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An introduction to the most influential philosophical positions on the nature of the beautiful, both in art and in the natural world. The figures covered will include such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Schiller, Tolstoy, and Heidegger; the...

An examination of the major early 20th-century figures associated with American pragmatist thought, with attention to their influences, their intellectual context, and their relationships to 19th and 20th-century philosophical developments. Central...

A survey of the development of analytic philosophy from Frege and Russell to Quine and other contemporary analytic philosophers. Emphasis is placed upon Russell, the Positivists, the early and later Wittgenstein, Austin and the "ordinary language"...

A survey of central debates in epistemology. Topics may include knowledge, rationality, skepticism, intellectual virtue, and related issues. The course will explore questions such as: What is knowledge and how can we attain it? Which beliefs are...

A survey of central debates in metaphysics. Topics may include free will and determinism; mind and personal identity; cause and effect; space and time; being and existence; possibility and necessity.

This course will examine the major developments in 20th Century Continental philosophy since the 1940s. After some summary attention to earlier phenomenology and existentialism, and to the central role of Martin Heidegger, we will consider later...

An analysis of key issues in legal philosophy. Special emphasis is placed on such questions as the proper role and the justification of punishment, the relationship between law and morality, and the objectives and requirements of the rule of law.

Through close study of writers such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Rousseau, Freud, Dewey, and C.S. Lewis, students learn to identify the conceptions of human nature and the good life that inform educational practice while examining the relationship...

This course will explore the philosophical, theological, and ethical nature of human love, sex, and marriage through a careful study of texts in philosophy, theology, literature, and the social sciences.