21 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.
This course examines the ethical issues which arise in everyday life, especially issues concerning interpersonal communication. The course facilitates the development of critical thinking skills for approaching these issues.
This course provides an introduction to philosophy through the examination of philosophical problems in the classic divisions of philosophy of ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. Students are encouraged to learn to "do" philosophy.
This course covers Greek philosophy from its origin up to and through the medieval period. This includes examining the works of the Pre Socrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus, St. Augustine, St. Anselm, and St. Thomas Aquinas. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY 2026
This course covers philosophy in the modern period. It includes the examination of rationalists such as Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and empiricists such as Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. It examines Kant's response to the development of modern philosophy.
This course examines the ethical theories and concepts as they apply to biomedicine, including the role of medical doctor and nurse, confidentiality and informed consent, patient's rights, medical experimentation on human subjects, involuntary civil commitment, abortion, sterilization of the mentally challenged, genetic engineering, and justice and health care.
This course examines the ethical theories and concepts as they apply to moral issues in media, including truth and honesty, privacy, conflicts of interest, economic pressures and social responsibility, civility, offensive content and freedom, treatment of juveniles, stereotypes and racism, and social justice.
This course examines a select set of issues in the philosophical thinking of African American philosophers such as race and racism, separation and assimilation, violence liberation, social justice, and race and gender.
This course examines a select set of issues and historical developments in the philosophical thinking of Africans about Africa.
This course examines selected philosophical issues and historical periods not covered in other courses in the Department of Philosophy. Topics vary.
This course examines central issues in moral philosophy from both a historical and contemporary point of view. Topics include virtue and the good of life, ethical judgment, relativism, egoism, utilitarianism, deontology, rights theory, and justice, as well as a selection of issues in applied ethics.
This course examines a selection of contemporary moral issues in the following areas: abortion, euthanasia, suicide, sexual relations, terrorism, affirmative action, genetic engineering, treatment of animals, the environment, and capital punishment.
CSC or Language 4 Humanities 4 Total 16
World Philosophy 4 CSC or Language 4 Humanities 4 Total 16
Select three (3): 12
Philosophy 4 Natural Science or Math 4 Elective 4 Total 16
This course examines classical and contemporary views on the nature of law and legal reasoning. Also, it examines issues such as equality and liberty in constitutional law, punishment, excuses, and the nature of crime in criminal law, and causation and liability in tort law.
Total Environmental Science 36 credits Biology: 4
Philosophy 4 Elective 4 Elective 4 Total 16
Select two (2): 8
Total Philosophy Major 44 credits LINCOLN UNIVERSITY 2026
Source: Lincoln University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
