Professors: Taylor Carman, Alan Gabbey (Ann Whitney Olin Professor), Frederick Neuhouser (Chair, Viola Manderfield Professor of German Language and Literature)
Associate Professors: Jeffrey Blustein (Adjunct)
Assistant Professors: Stephanie Beardman, Katalin Makkai
Other officers of the
University offering courses in Philosophy:
Professors: David Albert, Akeel Bilgrami, Haim Gaifman, Lydia Goehr, Patricia Kitcher, Philip
Kitcher, Christia Mercer, Christopher Peacocke, Carol Rovane, David Sidorsky
Associate Professors: John Collins, Wolfgang Mann, Achille Varzi
Assistant Professors: Macalaster Bell, Jeffrey Helzner, Daniel Rothschild, Katja Vogt
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
The department offers a wide range of courses designed to acquaint the student with traditional
and contemporary work in ethics, metaphysics, aesthetics, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, logic, and the history of philosophy. The courses are designed to facilitate student participation. The student is expected to develop a competence in techniques of conceptual analysis, argument, and the interpretation of texts.
Although it is not required for the major or for the minor, students who have not had previous training in philosophy are advised to take one of PHIL BC 1001–1006. Credit for only one of PHIL BC 1001–1006 will be given for the major or for the minor.
A major in Philosophy consists of at least 10 courses, as follows:
1. One course on ancient or
early medieval philosophy:
PHIL V 2101
History of Philosophy I: Pre-Socratics through Augustine
PHIL V
3121 Plato
PHIL V
3131 Aristotle
2. One course on early modern
philosophy:
PHIL V 2201
History of Philosophy II: Aquinas through Kant
PHIL V
3237 Early Modern Philosophy
3. One course in logic:
PHIL V 3411
Introduction to Symbolic Logic
4. One course in moral
philosophy:
PHIL V 3701
Moral Philosophy
PHIL V
3653 Mind and Morals
5. One of the following
courses:
PHIL V 4501
Epistemology
PHIL V
3601 Metaphysics
6. PHIL BC 3900 Senior Seminar
7. Either: Senior Essay (PHIL BC 3950 and 3951) or one advanced seminar (above 4000) and one elective beyond the two stipulated in 8 (below).
8. Two electives in addition to the eight courses stipulated above.
Five courses constitute a minor in philosophy. The courses must be selected in consultation with the department chair. Only one of PHIL 1001-1005 may be counted among the five.