Course Description
PHI 115 - Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics
Credit Hours: 3
This course is an introduction to philosophy that places an emphasis on ethics. Utilizing texts in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy, we will examine the interrelationships of some of the basic philosophical questions: How should I act? What can I know? What is the nature of human existence? Contemporary ethical issues will be examined within this context.
PHI 232 - Philosophy and Religion East and West
Credit Hours: 3
This course will explore various ways in which these western notions of "religion" and "philosophy" are considered throughout both western and eastern civilizations. Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism will be discussed in addition to classical philosophical texts and traditions within Judaism and Christianity.
PHI 239 - Philosophy and Literature
Credit Hours: 3
Interdisciplinary course designed to raise traditional philosophical questions, e.g., the meaning of human existence, the interpretation of language, through reading both philosophical and literary texts.
PHI 251 - History of Philosophy & Theology: Ancient-Medieval
Credit Hours: 3
Survey of the origins and historical development of Western philosophy and theology, from ancient Greece to the beginning of the modern era.
PHI 252 - History of Philosophy & Theology: Modern and Contemporary
Credit Hours: 3
Survey of origins and historical development through the present. Continuation of PHI 251.
PHI 272 - Critical Thinking
Credit Hours: 3
Principles of correct thinking, fallacies, Aristotelian, propositional, and logic.
PHI 321 - Ethical Theories
Credit Hours: 3
Examines traditional ethical positions and how they apply to contemporary moral debates.
PHI 323 - Bioethics
Credit Hours: 3
Ethical issues involved in medicine and biotechnology.
PHI 325 - Environmental Ethics
Credit Hours: 3
Study of the moral relationship of humans to the environment.
PHI 327 - Business Ethics
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the conceptions of moral community and responsibility implicit in democratic capitalism.
PHI 329 - Ethics and Technology
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the social and ethical aspects of emerging technologies.
PHI 331 - Faith, Philosophy, and God
Credit Hours: 3
This upper-level seminar course explores the challenges philosophy has presented to Christian theology and theism more generally in the modern and contemporary period and how Christian theology and religious thought has responded to those challenges.
PHI 351 - Feminist Philosophy and Theology
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores the various ways feminist theory has affected and changed both philosophy and theology in the modern and contemporary periods. Same as TRS 351.
PHI 355 - Violence, Powers and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
Credit Hours: 3
We explore the problem of violence and power in many ways and what philosophers have had to say about the incredible violence of the 20th and 21st centuries. This course introduces students to the philosophical/theological tradition of nonviolent resistance through a focus on such figures as Thoreau, Emerson, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Thomas Merton, etc.
PHI 368 - Holocaust as Act and Idea
Credit Hours: 3
The analysis of the rise of German nationalists and anti-Semitic ideology leading to World War II and the Holocaust: the Holocaust as an evil combination of violent actions and both respectable and intolerable ideas.
PHI 370 & 370H - Intellectuals, 9/11, and the Iraq War
What have the most important intellectuals of Europe and America said and written about September 11th and the Iraq War? How have they aided our understanding of these events? This is what we shall explore in this course. Intellectuals read and discussed include Habermas, Zizek, Derrida, Said, Butler, West, Baudrillard, Fish.
PHI 370-9 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1-3
Special topics studied in depth, depending on demand and staff. Possible topics include particular positions, e.g., Existentialism, Pragmatism, etc.
PHI 381 - Contemporary Philosophy & Contemporary Politics
Credit Hours: 3
Looks at various post World War II philosophers in America and Europe, paying special attention to how they have addressed the most crucial political issues of our time, including the probe of genocide, America's two wars against Iraq, terrorism, September 11th, and globalization.
PHI 391 - Aesthetics
Credit Hours: 3
A philosophical study of the nature of art and creativity through the analysis of philosophers, critics, and artists who have treated these subjects.
PHI 424 - The Common Good: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
Credit Hours: 3
The tension between the individual and the group exists in every culture. This interdisciplinary course examines many of the dimensions of this tension from different perspectives (e.g. psychological, sociological, artistic, etc.) And explores a wide range of proposals offered to enable a society to pursue the common good.
PHI 470-9 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1-3
Specific topics studied in depth, depending on demand and staff. Focus on the works of particular philosophers, in primary sources.
PHI 497 - Coordinating Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Required of senior majors in Philosophy.
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