82 courses with the subject PHL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PHL 1003Human Values
Why be moral? Is there any unbiased moral guide? Are right acts those that have good results or those that are well intended? What is worth pursuing in life: happiness, salva
What exactly does it mean to be human? What does it mean philosophically to be a human being? It means to ask what kind of a thing I am: what kind of a substance I am. Am I my mind? Am I my bo
This course focuses on fostering the skills necessary for thinking carefully about and engaging in productive debates on contemporary ethical issues. Students will learn the basics of influential moral theories, such as consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, as well as how
This course is survey to the study of Western ethics. Throughout history, many philosophers and thinkers have provided different ways of answering questions of good and evil and how we deter
Echoing Plato, Boethius claims in the Consolation of Philosophy that "since good and evil, and also punishment and reward, are directly opposite to one another, what we see
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to modern philosophy. It will give a particular emphasis to Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and Hegel. In the modern period, philosophy abandoned
PHL 2035Introduction to Environmental Ethics and Policy
2023 was the warmest year ever recorded and the 10 warmest years since 1850 have occurred in the past decade. Humans bulldoze thousands of acres of wilderness daily. We slaughter billions of animals each year to meet the demand for meat. Yet, particularly in th
Ethics, or how to live your life, was to Socrates the basic aspect of philosophy. Socrates fought the sophists, and debates about knowledge and conduct have remained a staple of Western
Aristotle called human beings "political animals" - that what makes us different from other mammals is our ability to form societies. So what does it mean th
What is love? Why does everyone speak about it, seek it, and why can so few tell you what it is? Why do we feel more alive when we love, and why does the
Why do we get bored? What is it about human beings that makes boredom possible? Is boredom avoidable? Or is it just something that we have to live with? That
One of the quips with which philosophy professors can and should respond to what has become the unavoidable question at parties, in the classroom, or on trains, "what does one d
The U.N. Declaration of Human Rights asserts that the "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the f
Reading, discussion and writing dealing with evil, defined as undeserved suffering or harm. The problem is what can philosophy say about the collective evils of wars, the slaughter by weapons of mass destruction, state
This course will consider the ethical and social impacts of contemporary technology with an emphasis on the impact of computing, especially on children (e.g. how modern-day in
Internships are a vital part of the career development process. They offer the opportunity to apply classroom knowledge in workplace settings and synthesize
