Spring 2025 Courses
PHIL 101: Logic
Colin Patrick, MWF 9:10AM - 10:10AM
Analyses of arguments with an emphasis on formal analysis. Propositional and predicate calculus, deductive techniques, and translation into symbolic notation.
Prerequisites: None.
PHIL 102: Introduction to Philosophy
Phillip Barron, MW 3:00PM - 4:30PM
Colin Patrick, MWF 11:30AM - 12:30PM
Introduction to problems and fields of philosophy through the study of major philosophers’ works and other philosophical texts. Specific content varies with instructor.
Prerequisites: None.
PHIL 103: Ethics
Eli Lichtenstein, MWF 12:40PM - 01:40PM
Fundamental issues in moral philosophy and their application to contemporary life.
Prerequisites: None.
PHIL-201-F1: Philosophy of Religion
J.M. Fritzman, MWF 10:20AM - 11:20AM
Issues in classical and contemporary philosophical examinations of religion such as arguments for the
existence of God, religious experience, religious faith, the problem of evil.
Prerequisites: None.
PHIL-215-F1: Philosophy and the Environment
Dr. Jay P. Odenbaugh, MWF 10:20AM - 11:20AM
Investigation of philosophical questions about our relationship to the environment. Topics include the value of individual organisms, species, ecosystems; the concepts of wildness and wilderness; aesthetics of natural environments; and the relationship between ecological science and environmental policy.
PHIL-217-F1: Topics: Critical Theory
Eli Lichtenstein, MWF 10:20AM - 11:20AM
Introduces students to philosophy through a specific theme or topic. Students investigate how philosophy is represented and enacted in a specific area as well as by participating in its enactment. Possible topics include philosophy and existentialism, philosophy and Latin America, philosophy and literature, philosophy and race, gender, class.
Prerequisites: None.
PHIL-217-F2: Topics: Relationship Ethics
Joel A. Martinez, TTH 09:40AM - 11:10AM
Introduces students to philosophy through a specific theme or topic. Students investigate how philosophy is represented and enacted in a specific area as well as by participating in its enactment. Possible topics include philosophy and existentialism, philosophy and Latin America, philosophy and literature, philosophy and race, gender, class.
Prerequisites: None.
PHIL-301-01: Ancient Western Philosophy
Joel A. Martinez, TTH 11:30AM - 01:00PM
The birth of philosophy against the background of mythic thought; its development from Socrates to the mature systems of Plato and Aristotle; their continuation and transformation in examples of Hellenistic thought.
Prerequisites: Any 100- or 200-level philosophy course. Sophomore standing required.
PHIL-303-01: 19th Century Philosophy
J.M. Fritzman, MWF 12:40PM - 01:40PM
German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, as well as the reactions of philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche.
Prerequisites: Any 100- or 200-level philosophy course or consent of instructor. Sophomore standing required.
PHIL-311-01: Epistemology
Dr. Jay P. Odenbaugh , TTH 09:40AM - 11:10AM
Naturalistic, evolutionary, and social epistemology; moral epistemology; religious epistemology; theories of truth, of explanation, of experience and perception; relationships between theory and observation.
Prerequisites: PHIL 101. PHIL 250. PHIL 102 or one course in the history of philosophy sequence (PHIL 301 through PHIL 307) recommended.
PHIL-453-01: Phil Study: Pragmatism
Dr. Jay P. Odenbaugh, MWF 11:30AM - 12:30PM
Advanced study of topics covered in 300-level themes in philosophy courses, in areas other than
value theory. May be repeated with change of topic.
Prerequisites: PHIL 101. PHIL 250. One 300-level philosophy course. Sophomore standing required.