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Your search for courses · during 24FA, 25WI, 25SP · taught by hsample · returned 6 results
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PHIL 119 Meaning of Life 6 credits
Does life have a meaning? To answer this, we will explore various cross-cultural approaches to the meaning of life, both those that affirm meaning and deny it. We will cover, for example, approaches to the meaning of life grounded in divinity, creativity, striving, and more. We will also inquire into related questions about agency: Is fate compatible with meaning in life? Is meaning distinct from happiness? Is meaning a moralized concept? In addition, there will be room for student choice of topics.
- Spring 2025
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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PHIL 119.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PHIL 202 Philosophy Lab: Leading a Pre-Collegiate Philosophy Program 3 credits
This course will prepare students to teach modules on philosophy at the Area Learning Center. Students will select philosophical topics based on their interests and develop materials for teaching those topics. In addition to preparing modules, students will learn some of the pedagogical theory behind doing philosophy at the pre-collegiate level.
Meets M/W only
- Spring 2025
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): Two Philosophy (PHIL) courses with a grade of C- or better.
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PHIL 202.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Daniel Groll 🏫 👤 · Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLeighton 301 12:30pm-1:40pm
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PHIL 257 Contemporary Issues in Feminist Philosophy 6 credits
We will analyze different theories about the distinction between sex and gender. Then we will turn to contemporary issues in feminism for the remainder of the course. These issues include, but are not limited to, conservative feminism, reproductive justice, fetishes, disability, ethics of pronouns, whether men are oppressed, and responsibility for oppression. We will read selections from Oyèrónké Oyewùmí, Robin Dembroff, Karina Ortiz Villa, Robin Zheng, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Audre Lorde, and more. In addition, there will be room for student choice of topics.
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PHIL 257.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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PHIL 272 Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy 6 credits
Our inquiry into seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy is not limited to any geographic region: it is open to Indigenous philosophical traditions as well as those of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. We will cover selections from Anton Wilhelm Amo, Mulla Sadra, Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz, Im Yunjidang, Isaac Newton, Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, and more. The topics include, but are not limited to, the mind body distinction, divinity, love, freedom, virtue, and the good life. The final paper project for this course asks you to creatively connect philosophical concepts, themes, or problems from different units of the course.
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PHIL 272.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 399 Senior Thesis 6 credits
The planning, preparation, and completion of a philosophical paper under the direction of a member of the department and as part of a seminar group.
- Winter 2025
- No Exploration
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PHIL 399.03 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:9
- T, THLeighton 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PHIL 400 Integrative Exercise 3 credits
A colloquium in which seniors defend their senior theses and discuss the senior theses of others.
- Spring 2025
- No Exploration
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Student is a Philosophy major AND has Senior Priority.