Open only to students who have distinguished themselves in philosophy or in allied subjects. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

Open only to students who have distinguished themselves in philosophy or in allied subjects. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

Open only to students who have distinguished themselves in philosophy or in allied subjects. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

Open only to students who have distinguished themselves in philosophy or in allied subjects. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

Open only to students who have distinguished themselves in philosophy or in allied subjects. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

Open only to students who have distinguished themselves in philosophy or in allied subjects. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

Open only to students who have distinguished themselves in philosophy or in allied subjects. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

To provide the opportunity for students to earn credit for work-study experience. The student must work with a faculty member to describe the nature of the experience, the work to be performed, the accompanying philosophical reflection and study, appropriate course credit for the work, and criteria by which the work may be evaluated. This information must be written and filed in the Philosophy Department and the Office for Experiential Education prior to the student's registration for the course. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits. Pass-fail only.

A selective study of representative issues and texts in modern philosophy, with special emphasis upon historical continuity and interrelation of thinkers and problems. Possible topics: British empiricism; Leibniz and Locke; Descartes and his critics; Hobbes and Rousseau; Hume and Kant; philosophy and the rise of modern science. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

This course provides a pluralistic introduction to major 20th-century paradigms of critical social thought. Critical social thought in philosophy comprises those authors and schools that focus philosophical methods and questions on the analysis of social conditions and/or focus sociocultural methods and questions on the study of philosophy. These include feminist philosophy, Marxist-influenced social theory, poststructuralism, critical race theory, and post-analytic philosophy.