Philosophy

• 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.
• CAS PH 440: Metaphysics
  A study of the themes of Being, God, Space, Time, and Eternity as they should be treated for a contemporary philosophy.
• CAS PH 443: Philosophy of Mind
  The topic is sentience, embodiment, and the brain. The aim is to develop a "neurophenomenological" approach to consciousness and embodied experience in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.
• CAS PH 446: Philosophy of Religion
  An examination of principal issues and topics in the philosophy of religion in the following two stages: first, a historical overview of the philosophy of religion as a discipline or subdiscipline of philosophy and theology; second, attention to the problems and challenges facing this discipline in the context of the comparative study of religions.
• CAS PH 447: Asian Philosophy
  Specific aspects of South Asian religions within a historical or comparative/ phenomenological framework. Topic for Spring 2005: Buddhist Philosophy. Major issues, personalities, and texts in the Buddhist philosophical tradition, including early Buddhist scriptures, intellectual developments in classical India, China, Japan, and Tibet, and the encounter with modernity in Asia and the West.
• CAS PH 450: Types of Ethical Theory
  Topic for Fall 2012: TBA.
• CAS PH 451: Contemporary Ethical Theory
  An examination of twentieth-century English and American moral theories including those of Moore, Foot, Williams, MacIntyre, and Rawls.

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