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Philosophy Undergraduate Student Guide Philosophy Undergraduate Student Guide PhilosophyStudentGuide_Academics_FY16_v3.indd 1 11/19/15 11:08 AM The UD Philosophy Department has 12 regular professors on its staff. Each faculty member will be happy Welcome to the UD to talk to you about any questions that may arise in connection with Philosophy Department your studies. Sometimes, it may be useful to seek out a professor with a particular field of expertise. This WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? is why these fields are listed along with each professor’s name and Philosophy is a tradition of rational inquiry into the most basic contact details. principles of existence. There are various ways of defining this inquiry. Etymologically, the Greek term philosophia means PHILOSOPHY FACULTY “love of wisdom.” But what is wisdom? Leibniz said that the very first question philosophy should ask is, “Why is there CHAD ENGELLAND something rather than nothing?” Philosophy thus understood [email protected] is concerned with the source and nature of being; this is 972-721-5231 what philosophy fundamentally meant for Plato, Aristotle Philosophical Anthropology, and Aquinas. Turning away from this metaphysical tradition, Phenomenology and Metaphysics, Immanuel Kant later tried to capture the tasks of philosophy Philosophy of Mind and Language in the three famous questions: “What can I know? What ought Ph.D., The Catholic University I to do? What can I hope?” The nature of philosophy is itself of America part of the philosophical debate. WILLIAM A. FRANK Philosophy overlaps with many other disciplines: the question of knowledge, for [email protected] example, has implications that touch on psychology and neuroscience. In dealing 972-721-5005 with ethical questions, the philosopher may need to be in dialogue with medicine Duns Scotus, Social and Political (medical ethics), biology (environmental ethics) or economics (business ethics). Philosophy, Phenomenological Philosophy of language partially overlaps with linguistics, while the philosophy of Personalism, Philosophy of religion is related to religious studies. What always distinguishes the philosophical Education approach, however, is its focus on fundamental principles and givens that are not Ph.D., The Catholic University reducible to natural science or empirical data. Furthermore, although philosophy of America is a theoretical discipline that is engaged in a disinterested quest for knowledge, JAMES J. LEHRBERGER, O.CIST. most philosophers, from Plato to the present, have also considered philosophy as an existential quest for the true and the good. Philosophers, one could say, do [email protected] not only want to understand the world; they also want to lead a life that reflects 972-721-5386 Faith and Reason, Philosophy this understanding. of Religion, Thomas Aquinas Ph.D., University of Dallas PHILOSOPHY VIS-À-VIS THEOLOGY CHRISTOPHER V. MIRUS In the questions that it asks, philosophy is not unlike theology. It is not surprising, [email protected] therefore, that many Western philosophers—especially in the patristic and medieval 972-721-5161 periods—were also or even primarily theologians. There are, however, important Ancient Philosophy, History and differences between the two disciplines: although many of the questions that Philosophy of Science philosophy and theology ask are the same, they arrive at their answers by different Ph.D., University of Notre Dame means. Whereas theology draws on Scripture and tradition as its principal sources, philosophy relies on reason and human experience. Philosophical inquiry is therefore CYNTHIA NIELSEN accessible to believers and nonbelievers alike. [email protected] 972-721-5710 PHILOSOPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS Philosophical Hermeneutics and Hermeneutical Aesthetics (esp. as Philosophic studies at the University of Dallas have three features that set the UD related to Gadamer), Philosophy of philosophy program apart from many others. First, UD philosophy students read the Music, Social Philosophy great philosophers themselves, not textbook summaries. The Core courses and the Ph.D., University of Dallas historical courses, in particular, focus on the study of some of the most influential texts of the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s JOSHUA S. PARENS “Metaphysics,” Augustine’s “Confessions” and Thomas Aquinas’ “On Being and [email protected] Essence” to Descartes’ “Meditations,” Kant’s “Prolegomena” and Heidegger’s “Being 972-721-5241 and Time.” Second, majors in the UD philosophy program receive a solid grounding Political Philosophy (Ancient, Early in the history of Western philosophy. In this fashion, they acquire an understanding Modern, and esp. Medieval Jewish of not merely an isolated thinker or theory, but of