Course Offerings
Fall 2008
(click on course name to view syllabi)

118A Making of the Modern Mind HWC, WRI
MWF 9:05-10:00
Anthony Rudd
188B Making of the Modern Mind
MWF 10:45-11:40
Anthony Rudd

119 Moral Psychology HBS
T 9:35-11:00, Th 9:30-10:50
Corliss Swain

233 Kierkegaard HWC, WRI
MWF 9:05-10:00
Gordon Marino

235 Ancient Western Philosophy HWC, WRI
MWF 10:45-11:40
Vicki Harper

241A Philosophical Theology BTS-T, WRI
T 11:45-1:10, TH 12:45-2:05
Charles Taliaferro
241B T 1:20-2:45, Th 2:15-3:35
Charles Taliaferro

243 Aesthetics ALS-A
T 9:35-11:00, Th 9:30-10:50
Charles Taliaferro

250 Biomedical Ethics EIN
T 8:00-9:25, Th 8:00-9:20
Karen Gervais

252A Ethics and the Good Life EIN
T 11:45-1:10, Th 12:45-2:05
Vicki Harper
252B Ethics and the Good Life EIN, WRI
MWF 2:00-2:55
Edward Langerak

254A Law, Politics, and Morality EIN
MWF 11:50-12:45
Gordon Marino
254B MWF 12:55-1:50
Gordon Marino

256 Friendship, Love, and the Good Life EIN, WRI
T 1:20-2:45, Th 2:15-3:35
Corliss Swain

278 Moral Theory EIN, WRI
MWF 11:50-12:45
Jeanine Grenberg

371 Studies in Epistemology: From Foundations to Virtues WRI
T 1:20-2:45, Th 2:15-3:35
Anthony Rudd
Epistemology is concerned with understanding how the human mind is able to know the world around it. This course will look at the reasons that have led most recent and contemporary philosophers to abandon the traditional quest to build up knowledge from a foundation of absolute certainty (“foundationalism”) and will explore some of the alternative approaches to understanding human knowledge that have been developed over the last few decades. We will consider whether abandoning the quest for certain foundations undermines the possibility of rational debate between e.g. rival scientific theories or religious outlooks, and will conclude by examining “virtue epistemology”. This is an approach which focuses the role played by character traits (such as open-mindedness, honesty etc) in serious intellectual inquiry; by doing so it forms a bridge between epistemology and ethics.

 

_____

ID 225 Classical Quantum and Beyond HWC, IST
MWF 12:55-1:50
Arthur Cunningham & Brian Borovsky

Phil/Religion 278A The Ethics of War EIN
MWF 10:45-11:40
Edmund Santurri
278B 11:50-12:45
Edmund Santurri

GCON 217B New Forces of Secular ALS-L, WRI
MWF 11:50-12:45
Edward Langerak

GCON 217E New Forces of Secular ALS-L, WRI
MWF 12:55-1:50
Vicki Harper