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General List of MA Seminars
List of Courses Taught in Fall 2007
Past Courses Listed by Semester This site provides a general list of the regularly offered MA seminars. Following a general list of courses, there is a list of the courses that are scheduled to be taught in the Fall 2007 semester. Courses that have been taught in past semesters are also listed (by semester) to indicate the scope of course topics that have been taught recently in our department. 4000/6000-level courses are taught primarily to senior undergraduate and master's students. 7000/8000-level courses are taught to master's and PhD students. 6211. Studies in Ancient Philosophy. (3). Readings from primary sources, supplemented by commentary from antiquity and modern scholarship, including Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic period. May be repeated for maximum of 9 hours credit with permission of graduate coordinator. 6311. Studies in Modern Philosophy. (3). Readings from major philosophers of seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, supplemented by commentaries from modern and contemporary sources. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 hours credit with permission of graduate coordinator. 6421. Philosophy of Mind. (3). Survey of major issues and positions in recent philosophy of mind; behaviorism; reductive, nonreductive, and eliminative versions of materialism; functionalism; mental causation; phenomenal consciousness; psychoanalysis and the unconscious; computational and connectionist models of mind. 6422. Recent Anglo-American Philosophy. (3). An examination of major developments in philosophy in England and the United States from 1900 to present with reading from such philosophers as Russell, Moore, Ayer, Wittgenstein, James, Dewey, Lewis, Quine, and other contemporary authors. 6441. Recent Continental Philosophy. (3). Major figures in 20th century European thought; movements such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, critical theory, and hermeneutics. May be repeated for maximum of 9 hours credit with permission of graduate coordinator. 6551. Social and Political Philosophy. (3). Theories of society, culture, institutions, government, law, power, authority, rights, and obligation. 6632. Advanced Logic. (3). The nature of axiomatic systems and foundations of mathematics. 6661. Philosophy of Science. (3). Survey of several central issues in the philosophy of science. Topics may include issues such as competing understandings of scientific practice, scientific explanation, the continuity and discontinuity of scientific theories, and the relations between the various sciences. 6671. Aesthetics. (3). Treatment of philosophical theories concerning the nature and role of art and the possibility of aesthetic evaluation. 6801-20. Special Topics in Philosophy. (3). Topics in areas of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, logical theory, axiology. Area to be covered will be in the online course listing. May be repeated for a maximum of 15 hours credit. †7001-8001. Proseminar. (3).
†7002-8002. Teaching Skills for Graduate Assistants. (3). Topics vary in all of the following courses. They are announced in the online course listing and described in the departmental course outline booklet. Some of these courses may be repeated for credit if not to improve a previous grade. (†Grades of S, U, or IP will be given.) 7020-8020. Seminar in Major Figures. (3).
7030-8030. Seminar in Continental Philosophy. (3). May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
7040-8040. Seminar in Normative Philosophy. (3). May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
7201-8201. Seminar in Classical Philosophy. (3). May be repeated.
7203-8203. Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy. (3). May be repeated.
7301-8301. Seminar in Modern Philosophy. (3-6). May be repeated.
7414-8414. Seminar in Metaphysics. (3).
7421-8421. Seminar in Epistemology. (3).
7442-8442. Seminar on Heidegger. (3).
7541-8541. Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy. (3).
7551-8551. Seminar in Ethical Theory. (3).
7800-7810–8800-8810. Special Topics in Philosophy. (3).
†7994. Reading and Research. (1-9). May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
†7996. Thesis. (1-9). May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
8051. Colloquium on Philosophical Problems. (3).
†8071. Research in Progress Seminar. (1-12). May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
8252. Seminar on Aristotle. (3).
†8994. Advanced Reading and Research. (1-12). May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
†9000. Dissertation. (1-12). May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours. top of page
4/6311
Studies in Modern Philosophy – Berkeley, Hume, and Reid)
Dr. John Tienson
A study of the metaphysics and epistemology of George Berkeley (1685-1753), David Hume (1711-1776), and Thomas Reid (1710-1796). Berkeley was an idealist; Hume was an avowed skeptic. Reid originated the common picture according to which Hume saw that Berkeley’s arguments apply to mind as well as matter, so that Hume’s skepticism is the reduction ad absurdum of notions already present in the philosophy of Descartes and Locke—especially their notion of ideas.
4/6441
Recent Continental Philosophy: Being and Time
Dr. Tom Nenon
4/6551
Social and Political Philosophy: Slavery, Douglass, & the Future of Race in the United States
Dr. Bill E. Lawson
7001/8001
Proseminar
Dr. Pleshette DeArmitt
7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Dr. Deborah Tollefsen
This course is designed to impart the skills necessary for both serving as a teaching assistant as well as for designing and teaching one’s own philosophy course. May be repeated for up to 12 hours.
