2006-2007 Philosophy Courses
| Semester |
Course |
Course Name |
Days |
Time |
Core Curriculum | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 12 |
211 | Early Modern Philosophy |
MWF | 1:15-2:35 | IM | Braver |
| Fall 12 |
471 | Later Heidegger |
TR | 2-4 PM | Braver | |
| Fall 3 |
225 | Philosophy and Feminism |
MTRF | 1-4 PM | ES, UD |
Braver |
| Fall 3 |
118 | Introdution to Logic | MTRF |
1-4 PM |
MM | Anderson |
| Spring 12 |
FSEM | Philosophical Perspectives on Human Nature |
MWF | 9:30-10:50 | Braver | |
| Spring 12 |
213 | 19th Century |
MWF | 2:35-:405 | ES,IM | Braver |
| Spring 12 |
210 | Ancient Philosophy |
TR | 2-4 PM |
ES, IM |
Anderson |
| Spring 12 |
271 | Environmental Ethics |
TR | 9:40-11:40 AM |
ES | Anderson |
| Spring 3 |
281 | Philosophy of Technology |
MTWF | 1-4 PM | t.b.d | Braver |
| Spring 3 |
T.B.D. (currently INTD Philosophy and Tragedy) |
Anderson | ||||
Following the course title are the tentative categorizations for Hiram's new Core Curriculum. Check official schedule for the final categorization before making any decisions on these categories.
IM =Category 2: Interpretive Methods
MM=Category 3: Modeling Methods
UD= Category 6: Understanding Diversity
ES=Category 8: Meaning, Ethics and Social Responsibility
118 Introduction to Logic (MM)
In this course, we will learn how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments. In doing so, we will be concerned with distinguishing “good” arguments from “bad” arguments. The arguments with which we will be concerned will initially be stated in “informal” colloquial language (i.e., everyday English). We will learn how to restate arguments in order that their underlying logical structure becomes apparent. This will enable us to identify patterns of “fallacious” (logically incorrect) reasoning in arguments stated in English. Not all bad arguments can easily be identified. Thus, we will develop a series of increasingly technical and abstract representations of the underlying logic of arguments in order to hone our abilities to distinguish good and bad reasoning.
Anderson Fall 3 week MTRF 1-4
210: Ancient Philosophy (ES, IM)
In this course
we will study some of the questions and problems that prompted
ancient Greek, and therefore also, ultimately, all Western
philosophizing. These questions fall generally under two fundamental
problems: An epistemological problem—What can we know?—and an
ethical problem—How should we live
our lives? In the first half of the semester, we will examine several
attempts to determine what can be known and what we must possess in
order to claim that we know something. In the second half of the
semester, we will study the most important attempts to answer the
ethical problem in antiquity. Throughout the semester, we will engage
in close careful reading and discussion of the philosophical texts in
which these problems are confronted.
Anderson Spring 12 week: TR 10:00-12:00
212: Early Modern Philosophy (IM)
An examination of European philosophy from 1600-1800, including the Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz), the British empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, Hume), and the critical philosophy of Kant.
Braver Fall 12 TR 1:00-3:00
213 19th Century Philosophy (ES, IM)
An overview of the development of German idealism from Kant to Hegel, the collapse of idealism and the post-Hegelian philosophy of Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.
Braver Spring 12 TR 1:00-3:00
225 Philosophy and Feminism (UD, ES)
This course is
an exploration of the central concerns, issues, and theories of modern and
contemporary feminism, including the sex/gender distinction, essentialism,
feminist critiques of knowledge and disciplines, ecological feminism, women's
spirituality,feminist ethics, and the connections of feminism to issues of
class, race, and sexuality. Braver Fall 3 MTRF 1:00-4:00
271 Environmental Ethics (ES)
The questions that have developed over the last fifty years concerning our use of resources and our effects on our environment require raising fundamental conceptual and theoretical questions about our moral obligations. The discipline of environmental ethics aims at developing the necessary conceptual frameworks for addressing these questions and at the application of these frameworks both to questions of environmental policy and to questions concerning individual behavior. In this course, we will examine various attempts to include nature and natural objects within the realm of our moral obligations and the attempts to apply these ethical theories to particular environmental problems such as pollution, global warming, wilderness preservation, biodiversity.
Anderson Spring 12 TR 9:00-11:00
Philosophy and Technology
Braver Spring 3 MTRF 1:00-4:00