The instructors for our large intro courses, Professors Gordon, Hanks and Zhu have all begun to incorporate the same critical thinking material into their Philosophy 1305 curriculum. Our dialogue series this semester includes topics in Epistemology, Stoicism, Latin American Philosophy, Ethics and Technology, and Applied Philosophy. This semester several prominent speakers have appeared in the Dialogue Room including author and SWT Mitte Endowed Chair Tim O'Brien and novelist Tom Grimes. Phi Sigma Tau Delta hosts an open philosophical discussion in PSY 312. The Problems of Philosophy .
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This course will examine major feminist theories including liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, and post-modernist feminism with an eye especially to revealing the complexity and diversity of contemporary feminist thought. The great philosophical concepts which through the years have challenged the best thoughts of people and have contributed to the fulfillment of the good life. Emphasis upon the applicability of those concepts to human life in our time and to the development of intellectual perspective. A study of the nature and forms of correct reasoning, both deductive and inductive. Gordon A study of the nature of human experience and existence in the philosophies of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Camus.