COURSE INFORMATION FOR PHL-1001
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
COURSE DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the major types of philosophical thought and the central problems of philosophy (e.g., human nature, political philosophy, the nature of morality, philosophy of religion) as presented through classical and contemporary reading selections.
3 credit hours
Syllabus Spring 2010 MWF Syllabus Spring 2010 TR Syllabus Spring 2010 R Evening
| Life or Death Assignment | |
| Nietzsche Assignment: Death of God | Nietzsche Assignment: Ubermensch |
| Marx Assignment | |
| Feminism Assignment | |
| Critical Race Theory Assignment |
Guidelines for Final Book Review
Power Point: Feminism Power Point: Body Image 1 Power Point: Body Image 2
Recommended Reading: Philosophy and Philosophizing
| Enrique Dussel | Philosophy of Liberation | 1980 |
| David Ingram | Critical Theory and Philosophy | 1990 |
| Roger S. Gottlieb, ed. | Radical Philosophy | 1993 |
| Paul K. Moser & Dwayne Mulder, eds. | Contemporary Approaches to Philosophy | 1994 |
| Naomi Zack et al, eds. | Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality | 1998 |
| Phil Washburn, ed. | The Many Faces of Wisdom | 2003 |
| Lisa Heldke & Peg O'Connor, eds. | Oppression, Privilege and Resistance | 2004 |
| George Yancy, ed. | Philosophy in Multiple Voices | 2007 |
Recommended Reading: Nietzsche and His Influence
| Friedrich Nietzsche | The Birth of Tragedy | 1872, 1886 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Human, All-too-Human | 1878-80 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Daybreak | 1881 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | The Gay Science | 1883-7 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil | 1886 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | On the Genealogy of Morals | 1887 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Twilight of the Idols | 1888 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | The Antichrist | 1895 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Ecce Homo | 1908 |
| Walter Kaufmann | Nietzsche | 1950, 1974 |
| Arthur C. Danto | Nietzsche and Philosophy | 1965 |
| R. J. Hollingdale | Nietzsche, the Man and His Philosophy | 1965, 1999 |
| Bernd Magnus | Nietzsche's Existential Imperative | 1978 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Philosophy and Truth | 1979 |
| Michel Foucault | The Foucault Reader | 1984 |
| Alexander Nehamas | Nietzsche: Life as Literature | 1985 |
| Maudemarie Clark | Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy | 1990 |
| Richard Schacht, ed. | Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality | 1994 |
| Bernd Magnus & Kathleen Higgins, eds. | The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche | 1996 |
| Robert C. Solomon & Kathleen Higgins | What Nietzsche Really Said | 2000 |
| Robert C. Solomon | Living with Nietzsche | 2003 |
| Keith J. Ansell-Pearson | How to Read Nietzsche | 2005 |
| Bernard Reginster | The Affirmation of Life | 2008 |
Recommended Reading: Existentialism
| Søren Kierkegaard | Fear and Trembling | 1843 |
| Søren Kierkegaard | The Concept of Dread | 1844 |
| Søren Kierkegaard | The Sickness Unto Death | 1849 |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis | 1925 |
| Franz Kafka | The Trial | 1925 |
| Martin Heidegger | Being and Time | 1927 |
| José Ortega y Gasset | The Revolt of the Masses | 1930 |
| Erich Fromm | Escape from Freedom | 1941 |
| José Ortega y Gasset | Toward a Philosophy of History | 1941 |
| Albert Camus | The Myth of Sisyphus | 1942 |
| Albert Camus | The Stranger | 1942 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Being and Nothingness | 1943 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | No Exit | 1945 |
| Albert Camus | The Plague | 1947 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Ethics of Ambiguity | 1948 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Dirty Hands | 1948 |
| Paul Tillich | The Courage to Be | 1952 |
| Walter Kaufmann, ed. | Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre | 1956, 1975 |
