Schedule varies by section.
Sec 001 – Lecture – Monday/Wednesday, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Sec 201 – Recitation – Friday, 10:15 AM – 11:14 AM
Sec 202 – Recitation – Friday, 12:00 PM – 12:59 PM
This is a course on philosophical topics surrounding love and sex. We will touch on issues in all areas of philosophy including ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and epistemology. You will develop the sorts of skills fundamental to philosophy: understanding and reconstructing arguments, evaluating arguments, and developing your own argumentative abilities. You will also acquire theoretical tools that might be useful for thinking about your own love and sex lives, and the lives of those around you.
Sec 001 – Lecture – Monday/Wednesday, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Sec 201 – Recitation – Friday, 10:15 AM – 11:14 AM
Sec 202 – Recitation – Friday, 12:00 PM – 12:59 PM
Fall 2024
Free Speech and its First Amendment protections have rarely been as controversial and central to public discussion in the United States as they are today. After a brief introduction to free speech as understood before it became enshrined in the Constitution’s First Amendment, we’ll examine and trace its history in the U.S.—legally, politically, philosophically and socially—from 1791 to the present day.
Fall 2024
“Diplomacy in the Americas” an academically based community service course in which students work with Philadelphia and Norristown public school students to explore solutions to critical problems facing the Americas.