Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-505 |
Friday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-505 |
Topics vary by semester
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Tuesday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-505 |
Friday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-505 |
How should I live? How can I determine whether an action is right or just? These are perennial questions that philosophers have long considered and attempted to answer. Explores the ethical writings of several philosophers, including Plato, Hobbes, and Mill, in order to help us clarify and articulate our own values as well as discover the nature of philosophy.
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-103 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-103 |
Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 | G-009 |
Friday | 13:45 | 15:05 | G-009 |
This course offers an overview of ancient and medieval philosophy. Beginning with the earliest Greek philosophers and ending with the late medieval founding fathers of modern scientific thought, we will read and discuss various answers these thinkers gave to questions such as: 'What is a good life?' or 'How can I reconcile my faith with what reason tells me?' Readings include Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Seneca, Plotinus, Anselm, Avicenna, Abelard, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas and Nicolaus of Autrecourt.
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Wednesday | 10:35 | 13:30 | C-103 |
Political philosophy forms that branch of philosophy that reflects on the specificity of the political. Why are humans, as Aristotle argued, political animals? How are they political? What are the means and ends of the political, and how best does one organize the political with such questions in mind? The course offers a topic-oriented approach to the fundamental problems underlying political theory and practice.
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Monday | 09:00 | 10:20 | C-103 |
Thursday | 09:00 | 10:20 | C-103 |
Political philosophy forms that branch of philosophy that reflects on the specificity of the political. Why are humans, as Aristotle argued, political animals? How are they political? What are the means and ends of the political, and how best does one organize the political with such questions in mind? The course offers a topic-oriented approach to the fundamental problems underlying political theory and practice.
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 | C-103 |
Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 | C-103 |
This course explores the impact of modern science upon philosophy through an exploration of the fundamental texts of classical metaphysics - Descartes' Principles of Philosophy, Spinoza's Ethics, Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics and The Monadology - an examination guided by the question of what is it to act with freedom and grace in an infinite universe ruled by the laws of nature.
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | PL-1 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | PL-1 |
Introduction to ethics by the example of environmental ethics, exploring the role of humans as moral agents with regard to other living beings, the whole planet or its biosphere, and future generations. Through cases studies and to understand implicit assumptions and theoretical problems of standpoints taken by stakeholders in the debate.
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Wednesday | 15:20 | 18:15 | C-103 |
An introduction to one of the key orientations of modern philosophy: critical genealogy and its central problematic, the identity and formation of the subject. The aim of critical genealogy is to unearth the hidden and unsuspected mechanisms, whether institutional or familial, which lie behind the formation of individual and social identities.
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-2 |
Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-2 |