7020/8020
Seminar Major Figures - Sartre And Fanon
Dr. Robert Bernasconi
The main aim of this course is to engage with two classical works of twentieth-century political philosophy: Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. In an effort to understand their relation to each other, we will also briefly look back at Fanon’s Critique of Sartre in Black Skin, White Masks. The main themes of the course are: philosophical method, the individualism-communitarianism debate, violence, race, colonialism, and political action.
7030/8030
Seminar in Continental Philosophy: “Kristeva: Sexed Singularities”
Dr. Pleshette DeArmitt
In this course, we will try make sense of Kristeva’s resistance to mass feminist movements coupled with her call to rethink women’s rights, as well as human rights, in terms of the 13th Century scholastic philosopher Duns Scotus’ notion of haecceitas or “thisness,” which she renders as “singularity.” In Kristeva’s gloss on the Scotist concept, she conceives of each singularity as sexed. Thus, we will sketch out her thought of “sexed singularities” from her early writing to some of her more recent work and will examine a number of interrelated themes, including the semiotic and the symbolic, the maternal, temporality, revolt, and genius.
7/8201
Seminar in Classical Philosophy: Ancient And Modern Conceptions Of Well-Being
Dr. Tim Roche
The first half or two-thirds of the course is an intensive study of Aristotle’s conception of the human good or happiness (eudaimonia) as it is developed in his Nicomachean Ethics. The remainder of the course involves the study of various modern treatments of well-being, some very critical of the ancient accounts and others more congenial to them. The purpose of the course is to compare and contrast the ancient and modern accounts of well-being with the aim of establishing, first, what these accounts are and how they are defended, and secondly, whether the ancient accounts are more or less philosophically compelling than the modern ones.
7/8203
Seminar in Epistemology - Testimony, Trust, and Epistemic Injustice
Dr. Deborah Tollefsen
Most of our knowledge is gained through the testimony of others but it is only recently that contemporary epistemology has turned its gaze to this issue. After general discussion of the nature of testimony and theories of the justification of testimonial belief, this seminar will focus on a book by Miranda Fricker called Epistemic Injustice (Oxford, 2007).
7/8551
Kant’s Moral Philosophy
Dr. Sarah Miller
This course offers a comprehensive and close examination of the basic structure and themes of Kant’s moral philosophy as found in the Groundwork, the Metaphysics of Morals (especially the Tugendlehre), the Critique of Practical Reason and the Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. Readings of Kant’s texts will be paired with recent commentaries, criticisms and extensions of his work (encountered through both reading assignments and lectures). top of page
2007 Fall6311
Studies in Modern Philosophy (Critique of Pure Reason)
Taught by Hoke Robinson 6441
Recent Continental Philosophy: Husserl
Taught by Tom Nenon 6551
Social and Political Philosophy
Taught by Bill Lawson 7001/8000
Proseminar
Taught by John Tienson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by Deborah Tollefsen 7030-8030
Seminar in Continental Philosophy: Blanchot and Nancy
Taught by Kas Saghafi 7201/8201
Seminar in Classical Philosophy: Plato's Republic
Taught by Tim Roche 7203-8203
Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy: Collective Action
Taught by DeborahTollefsen 7551/8551
Seminar Ethical Theory: Global Ethics and Multiculturalism
Taught by Sarah Clark Miller 8051 (Open to MA & PhD students)
Colloquium in Philosophical Problems: Deleuze
Taught by Len Lawlor 8071
Research In Progress
Taught by Deborah Tollefsen 2007 Spring6211
Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Plato’s Epistemology
Taught by Alan Kim 6422
Anglo American Philosophy
Taught by David Henderson 7020/8020
Seminar – Major Figures: The Phenomenology of Spirit
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Freud and French Philosophy
Taught by Pleshette DeArmitt 7203/8203
Seminar –Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality
Taught by Mary Beth Mader 7414/8414
Seminar – Metaphysics: Intentionality
Taught by John Tienson 8051
Colloquium: Africana Philosophy
Taught by Bill Lawson 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson 2006 Fall6311
Studies in Modern Philosophy: Descartes
Taught by Hoke Robinson 6441
Recent Continental Philosophy
Taught by Kas Saghafi 7001/8001
Proseminar
Taught by John Tienson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Difference and Nature in Contemporary French Philosophy
Taught by Mary Beth Mader 7201/8201
Seminar – Classical Philosophy: Aristotle’s Ethics
Taught by Tim Roche 7203/8203
Seminar – Contemporary Philosophy: Animal Cognition
Taught by Deborah Tollefsen 7541/8541
Seminar – Social & Political Philosophy: Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Nosick, and Rawls
Taught by Bill Lawson 8051
Colloquium: Race Theory
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 8071
