Course	PHIL 101 Problems in Philosophy
Professor	William Griffith
CRN	90033
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

An introduction to the problems, methods, and scope of philosophical inquiry. Among the philosophical questions to be discussed are those associated with morality, the law, the nature of mind, and the limits of knowledge. Philosophers to be read include Plato, Descartes, David Hume, William James, A. J. Ayer, Sartre, C. S. Lewis, and Lon Fuller.

Course	PHIL 106 Reality, Knowledge and Value
Professor	Robert Martin
CRN	90059
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am BLUM HALL
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

An introduction to some key issues in three of the main areas of Western philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. Our core text will be Thinking it Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, by Kwame Anthony Appiah. Additional readings are drawn from the classical and modern traditions: for example, Plato, Descartes, and Bertrand Russell. In all cases an attempt is made to show the connections between the traditional problems of philosophy and the concerns of our own lives.

Course	PHIL 108 A Introduction to Philosophy
Professor	Mary Coleman
CRN	90035
Schedule	Wed Fr 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Western philosophers address questions that most of us naturally find puzzling, such as: do we have free will?; do we know what the world around us is really like?; does God exist?; how should we treat one another? We will critically examine historical and contemporary texts that address these and other central themes of the philosophical tradition.

Course	PHIL 108 B Introduction to Philosophy
Professor	Mary Coleman
CRN	90898
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Western philosophers address questions that most of us naturally find puzzling, such as: do we have free will?; do we know what the world around us is really like?; does God exist?; how should we treat one another? We will critically examine historical and contemporary texts that address these and other central themes of the philosophical tradition.

Course	PHIL 237 Symbolic Logic
Professor	William Griffith
CRN	90037
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am HEG 300
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: MATC

Students will learn to use several different symbolic systems, some developed thousands of years apart, in order to formally test the validity of deductive arguments expressed in ordinary language of various levels of complexity. Beginning from the common notion of a valid argument the course progresses through: truth tables; a system of natural deduction for propositional logic, which is proven to be consistent and complete; Aristotelian logic - immediate inference, mediate inference, the square of opposition; Venn diagrams; monadic quantificational theory; general quantificational theory, including identity. At each level both the characteristics of the formal systems and the interpretation of their schemata into English are kept in view. The course ends with a discussion of the extension of such work into higher orders of logic and the foundations of mathematics and the surprise (at the time) of Gödel’s incompleteness proof. No prerequisite.

Course	PHIL 243 Self-Knowledge and Self-Discovery
Professor	Marcia Cavell
CRN	90060
Schedule	Mon 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 307 Tu 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 307
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Since Plato, self-knowledge has thought to be indispensable to the fully human life. Yet a great number of philosophers have been struck by how puzzling a condition it is. For one thing, perhaps alone among the different kinds of knowledge, self-knowledge is presumed to change the object known, and to be an essentially private, subjective, affair. In the context of self-knowledge, the terms knowledge, self, subject, and object, all become problematic. Working through these problems reveals both why self-knowledge is as valuable as it is, and why it is so difficult to achieve. We begin this course not with philosophy but with Socrates’ tragedy, Oedipus the King, as a way of disclosing that self-discovery is essentially a dramatic process. Thereafter we will discuss selections from Spinoza, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Becoming a Subject.

Course	PHIL 320 Philosophy of Action
Professor	Mary Coleman
CRN	90038
Schedule	Th 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 307
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

An action is something that is done by someone. Mere events, by contrast, are things that simply happen. In this seminar we will explore the nature of actions and agents. Our guiding questions will include: What is it for someone to act? Does acting always involve moving your body? Do you act by causing your body to move, or is your role as agent not causal? What is the nature of this you who acts? What metaphysical commitments are involved in the claim that we (sometimes) act? Do we ever act? And should questions about the nature of actions and agents be conceived of as metaphysical or linguistic or both? Our readings will include: Thomas Reid, G.E.M. Anscombe, Roderick Chisholm, Donald Davidson, Harry Frankfurt, Michael Bratman, David Velleman, and Christine Korsgaard.

Course	PHIL 381 Philosophy of William James
Professor	William Griffith
CRN	90039
Schedule	Fr 12:30 -2:50 pm ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW:

Selected readings from the major works of one of America’s greatest philosophers, including The Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Essays in Radical Empiricism. Topics include religious experience, the subject matter and nature of psychology, various ethical issues, the nature of philosophy, and the pragmatic theory of truth. Prerequisite: At least sophomore status. Enrollment limited to 15.

Course	PHIL 399 Kierkegaard
Professor	Nancy Leonard
CRN	90040
Schedule	Tu 1:30 -3:50 pm ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

An examination of a variety of Soren Kierkegaard's aesthetic, psychological, and theological texts. We will investigate the portrait of the aesthetic, ethical, and religious dimensions of existence; the critique of systematic philosophical discourse; the existentialist psychology of inwardness; the religious categories of absurdity, paradox, and offense; and the nature of language and authorship. Readings will be drawn from such pseudonymous works as Either / Or (Victor Eremita), Repetition (Constantine Constantius), Fear and Trembling (Johannes de Silentio), Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Johann Climacus), Training in Christianity and The Sickness Unto Death (Anti-Climacus), as well as some of the sermons or ‘Edifying Discourses’ written under Kierkegaard’s own name. We will also read a variety of writers who have engaged Kierkegaard’s authorship in ways central to the several projects of modernity and postmodernity, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Sylviane Agacinski (and other feminist commentators).