Philosophy classes, Fall 2026

 

• PHIL 1030 – Introduction to Philosophy 3 credit hours Basic philosophical problems suggested by everyday experience integrated into a coherent philosophy of life through comparison with solutions offered by prominent philosophers. 

• PHIL 2110 – Elementary Logic & Critical Thinking Principles of deductive and inductive reasoning, problem solving, and the analysis of arguments in everyday language.  Dr. Slack 

• PHIL 3150 - Ethics Examines major ethical theories, the moral nature of human beings, and the meaning of good and right and applies ethical theories to resolving moral problems in personal and professional lives.  Dr. Johnson, Mr. Easley 

• PHIL 3170 - Ethics and Computing Technology Exposes students to the fundamentals of ethical theory and familiarizes them with some of the practical, ethical, and legal issues with which they would have to deal as computer scientists.  Dr. Johnson 

• PHIL 3690 – Social Philosophy The main problems of social philosophy are surveyed: the distinctive nature of social reality and the nature of social knowledge and how they relate to value theory.  Dr. Slack

• PHIL 4010 – History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy The development of philosophical thought from Thales to Occam. Offered fall only. Dr. Newman 

• PHIL 4200 – Existentialism The nature, significance, and application of the teachings of several outstanding existential thinkers. Dr. Oliver - T/Th 4:20-5:45 pm, HONORS BLDG #117*

• PHIL 4250 – Philosophy of Gender Examines major work in contemporary feminist philosophy and feminist theory, with particular emphasis on the relation of sex and gender, feminist accounts of inquiry, feminist ethical issues, and feminist aesthetics.  Dr. Magada-Ward 

• PHIL 4500 – Philosophy of Science The methods, problems, and presuppositions of scientific inquiry. TBA 

*PHIL 4200-Existentialism Texts Fall '26
Required

• Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir,Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger,... - 978-1590518892
• Mariana Allesandri, Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods - 978-0691242699
• Irvin Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept - 978-0062009302
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Recommended

• Todd May, A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe - 978-0226421049
• Susan Wolf, Meaning in Life and Why It Matters - 978-0691154503
• Samuel Scheffler, Death and the Afterlife - 978-0190469177
• Soren Kierkegaard, tba
• William James, What Makes a Life Significant; Is Life Worth Living; On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings; tba
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