| Walter Kaufmann | From Shakespeare to Existentialism | 1959 |
| Maurice Friedman, ed. | The Worlds of Existentialism | 1964 |
| Robert C. Solomon | From Rationalism to Existentialism | 1972 |
| Robert C. Solomon, ed. | Phenomenology and Existentialism | 1972 |
| Robert C. Solomon, ed. | Existentialism | 1974, 2005 |
| John Douglas Mullen | Kierkegaard's Philosophy | 1981 |
| Christina Howells, ed. | The Cambridge Companion to Sartre | 1992 |
| Merold Westphal | Becoming a Self | 1996 |
| Alastair Hannay & Gordon D. Marino, eds. | The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard | 1998 |
| Paul S. MacDonald, editor | The Existentialist Reader | 2000 |
| Charles Guignon & Derk Pereboom, eds. | Existentialism | 2001 |
| Thomas R. Flynn | Existentialism | 2006 |
Recommended Readings: Marxism (and related issues)
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Discourse on the Origin of Inequality | 1755 |
| Robert Owen | Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System | 1815 |
| Claude Henri de Saint-Simon | The Industrial System | 1821 |
| Louis Blanc | The Organization of Labor | 1839 |
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | What is Property? | 1840 |
| Karl Marx | Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts | 1844 |
| Friedrich Engels | The Condition of the Working Class in England | 1845 |
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | The System of Economic Contradictions | 1847 |
| Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels | The Communist Manifesto | 1848 |
| Charles Dickens | Hard Times | 1853 |
| Karl Marx | Capital, vol. 1 | 1867 |
| Mikhail Bakunin | Statism and Anarchism | 1873 |
| Friedrich Engels | Socialism | 1880 |
| Georgi Plekhanov | Socialism and the Political Struggle | 1883 |
| Friedrich Engels | Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State | 1884 |
| Piotr Kropotkin | The Conquest of Bread | 1892 |
| Eduard Bernstein | Evolutionary Socialism (Ch. 3) | 1899 |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Reform or Revolution? | 1899 |
| George Washington Woodbey | The Bible and Socialism | 1904 |
| Georges Sorel | Reflections on Violence | 1908 |
| Emma Goldman | Anarchism and Other Essays | 1910 |
| V. I. Lenin | Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism | 1916 |
| Antonio Gramsci | Worker's Democracy | 1919 |
| Karl Kautsky | Terrorism and Communism | 1919 |
| György Lukács | History and Class Consciousness | 1923 |
| George Orwell | Down and Out in Paris and London | 1933 |
| Sidney Hook | From Hegel to Marx | 1935 |
| George Orwell | The Road to Wigan Pier | 1937 |
| Maurice Merleau-Ponty | Humanism and Terror | 1947 |
| The Socialist International | The Aims and Tasks of Democratic Socialism | 1951 |
| Sidney Hook | Marx and the Marxists | 1955 |
| Hannah Arendt | The Human Condition | 1958 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Search for a Method | 1960 |
| Michael Harrington | The Other America | 1962 |
| Albert Fried & Ronald Sanders, eds. | Socialist Thought | 1964 |
| Herbert Marcuse | One-Dimensional Man | 1964 |
| Erich Fromm | Marx's Concept of Man | 1966 |
| Guy Debord | The Society of the Spectacle | 1967 |
| Julius Nyerere | Ujamaa | 1968 |
| Jean Baudrillard | The Consumer Society | 1970 |
| C. B. MacPherson | Democratic Theory | 1973 |
| Jeffrey Reiman | The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison | 1979, 2007 |
| Peter Singer | Marx | 1980 |
| Allen W. Wood | Karl Marx | 1981, 2004 |
| Terrell Carver | Marx's Social Theory | 1982 |
| Richard Schmitt | Introduction to Marx and Engels | 1987, 1997 |
| Stephen Eric Bronner & Douglas MacKay Kellner, eds. | Critical Theory and Society | 1989 |
| Roger S. Gottlieb, ed. | An Anthology of Western Marxism | 1989 |
| Terrell Carver, ed. | The Cambridge Companion to Marx | 1991 |
| Roger S. Gottlieb | Marxism, 1844-1990 | 1992 |
| David Schweickart | Against Capitalism | 1996 |
| G. A. Cohen | If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? | 2000 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed | 2001 |
