Courses

• GRS PH 605: Aristotle I
  A careful study of Aristotle's theoretical philosophy conducted through a close reading of selections from the Categories, Posterior Analytics, Physics, On the Soul, and the Metaphysics.
• GRS PH 606: 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.
• GRS PH 608: History of Medieval Philosophy
  A study of selected texts in medieval philosophy. Authors include St. Augustine, Boethius, St. Anselm, Peter Abelard, Avicenna, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus.
• GRS PH 610: Continental Rationalism
  A critical study of major texts of seventeenth-century philosophy.
• GRS PH 611: British Empiricism
  A critical study of major texts of British Empiricists, with emphasis on Locke and Hume.
• GRS PH 613: Kant
  A study of Kant's critical philosophy, 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
  A study of Hegel's systematic philosophy, focusing on one or more of his works.
• GRS PH 619: Nietzsche
  A study of Nietzsche's philosophy, focusing on one or more of his works.
• GRS PH 622: Analytic Philosophy
  A survey of the basic works of twentieth-century analytical philosophy.
• GRS PH 624: Wittgenstein
  An intensive (line by line) study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
• GRS PH 626: Phenomenology
  Rigorous examination of the foundations of philosophical phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger.
• GRS PH 627: 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.
• 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?
• GRS PH 640: Metaphysics
  A survey of basic questions in contemporary metaphysics that may include reality, time, change, free will, personal identity, and causation.
• GRS PH 643: 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.
• GRS PH 646: Philosophy of Religion
  An examination of the principal issues and topics in the philosophy of religion in the following two stages: first, an historical overview of the philosophy of religion as a discipline or subdiscipline of philosophy and theology; and, second, attention to the problems and challenges facing this discipline in the context of the comparative study of religions.
• GRS PH 650: Types of Ethical Theory
  A survey of basic ethical theories including those in the Kantian, utilitarian, and virtue-ethics traditions.
• GRS PH 651: Contemporary Ethical Theory
  An examination of contemporary English and American moral theories. Topic for Spring 2017: The Color Line and the Problem of Reparations.

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