Lecture (LEC)

• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
• IUB GenEd A&H credit

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• TOPIC: KNOWLEDGE, TRUTH, AND MORALITY
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

Can we ever know anything about what the world is like or about how we should live? If not, why not? If so, how can we attain this knowledge? This course explores and critically examines a wide range of philosophical answers to these questions. The central goals of the course are to help students learn how to think critically about what we can know and how we should live and to convey to students a basic knowledge of some key figures in the history of Western philosophy. The assignments are designed to develop students' critical analytical skills, including the skills of reading a difficult text, identifying an author's argument for a philosophical position, evaluating an argument, and writing clear analytical essays that report the results of one's thinking. Readings include texts by influential philosophers who lived long ago, including Plato, René Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, as well as articles and book chapters by contemporary philosophers, including Janet Broughton, Gilbert Harman, Rachana Kamtekar, Christine Korsgaard, Adam Morton, Tommie Shelby, and Rachel Singpurwalla.

Discussion (DIS)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

Can we ever know anything about what the world is like or about how we should live? If not, why not? If so, how can we attain this knowledge? This course explores and critically examines a wide range of philosophical answers to these questions. The central goals of the course are to help students learn how to think critically about what we can know and how we should live and to convey to students a basic knowledge of some key figures in the history of Western philosophy. The assignments are designed to develop students' critical analytical skills, including the skills of reading a difficult text, identifying an author's argument for a philosophical position, evaluating an argument, and writing clear analytical essays that report the results of one's thinking. Readings include texts by influential philosophers who lived long ago, including Plato, René Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, as well as articles and book chapters by contemporary philosophers, including Janet Broughton, Gilbert Harman, Rachana Kamtekar, Christine Korsgaard, Adam Morton, Tommie Shelby, and Rachel Singpurwalla.

Discussion (DIS)

• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
• IUB GenEd A&H credit

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

Can we ever know anything about what the world is like or about how we should live? If not, why not? If so, how can we attain this knowledge? This course explores and critically examines a wide range of philosophical answers to these questions. The central goals of the course are to help students learn how to think critically about what we can know and how we should live and to convey to students a basic knowledge of some key figures in the history of Western philosophy. The assignments are designed to develop students' critical analytical skills, including the skills of reading a difficult text, identifying an author's argument for a philosophical position, evaluating an argument, and writing clear analytical essays that report the results of one's thinking. Readings include texts by influential philosophers who lived long ago, including Plato, René Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, as well as articles and book chapters by contemporary philosophers, including Janet Broughton, Gilbert Harman, Rachana Kamtekar, Christine Korsgaard, Adam Morton, Tommie Shelby, and Rachel Singpurwalla.

Discussion (DIS)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

Can we ever know anything about what the world is like or about how we should live? If not, why not? If so, how can we attain this knowledge? This course explores and critically examines a wide range of philosophical answers to these questions. The central goals of the course are to help students learn how to think critically about what we can know and how we should live and to convey to students a basic knowledge of some key figures in the history of Western philosophy. The assignments are designed to develop students' critical analytical skills, including the skills of reading a difficult text, identifying an author's argument for a philosophical position, evaluating an argument, and writing clear analytical essays that report the results of one's thinking. Readings include texts by influential philosophers who lived long ago, including Plato, René Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, as well as articles and book chapters by contemporary philosophers, including Janet Broughton, Gilbert Harman, Rachana Kamtekar, Christine Korsgaard, Adam Morton, Tommie Shelby, and Rachel Singpurwalla.

Discussion (DIS)

• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
• IUB GenEd A&H credit

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

Can we ever know anything about what the world is like or about how we should live? If not, why not? If so, how can we attain this knowledge? This course explores and critically examines a wide range of philosophical answers to these questions. The central goals of the course are to help students learn how to think critically about what we can know and how we should live and to convey to students a basic knowledge of some key figures in the history of Western philosophy. The assignments are designed to develop students' critical analytical skills, including the skills of reading a difficult text, identifying an author's argument for a philosophical position, evaluating an argument, and writing clear analytical essays that report the results of one's thinking. Readings include texts by influential philosophers who lived long ago, including Plato, René Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, as well as articles and book chapters by contemporary philosophers, including Janet Broughton, Gilbert Harman, Rachana Kamtekar, Christine Korsgaard, Adam Morton, Tommie Shelby, and Rachel Singpurwalla.

