Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Permission Required	Dist	Qtr
7186	PBPL-344-01	Seeking JUSTICE in Amer Life	1.00	SEM	Schaller,Barry R.	W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM	TBA
		Enrollment limited to 20
		Prerequisite: C- or better in PBPL 201 or PBPL 202 or permission of the instructor.
		This course will examine basic theories of ethics (common morality), found in moral and political philosophy in order to consider the extent to which traditional ethical and moral principles govern legal, political, and private decision-making. We will begin by identifying ethical and moral principles in our founding documents before proceeding with the main work of the course, which is to examine the ethical and moral reasoning behind legal and policy decisions, business decisions, and personal decisions. Among the diverse subjects that will be discussed are physician-assisted suicide, the death penalty, buying and selling of body parts, human cloning, legalizing drugs, affirmative action, national service in war, hate speech and political dissent, wealth and income distribution including disbursing public money to private business, individual rights versus the needs of the community, torture, truth and lying in private and public, equality and inequality, drug-enhancement in sports, immoral behavior on the part of public figures.
5041	PHIL-101-01	Intro to Phil	1.00	LEC	Vogt,Erik	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 30
		An introduction to fundamental topics and concepts in the history of philosophy, e.g., rationality, wisdom, knowledge, the good life, the just society, and the nature of language. This course is especially appropriate for first-year students or students beginning the college-level study of philosophy. Students contemplating majoring in philosophy are strongly urged to make this their first philosophy course.
6607	PHIL-102-01	Intro to Political Phil	1.00	LEC	Wade,Maurice L.	WF: 2:40PM- 3:55PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 30
		This course will consider some of the foundational issues of political philosophy such as the conflict between individual liberty and social welfare, the criteria for just distribution of wealth, the concept of equality, and the ideal forms of social cooperation. We will read from the works of some of the major political philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx.
5011	PHIL-205-01	Symbolic Logic	1.00	LEC	Ryan,Todd	TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM	TBA		NUM
		Enrollment limited to 35
		An introduction to the use of symbols in reasoning. The prepositional calculus and quantification theory will be studied. This background knowledge will prepare the student to look at the relation of logic to linguistics, computer science, mathematics, and philosophy.
7136	PHIL-222-01	Existentialism	1.00	LEC	Marcano,Donna	MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 20
		A study of the philosophical background of existentialism and of a number of principal existentialistic texts by such writers as Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Camus, and Sartre.
7102	PHIL-234-01	Philosophy & Evolution	1.00	LEC	Brown,W. Miller	MW: 8:30AM- 9:45AM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 25
		An inquiry into the diverse ways in which the theory of evolution has influenced philosophy. The course will begin with a brief history of the idea of evolution. Subsequent topics will include a comparison of chimpanzee and human behavior, evolutionary ethics, the notion of a self-organizing, self-reproducing system, the concepts of evolutionary game theory and programming, the transformation of our understanding of language, disease, war, sexuality, altruism, and other concepts when given evolutionary explanations.
7135	PHIL-239-01	African-American Feminism	1.00	SEM	Marcano,Donna	MW: 2:40PM- 3:55PM	TBA
		Enrollment limited to 20
		This course is a historical survey of the writings of African-American women as they have historically attempted to negotiate fundamental philosophical questions of the "race problem" and the "woman problem." To this extent, we will be inserting black women's voices into the philosophical canon of both race and feminism. Along with exploring and contextualizing the responses and dialogues of women writers, like Anna Julia Cooper with their more famous male contemporaries such as Du Bois, up to more contemporary articulations of black women's voices in what is known as hip-hop feminism, we will ask the question of whether there is a particular black feminist thought, epistemology, and thus philosophy.
