Professor Karen Detlefsen

Lecture: Monday, Wednesday — 2:00-3:00

Registration Required for Lecture and Recitation

PHIL 001-202 Friday 12:00-3:00 — Jeffrey Scarborough

PHIL 001-203 Friday 2:00-3:00 — Jennifer Dobe,jkdobe@sas.upenn.edu

PHIL 001-204 Friday 10:00-11:00 — Jennifer Dobe

This is an introduction to some central philosophical issues stressing conceptions of human nature, and humankind’s relation to the natural and the social world. Here are some of the questions we shall discuss. What is the relation between mind and body? Do we somehow stand above the order of nature, or are we a part of it? Should we think of that order as comprising all of reality, or should we think of it and of ourselves as related to a divine reality? What is the foundation of religious belief? Could there be free will in a deterministic world? Is there any rational way of adjudicating among different positions on what is morally right and morally wrong? We shall read both historical and contemporary texts in order to understand and evaluate some of the ways in which these questions have been answered by various philosophers.

Professor Curtis Bowman,cubowman@nous.phil.upenn.edu

Seminar: Monday, Wednesday — 3:00-4:30

Enrollment Restricted to Freshmen

In this course we will investigate the topic of philosophical anthropology, i.e., the philosophical study of what it is to be human, as a means of introducing students to philosophy in general. We will do this by looking at several traditional themes: ethics, freedom, and death. Since these issues concern everyone, we can begin to develop a philosophical view of what it is to be human by studying them in some detail.

Professor Thomas Meyer,tmeyer@nous.phil.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday — 10:30-12:00

Enrollment Restricted to Freshmen

An introduction to such topics as our knowledge of the material world, the relation of mind and body, the existence of God, the nature of morality.

Professor Thomas Meyer,tmeyer@nous.phil.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday — 1:30-3:00

Enrollment Restricted to Freshmen

An introductory survey of some central philosophical issues, including: Is there a God? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? Are free will and determinism incompatible? Readings will be taken from both contemporary and historical sources.

Professor Rahul Kumar,rakumar@nous.phil.upenn.edu

Lecture: Monday, Wednesday — 12:00-1:00

Registration Required for Lecture and Recitation

PHIL 002-201 Friday - 12:00-1:00 John Oberdiek(WATU),oberdiek@law.upenn.edu

PHIL 002-202 Friday - 12:00-1:00 Melina Bell,

PHIL 002-203 Friday - 9:00-10:00 John Oberdiek

PHIL 002-204 Friday - 2:00-3:00 Melina Bell (WATU),mmbell@sas.upenn.edu

PHIL 002-205 Friday - 12:00-1:00 Satoshi Ogihara,

PHIL 002-206 Thursday - 12:001:00 Satoshi Ogihara(WATU),ogiharas@sas.upenn.edu

An investigation of some central philosophical questions about the nature of morality and its content. Topics to be covered include: are we all fundamentally selfish?; the ideals of social life, the person, and living well, that are central to Kantian and Utilitarian characterizations of moral reasoning; questions about the objectivity of moral judgments (are they subjective? Are they socially relative?); the idea of living a good life and the ethical significance of death; what is the relationship between a good life and morality? Readings will be from both contemporary and historical sources.

Professor Milton W. Meyer,mwmeyer@nous.phil.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday — 1:30-3:00

Enrollment Restricted to Freshmen

Four sorts of questions belong to the study of ethics in the analytic tradition. Practical ethics discusses specific moral problems, often those we find most contested (e.g. abortion). Moral theory tries to develop systematic answers to these moral problems, looking for general principles that explain moral judgments and rules (e.g. consequentialism). Meta-ethics investigates questions about the nature of moral theories and their subject matter (e.g. are they absolute, objective, etc.). Finally there are questions about why any of this does, or should matter to us (e.g. why be moral?). We will investigate all four of these types of questions using primarily contemporary sources.

Professor Charles Kahn,chkahn@sas.upenn.edu

Lecture: Monday, Wednesday — 11:00-12:00

Registration Required for Lecture and Recitation

Cross Listed with:CLST 103-401

WATU Credit Optional - See Instructor

PHIL 003-402 Friday — 11:00-12:00 Ece Erdivanli,erdivanl@sas.upenn.edu

Cross listed w/CLST 103-402

PHIL 003-403 Friday — 1:00-2:00 Ece Erdivanli (WATU)

Cross listed w/CLST103-403

PHIL 003-404 Friday — 11:00-12:00 Steven Jauss(WATU)

Cross listed w/CLST103-404

PHIL 003-405 Friday — 9:00-10:00 Steven Jauss,sjauss@sas.upenn.edu

Cross listed w/CLST 103-405

A survey of classical Greek approaches to questions about knowledge, the nature of the world, the soul, ethics and politics. Will focus on Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle.