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• TOPIC: APPEARANCE & REALITY
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

An introduction to philosophy. We begin with questions about the possibility and limits of human knowledge. Can we ever know the true nature of reality? If so, how? What is the relation between how things seem to us and how they really are? We will then turn to human relationships, focusing on the nature of love. We will approach these issues through the writings of several important historical thinkers in the European philosophical tradition, including Plato, Descartes, and Berkeley. We will focus upon identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the reasons these philosophers offer for their views. Through exploring these questions and the tools philosophers have used to answer them, you will learn to "think like a philosopher," developing your own answers to these questions. The course aims to develop students' abilities to reason carefully, write clearly, work with deeply challenging texts, and think about difficult issues from a variety of viewpoints.

Discussion (DIS)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

An introduction to philosophy. We begin with questions about the possibility and limits of human knowledge. Can we ever know the true nature of reality? If so, how? What is the relation between how things seem to us and how they really are? We will then turn to human relationships, focusing on the nature of love. We will approach these issues through the writings of several important historical thinkers in the European philosophical tradition, including Plato, Descartes, and Berkeley. We will focus upon identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the reasons these philosophers offer for their views. Through exploring these questions and the tools philosophers have used to answer them, you will learn to "think like a philosopher," developing your own answers to these questions. The course aims to develop students' abilities to reason carefully, write clearly, work with deeply challenging texts, and think about difficult issues from a variety of viewpoints.

Discussion (DIS)

• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
• IUB GenEd A&H credit

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

An introduction to philosophy. We begin with questions about the possibility and limits of human knowledge. Can we ever know the true nature of reality? If so, how? What is the relation between how things seem to us and how they really are? We will then turn to human relationships, focusing on the nature of love. We will approach these issues through the writings of several important historical thinkers in the European philosophical tradition, including Plato, Descartes, and Berkeley. We will focus upon identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the reasons these philosophers offer for their views. Through exploring these questions and the tools philosophers have used to answer them, you will learn to "think like a philosopher," developing your own answers to these questions. The course aims to develop students' abilities to reason carefully, write clearly, work with deeply challenging texts, and think about difficult issues from a variety of viewpoints.

Discussion (DIS)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

An introduction to philosophy. We begin with questions about the possibility and limits of human knowledge. Can we ever know the true nature of reality? If so, how? What is the relation between how things seem to us and how they really are? We will then turn to human relationships, focusing on the nature of love. We will approach these issues through the writings of several important historical thinkers in the European philosophical tradition, including Plato, Descartes, and Berkeley. We will focus upon identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the reasons these philosophers offer for their views. Through exploring these questions and the tools philosophers have used to answer them, you will learn to "think like a philosopher," developing your own answers to these questions. The course aims to develop students' abilities to reason carefully, write clearly, work with deeply challenging texts, and think about difficult issues from a variety of viewpoints.

Discussion (DIS)

• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
• IUB GenEd A&H credit

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

An introduction to philosophy. We begin with questions about the possibility and limits of human knowledge. Can we ever know the true nature of reality? If so, how? What is the relation between how things seem to us and how they really are? We will then turn to human relationships, focusing on the nature of love. We will approach these issues through the writings of several important historical thinkers in the European philosophical tradition, including Plato, Descartes, and Berkeley. We will focus upon identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the reasons these philosophers offer for their views. Through exploring these questions and the tools philosophers have used to answer them, you will learn to "think like a philosopher," developing your own answers to these questions. The course aims to develop students' abilities to reason carefully, write clearly, work with deeply challenging texts, and think about difficult issues from a variety of viewpoints.