6361	PHIL-246-01	Hum Rgts: Phil Foundations	1.00	LEC	Marcano,Donna	MW: 1:15PM- 2:30PM	TBA		GLB1
		Enrollment limited to 30
		This course will survey and critically assess arguments in favor of the existence of human rights, arguments about the legitimate scope of such rights (who has human rights and against whom such rights can legitimately be claimed), and arguments about which rights ought to be included in any complete account of human rights. Specific topics will include (but not necessarily be limited to) the philosophical history of human rights discourse, cultural relativist attacks on the universality of human rights, debates concerning the rights of cultural minorities to self-determination, and controversies concerning whether human rights should include economic and social rights.
6993	PHIL-283-01	Early Modern Philosophy	1.00	LEC	Ryan,Todd	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 25
		The history of Western philosophy from approximately 1600 to 1750, with major attention given to Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. This course fulfills part two of the writing intensive (WI) requirement for the Philosophy major.
6920	PHIL-321-01	Marx	1.00	SEM	Wade,Maurice L.	M: 6:30PM- 9:30PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 20
		great deal of philosophical study has been devoted to the views of Karl Marx, yet much disagreement remains concerning what Marx actually thought. This course will examine some contemporary interpretations of Marx's work against the background of some of his more important writings. Though we cannot realistically hope to arrive at the "correct" interpretation of Marx's views, we can at least assess the merits of some of the contending accounts.
6916	PHIL-330-01	Topics in Med Ethics	1.00	SEM	Brown,W. Miller	M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 20
		Prerequisite: C- or better in PHIL-215 or Permission of Instructor.
		The aim of this seminar is to reflect critically on the important and often controversial ethical questions raised by the rapid and profound developments in medicine and biotechnology. Topics will be chosen from among the following: the doctor-patient relationship; genetic research, therapy, and enhancement; reproductive rights and technology; the ownership of human biological materials; medical decisions at the beginning and end of life; and the allocation of scarce medical resources.
6917	PHIL-334-01	The Frankfurt School	1.00	SEM	Vogt,Erik	R: 6:30PM- 9:30PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 25
		This seminar will provide a survey of the major texts and figures of the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse etc.). We will pay particular attention to their interrogations of philosophy and politics, philosophy and psychoanalysis, and philosophy and art.
6371	PHIL-371-01	Minds and Brains Lab	0.25	LAB	Lloyd,Dan	R: 1:30PM- 4:10PM	TBA
		Enrollment limited to 20
		Recent advances in neuroscience are transforming the study of the mind into the study of the brain. In this laboratory sequence to accompany Philosophy 374, Minds and Brains, students will learn the techniques of "brain reading" employed in contemporary cognitive neuroscience. The laboratory sequence especially emphasizes functional neuroimaging, working with data collected at the nearby Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center. Students may also volunteer to participate in brain scanning experiments; in this case, data in the lab may originate in one's own brain, adding new meaning to the philosopher's maxim, "know thyself."
6373	PHIL-374-01	Minds and Brains	1.00	SEM	Lloyd,Dan	TR: 8:00AM- 9:15AM	TBA		NAT
		Enrollment limited to 20
		The neurosciences have made striking progress in recent years toward understanding the brains of animals and human beings. Through readings in philosophy and science we will consider what contribution this explosion of neuroscientific data can make to our understanding of the mind. (Students enrolling in Philosophy 374-01 must also enroll in Philosophy 371-20L with permission of the instructor).
7242	PHIL-466-01	Teaching Assistant	0.50 - 1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 100
		Work conducted in close consultation with the instructor of a single course and participation in teaching that course. Duties for a teaching assistant may include, for example, holding review sessions, reading papers, or assisting in class work. In addition, a paper may be required from the teaching assistant. This course may count as one of the 11 total required for the major, but will not count as one of the six required “upper-level” (300 and above) courses. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment.
7125	RELG-308-01	Jewish Mysticism	1.00	LEC	Kiener,Ronald	TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 30
		Prerequisite: C- or better in Religion 109.
		An examination of the secret speculative theologies of Judaism from late antiquity to the present. The course will touch upon the full range of Jewish mystical experience: visionaries, ascetics, ecstatics, theosophists, rationalists, messianists, populists, and pietists. Readings will include classical texts (such as the Zohar) and modern secondary studies.