Philosophy

Departmental Honors

Outstanding graduating seniors in each major and in the Philosophy and Law Program of Study are honored with book awards. The Martin Andic Prize is awarded each year to the outstanding graduating philosophy major.

Programs

• Philosophy and Public Policy Major (BA)
• Philosophy Major (BA)
• Philosophy, Law, and Ethics (BA)

• Philosophy and Law Minor
• Philosophy Minor

Courses

• PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy
• PHIL 108 - Moral and Social Problems
• PHIL 109G - Moral Debate in Society
• PHIL 110G - Equality and Justice
• PHIL 130G - Privacy
• PHIL 150 - Critical Thinking
• PHIL 200 - African Philosophy
• PHIL 207G - The Meaning of Life
• PHIL 208 - Existential Themes in Philosophy and Literature
• PHIL 211 - Ancient Philosophy
• PHIL 212 - Modern Philosophy
• PHIL 215 - Philosophical Foundations of Public Policy
• PHIL 216 - The History of Ethics
• PHIL 218 - Major Social and Political Thinkers
• PHIL 220 - Environmental Ethics
• PHIL 222 - Moral Issues in Medicine
• PHIL 224 - The Philosophy of Art
• PHIL 225L - The Philosophy of Religion
• PHIL 227 - Existentialism and Phenomenology
• PHIL 230 - Philosophy and Feminism
• PHIL 250 - Formal Logic
• PHIL 255 - The Mystery of Consciousness
• PHIL 265 - Sanity and Madness
• PHIL 281 - Special Topics
• PHIL 286 - What is Freedom?
• PHIL 287 - Equality
• PHIL 290 - The Philosophy of Law
• PHIL 295 - Caribbean Philosophy
• PHIL 297 - Asian Philosophy
• PHIL 299 - Public Health Ethics
• PHIL 311 - Medieval Philosophy: Islamic, Jewish, Christian
• PHIL 318 - Race and Racism
• PHIL 333 - Ethical Theory
• PHIL 344 - The Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL 345 - Theory of Knowledge
• PHIL 346 - The Philosophy of Science
• PHIL 347 - Problems of Metaphysics
• PHIL 348 - The Self
• PHIL 351 - Plato
• PHIL 364 - Philosophy of War and Peace
• PHIL 376 - Consent
• PHIL 379 - Reality and Illusion, East and West
• PHIL 380 - Social & Political Philosophy
• PHIL 381 - Special Topics
• PHIL 395 - International Ethics
• PHIL 397 - Marxist Philosophy
• PHIL 418 - The Ideas of Constitutional Democracy
• PHIL 440 - Philosophy of Language
• PHIL 450 - Rights
• PHIL 452 - Aristotle
• PHIL 455 - Hegel and German Idealism
• PHIL 462 - The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
• PHIL 475 - Philosophy Capstone
• PHIL 478 - Independent Study I
• PHIL 479 - Independent Study II

• PHILLAW 210 - Legislative Labyrinth
• PHILLAW 260L - Latina/nos and the Law
• PHILLAW 300 - Basic Legal Rsng&Rsr
• PHILLAW 355L - Asian Americans and the Law