PHL 101

Philosophical Reasoning

The ultimate aim of this course is to give you a greater understanding of the history, methodology and purpose of philosophy in order that you may incorporate its analytical methods into your own chosen area of study, and perhaps your life more generally. This is a skill-focused philosophy course, devoted to the identification, evaluation and construction of arguments, but these skills will be refined in the process of learning to do philosophy: reading classic philosophical works, understanding their content, and evaluating their argumentative success. The hope is that having completed the course, you will have a richer sense of a few episodes in human intellectual history and will be better able to appreciate arguments, which are a pervasive phenomenon in contemporary society.

Units: 3.0