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

We will study a few key texts in Western philosophy from ancient to modern times. We will trace the perennial conversation among these authors on just a few related questions: -Is mind or matter the most fundamental reality? Is God the source of all things? -To what extent is the world around me actually like the way it appears to me to be? -What kind of thing am I? -What are the scope and limits of what I can know? -Why should we try to answer the above questions? Is it needed for human flourishing? For many (and hopefully for you!), philosophical thinking about fundamental questions and ideas is enjoyable for its own sake. But it¿s also true that the skills we develop along the way bear fruit in many domains. You will be poked and prodded to learn to read and accurately digest challenging, carefully-reasoned texts; to critically assess the ideas and reasoning developed in those texts in part by formulating alternative proposals of your own backed by reasoning; to engage in friendly but earnest dialogue with others about such ideas; and to write clearly.

Discussion (DIS)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

We will study a few key texts in Western philosophy from ancient to modern times. We will trace the perennial conversation among these authors on just a few related questions: -Is mind or matter the most fundamental reality? Is God the source of all things? -To what extent is the world around me actually like the way it appears to me to be? -What kind of thing am I? -What are the scope and limits of what I can know? -Why should we try to answer the above questions? Is it needed for human flourishing? For many (and hopefully for you!), philosophical thinking about fundamental questions and ideas is enjoyable for its own sake. But it¿s also true that the skills we develop along the way bear fruit in many domains. You will be poked and prodded to learn to read and accurately digest challenging, carefully-reasoned texts; to critically assess the ideas and reasoning developed in those texts in part by formulating alternative proposals of your own backed by reasoning; to engage in friendly but earnest dialogue with others about such ideas; and to write clearly.

Discussion (DIS)

• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
• IUB GenEd A&H credit

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

We will study a few key texts in Western philosophy from ancient to modern times. We will trace the perennial conversation among these authors on just a few related questions: -Is mind or matter the most fundamental reality? Is God the source of all things? -To what extent is the world around me actually like the way it appears to me to be? -What kind of thing am I? -What are the scope and limits of what I can know? -Why should we try to answer the above questions? Is it needed for human flourishing? For many (and hopefully for you!), philosophical thinking about fundamental questions and ideas is enjoyable for its own sake. But it¿s also true that the skills we develop along the way bear fruit in many domains. You will be poked and prodded to learn to read and accurately digest challenging, carefully-reasoned texts; to critically assess the ideas and reasoning developed in those texts in part by formulating alternative proposals of your own backed by reasoning; to engage in friendly but earnest dialogue with others about such ideas; and to write clearly.

Discussion (DIS)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

We will study a few key texts in Western philosophy from ancient to modern times. We will trace the perennial conversation among these authors on just a few related questions: -Is mind or matter the most fundamental reality? Is God the source of all things? -To what extent is the world around me actually like the way it appears to me to be? -What kind of thing am I? -What are the scope and limits of what I can know? -Why should we try to answer the above questions? Is it needed for human flourishing? For many (and hopefully for you!), philosophical thinking about fundamental questions and ideas is enjoyable for its own sake. But it¿s also true that the skills we develop along the way bear fruit in many domains. You will be poked and prodded to learn to read and accurately digest challenging, carefully-reasoned texts; to critically assess the ideas and reasoning developed in those texts in part by formulating alternative proposals of your own backed by reasoning; to engage in friendly but earnest dialogue with others about such ideas; and to write clearly.

Discussion (DIS)

• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
• IUB GenEd A&H credit

• Formerly PHIL-P 100 Introduction to Philosophy at IUB
• Above class not open to students with previous Philosophy courses above the 100-level.
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

We will study a few key texts in Western philosophy from ancient to modern times. We will trace the perennial conversation among these authors on just a few related questions: -Is mind or matter the most fundamental reality? Is God the source of all things? -To what extent is the world around me actually like the way it appears to me to be? -What kind of thing am I? -What are the scope and limits of what I can know? -Why should we try to answer the above questions? Is it needed for human flourishing? For many (and hopefully for you!), philosophical thinking about fundamental questions and ideas is enjoyable for its own sake. But it¿s also true that the skills we develop along the way bear fruit in many domains. You will be poked and prodded to learn to read and accurately digest challenging, carefully-reasoned texts; to critically assess the ideas and reasoning developed in those texts in part by formulating alternative proposals of your own backed by reasoning; to engage in friendly but earnest dialogue with others about such ideas; and to write clearly.