Courses Offered by the Philosophy Department

Introductory Courses
100 Fields and Functions of Philosophy

Logic and Philosophy of Science
103 Logic
201 Symbolic Logic
204 Scientific and Everyday Reasoning
218 Ecology, Nature, and the Future
220 Philosophy of Science
235 Philosophy of Mathematics

Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy
213 Ethics
214 Social and Political Philosophy
219 The Problem of False Consciousness
228 Contemporary Ethical Theory
233 The Philosophy of Peace and Nonviolence
246 Philosophy of Law
CAPS423 Western Perspectives on Animals

Western Historical Periods
205 Greek Philosophy
206 Medieval Philosophy
207 Development of Modern Philosophy
222 Analytic Philosophy
256 Nineteenth-century European Philosophy
258 Existentialism
259 American Philosophy
262 Contemporary Continental Philosophy
275 Topics in Greek Philosophy

Aesthetics
212 Philosophy of Art
215 Philosophy of Music
265 Topics in Aesthetics

Fields of Philosophy
223 Philosophy of Religion
224 Theory of Knowledge
225 Metaphysics
226 Philosophy of Mind
227 Philosophy of Language
260 Phenomenology

Non-Western Philosophy
100 World Philosophy
266 Chinese Philosophy
267 Islamic Philosophy
269 Indian Philosophy

Race and Gender Philosophy
230 Feminism and Philosophy

Philosophy Seminars
309 Seminar in Historical Periods: Individual Philosophers

  • Cavell
  • Descartes
  • Heidegger
  • Kant
  • Nietzsche
  • Plato's Moral Drama
  • Wittgenstein

310 Seminar in Historical Studies: Historical Periods

  • Gadamer and Derrida
    Plato's Socrates and Socrates' Plato

311 Seminar in Philosophical Problems

  • Ethics and the Natural World
  • Form, Idea, Metaphor
  • Nihilism