Professor Thomas Ricketts,ricketts@sas.upenn.edu TA’s: Kent Schmor,kjschmor@sas.upenn.edu

Lecture: Monday, Wednesday, Friday — 10:00-11:00 Ana Mateos,amateos@sas.upenn.edu

Cross listed with:PHIL 505-401

Introduction to truth-functional logic and quantificational logic. Discussion of identity, descriptions, formalized theories, completeness, and decidability.

FULFILLS GENERAL REQUIREMENT IV: FORMAL REASONING& ANALYSIS

Instructor: Elisabeth Herschbach,elhersch@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday — 9:00-10:30

Instructor: Michael Elazar,melazar@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday — 10:30-12:00

Instructor: Marc Cohen,marcc@phil.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday — 12:00-1:30

Professor Thomas Ricketts,ricketts@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday -- 3:00-4:30

Enrollment Restricted to Freshmen

Maynot be counted toward a Philosophy Major

Discussion of several contemporary ethical topics such as limitations on freedom of expression, civil disobedience, affirmative action, privacy rights, treat of animals, euthanasia, health care distribution, informed consent, and obligations to future generations.

Professor Zoltan Domotor,zdomotor@sas.upenn.edu TA: Todd Bates,ctodd@sas.upenn.edu

Lecture: Monday, Wednesday, Friday -- 1:00-2:00

Cross Listed with:HSSC 026-401

This course provides an introduction to the philosophy and intellectual history of space-time and cosmological models from ancient to modern times with special emphasis on paradigm shifts, leading to Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity and cosmology. Other topics include Big Bang, black holes stellar structure, the metaphysics of substance, particles, fields and superstrings, unification and grand unification of modern physical theories. No philosophy of physics background is presupposed.

Professor Valerie Stoker

Lecture: Monday, Wednesday — 3:00-4:30

Cross Listed with:SARS 103-401, AMES 103-401

An introductory survey of the fundamentals of Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, the main patterns of Western response to it and some basic questions on "comparative philosophy".

PHIL 077-001 PHILOSOPHYOF LAW

Professor Ulrike Heuer

Lecture: Monday, Wednesday -- 9:00-10:00

Registration Required for Lecture and Recitation

PHIL 077-201 Friday 2:00-3:00 — Zermatt Scutt,scutt@sas.upenn.edu

PHIL 077-202 Friday 9:00-10:00 — Zermatt Scutt

PHIL 077-203 Friday 9:00-10:00 — Lucas Thorpe,lthorpe@sas.upenn.edu

PHIL 077-204 Friday 12:00-1:00 — Lucas Thorpe

Introduction to the main philosophical accounts of the nature of law and legal systems, justice and human rights, and the rule of law in a democracy. Consideration will be given to the relation of morality to law, legal responsibility, equal protection, due process and the philosophical background of such constitutional issues as freedom of speech and association, abortion and the right of privacy, and preferential treatment. Readings from Mill, Rawls, Hart, Dworkin, etc., and constitutional cases.

Professor James F. Ross,jross@sas.upenn.edu

Lecture: Monday, Wednesday, Friday — 2 :00-3:00

WATUCredit Optional: See Instructor

Cross Listed with:RELS 204-401

Readings, discussions and papers: On the human condition, proofs for the existence of God, the problem of evil, relations of faith to reason, paganism/polytheism vs. monotheism and pantheism, petitionary prayer, ecumenism and truth, awe and atheism. Required, besides participation in class, are three short (3-5pp) papers, one longer paper (12-15pp) and a take-home final on the readings.

PHIL 267-301 KANT & THE19^TH CENTURY

Professor Curtis Bowman,cubowman@nous.phil.upenn.edu

Seminar: Monday, Wednesday, Friday — 1:00-2:00

In this class our primary focus will be the aesthetics of Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. We will not only study their view on art and aesthetic experience for their own sake, but also with an eye on understanding their philosophies as a whole.

Professor William Ewald,wewald@law.upenn.edu

Seminar:

The course will be a basic introduction to the legal systems of continental Europe, with an emphasis on the historical and philosophical developments that have shaped the modern civil law.