Research in Progress 2006 Spring6211
Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Affection, Friendship and Love in the Philosophy of Aristotle
Taught by Tim Roche 6422
Recent Anglo American Philosophy
Taught by John Tienson 6551
Social and Political Philosophy
Taught by Bill Lawson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7020/8020
Seminar – Major Figures: Hegel and History
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Derrida
Taught by Len Lawlor 7421/8421
Seminar – Epistemology: Relativism/Anti-Relativism
Taught by David Henderson 7551/8551
Seminar – Ethical Theory: Kant’s Ethics
Taught by Sarah Clark Miller 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson 2005 Fall6311
Studies in Modern Philosophy: First Critique
Taught by Hoke Robinson 6441
Recent Continental
Taught by Len Lawlor 7001/8001
Proseminar
Taught by John Tienson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Being and Time
Taught by Tom Nenon 7040/8040
Seminar – Normative Philosophy: Feminist Ethics
Taught by Sarah Clark Miller 7201/8201
Seminar – Classical Philosophy: Ancient Physics
Taught by Alan Kim 7203/8203
Seminar Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind
Taught by John Tienson 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: Nietzsche and Biology
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 8071
Research in Progress 2005 Spring6211
Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Plato
Taught by Alan Kim 6422
Recent Anglo American Philosophy
Taught by Deborah Tollefsen 6551
Social and Political Philosophy
Taught by Lisa Skitol 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7020/8020
Seminar – Major Figures: Leibniz
Taught by Jack Davidson 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Levinas with Derrida
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Genera, Generation, and Geneology: Deleuze, Foucault and French Philosophy of Science
Taught by Mary Beth Mader 7421/8421
Seminar – Epistemology: The Point of Epistemology
Taught by David Henderson 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson top of page
2004 Fall6311
Studies in Modern Philosophy: Reid, Berkeley and Hume
Taught by John Tienson 6441
Recent Continental Philosophy
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 6551
Social and Political Philosophy
Taught by Hoke Robinson 7001/8001
Proseminar
Taught by John Tienson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7020/8020
Seminar – Major Figures: Wittgenstein
Taught by Deborah Tollefsen 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Husserl
Taught by Tom Nenon 7040/8040
Seminar – Normative Philosophy: Agency, Well-Being and Care
Taught by Sarah Clark Miller 7201/8201
Seminar – Classical Philosophy: Aristotle’s De Anima
Taught by Tim Roche 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: The Problem of Vision in 20th Century French Thought
Taught by Len Lawlor 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson 2004 Spring6211
History of Ancient Philosophy: Ancient Ethics and Politics
Taught by Tim Roche 6422
Recent Anglo American Philosophy
Taught by John Tienson 6820
Merleau-Ponty
Taught by Len Lawlor 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7020/8020
Seminar – Major Figures: Deleuze
Taught by Mary Beth Mader 7040/8040
Seminar – Normative Philosophy: Ethics without Principles
Taught by Mark Timmons 7301/8301
Seminar – Modern Philosophy: Phenomenology of Spirit
Taught by Sara Beardsworth 7241/8241
Seminar – Epistemology: Testimony
Taught by David Henderson 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: Later Heidegger
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson 2003 Fall6311
Studies in Modern Philosophy: First Critique
Taught by Hoke Robinson 6441
Recent Continental Philosophy
Taught by Len Lawlor 6819
Frantz Fanon/Race Theory
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 7001/8001
Proseminar
Taught by John Tienson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Nietzsche’s French Reception
Taught by Mary Beth Mader 7201/8210
Seminar – Classical Philosophy: Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Taught by John Ellis 7421/8421
Seminar – Epistemology: Feminist Epistemology
Taught by Deborah Tollefsen 7442/8442
Seminar – Heidegger: Being and Time
Taught by Tom Nenon 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson top of page
2003 Spring6211
History of Ancient Philosophy: Phenomenological Topics
Taught by Alan Kim 6422
Recent Anglo American
Taught by John Tienson 6551
Social and Political Philosophy
Taught by Ron Sundstrom 6632
Advanced Logic
Taught by John Tienson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Kristeva
Taught by Sara Beardsworth 7040/8040
Seminar – Normative Philosophy: Normative Ethics
Taught by Crystal Thorpe 7203/8203
Seminar – Modern Philosophy: Leibniz
Taught by Hoke Robinson 7421/8421
Seminar – Epistemology
Taught by David Henderson 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 8070
Research in Progress top of page
2002 Fall6311
Studies in Modern Philosophy: Berkeley and Hume
Taught by John Tienson 6441
Recent Continental Philosophy: Humanism and Anti-Humanism
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 6818
19th Century Philosophy
