In this course, we focus on questions driving the discipline by exploring theories of reality and the nature and limits of knowledge. To be effective in resolving societal issues, like increasing happiness, requires understanding these complex and essential fields.

In this course, we consider ethical problems and forms of ethical reasoning within the larger context of social and political philosophy.

Attention is given to specific ongoing problems, including poverty, famine, abortion, punishment, animal rights, or environmental sustainability amongst others.

Introductory course developing skills in argumentation, critical thinking, and scientific reasoning. Covers a wide array of topics including rules of logical inference, informal fallacies, problem-solving, and probabilistic reasoning, these analytical and critical thinking skills are tested on LSAT and MCAT. In this course, we discuss issues central to advancement in the sciences, and knowledge in general. In the course, you will learn valuable skills for employers.

This course introduces students to ancient Greek philosophy through a survey of its most important thinkers, beginning with the Presocratics, and concluding with Plato and Aristotle. By the end of the course, students will be able to identify the authors of influential and memorable passages in Greek philosophical texts, and analyze the different philosophical positions of Greek thinkers and explain their relative merits

We consider theories of reality, including topics like: What is the nature of substance? What are space and time? What are universals and particulars?

Covers truth functional and quantificational logic through polyadic first order predicate calculus and theory of identity. Attention is given to such problems in metatheory as proofs of the completeness and consistency of systems of logic.

This course explores ways ideology functions within culture. Specific attention is given to how ideology creates and maintains racist and sexist patterns of thought and behavior. By analyzing the methods and sources of ideological forces we explore different thinkers claims about if and how eliminating racist and sexist thinking is possible as an individual or as a collective society.

A close study of Immanuel Kant's revolutionary thought, focusing on Kant's ontology, epistemology, and ethical theory, as they are articulated in his Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason. Kant was the quintessential thinker of the Enlightenment and “modern era,” a transitional figure in the history of philosophy, and his philosophy is relevant in the contemporary era on many levels.

China is a fascinating world with its own characteristic orientation to philosophical questions. Chinese thinkers produced the "Flowering of a Hundred Schools of Thought" in the Axial Age, the same period of time in which philosophy was coming to birth in ancient Greece. Covers some of the Chinese schools, including Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Legalis, Chinese "logic," and the later schools of schools of Neo-Confucianism, Neo-Taoism and Chinese Buddhism.

A seminar on key problems and thinkers in the nineteenth & twentieth-century continental philosophical traditions and their contemporary significance.

Who are we? What do we believe? Should we accept the views of earlier generations? American philosophers have different thoughts concerning their intellectual heritage.

Pragmatist philosophers argue philosophy is an active and constructive element concerned with ethics and all human life. We'll examine philosophical themes spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries

This course explores contemporary feminist thought in philosophy and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics include lesbianism, black feminism, Chicana feminism, transgender identity, women and work and others.

This course traces the history of the philosophy of religion, from the earliest criticisms of ancient Greek theology to the classic works in philosophy of religion by Lucretius, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, James, Freud, Dewey and Wittgenstein.