1000 Level Courses - Fall/Winter 2011-2012
- Philosophy 1020 - Introduction to Philosophy (001)
- Philosophy 1020 - Introduction to Philosophy (002)
- Philosophy 1022E - Advanced Introduction to Philosophy
- Philosophy 1130F - Big Ideas
- Philosophy 1130G - Big Ideas
- Philosophy 1200 - Reasoning and Critical Thinking (Section 001)
- Philosophy 1200 - Reasoning and Critical Thinking (Sectionn 002)
- Philosophy 1200 - Reasoning and Critical Thinking (Distance Studies)
- Philosophy 1305F - Questions of the Day
- Philosophy 1305G - Questions of the Day
For up-to-date timetables for all terms, please use the online timetable service.
Detailed Course Descriptions
PHILOSOP 1020 - Introduction to Philosophy
Instructor: J. Thorp
Teaching Assistants: T. Bieber, E. Rossiter, S. Monner, M. Zehairi, R. Baumiller, J. Richards, L. Sidlar, A. Peterson,
B. Peric
This is a 'big-picture' course, which endeavours to give a sense of the broad intellectual terrain surrounding such fundamental issues as justice, morality, identity, freedom, religion, knowledge & truth. The aim is to help students to find their bearings in the welter of debates about these questions, and their offshoots, that surround us. Among the particular subjects covered will be human rights, feminism, religion and secularism, civil disobedience, homosexuality, moral evolution, relativism, freedom, minds and brains, artificial intelligence, personal and social identity, the nature of science, idealism, and religious faith. Lectures and tutorials will focus on short readings both classical and contemporary, as well as on film and other media. The course is intended for – though not restricted to – students with no prior exposure to philosophy.
PHILOSOP 1022E - Advanced Introduction to Philosophy
Instructors: C. Smeenk and A. Skelton
Teaching Assistants: R. Brandt, M. MacAulay, S. Kapusta, S. Pearce, J. Luczak
Questions about knowledge and reality, mind and body, morality and justice, truth and beauty, sex and gender, God's existence and attributes, and rationality and philosophical paradoxes are explored in this course designed for students with some acquaintance with philosophy who wish to further develop their analytic and expressive skills.
PHILOSOP 1130F - Big Ideas
Instructor: Saad Anis
Teaching Assistants: Y. Benetreau-Dupin, M. Walschots, B. Cameron, M. Winsby
Apparently simple conceptions sometimes especially capture our imagination. Examples: Descartes's "I think, therefore I am," McLuhan's "the medium is the message," or Plato's theory of forms. The course examines a great number of these simple ideas that are also the Big Ideas that no educated person should be ignorant of.
PHILOSOP 1130G - Big Ideas
Instructor: J. Life, G. Beaulac, M. Winsby
Apparently simple conceptions sometimes especially capture our imagination. Examples: Descartes's "I think, therefore I am," McLuhan's "the medium is the message," or Plato's theory of forms. The course examines a great number of these simple ideas that are also the Big Ideas that no educated person should be ignorant of.
Course Outline
PHILOSOP 1200 - Reasoning and Critical Thinking
Instructor: Eric Desjardins
Teaching Assistants: C. Shirreff, D. Booth, J. Jenkinson, R. MacIntosh, C. Roadevin, M. Graham
An introduction to basic principles of reasoning and critical thinking designed to enhance the student's ability to evaluate various forms of reasoning as found in everyday life as well as in academic disciplines. The course will deal with such topics as inductive and deductive reasoning, the nature and function of definitions, types of fallacies, the use and misuse of statistics, and the rudiments of logic. Primarily for first-year students.
PHILOSOP 1200 (Section 2) - Reasoning and Critical Thinking
Instructor: Dylan Gault
An introduction to basic principles of reasoning and critical thinking designed to enhance the student's ability to evaluate various forms of reasoning as found in everyday life as well as in academic disciplines. The course will deal with such topics as inductive and deductive reasoning, the nature and function of definitions, types of fallacies, the use and misuse of statistics, and the rudiments of logic. Primarily for first-year students.
PHILOSOP 1200 - Reasoning and Critical Thinking (Distance Studies)
Instructor: Aaron Barth
An introduction to basic principles of reasoning and critical thinking designed to enhance the student's ability to evaluate various forms of reasoning as found in everyday life as well as in academic disciplines. The course will deal with such topics as inductive and deductive reasoning, the nature and function of definitions, types of fallacies, the use and misuse of statistics, and the rudiments of logic. Primarily for first-year students.
PHILOSOP 1305F - Questions of the Day
Instructor: Arthur Yates
This course develops students' ability to approach disputed questions by seeing them from both sides, so that they reach their own view only after respecting a broad range of argument. Six questions will be considered, including human (over) population, the public funding of art, and the limits of religious freedom.
PHILOSOP 1305G - Questions of the Day
Instructor: Dean Proessel
Teaching Assistants: J. Life, G. Beaulac, M. Winsby
This course develops students' ability to approach disputed questions by seeing them from both sides, so that they reach their own view only after respecting a broad range of argument. Six questions will be considered, including human (over) population, the public funding of art, and the limits of religious freedom.
Course Outline Pending.
