Philosophy (PHIL)

Pierre S. duPont Foundation

Professor Mahon
Associate Professors Bell, Cooper, Goldberg, Gregory, Smith
Assistant Professor Verhage
Visiting Assistant Professors Gordon-Roth, Lowney

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

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

• •  Philosophy major leading to BA degree

Minor

• •  Philosophy minor

Courses

• •  PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy
• •  PHIL 110 - Ancient Philosophy
• •  PHIL 120 - Modern Philosophy
• •  PHIL 130 - Chinese Philosophy
• •  PHIL 135 - Topics in 20th-Century Philosophy
• •  PHIL 140 - Introduction to Ethics
• •  PHIL 145 - Contemporary Moral Problems
• •  PHIL 150 - Ethics and the Environment
• •  PHIL 170 - Introduction to Logic
• •  PHIL 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
• •  PHIL 195 - Seminar for First-Years and Sophomores
• •  PHIL 212 - Philosophy and Religion
• •  PHIL 215 - Philosophy of History
• •  PHIL 221 - Plato
• •  PHIL 222 - Aristotle
• •  PHIL 228 - John Stuart Mill
• •  PHIL 230 - Kierkegaard
• •  PHIL 232 - Nietzsche
• •  PHIL 238 - Existentialism:Meaning and Existence
• •  PHIL 239 - Postmodernism: Power, Difference, and Disruption
• •  PHIL 240 - Contemporary Ethics
• •  PHIL 242 - Social Inequality and Fair Opportunity
• •  PHIL 244 - Feminist Social and Political Philosophy
• •  PHIL 246 - Philosophy of Sex
• •  PHIL 248 - Ethics of War
• •  PHIL 250 - Philosophies of Life
• •  PHIL 252 - Philosophy of Law
• •  PHIL 254 - Philosophy of the Family
• •  PHIL 256 - Free Will and Moral Responsibility
• •  PHIL 262 - Art, Imagination, and Ethics
• •  PHIL 264 - Aesthetics
• •  PHIL 266 - Philosophy and Literature
• •  PHIL 270 - Intermediate Logic
• •  PHIL 274 - Metaphysics: Existence and Reality
• •  PHIL 278 - Epistemology: Knowledge and Doubt
• •  PHIL 280 - Philosophy of Nature
• •  PHIL 282 - Philosophy of Biology
• •  PHIL 285 - The Unruly Body: Philosophy, Science, and Culture
• •  PHIL 295 - Seminar on Philosophical Topics
• •  PHIL 296 - Spring-Term Seminar on Philosophical Topics
• •  PHIL 310 - Kant
• •  PHIL 315 - Hegel
• •  PHIL 320 - Wittgenstein
• •  PHIL 322 - Heidegger
• •  PHIL 335 - Ethics of Globalization
• •  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 360 - Roe v. Wade and the Abortion Question
• •  PHIL 372 - Philosophy of Language
• •  PHIL 375 - Philosophy of Mind
• •  PHIL 378 - Philosophy of Science
• •  PHIL 380 - Philosophy of Mathematics
• •  PHIL 382 - Human Nature and the Human Sciences
• •  PHIL 385 - Philosophy of Time Travel
• •  PHIL 395 - Advanced Seminar
• •  PHIL 399 - Seminar on Living Philosopher
• •  PHIL 401 - Directed Individual Study
• •  PHIL 402 - Directed Individual Study
• •  PHIL 403 - Directed Individual Study
• •  PHIL 473 - Senior Thesis
• •  PHIL 493 - Honors Thesis