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

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  

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

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

FALL 2024

Not offered this fall semester

 

WINTER 2025

PHI 210 01: TR 2:30pm-3:45pm; Geling Shang; Allendale Campus

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

FALL 2024

PHI 230 01: MWF 9:00am -9:50am; David Vessey; Allendale Campus

 

WINTER 2025

Not offered this winter semester

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

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

 

FALL 2024

Not offered this fall semester

 

WINTER 2025

PHI 302 01: Online Asynchronous; Daniela Marini; Online

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

FALL 2024

 Not offered this fall semester

 

WINTER 2025

PHI 313 01: TR 10:00am-11:15am; Ronald Loeffler; Allendale Campus

FALL 2024

Not offered this fall semester

 

WINTER 2025

PHI 320 01: TR 1:00pm-2:15pm; John Uglietta; Allendale Campus

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 

 

 

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

A philosophical exploration of ethical, religious, and metaphysical questions about death and dying.

Not offered this academic year

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

 

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

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

 

Fall 2024

Not offered this fall semester

 

Winter 2025

PHI 410 01: MW 1:30pm-2:45pm; Jeffrey Byrnes; Allendale Campus

Fall 2024

Not offered this fall semester

 

Winter 2025

PHI 415 01: TR 2:30pm-3:45pm; Kelly Parker; Allendale Campus

Not offered this academic year

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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 

Not offered this academic year

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



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