| David Schweickart | After Capitalism | 2002 |
| Richard Schmitt | Alienation and Freedom | 2003 |
| Beth Shulman | The Betrayal of Work | 2003 |
| Paul Kivel | You Call This a Democracy? | 2004 |
| Jerold L. Waltman | The Case for the Living Wage | 2004 |
| G. A. Cohen | Why Not Socialism? | 2009 |
| Slavoj Žižek | First as Tragedy, Then as Farce | 2009 |
Recommended Readings: Feminism
| Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | 1792 |
| Harriet Taylor (with John Stuart Mill) | The Enfranchisement of Women | 1851, 1970 |
| John Stuart Mill | The Subjection of Women | 1869 |
| Friedrich Engels | The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State | 1884 |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Women and Economics | 1898 |
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening | 1899 |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Herland | 1915 |
| Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own | 1929 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome | 1959 |
| Betty Friedan | The Feminine Mystique | 1963 |
| Kate Millett | Sexual Politics | 1969, 1990 |
| Shulamith Firestone | The Dialectic of Sex | 1971 |
| Germaine Greer | The Female Eunuch | 1971 |
| Mary Daly | Beyond God the Father | 1973 |
| Rosemary Radford Ruether | Religion and Sexism | 1974 |
| Susan Brownmiller | Against Our Will | 1975 |
| Luce Irigaray | This Sex Which Is Not One | 1977 |
| Mary Daly | Gyn/Ecology | 1978 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English | For Her Own Good | 1979 |
| bell hooks | Ain't I a Woman | 1981 |
| Carol Gilligan | In a Different Voice | 1982 |
| Marilyn Frye | The Politics of Reality | 1983 |
| bell hooks | Feminist Theory | 1984 |
| Evelyn Fox Keller | Reflections on Gender and Science | 1985 |
| Christine Overall | Ethics and Human Reproduction | 1987 |
| Carol Pateman | The Sexual Contract | 1988 |
| Judith Butler | Gender Trouble | 1989 |
| Nancy Fraser | Unruly Practices | 1989 |
| Arlie Hochschild & Anne Machung | The Second Shift | 1989 |
| John Stoltenberg | Refusing to Be a Man | 1989 |
| Sandra Lee Bartky | Femininity and Domination | 1990 |
| Susan Faludi | Backlash | 1991 |
| Naomi Wolf | The Beauty Myth | 1991 |
| Marilyn French | The War Against Women | 1992 |
| Susan Bordo | Unbearable Weight | 1993 |
| Naomi Wolf | Fire with Fire | 1993 |
| Larry May & Robert Strikwerda, eds. | Rethinking Masculinity | 1996 |
| Iris Marion Young | Intersecting Voices | 1997 |
| Susan Moller Okin et al | Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? | 1999 |
| Diana T. Meyers | Gender in the Mirror | 2002 |
| Iris Marion Young | On Female Body Experience | 2005 |
| Naomi Zack | Inclusive Feminism | 2005 |
| Sarah Song | Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism | 2007 |
| Alison Bailey & Chris Cuomo, eds. | The Feminist Philosophy Reader | 2008 |
| Jessica Valenti | He's a Stud, She's a Slut and 49 Other Double-Standards Every Woman Should Know | 2008 |
| Jessica Valenti | The Purity Myth | 2009 |
Recommended Readings: Queer Theory
| John Boswell | Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality | 1980 |
| Sarah Lucia Hoagland | Lesbian Ethics | 1988 |
| Richard D. Mohr | Gays/Justice | 1988 |
| Suzanne Pharr | Homophobia | 1988 |
| Michael Ruse | Homosexuality | 1988 |
| Judith Butler | Gender Trouble | 1989 |
| Martin Duberman et al, eds. | Hidden from History | 1989 |
| David M. Halperin | One Hundred Years of Homosexuality | 1990 |
| Thomas Laqueuer | Making Sex | 1990 |
| Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | Epistemology of the Closet | 1990 |
| Diana Fuss, ed. | Inside/Out | 1991 |
| Leslie Feinberg | Transgender Liberation | 1992 |
| Richard D. Mohr | Gay Ideas | 1992 |
| Judith Butler | Bodies that Matter | 1993 |
| Kate Bornstein | Gender Outlaw | 1994 |
| John Boswell | Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe | 1994 |
| Pat Califia | Public Sex | 1994, 2000 |
| Richard D. Mohr | A More Perfect Union | 1994 |
| Timothy F. Murphy, ed. | Gay Ethics | 1994 |
| David M. Halperin | Saint Foucault | 1995 |
