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Number Title Offered/Credits
PL070 Philosophy of the Person I (Fall/Spring: 3)
PL071 Philosophy of the Person II (Spring: 3)
PL088 Person and Social Responsibility I (Fall: 3)
PL089 Person and Social Responsibility II (Spring: 3)
PL090 Perspectives on Western Culture I/Perspectives I (Fall: 6)
PL091 Perspectives on Western Culture II/Perspectives II (Spring: 6)
PL116 Medieval Religions and Thought (Spring: 3)
PL160 The Challenge of Justice (Fall/Spring: 3)
PL216 Boston: An Urban Analysis (Spring: 3)
PL233 Values in Social Services and Health Care (Fall: 3)
PL259 Perspectives on War, Aggression, and Conflict Resolution I (Fall: 3)
PL261 Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice (Fall: 3)
PL262 Telling Truths II: Depth Writing as Service (Spring: 3)
PL264 Logic (Fall/Spring: 3)
PL281 Philosophy of Human Existence I (Fall: 3)
PL282 Philosophy of Human Existence II (Spring: 3)
PL293 Culture and Social Structures I: Philosophy of PULSE (Fall: 3)
PL294 Culture and Social Structures II: Philosophy of PULSE (Spring: 3)
PL299 Readings and Research (Fall/Spring: 3)
PL394 Senior Honors Seminar (Fall: 4)
PL395 Senior Honors Thesis (Spring: 4)
PL398 Senior Thesis (Fall/Spring: 3)
PL405 Greek Philosophy (Fall: 3)
PL406 History of Modern Philosophy (Fall: 3)
PL407 Medieval Philosophy (Spring: 3)
PL408 Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Philosophy (Spring: 3)
PL414 Race and Philosophy (Spring: 3)
PL423 Spanish-American Philosophy (Fall: 3)
PL429 Freud and Philosophy (Fall: 3)
PL440 Historical Introduction to Western Moral Theory (Fall: 3)
PL447 Fascisms (Spring: 3)
PL448 Buddhist Thought and Practice (Fall: 3)
PL453 Gandhi, Satyagraha, and Society (Spring: 3)
PL456 The Holocaust: A Moral History (Fall: 3)
PL492 Spiritual Exercises:Philosophers&Theologians (Spring: 3)
PL493 Bioethics: Ethical Issues in Healthcare (Fall: 3)
PL500 Philosophy of Law (Fall: 3)
PL507 Ancient Philosophy East and West (Fall: 3)
PL509 Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy & Practice (Spring: 3)
PL512 Philosophy of Existence (Fall: 3)
PL516 Epistemology (Spring: 3)
PL523 Nietzsche on Ethics & Virtues of Philosophy (Spring: 3)
PL527 Philosophy of Language (Fall: 3)
PL529 Metaphysics (Fall: 3)
PL530 Social Theory: Hegel to Freud (Spring: 3)
PL534 Environmental Ethics (Spring: 3)
PL536 Philosophies of Dissent (Fall: 3)
PL537 Contemporary Metaethics (Fall: 3)
PL538 Capstone: Journey to Self-Discovery (Spring: 3)
PL541 Philosophy of Health Science: East and West (Spring: 3)
PL550 Capstone: Building A Life (Fall: 3)
PL552 God, Ethics and the Sciences (Spring: 3)
PL553 Capstone: Poets, Philosophers, and Mapmakers (Spring: 3)
PL577 Symbolic Logic: Theory and Practices (Fall: 3)
PL578 Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Spring: 3)
PL584 C.S. Lewis (Fall: 3)
PL586 Platonic Dialogues (Fall: 3)
PL593 Philosophy of Science (Fall: 3)
PL621 Anti-Moralism (Spring: 3)
PL622 Philosophy and Music (Spring: 3)
PL625 The Problem of Self-Knowledge (Fall: 3)
PL626 Hermeneutics of God (Spring: 3)
PL631 Science, Brains and Ethics (Spring: 3)
PL634 Cosmic City:Hellenistic&Early Christian Philosophy (Spring: 3)
PL670 Technology and Culture (Fall: 3)
PL700 Ancient & Medieval Theories of the Passions (Spring: 3)
PL703 Aristolte's Ethics: Plotinus, Ennead I (Spring: 3)
PL704 Plato's Republic (Spring: 3)
PL707 Habermas: Law and Politics (Fall: 3)
PL712 Medieval Metaphysics (Fall: 3)
PL717 Aquinas and God (Fall: 3)
PL719 Aquinas on Virtue & Law (Spring: 3)
PL727 Consequentialism and Its Critics (Fall: 3)
PL732 Husserl's Ideas: Book I (Fall: 3)
PL734 The Idea of Community (Fall: 3)
PL740 Global Justice and Obligation (Fall: 3)
PL758 Empathy & Social Cognition (Spring: 3)
PL762 Soren Kierkegaard (Spring: 3)
PL776 Greeks and Human Knowledge (Spring: 3)
PL794 Philosophy and the Church Fathers (Spring: 3)
PL799 Readings and Research (Fall: 3)
PL809 Arendt & Foucault: A Dialog (Fall: 3)
PL820 Hegel, Kierkegaard, Blondel (Fall: 3)
PL821 Democratic Ethos and Renewal of Political Liberalism (Spring: 3)
PL833 Carnal Hermeneutics (Fall: 3)
PL848 Plato's Dialogues (Fall: 3)
PL888 Interim Study (Fall/Spring: 0)
PL990 Teaching Seminar (Fall/Spring: 0)
PL998 Doctoral Comprehensives (Fall/Spring: 1)
PL999 Doctoral Continuation (Fall/Spring: 1)