Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College
PS#CRS#CRTITLE OF COURSEProfessor(s)/Instructor(s)DIV
1303B101 011.0Hist Intro to Philosophy
Ancient
Dostal
TTH 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Ancient
HU III
BYC106
1304B101 021.0Hist Intro to Philosophy
Ancient
Vallabha
MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Ancient
HU III
TAYD
1452B209 011.0Philosophical Apprch to Crit
Cross-listed with COML and GERM B209.
Seyhan
W 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
HU III
EHI
1305B222 011.0Aesthetics
Nature and Experience of Art
Cross-listed with COML B222. Enrollment limited to 18 students. Prerequisite: 1 course in Philosophy or Literature.
Krausz
T 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Nature and Experience of Art
HU III
TH251
1306B229 011.0Concepts of the SelfWallhagen
MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
HU III
TAYB
1829B230 011.0Discrete Mathematics I
Cross listed as CMSC B231 and MATH B231. Enrollment limited to 25 students. 5 seats will be reserved for freshmen.
Hughes
MWF 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
NA II & Q
PK338
1464B231 011.0Intro Political Phil-Modern
Cross-listed with POLS B231. Enrollment limited to 25 students.
Bove
TTH 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
HU III
TH121
1307B319 011.0Philosophy of Mind
Prerequisite: At least one course in Philosophy or consent of the instructor.
Vallabha
TTH 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
HU III
TH223
1468B321 011.0Greek Political Philosophy
Aristotle: Ethics and Politics
Cross-listed with POLS B320. Enrollment limited to 18 students. Prerequisite: One year's worth of text based Philosophy or Political Theory, or consent of Instructor.
Salkever
M 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Aristotle: Ethics and Politics
HU III
DAL25
1308B323 011.0Culture and Interpretation
Cross-listed with COML B323. Enrollment limited to 18 students.
Krausz
TH 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
HU III
TH251
1309B330 011.0KantDostal
MW 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
HU III
TAYC
1483B398 011.0Senior SeminarKrausz
T 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
HU III
TH121
1534B403 011.0Supervised WorkHU
Philosophy at Haverford College
H104A011.0Global Wisdom
Enrollment limited to 25 students.
Limited to 5 Freshmen and 20 Upperclassmen.
A.Gangadean
TTh 2:30-4:00

HU III
Gest 101
 
 
H105A011.0Love, Friendship, and the Ethical Life
Enrollment limited to 40 students.
K.Wright
TTh 1:00-2:30

HU III
Gest 101
 
 
H109A011.0Philosophy and the Good Life
D.Macbeth
MW 2:30-4:00

HU
Gest 101
 
 
H210A011.0Plato
One 100 level course or its equivalent, or consent.
J.Yurdin
TTh 1:00-2:30

HU III
Stokes 119
 
 
H225A011.0The Concept of Freedom and the Dialectic of Master and Slave
One 100 level course or its equivalent, or consent.
Fulfills Social Justice
K.Wright
TTh 10:00-11:30

HU III
Gest 102
 
 
H230A011.0Beauty, Rhetoric, Aesthetics, Philosophy
Cross-listed in Independent College Programs and Comparative Literature

NEW COURSE.This course will examine contemporary attempts to revitalize and reaffirm art's relation to beauty, aesthetic pleasure, and seduction. Readings will be drawn from the works of Plato, Longinus, Edmund Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, as well as the contemporary champions of beauty: Gilbert-Rolfe, Hickey, Scarry, Schjeldahl, and Steiner.
J.Muse
TTh 2:30-4:00

HU III
Stokes 102
 
 
H242A011.0Buddhist Philosophy
Cross-listed in East Asian Studies
Enrollment limited to 40 students.
A.Gangadean
TTh 11:30-1:00

HU III
Gest 101
 
 
H259A011.0Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
J.Miller
MW 12:30-2:00

HU III
Gest 101
 
 
H332A011.0Foucault on Sex and Power

TOPIC: This course concentrates on the work of French theorist/historian Michel Foucault. This semester we focus on his writings on power and sex, the impact of which on theories of political resistance, body consciousness, and sexual identity and oppression is difficult to overestimate. In addition to Foucault’s own writings, we will read a number of critiques and applications of Foucauldian ideas in areas of feminist philosophy, queer theory, literary criticism, and political philosophy.
J.Miller
MW 2:30-4:00

HU III
Shrp 217
 
 
H355A011.0Descartes and Frege: on Mathematics

TOPIC: Mathematics has always mattered to philosophy, and to many the knowledge that is gained in mathematics is a paradigm of knowledge. But how does mathematics work? How can one come to know things—if one can—by engaging in the sort of practice that mathematicians engage in? And if the practice of mathematics does yield knowledge, knowledge of what? What can mathematics teach us about our philosophical concerns more broadly conceived? Our focus in this course will be on the work of two mathematicians/philosophers: Descartes, working in the seventeenth century, and Frege, working at the end of the nineteenth. We will be primarily concerned with (1) the philosophical advances they made that might help us to understand the nature of mathematical practice, and (2) what these advances have meant and may still mean for our own philosophical understanding more broadly conceived. No background in mathematics, beyond what is needed to get into college, is assumed. (This course satisfies the pre-Kant history requirement for the major in philosophy.)
D.Macbeth
MW 12:30-2:00

HU III
Gest 102
 
 
H399C011.0Senior Seminar
Open to senior majors only.
A.Gangadean
F 12:30-3:00

HU
Gest 101
 
 
H404F010.5Discussion Leaders
A.Gangadean
TTh 2:30-4:00

HU III
Gest 101
 
 
H405F010.5Discussion Leaders
K.Wright
TTh 1:00-2:30

HU III
Gest 101
 
 
H409F010.5Discussion Leaders
D.Macbeth
MW 2:30-4:00

HU III
Gest 102
 
 
H460A011.0Discussion Leaders
Consent of the instructor of the relevant introductory course is required.
A.Gangadean


HU
 
 
 
H460F010.5Discussion Leaders
Consent of the instructor of the relevant introductory course is required.
A.Gangadean


HU