Professor Gary Hatfield,

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday -- 3:00-4:30

Philosophers have been fascinated by perception since there has been philosophy. Perception is central to several of the primary problems of philosophy, including the theory of knowledge, the mind-body problem, and the theory of consciousness. In this course we will focus on the latter two problems. After some introductory scene-setting, we will examine some classical works in the philosophy and psychology of perception, in which theory of knowledge and the mind-body problem come together. Then we will consider recent work on consciousness, perception, and the mind-brain problem.

Professor Karen Detlefsen

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday -- 9:00-10:30

The concept of substance changed significantly in the seventeenth century when Descartes claimed to reject the Aristotelianism of the Schools. But with Descartes’ rejection of the old substance ontologies, a number of problems arose. These include the problems of material individuation, mind-body interaction, and even bodily interaction. In addition, the new metaphysics of substance came with a new mechanistic physics which was a powerful tool for explaining some phenomena of the natural world but which made it very difficult to account for other phenomena, including life. In this course we will examine the development of the theory of substance through Descartes, Malebranche,

Spinoza and Leibniz, noting how this theory evolves to try to account for some of the difficulties that arise from Descartes’ reconception of the fundamentals of metaphysics.

PHIL 377-301PHILOSOPHY AND THE CONSTITUTION

Professor Samuel Freeman,sfreeman@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday -- 1:30-3:00

The aim of this course is to investigate the philosophical background of our constitutional democracy. What is the appropriate role and limits of majority legislative rule? How are we to understand First Amendment’s protections of freedom of religion, speech, and assembly? What is the conception of equality that underlies the 14^th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause? Is there a right of privacy implicit in the Constitution? Do rights of property deserve the same degree of protection as other constitutional rights? To investigate these and other constitutional issues, we will read from both Supreme Court opinions and relevant philosophical texts.

Professor Steven Gross,gross2@nous.phil.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday — 3:00-6:00

This course surveys central topics in the philosophy of language. Questions discussed include: What is the relation between meaning and truth? Between meaning and intention? Are there objective facts about meaning? In what sense, if any, is language conventional? How might questions about language matter for the rest of philosophy? In the course of addressing these questions, we also examine various specific elements of language and language use of particular philosophical interest, such as proper names, ‘context-sensitive’ terms, and metaphor.

PHIL 407-301 ARISTOTLE’STHEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Professor Charles Kahn,chkahn@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Wednesday -- 3:00-6:00

A survey of basic Aristotelian texts on philosophy of language, theory of science, metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Readings will include selections from Categories, Posterior Analytics, Metaphysics and De Anima.

Professor Scott Weinstein,weinstein@cis.upenn.edu

Seminar: Monday, Wednesday — 3:00-4:30

The course will examine the expressive power of various logical languages over the class of finite structures. A main theme of the course will be connections between the logical complexity and computational complexity of collections of finite structures.

PHIL 426-301 PHILOSOPHYOF PSYCHOLOGY

Professor Gary Hatfield,

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday — 10:30-12:00

An examination of major trends of thought in experimental psychology in relation to philosophy and the philosophy of science. Questions to be asked include: What is the subject matter and object of explanation of experimental psychology? What is the relation between psychology and physiology? How is scientific psychology related to traditional philosophical investigations of the mental? The course covers the classical systems and schools of psychology, starting in earnest with Wundt, Brentano, and James, and proceeding to behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, and cognitive science. The second half o the course focuses in detail on contemporary problems, drawn from work in perception, imagery, and attention or memory. Readings will include works by Wundt, James, Koehler, Skinner, Fodor, and others.

Professor Paul Guyer,guyer@nous.phil.upenn.edu

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday -- 1:30-3:00

Cross Listed with:GRMN 552-401

What is human freedom? How can we value freedom above all else, and yet submit ourselves to self-rule by moral law and even coercive political rule by public authority in the name of freedom? These are the central questions of Kant’s moral and philosophy and will be the focus of this course. We will draw on the whole range of Kant’s writings in practical philosophy, including theLectures on Ethics given in the early 1780s, theGroundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals of 1785, theCritique ofPractical Reason of 1788, theReligion within the Limits of Reason Alone of 1793, theMetaphysicsofMorals of 1797, and other essays. While focusing on the main ideas, we will also pay attention to issues concerning the historical context and development of Kant’s thought. Texts for the course will be: Immanuel Kant,Practical Philosophy, edited by Mary J. Gregor; Immanuel Kant,Lectures onEthics, edited by J. B. Schneewind and Peter Heath; and Immanual Kant,Religion and RationalTheology, edited by Allen Wood and George Di Giovanni. Written work for the course will consist of one short paper and one full-length term paper.

