to Theories of Knowledge and Reality
• •  PHIL 110 - Ancient Greek Philosophy
• •  PHIL 120 - Modern European Philosophy: Descartes to Hume
• •  PHIL 130 - Classical Chinese Philosophy
• •  PHIL 145 - Contemporary Moral Problems
• •  PHIL 150 - Ethics and the Environment
• •  PHIL 170 - Introduction to Logic
• •  PHIL 195 - Seminar in History of Philosophy or Major Figures
• •  PHIL 196 - Seminar in Ethics and Value Theory
• •  PHIL 197 - Seminar in Metaphysics and Epistemology
• •  PHIL 198 - Seminar in Continental Philosophy
• •  PHIL 214 - Religion and Existentialism
• •  PHIL 218 - Heidegger and Being in the World
• •  PHIL 221 - Plato
• •  PHIL 222 - Aristotle
• •  PHIL 223 - Buddhist Philosophy
• •  PHIL 228 - John Stuart Mill
• •  PHIL 232 - Nietzsche
• •  PHIL 234 - American Pragmatism
• •  PHIL 235 - The Second Sex: Beauvoir on the Power of Gender
• •  PHIL 238 - Existentialism: Meaning and Existence
• •  PHIL 239 - Postmodernism: Power, Difference, and Disruption
• •  PHIL 240 - Contemporary Ethical Theory
• •  PHIL 241 - Poverty, Ethics, and Religion
• •  PHIL 242 - Social Inequality and Fair Opportunity
• •  PHIL 243 - Martin Luther King Jr.: Poverty, Justice, and Love
• •  PHIL 244 - Feminist Social and Political Philosophy
• •  PHIL 245 - Poverty, Dignity, and Human Rights
• •  PHIL 246 - Philosophy of Sex
• •  PHIL 247 - Medicine, Research, and Poverty
• •  PHIL 248 - Ethics of War
• •  PHIL 249 - Poverty, Oppression, and Privilege
• •  PHIL 250 - Philosophies of Life
• •  PHIL 252 - Philosophy of Law
• •  PHIL 253 - Philosophy of Race
• •  PHIL 254 - Philosophy of the Family: Beyond Tradition
• •  PHIL 256 - Free Will and Moral Responsibility
• •  PHIL 260 - Political Philosophy: The Social Contract
• •  PHIL 264 - Aesthetics
• •  PHIL 270 - Intermediate Logic
• •  PHIL 272 - Philosophy and Science Fiction
• •  PHIL 274 - Metaphysics: Existence and Reality
• •  PHIL 278 - Epistemology: Knowledge and Doubt
• •  PHIL 282 - Philosophy of Biology
• •  PHIL 284 - An Investigation of Self
• •  PHIL 285 - The Unruly Body: Philosophy, Science, and Culture
• •  PHIL 295 - Seminar in History of Philosophy or Major Figures
• •  PHIL 296 - Seminar in Ethics and Value Theory
• •  PHIL 297 - Seminar in Metaphysics and Epistemology
• •  PHIL 298 - Seminar in Continental Philosophy
• •  PHIL 310 - Kant
• •  PHIL 315 - Hegel
• •  PHIL 340 - History of Ethics
• •  PHIL 342 - Metaethics
• •  PHIL 344 - Virtue Ethics
• •  PHIL 346 - Medical Ethics
• •  PHIL 348 - Legal Ethics
• •  PHIL 354 - Distributive Justice
• •  PHIL 357 - Self and Social World
• •  PHIL 365 - Seminar in Environmental Ethics
• •  PHIL 371 - Decision Theory
• •  PHIL 372 - Philosophy of Language
• •  PHIL 375 - Philosophy of Mind
• •  PHIL 378 - Philosophy of Science
• •  PHIL 382 - Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
• •  PHIL 395 - Seminar in History of Philosophy or Major Figures
• •  PHIL 396 - Seminar in Ethics and Value Theory
• •  PHIL 397 - Seminar in Metaphysics and Epistemology
• •  PHIL 401 - Directed Individual Study
• •  PHIL 402 - Directed Individual Study
• •  PHIL 403 - Directed Individual Study
• •  PHIL 473 - Senior Thesis
• •  PHIL 493 - Honors Thesis