Courses I am offering Fall 2007
A critical examination of several great issues which confront us in modern philosophical thought, including the question of the existence of God, the nature of ultimate reality, the sources of human knowledge, the principles of moral values, and the problem of aesthetic judgments.
This course surveys the development of early modern philosophy in light of the scientific background from which it emerged. Major works by Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant are supplemented by readings from women philosophers of the period.
This section of the First Year Seminar course thematizes the phenomenon of human subjectivity: Who are you? Who am I? How do we know? Is mutual understanding possible? Can we even understand ourselves? What are the barriers to such understanding? Can they be surmounted? What is a self?