Professor Ulrike Heuer

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday -- 10:30-12:00

PPE 475-401PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS & ECONOMICS

Professor Ulrike Heuer

Seminar: Tuesday, Thursday -- 10:30-12:00

Professor Ellen Kennedy,ekennedy@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Wednesday — 2:00-5:00

Cross Listed with:PPE 475-402

MACHIAVELLI & HOBBES: The origins of Political Realism

This course examines the varieties of realist thought in the major works of Machiavelli (The Prince & Discourses) and Hobbes (Behometh Leviathan), setting these in the larger context of "realist" thought about politics. It is suitable for those interested in international relations and constitutional theory. It should be taken by political science graduate students planning to take the comprehensive exams in Theory and it may be taken by PPE majors as a "capstone" seminar.

Professor Ellen Kennedy,ekennedy@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Wednesday — 2:00-5:00

Cross Listed with:PHIL 475-402

Same course description as above.

Professor Thomas Ricketts,ricketts@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Monday, Wednesday, Friday — 10:00-11:00

Cross Listed with:PHIL 005-401

Introduction to truth-functional logic and quantificational logic. Discussion of identity, descriptions, formalized theories, completeness, and decidability.

Professor Rahul Kumar,rakumar@nous.phil.upenn.edu

Seminar: Thursday — 3:00-6:00

InWhat We Owe To Each Other, T.M.. Scanlon offers a detailed statement of Contractualism, a view that has been touted as a major statement of a new theoretical position in ethical theory that is neither consequentialist nor Kantian. That this is so is not, however, obvious. Consequentialists claim that contractualism is nothing but a sophisticated form of rule-consequentialism, while Kantians see the view as, basically, one of their own. In this seminar, we will assess contractualism’s claim to represent a new theoretical position in ethical theory and what the importance of that might be, working with an interpretative hypothesis that the theory is best understood as broadly Aristotelian, the completion of a re-orientation in ethical theory that finds its roots in Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’. Basic familiarity with philosophical ethics will be presupposed.

Professor James F. Ross,jross@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Monday — 4:00-7:00

Seminar for first year doctoral students only. Material is chiefly reading. Weekly writing and discussion of some classical papers in recent philosophy and some current books and papers in metaphysics/epistemology (broadly construed).

Instructor: Staff

Seminar: Tuesday — 6:30-9:10

An introduction to such topics as our knowledge of the material world, the relation of mind and body, the existence of God and the nature of morality. Readings from historical and contemporary sources.

Instructor: Staff

Seminar: Monday — 6:30-9:10

An introductory course covering the development of philosophical thought from Descartes through Kant. Topics may include the appearance-reality distinction, the nature of ideas, sensations and perceptual knowledge, the Cartesian method and the relation of mind to body. In addition,

contemporary sources will be used to refine our understanding of these issues. Readings may include DescartesMeditations, Locke’sEssay, Hume’sInquiryand Kant’sProlegomena.

Instructor: Staff

Seminar: Thursday — 6:30-9:10

A critical examination of existentialist views of the nature of the moral life. Readings from both classical (Kierkegaard and Nietzsche) and modern existentialism (Sartre).

Instructor: Autumn Fiester,fiester@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Thursday — 6:30-9:10

A survey of moral problems in medicine and biomedical research. Problems discussed include genetic manipulation, informed consent, infanticide, abortion, euthanasia, and the allocation of medical resources. Moral theory is presented with the aim of enabling students to think critically

and analytically about moral issues. The need for setting biomedical issues in broader humanistic perspective is stressed.

Professor Murad Akhundov,akhundov@sas.upenn.edu

Seminar: Monday, Wednesday — 5:30-7:00

A discussion of some philosophical questions that naturally arise in scientific research. Issues to be covered include: The nature of scientific explanation, the relation of theories to evidence, and the development of science (e.g., does science progress? Are earlier theories refuted or refined?)

Professor David Magnus,magus@mail.med.upenn.edu

Seminar: Monday — 4:30-7:00

This course will focus on several conceptual issues in bioethics. It is intended to be a graduate-level seminar for students in bioethics, philosophy, or related fields. Issues to be covered include: the role of undetermination and incommensurability in medical science; the meaning and significance of the concepts of health and disease; the distinction between genetic and non-genetic diseases; and problems in genetic technology associated with reductionism and causality. This course will explore

the intersection between philosophy of science and bioethics. Some of the most important ethical and social issues and even policy decisions hinge on often unexamined conceptual grounds. We will critically examined some of the crucial assumptions which underlie contemporary biomedical practice.