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While offering courses in the traditional areas of philosophy (logic, history of philosophy, epistemology, etc.), our department has main strengths in value theory, broadly construed.  For more information about current areas of faculty expertise and interest, see: Our Faculty.  For information about the graduate program, contact Richard Aquila, Director of Graduate Studies. 
 Our tentative schedule of courses for 2010-11:

FALL 2010

  • Intergenerational Ethics - Nolt
  • Moral Standing, Personal Identity and Bioethics - Hardwig
  • Rawls - Reidy
  • Sartre’s Being and Nothingness - Aquila
  • The Ethics of Belief (Proseminar - required for first-year students) - Coffman

SPRING 2011

  • Contemporary Ethical Theory - Shepski
  • Survey of Epistemology - Coffman
  • Plato - Shaw
  • Values in Science - Douglas

There are opportunities for our Teaching Assistants and Teaching Associates (see: Financial Aid) to teach bioethics, business ethics, engineering ethics, environmental ethics, and professional responsibility. Internships may also sometimes be arranged. For some information about our placement history: Placement History.