Courses

• GRS PH 607: Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics
  
• GRS PH 608: History of Medieval Philosophy
  A study of selected texts, doctrines, and methodologies of Jewish mysticism from antiquity through the thirteenth century. Appearance of Zohar, sixteenth century developments in the teachings of Luria and Cordovero, and Hasidic thought from the eighteenth century forward.
• GRS PH 609: Maimonides
  A study of major aspects of the thought of Maimonides. Primary focus on the Guide of the Perplexed, with attention to its modern reception in works by Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Leo Strauss, and others. Also offered as GRS RN 720.
• GRS PH 610: Contl Rational
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS PH 611: Brit Empiricism
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS PH 612: Philosophy of the Enlightenment
  
• GRS PH 613: Kant
  A single text constitutes the basis for this course - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Some of the great scholars of the past have devoted a lifetime to analyzing, explicating, and evaluating this work. We, alas, have only one semester. In this, the first of three Critiques, Kant introduced the idea of a critical self-examination of reason, and in the execution of this program he developed a unique new type of philosophy, called transcendental philosophy, which forever revolutionized philosophical throught. We shall examine the text carefully from beginning to end. Because Kant's thinking is enormously complex, intricate, and subtle, we shall make use of secondary sources and complement textual analysis by discussing helpful comments by some of today's finest Kant scholars.
• GRS PH 614: Hume
  A detailed analysis of the philosophy of David Hume, focusing on one or more of his works.
• GRS PH 615: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
  Study of the important themes in the philosophy of Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.
• GRS PH 616: Hegel
  Critical study of Hegel's system as presented in his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences.
• GRS PH 617: Hegel's Phenomenology
  A close reading of Hegel's 1806 Phenomenology.
• GRS PH 619: Nietzsche
  Reading and discussion of some of Nietzsche's major works and their influence on twentieth-century thought. Discussions go back to Hegel and forward to Heidegger.
• GRS PH 620: Contemporary Philosophy
  A survey of the main development in recent philosophy in both the analytical and continental traditions, emphasizing the interrelations of the two. Philosophers covered include Frege, Moore, Russell and Wittgenstein, as well as Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre.
• GRS PH 621: Frege, Moore, and Russell
  An in-depth reading of several works by Russell.
• GRS PH 622: Analytic Philosophy
  A detailed examination of Wittgenstein later philosophy, focusing on his Philosophical Investigations, On Certainty and remarks on the philosophy of Psychology.
• GRS PH 624: Wittgenstein
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS PH 626: Phenomenology
  Rigorous examination of the foundations of philosophical phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger.
• GRS PH 630: American Philosophy
  Detailed analysis of William James and John Dewey and their theories of meaning, truth, consciousness, and experience. Consideration of these theories in connection with selected issues in Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Michael Oakeshott.
• GRS PH 633: Symbolic Logic
  Study of methods characteristic of modern deductive logic including use of truth tables, Boolean normal forms, models, and indirect and conditional proofs within the theory of truth-functions and quantifiers.
• GRS PH 636: Gender, Race, and Science
  Examines issues in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and philosophy of science. Is "race" a genuine scientific category or a social construct? How have views about gender and race changed? Why are there still so few women and minority scientists?

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