PHILOSOPHY IS FOR EVERYONE Spring 2008
The Philosophy faculty invites you to join us during to experience being human. Besides multiple sections of PHI 101 Introduction and PHI340 Ethics and our history courses PHI 352 Medieval Philosophy and PHI 356 19th Century Philosophy, we offer the following AS 5 courses.
PHI 300 LOGIC for PRE-LAW STUDENTS SCHULTZ-ALDRICH
This course provides the tools necessary to distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning. Since this section contains a component on analytical reasoning and may help pre-law students who plan to take the LSAT.
PHI 348 ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS HALADY
This course examines basic moral concepts and theories and their application to moral problems encountered in human interaction with the environment. Topics include various conceptions of life and social policies toward the use and protection of the environment, animals, and human quality of life.
PHI 365 EXISTENTIALISM MORAN
This course treats the basic tenets of 20th century existential philosophy of existence and its historical antecedents. Philosophers treated include Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, and Buber.
PHI 380 POLITICAL PHILOSPHY SIMMONDS
This course treats basic questions about human values, social organization, and the principles of political association. It has a special concern to examine modern political issues and their historical antecedents.
PHI 382 GENDER and PHILOSOPHY LOUGHEAD
This class examines with movements in contemporary continental philosophy such as phenomenology, postmodernism, feminism and deconstructionism. The course analyzes the modern world according to issues of self, gender, language, power, freedom, death and ethical behavior.
PHI 395 NIETZSCHE AND THE GREEKS PERKINS
This will be a course examining Nietzsche's philological and philosophical work involving Greek thought and culture and the ways he puts his insights to use in developing his own ideas. Its objective is to gain insights into Nietzsche's philosophy based on the way he views Greek Antiquity and, conversely, to gain insights into Greek antiquity based on his analyses and appropriations.
*** FOUR NEW AS 5 ICD COURSES IN PHILOSOPHY ***
PHI 362 WORLD WISDOMS: INDIAN PHILOSOPHY MUKERJEE
This course treats different schools of Indian philosophy. Topics include Indian views about dualistic and non-dualistic views of absolute reality relating to materialism and idealism, different moral systems, systems of logic and knowledge. This course is multicultural and compares Indian and Western thinking.
PHI 363 WORLD WISDOMS: COMPARATIVE ETHICS KIEFFER
This course compares some ancient moral traditions of Greece, Africa, Islam, China, and the Americas by reading primary sources in translation. Topics include material from Plato and Aristotle, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, Toltec and Mayan thinking, Iroquois and Plains Indians and Confucius and Lao Tzu.
PHI 364 WORLD WISDOMS: BUDDHISM and PHILOSOPHY CHELSTROM
This course examines the core values and beliefs of Buddhism and compares Buddhist ideas with Western ideas. In this connection, there is a concern to make theoretical and practical comparisons between the core values, beliefs, and attitudes of Buddhist cultures as they stand in distinction from Western cultures.
PHI 378 Jewish Philosophers of German Provenance BึHM
From the 18th century until the beginning of the Nazi era, Jewish thinkers played an important role in the intellectual life of Germany devoting their attention to advancing philosophical thought. This course studies M. Mendelssohn, H. Arendt, E. Cassirer, E. Fackenheim, H. Jonas, F. Rosenzweig, and L. Strauss.