Courses

• CAS PH 404: Plato II
  
• CAS PH 405: Aristotle I
  A careful study of the philosophy of Aristotle conducted primarily through a close reading of several of his major works.
• CAS PH 406: Aristotle II
  A close reading of Aristotle's writings on practical philosophy (i.e., the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics) and of his philosophy of art in the Poetics, focusing on the nature of human happiness and the good life, the question of the best form of political government, and the function of art for life.
• CAS PH 410: Continental Rationalism
  A critical study of major texts of seventeenth-century philosophy.
• CAS PH 411: British Empiricism
  A critical study of major texts of British Empiricists, with emphasis on Locke and Hume.
• CAS PH 412: Philosophy of the Enlightenment
  A critical examination of that family of philosophical and political movements that called itself "the Enlightenment." Students analyze key texts by Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Smith, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Jefferson, Madison, Kant, and Hegel. Also offered as CAS PO 592 and CAS HI 514.
• CAS PH 413: Kant
  An in-depth reading of several of Kant's works.
• CAS PH 414: Hume
  A detailed analysis of the philosophy of David Hume, focusing on one or more of his works.
• CAS PH 415: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
  Study of the important themes in the philosophy of Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.
• CAS PH 417: Hegel's Phenomenology
  A close reading of Hegel's 1806 Phenomenology.
• CAS PH 418: Marx and Marxism
  Philosophical foundation of Marxism and its development. Critical study of Marx's writings stressing questions of philosophy, political economy, science, and history. Emphasis on Marx's theory of relation of praxis to conciousness. Later (including contemporary) Marxists and critics.
• CAS PH 419: Nietzsche
  Examination of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra." The interpretation focuses on the concept of "eternal recurrence of the same"- in the context of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy, from "The Birth of Tragedy" to "Will to Power" as well as in the context of continental philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• CAS PH 420: Contemporary Philosophy
  A survey of the main developments 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.
• CAS PH 422: Analytic Philosophy
  Focus on the work of Q.V. Quine.
• CAS PH 424: Wittgenstein
  An intensive (line by line) study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
• CAS PH 426: Phenomenology
  Rigorous examination of foundations of philosophical phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger.
• CAS PH 427: Heidegger and Existential Philosophy
  A study of the main topics of Heidegger's philosophy against the background of his interpretation of Husserl's phenomenology, Kant's transcendental philosophy, and ancient Greek philosophy, with an emphasis on the concepts of being, time, and truth.
• CAS PH 430: American Philosophy
  The American fascination with religion; Idealism versus Pragmatism in close readings of major texts from three or four among the folowing: Edwards, Emerson, James, Dewey, Royce, Hocking, Reinhold Niebuhr, Tillich.
• CAS PH 436: 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?
• CAS PH 439: Philosophy of Emotion
  Addresses questions about the nature of the emotions, including their cognitive dimensions; the distinction between moods, feelings, and emotions; their cultural variation; and their relation to reason, ethics, and to the pursuit of the good life. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course by the same name numbered CAS PH 239.

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