Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2019

PHIL 101   Intro Philosophical Problems
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2021 2020
Pre-Requisites
Co-Requisites
Core Area
Area of InquiryHuman Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices

Acquaints students with the nature of philosophical problems and the means by which one might try to solve them. Readings and discussions are organized around perennial questions regarding the nature of morality and justice, free will, the existence of God, the meaning of life, the nature of knowledge, and the relation between mind and body.