Taught by Hoke Robinson 7001/8001
Proseminar
Taught by John Tienson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7020/8020
Seminar- Major Figures: Foucault
Taught by Len Lawlor 7201/8201
Seminar – Classical Philosophy: Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics
Taught by Tim Roche 7551/8551
Seminar – Ethical Theory: Kant’s Ethics
Taught by Mark Timmons 7800/8800
African American Philosophy
Taught by Ron Sundstrum 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: Multiculturalism
Taught by Mary Beth Mader 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson 2002 Spring6211
History of Ancient Philosophy: Plato’s Republic
Taught by Tim Roche 6422
Recent Anglo American Philosophy
Taught by David Henderson 6817
Gender and Sexuality
Taught by Mary Beth Mader 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7020/8020
Seminar – Major Figures: Bergson
Taught by Len Lawlor 7203/8203
Seminar- Contemporary Philosophy: Mental Causation
Taught by Terry Horgan 7301/8301
Seminar- Modern Philosophy: Hume
Taught by John Tienson 7442/8442
Seminar – Heidegger
Taught by Tom Nenon 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: Levinas
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 8071
Research in Progress top of page
2001 Fall6311
Studies in Modern Philosophy: First Critique
Taught by Hoke Robinson 6441
Recent Continental Philosophy
Taught by Len Lawlor 6814
Epistemology
Taught by Terry Horgan 7001/8001
Teaching Skills
Taught by John Tienson 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: Critical Theory
Taught by Sara Beardsworth 7201/8201
Seminar – Classical Philosophy: Aristotle on Nature
Taught by Alan Kim 7414/8414
Seminar – Metaphysics: Friedman’s A Parting of the Ways
Taught by John Tienson and Alan Kim 7551/8551
Seminar – Ethical Theory: 20th Century Metaethics
Taught by Mark Timmons 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: Race Theory
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 8070
Research in Progress
Taught by John Tienson 2001 Spring6211
History of Ancient Philosophy
Taught by Alan Kim 6422
Recent Anglo American Philosophy
Taught by John Tienson 6816
Marx
Taught by Hoke Robinson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7020/8020
Seminar – Major Figures: Derrida
Taught by Len Lawlor 7301/8301
Seminar – Modern Philosophy: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Taught by Sara Beardsworth 7421/8421
Seminar – Epistemology
Taught by Terry Horgan 7551/8551
Seminar – Ethical Theory
Taught by Mark Timmons 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: Sartre and his Contemporaries
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson top of page
2000 Fall6311
Studies in Modern Philosophy: Descartes and Spinoza
Taught by Hoke Robinson 6421
Philosophy of Mind
Taught by Terry Horgan 6441
Recent Continental Philosophy: Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 7001/8001
Proseminar
Taught by John Tienson 7002/8002
Teaching Skills
Taught by David Henderson 7020/8020
Seminar – Major Figures: Foucault’s Archeology
Taught by Len Lawlor 7201/8201
Seminar – Classical Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle on Love and Friendship
Taught by Tim Roche 7203/8203
Seminar – Contemporary Philosophy: Feminist Theories
Taught by Mary Beth Mader 7301/8301
Seminar – Modern Philosophy: Origins of Analytic Philosophy
Taught by John Tienson 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: Race Theory
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 8071
Research in Progress 2000 Spring6211
History of Ancient Philosophy
Taught by John Ellis 6422
Anglo American Philosophy
Taught by David Henderson 6551
Social and Political Philosophy
Taught by Ron Sundstrom 6632
Advanced Logic
Taught by John Tienson 7020/8020
Seminar – Major Figures: Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Taught by Tom Nenon 7203/8203
Seminar- Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind
Terry Horgan 7541/8541
Seminar – Social & Political Philosophy: Sartre’s Political Thought
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 7551/8551
Seminar – Normative Philosophy: Ethical Theory
Taught by Mark Timmons 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: Psychoanalysis and Culture
Taught by Sara Beardsworth 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson top of page
1999 Spring6211
History of Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle’s Politics
Taught by Tim Roche 6422
Anglo American Philosophy
Taught by John Tienson 6815
Race Theory
Taught by Robert Bernasconi 7030/8030
Seminar – Continental Philosophy: The Challenge of Bergsonism
Taught by Len Lawlor 7203/8203
Seminar – Contemporary Philosophy: Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic
Taught by Sara Beardsworth 7301/8301
Seminar – Modern Philosophy: Thomas Reid
Taught by John Tienson 7421/8421
Seminar – Epistemology: The Role of the Empirical (and of the A Priori) in Epistemology
Taught by Terry Horgan and David Henderson 8051
Colloquium – Philosophical Problems: Kant’s Post-Critical Essays
Taught by Tom Nenon 8071
Research in Progress
Taught by David Henderson top of page
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