Philosophy

Course Grid & Descriptions

Below is a table of course offerings for the academic year organized by block and professor for the Philosophy department. Download a pdf booklet listing descriptions of the 2024-25 Philosophy course offerings or a pdf version of the table below.

2024-25 Course Grid


table of courses by block
Block 1
Block 2
Block 3
Block 4
Block 5
Block 6
Block 7
Block 8
Helen Daly

PH303
The Aesthetics of Games
(CP)

PH226
Formal Logic
(FRL, Q)

 

PH229
Philosophy of Language
(AIM)

Sabbatical

Sabbatical

Sabbatical

Sabbatical
Rick Anthony Furtak

PH261
Philosophy of Mind

PH141/CO200
Philosophy and Literature
(AIM)

PH380 / PA380
Japanese Existentialism

PH203 / RE231
Philosophy of Religion

PH160
Kierkegaard: An Introduction to Existential Philosophy
Marion Hourdequin

ACM Fellowship course release

CC120

Philosophy and Social Change
(CP)

PH248/EV282
Contesting Climate Justice
(AIM, EPUS)

ACM Fellowship course release

PH246/EV281
Environmental Ethics
(AIM)
Jonathan Lee

CC101
Philosophy as a Way of Life (AIM)

PH456
Senior Colloquium Seminar
(Blocks 1-8,
with D. McEnnerney)

PH101/CL210
Greek Philosophy
(AIM, HP)

PH350/HY350
History-Philosophy Seminar (on Anarchism, with J. Smith)

PH302
Recent Continental Philosophy
Dennis McEnnerney

Chair's block

PH456
Senior Colloquium Seminar
(Blocks 1-8, with J. Lee)

PH342
Critical Theory
(SHB)

PH244/CL222
Classical Social and Political Philosophy
(WD, HP)

PH452
Junior Seminar: Critical Theory of Amy Allen

 
John Riker

Sabbatical

Sabbatical

Sabbatical

Sabbatical

 PH 204
American Philosophy
(AIM)

 

 PH 140
Ethics
(AIM)		 PH 360
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
(AIM, SHB)
Cara Greene

(1-Yr. Visitor)

 PH246/EV281
Environmental Ethics (AIM)		 PH281
Indian Philosophy
(AIM)

 

 PH203
Mad World: Psychoanalysis & Society
(AIM)		 PH303
Hegel’s Political Philosophy		 PH284
Feminist Philosophies
(AIM, SHB, EPUS)		 PH245
Modern Social and Political Philosophy
(HP)
Cody Gomez
(Riley Scholar)

 

 PH285 / RM285
Philosophy and Race
(EPG, AIM)

 

 

 PH243
Philosophy and Politics of Identity
(HP, SHB)

 

 PH122
Philosophical Argument and Writing
(WI, CP, AIM)
Block Visitors and Cross-Lists

PH202
History of Modern Philosophy: A View from the Margins of Reason
(Willow Mindich, AIM, EPG)

PH203/RE203
Mysticism
(Peter Wright, EPG)

PH203
Psychoanalysis, Self, and Creativity
(J.P. Rosensweig, AIM)

PH247
Aesthetics
(Heather Adair, AIM)

PH340
Ethics and Contemporary Life
(Willow Mindich)

PH476
Senior Seminar
(J.P. Rosensweig)
Block Visitors and Cross-Lists

PH203/DA235/ TH235
Philosophies of the Body: Bodies and Power
(Pallavi Sriram, AIM, EPG)

PH262/CO200
Discovering the Unconscious (Marcia Dobson)

PH203/IT320
Voice and the Nonhuman (taught in Ecuador)
(Amanda Minervini, AIM, EPG, EPUS, CP)

PH203/CO200/ HS218
Psyche, Symbol, Dream: C.G. Jung and Archetypal Psychology
(Marcia Dobson, AIM)
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Acronyms Key

  • AIM - Analysis and Interpretation of Meaning
  • COI - Consent of Instructor
  • CP - Creative Process
  • EPG/EPUS - Equity and Power Global/United States
  • FRL - Formal Reasoning and Logic
  • HP - Historical Perspectives
  • Q - Quantitative Reasoning
  • S - Social Inequality
  • SHB - Societies and Human Behavior
  • WI - Writing Intensive
  • WD - Writing in the Disciplines
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