PHI 200-400 Level Course Offerings for Fall 2024 and Winter 2025
* PLEASE NOTE: We are in the midst of changing a number of our prerequisites. * These 13 courses currently carry the prerequisite “Prior work in philosophy or permission of instructor”. We are entering course proposals to remove these prerequisites. In the meantime, we plan to approve any request to get into one of these courses if a student lacks prior work in philosophy.
PHI 200 Level Courses
PHI 202 Philosophy and Ethics of Health
FALL 2024
PHI 202 02: MWF 3:00pm-4:15pm; Jeffrey Byrnes; Allendale Campus
PHI 202 03: MW 4:30pm-5:45pm; Jeffrey Byrnes; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
PHI 202 01: MW 3:00pm-4:15pm; Jeffrey Byrnes; Allendale Campus
PHI 202 02: MW 4:30pm-5:45pm; Jeffrey Byrnes; Allendale Campus
PHI 202 03: MWF 12:00pm-12:50pm; Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco ; Allendale Campus
PHI 202 04: MWF 11:00am-11:50am; Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco; Allendale Campus
PHI 204 Knowledge, Politics, and Social Media
FALL 2024
PHI 204 01: TR 1:00pm - 2:15pm; Andrew Spear; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
PHI 204 01: TR 1:00pm - 2:15pm; Wenhui Xie; Allendale Campus
PHI 204 02: TR 4:00pm - 5:15pm; Wenhui Xie; Allendale Campus
PHI 204 03: MW 3:00pm-4:15pm; Wenhui Xie; Allendale Campus
PHI 206 Business, Value, and Trust: The Philosophy of Work
FALL 2024
PHI 206 01 SWS: MWF 12:00pm-12:50pm; TBA; Allendale Campus
PHI 206 02 SWS: MWF 1:00pm-1:50pm; TBA; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
PHI 206 01 SWS: TR 2:30pm-3:45pm; TBA; Allendale Campus
PHI 206 02 SWS: TR 11:30am-12:45pm; TBA; Allendale Campus
PHI 210 Eastern Philosophy
FALL 2024
Not offered this fall semester
WINTER 2025
PHI 210 01: TR 2:30pm-3:45pm; Geling Shang; Allendale Campus
PHI 220 Aesthetics
FALL 2024
PHI 220 01: TR10:00am-11:15am; Kelly Parker; Pew Campus
PHI 220 02: TR 11:30am-12:45pm; Kelly Parker; Pew Campus
PHI 220 04: M 6:00pm-8:50pm; David Vessey; Pew Campus
WINTER 2025
PHI 220 01 SWS: MWF 9:00am-9:50am; David Vessey; Allendale Campus
PHI 220 02 SWS: MWF 11:00am-11:50am; David Vessey; Allendale Campus
PHI 220 04: MW 4:30pm-5:45pm; Wenhui Xie; Allendale Campus
PHI 220 05: MW 3:00pm-4:15pm; John August; Allendale Campus
PHI 230 American Philosophy
FALL 2024
PHI 230 01: MWF 9:00am -9:50am; David Vessey; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
Not offered this winter semester
PHI 250 Existentialism
FALL 2024
PHI 2501 01: TR 11:30am-12:45pm; Teresa Castelao-Lawless; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
Not offered this winter semester
PHI 300 Level Courses
PHI 300 Theories of Human Nature
FALL 2024
PHI 300 01: MWF 11:00am-11:50am; Mark Pestana; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
PHI 300 01: M 6:00pm-8:50pm; David Vessey; Pew Campus
PHI 302 Enviromental Justice
FALL 2024
Not offered this fall semester
WINTER 2025
PHI 302 01: Online Asynchronous; Daniela Marini; Online
*PHI 311 Origins of Western Thought: Ancient Philosophy
A study of one or several ancient great philosophers. Cross listed with CLA 311. May be repeated for credit if content varies.
FALL 2024
PHI 311 01: TR 4:00pm-5:15pm; Maria Cimitile; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
Not offered this winter semester
PHI 313 Early Modern Philosophy
FALL 2024
Not offered this fall semester
WINTER 2025
PHI 313 01: TR 10:00am-11:15am; Ronald Loeffler; Allendale Campus
PHI 320 Power, Justice, and Freedom: Social and Political Philosophy
FALL 2024
Not offered this fall semester
WINTER 2025
PHI 320 01: TR 1:00pm-2:15pm; John Uglietta; Allendale Campus
PHi 325 Ethics in Professional Life
Examination of ethical principles and practice in business, medicine, education, law, and government. Aims at providing students with the intellectual framework for an ethical analysis of situations. Part of Human Rights Issue
FALL 2024
PHI 325 01: M 6:00pm-8:50pm; TBA; Allendale Campus
PHI 325 02: MW 3:00pm-3:50pm; TBA; Allendale Campus
PHI 325 03: TR 11:30am-12:45pm; TBA; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
PHI 325 01: TR 10:00am-11:15am; TBA; Allendale Campus
PHI 325 02: MW 4:30pm-5:45pm; TBA; Allendale Campus
PHI 325 03: R 6:00pm-8:50pm; TBA; Allendale Campus
PHI 330 Crime, Morality, Punishment: Philosophy of Law
Introduction to the nature of law, law and morality, principles and practice, freedom and determinism, common sense and science, punishment, necessity, and coercion, mental disease, all arising directly form the careful study of a substantive body of law. Especially valuable for pre-law students. Part of the Human Rights Issue.