the unfolding of the philosophic and Islamic), Philosophy of Law, tradition as a whole. Third, as a philosophy department at a Catholic university, the Leo Strauss, Philosophy of Religion Ph.D., University of Chicago UD philosophy program encourages dialogue with theological texts and ideas. PhilosophyStudentGuide_Academics_FY16_v3.indd 2 11/19/15 11:08 AM PHILIPP W. ROSEMANN As a philosophy major, you will take five different kinds of philosophy courses: [email protected] 972-721-5166 1) Core courses (Philosophy and the Ethical Life, Philosophy of the Human Person, Medieval Thought, Postmodern- and Philosophy of Being). Since all UD students take these courses, they lay a ism, Philosophy of History foundation for cross-disciplinary philosophical conversation. As a philosophy Ph.D., Université catholique major, you will often find yourself discussing philosophical Core texts with other de Louvain majors. The different perspectives—literary, political, theological, scientific, JONATHAN J. SANFORD aesthetic, etc.—will help you come to a more complete understanding of these [email protected] extraordinarily rich texts. 972-721-4039 2) Historical courses. Every philosophy major is required to take a four-course Virtue Theory, Metaphysics, Aris- sequence that comprises From Ancient to Medieval, From Medieval to Modern, totle, Anselm, Aquinas, Scheler From Modern to Postmodern, and either Analytic Tradition or Continental Ph.D., University at Buffalo, State Tradition. The main goal of these courses is to enable majors to come to an University of New York understanding of the Western philosophical tradition as a whole. A major should be able to situate a thinker within the tradition, and therefore have a grasp of DENNIS L. SEPPER significant sources and influences. Moreover, it is important to understand the [email protected] dynamism of the Western philosophical tradition at the crucial points when one 972-721-5257 dominant form of thought changed into another: when the ancient paradigm of Philosophy of Language, philosophy, for example, gave way to the medieval one, or when modern thought Philosophy of Science, Philosophy arose from the waning Middle Ages. since 1600, Recent French and German Thought, Science and 3) Studium philosophiae non est ad hoc quod sciatur quid homines senserint, Technology Studies sed qualiter se habeat veritas rerum, as Thomas Aquinas famously said: “The Ph.D., University of Chicago study of philosophy is not about getting to know what people have held, but in what manner the truth of things stands.” Hence the importance of the topical LANCE SIMMONS courses, in which you will study some of the central subject areas of philosophy: [email protected] logic, epistemology, ethics and the philosophy of God. 972-721-5274 Analytic Philosophy, Ethics, 4) The Junior and Senior Seminars. Complementing the Core courses and Applied Ethics, Epistemology, the historical courses, which always present several thinkers together (usually Philosophy of Science in historical sequence), the Junior Seminar is devoted to the in-depth study of Ph.D., University of Notre Dame one thinker and his works. The Senior Seminar, for its part, focuses on a specific topic. The Senior Seminar’s main goal is to lead the student from an attitude of MATTHEW WALZ (critical and intelligent) absorption of material to the ability to construct detailed [email protected] philosophical arguments, and to present these arguments both orally and in 972-265-5703 writing in a methodologically sound way. Thus, the Senior Seminar prepares Medieval Philosophy, Ancient for the Senior Thesis. In both seminars, philosophy majors discover the degree Philosophy, Philosophical to which philosophical inquiry can be not only a private endeavor, but also a Anthropology communal one. Ph.D., The Catholic University of America 5) Electives. Every major must take at least one elective in philosophy (the department offers courses such as Epistemology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of ROBERT E. WOOD Education, Bioethics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of History, Thomas [email protected] Aquinas, and Philosophy of Technology). In the schedule of the philosophy 972-721-5141 major, there is room for additional electives, typically about four. You can take Aesthetics, Anthropology, these electives either in philosophy itself or in other areas that complement your Metaphysics, Plato, Hegel, philosophical studies. The selection of electives is a matter you may wish to Heidegger discuss with your adviser. Ph.D., Marquette University PHILOSOPHY MAIN OFFICE MARY EMILY CHERNOFF Administrative Assistant [email protected] 972-721-5161 (voice) 972-721-4005 (fax) www.udallas.edu/philosophy PhilosophyStudentGuide_Academics_FY16_v3.indd 3 11/19/15 11:08 AM How to Plan a Four-Year
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