| Beth A. Firestein, ed. | Bisexuality | 1996 |
| Annamarie Jagose | Queer Theory | 1996 |
| Pat Califia | Sex Changes | 1997, 2003 |
| John Corvino, ed. | Same Sex | 1997 |
| Daphne/Dylan Scholinski | The Last Time I Wore a Dress | 1997 |
| Michael Warner | The Trouble with Normal | 1999 |
| Cheshire Calhoun | Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet | 2000 |
| Anne Fausto-Sterling | Sexing the Body | 2000 |
| Pat Califia | Speaking Sex to Power | 2002 |
| David M. Halperin | How to Do the History of Homosexuality | 2002 |
| Nikki Sullivan | A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory | 2003 |
| Riki Wilchins | Queer Theory, Gender Theory | 2004 |
| Richard D. Mohr | The Long Arc of Justice | 2005 |
| Jonathan Rauch | Gay Marriage | 2005 |
| David G. Myers & Letha Dawson Scanzoni | What God Has Joined Together? | 2006 |
| William S. Wilkerson | Ambiguity and Sexuality | 2007 |
| Laurie J. Shrage, ed. | "You've Changed" | 2009 |
| Martha C. Nussbaum | From Disgust to Humanity | 2010 |
Recommended Readings: Critical Race Theory
| W. E. B. DuBois | The Souls of Black Folk | 1903 |
| Carter G. Woodson | The Mis-Education of the Negro | 1922 |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | 1952 |
| Frantz Fanon | Black Skin, White Masks | 1952 |
| James Baldwin | Notes of a Native Son | 1955 |
| Aimé Césaire | Discourse on Colonialism | 1955 |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart | 1959 |
| Chinua Achebe | No Longer at Ease | 1960 |
| Frantz Fanon | The Wretched of the Earth | 1961 |
| James Baldwin | The Fire Next Time | 1962 |
| Stokely Carmichael & Charles V. Hamilton | Black Power | 1967 |
| Albert Cleage | The Black Messiah | 1968 |
| James H. Cone | A Black Theology of Liberation | 1970 |
| William R. Jones | Is God a White Racist? | 1973, 1998 |
| James H. Cone | God of the Oppressed | 1975 |
| Stephen Jay Gould | The Mismeasure of Man | 1981, 1996 |
| bell hooks | Ain't I a Woman | 1981 |
| Cornel West | Prophesy Deliverance! | 1982 |
| Michael Omi & Howard Winant | Racial Formation in the United States | 1986, 1994 |
| Gloria Anzaldúa | Borderlands/La Frontera | 1987, 1999 |
| Patricia Hill Collins | Black Feminist Thought | 1990 |
| Iris Marion Young | Justice and the Politics of Difference | 1990 |
| Bernard R. Boxill | Blacks and Social Justice | 1992 |
| Andrew Hacker | Two Nations | 1992 |
| David E. Stannard | American Holocaust | 1992 |
| Ruth Frankenberg | The Social Construction of Whiteness | 1993 |
| Edward W. Said | Culture and Imperialism | 1993 |
| Cornel West | Race Matters | 1993 |
| Amy Gutmann, ed. | Multiculturalism | 1994 |
| Enrique Dussel | The Invention of the Americas | 1995 |
| Steven Fraser, ed. | The Bell Curve Wars | 1995 |
| Lewis R. Gordon | Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism | 1995 |
| bell hooks | Killing Rage | 1995 |
| Will Kymlicka | Multicultural Citizenship | 1995 |
| Michael Eric Dyson | Race Rules | 1996 |
| Paul Kivel | Uprooting Racism | 1996, 2002 |
| Charles W. Mills | The Racial Contract | 1997 |
| Ward Churchill | A Little Matter of Genocide | 1998 |
| Charles W. Mills | Blackness Visible | 1998 |
| Naomi Zack | Thinking about Race | 1998, 2006 |
| David Ingram | Group Rights | 2000 |
| Tommy L. Lott & Robert Bernasconi, eds. | The Idea of Race | 2000 |
| Lawrence Blum | "I'm Not a Racist, But..." | 2002 |
| Carol Swain | The New White Nationalism in America | 2002 |
| Linda Alcoff & Eduardo Mendieta, eds. | Identities | 2003 |
| Eduardo Bonilla-Silva | Racism without Racists | 2003, 2010 |
| Maria Lugones | Pilgrimages | 2003 |
| David Ingram | Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics | 2004 |
| Michael Eric Dyson | Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?) | 2005 |
| George Yancy, ed. | White on White, Black on Black | 2005 |
| Linda Martín Alcoff | Visible Identities | 2006 |
| Linda Martin Alcoff et al, eds. | Identity Politics Reconsidered | 2006 |
| Barbara Trepagnier | Silent Racism | 2006 |
| Tommie Shelby | We Who Are Dark | 2007 |
| George Yancy | Black Bodies, White Gazes | 2008 |
last updated 2/16/09