Fall 2024:
Not offered this fall semester
Winter 2025:
PHI 330 02: TR 2:30pm-3:45pm; John Uglietta; Allendale Campus
PHI 341 Philosophy of Death and Dying
A philosophical exploration of ethical, religious, and metaphysical questions about death and dying.
Not offered this academic year
*PHI 343 God, Faith, and Reason: Philosophy of Religion
Does God exist? Is there a life after death? How did evil enter the world? Is there any place for reason in religion, or is religious faith only a matter of subjective experience? These questions are explored. Part of the Identity Issue.
FALL 2024
PHI 343 01: MW 1:30pm-2:45pm; Jeffrey Byrnes; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
Not offered this winter semester
PHI 370 Sex Matters: Feminist Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Sex and gender are central to our identity. The course explores these concepts within the intersection of race, class, sexualities, and ethnicities. Part of the Identity Issue
FALL 2024:
Not offered this fall semester
WINTER 2025:
PHI 370 01: TR 4:00pm-5:15pm; Maria Cimitile; Allendale Campus
PHI 400 Level Courses
*PHI 400 Wisdom of the East: Advanced Topics in Asian Philosophy
A study of one or more Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, or Taoist philosophers. Topics: human nature, society and individual, moral practice, suffering and liberation, religiosity. Three credits. Fulfills Culture-World Perspectives requirement.
Fall 2024:
PHI 400 01: TR 2:30pm-3:45pm; Geling Shang; Allendale Campus
Winter 2025:
Not offered this winter semester
PHI 410 Advanced Topics in History of Philosophy
Fall 2024
Not offered this fall semester
Winter 2025
PHI 410 01: MW 1:30pm-2:45pm; Jeffrey Byrnes; Allendale Campus
PHI 415 20th/21st Century American Philosophy
Fall 2024
Not offered this fall semester
Winter 2025
PHI 415 01: TR 2:30pm-3:45pm; Kelly Parker; Allendale Campus
PHI 416 Continental Philosophy
Not offered this academic year
*PHI 420 Philosophy of Science
Scientific knowledge is compared with that acquired in other disciplines. Topics common to the physical, biological, and social sciences, such as discovery, explanation, confirmation, and the nature of scientific models and laws are also considered.
Not offered this academic year
* PHI 430 Mind, Brain, Consciousness: Philosophy of Mind
A study of classical and contemporary philosophical perspectives on the human mind. Topics may include materialistic vs. non-materialistic conceptions of thought and consciousness; relation between mind and brain, body, behavior, and environment; artificial intelligence; animal cognition; mental illness; altered states of consciousness, self-consciousness, person hood.
Fall 2024:
PHI 430 01: TR 11:30am-12:45pm; Ronald Loeffler; Allendale Campus
Winter 2025:
Not offered this winter semester
*PHI 440 Perception, Hallucination, Trust: Perspectives on Knowledge
What is knowledge? What is the relation of knower to known? How is knowledge distinguished from belief? What are the nature and ground of certainty? Varieties of objectivism and subjectivism, ancient and modern, will be considered.
Fall 2024:
Not offered this fall semester
Winter 2025:
PHI 440 01: TR 11:30am-12:45pm; Andrew Spear; Allendale Campus
*PHI 460 Rights, Duties, and the Meaning of Life: Moral Philosophy
An inquiry into the nature of morality through study of classical and contemporary philosophical sources. Where do rights and duties come from? How can we know what we should or might do? Nature of good and evil. Is morality objective, or relative to culture, history, or the individual? Is morality rational? Relation between morality and meaning of life.
Fall 2024
PHI 460 01: TR 4:00pm-5:15pm;Wenhui Xie; Allendale Campus
Winter 2025
PHI 460 01: MW 3:00pm-4:15pm; Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco; Allendale Campus
PHI 470 Philosophy of Language
Not offered this academic year
PHI 495 Reality, Knowledge, and Value (Capstone)
The purpose is, by a review of basic presuppositions about knowledge, reality, and value, to make clear what unites and what separates the main traditions in people's search for wisdom. Prerequisites: Major or minor in philosophy and senior standing.
FALL 2024
PHI 495 01: MWF 11:00am-11:50am; David Vessey; Allendale Campus
WINTER 2025
Not offered this winter semester