Fall 2026 COURSES
The following courses are offered during the Fall 2026 semester. Please view the ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½ Course Catalog for a complete listing of the Philosophy Department course offerings.
Fall 2026 Schedule
| Course Code | Title | Instructor | Days | Start Time | End Time | LinC | PTK | TAG |
| PHIL 120 A | Introduction to Philosophy | Baker | Tue, Thu | 7:45 a.m. | 9:00 a.m. | M3 | Logic and Reasoning | Critical Reading |
| PHIL 228 A | Sports Ethics | Naraghi | Tue, Thu | 2:45 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | |||
| PHIL 232 A | Philosophy of Psychiatry & Mental Illness | Baker | Tue, Thu | 9:15 a.m. | 10:30 a.m. | U2 | ||
| PHIL 238 A | Knowledge, Power and Virtue | Baker | Tue, Thu | 10:45 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | |||
| PHIL 247 A | WI: Phil 19th, 20th Cent | Moeller | Mon, Wed Hybrid | 10:45 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | M3 | ||
| PHIL 250 A | Environmental Ethics | Naraghi | Mon, Wed | 1:15 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | U2 | ||
| PHIL 257 A | Bioethics & Social Justice | Moeller | Mon, Wed Hybrid | 1:15 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | U2 | ||
| PHIL 257 B | Bioethics & Social Justice | Moeller | Mon, Wed Hybrid | 2:45 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | U2 | ||
| PHIL 279 A | Philosophy of Law | Naraghi | Mon, Wed | 2:45 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | U2 | Humanistic Inquiry | Ethical Deliberation; Critical Reading |
| PHIL 351 A | WI: Epistemology | Baker | Tue, Thu | 10:45 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. |
100-Level Course
PHIL 120 A: Introduction to Philosophy
Tasks and the subject matters of philosophy, including the major theories of reality, knowledge, religion, morality and social justice. Attention to several classic philosophical texts as primary source readings. (M3) (PTK: Logic and Reasoning) (TAG: Critical Reading)
200-Level Courses
PHIL 228 A: Sports Ethics
This course introduces students to ethical concepts, theories, and methods through which they can reflectively analyze and perform ethical decision making in the realm of sports and recreation, within an evolving cultural, political and technological environment. A substantial part of the course will be devoted to case studies and the implementation of ethical theories to concrete cases.
PHIL 232 A: Philosophy of Psychiatry & Mental Illness
This course examines foundational philosophical questions about psychiatry and mental illness, including whether psychiatric disorders are best understood as medical diseases, social constructs, or hybrid phenomena. Students engage with major theoretical and empirical frameworks shaping contemporary debates about mental disorder, diagnosis, and psychiatric classification.
PHIL 238 A: Knowledge, Power, and Virtue
This course examines philosophical questions about knowledge, belief, and justification, with particular attention to the roles of power, social structure, and intellectual virtue in shaping what we know and how we come to know it. Students explore both traditional and contemporary approaches to epistemology, including virtue epistemology, ethical epistemology, feminist epistemology, and social epistemology.
PHIL 247 A: WI: PHIL 19th, 20th Century
Trends in recent philosophy inaugurated by Nietzsche, Marx, and Kierkegaard and by Mill, Russell, and Ayer, through present. Manifestation of these trends in contemporary phenomenology and analytic philosophy. May emphasize Continental or British-American traditions in current philosophy. Writing-intensive. (M3)
PHIL 250 A: Environmental Ethics
An overview of the ethical, metaphysical, cultural, and political issues involved in understanding humankind's complex relationship with the natural world and with other-than-human animals. Examines positions and philosophies of radical environmentalists, environmental ethicists, animal-rights advocates, and political ecologists. (U2)
PHIL 257 A & B: Bioethics & Social Justice
A study of what is health, and how it relates to social justice issues, such as: How do such factors as income, race, and gender correlate with health? In health research and healthcare delivery how do lingering patterns of inequality get rewritten into the social fabric or transformed out of it? How can we learn from the legacies of unethical medical experimentation and other ugly parts of history? (U2) Prerequisite: Philosophy 120 or Philosophy 222 recommended.
PHIL 279 A: Philosophy of Law
Philosophy of law or jurisprudence is the application of the rational techniques of the discipline of a philosophy to the subject matter of law. In this course, on one hand, students study the meaning of such concepts as law, legal obligation, legal punishment, and so on. (What is knows as "analytic jurisprudence.) Also they explore the relation between law and morally, or more specifically, they try to figure out whether legal institutions in general, or particular legal systems, or legal practices are morally acceptable-and if not, how to make them so. (What is known as "normative jurisprudence.) (PTK-Humanistic Inquiry) (TAG: Ethical Deliberation) (TAG: Critical Reading)
300-Level Course
PHIL 351 A: WI: Epistemology
Philosophical inquiry into the nature of knowledge, kinds of experience, belief and truth, justification and verification. Writing-intensive. Prerequisite: Philosophy 120 or permission of the instructor.