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  • PHI 300: HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    Explores the development of the theory of knowledge and ethics in the early modern period through an analysis of continental rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz), British empiricism (Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume) and the American theologian philosopher Jonathan Edwards. Approved HUM 304 option. Fall semester, alternate years.
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  • PHI 304: 19C SOCIAL PHILOSOPHRS & PRAGMATISM

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    Explores the early pragmatist philosophers, C.S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey through their major philosophical texts. Pragmatism is a uniquely American variety of philosophy that has shaped American cultural life, its educational and political experience. It was the dominant position in the first half of the 20th century and has had a significant revival in modern philosophical discourse principally through the work of neopragmatist Richard Rorty, whose essays will be examined as well. Society Group B core option.
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  • PHI 305: CONTMP PHIL:THE ANALYTIC TRADITION

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    Examines the work, influence, and value of key philosophers in 20th-Century analytic philosophy, such as Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wiggenstein, J.L. Austin, and current contributors in this widespread tradition. Of special interest for students in linguistic, language, literary, communication and biblical studies. Every other year.
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  • PHI 306: POST MODERNISM

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    Explores the philosophical antecedents and thought of important contemporary philosophers who represent the philosophical reaction against modernity and the dominance of the Enlightenment paradigm-specifically, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean Francois Lyotard, and Richard Rorty. Additionally considers Christian thinkers' responses to and appropriation of postmodern thought. Of special interest for students in sociology, literature, Christian and student ministry majors. Every year. Approved HUM 304 option.
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  • PHI 307: WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    Exposes the student to the work of important women philosophers such as Marjorie Grene, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Martha Nussbaum, Lorraine Code, Caroline Simon, and Elenore Stump.
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  • PHI 308: CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    This course considers major themes of 20th Century Continental Philosophy, through a closer look at the work of important Continental philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty: existence, being-in-the-world, and the lived body. Alternate years.
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  • PHI 309: KIERKEGAARD AND NIETZSCHE

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    Explores the early foundations of the 19th century philosophical movement called existentialism by examining the two main philosophers in its genesis. Students will read a number of major works by both philosophers including (Kierkegaard) Sickness Unto Death, Fear and Trembling, and Practice in Christianity and (Nietzsche) Thus Spake Zarathustra, Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, as well as some others. This course provides the framework for understanding the critique of modernism by the postmodernists.
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  • PHI 310: CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    This seminar course introduces students to covenant epistemology: an innovative, biblically compatible holistic, epistemological vision which effectively offers a Christian understanding of life. Students' interactive exposure to a variety of works which shape and imply this epistemology proves to be personally transformational and profoundly practical. Every year. Approved HUM 304 and BIB 300 option.
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  • PHI 318: PHILOSOPHIES OF WORLD RELIGIONS

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    A study of the major religions of the world including Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam and Judaism from the vantage point of a Christian world view. Students explore the question of exclusivity (only one religion is true) and what constitutes a religious experience. Approved HUM 304 option. Fall semester, alternate years.
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  • PHI 353: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

    3.00 Credits
    Geneva College

    Examines fundamental philosophical questions undergirding and implied by the practice of science, and major positions and debates in contemporary philosophy of science regarding scientific explanation, confirmation, discovery, and the realist or antirealist status of scientific claims. Additional attention will be given to the insights of scientist-turned-philosopher Michael Polanyi, as well as to the implications of Christian commitment for philosophy of science. Of special interest for students in the sciences. Alternate years. Approved HUM 304 option.
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