September 9, 2026
karen brown (clearihue hall b 314) office hours wednesday 1-2:20
Workshops in class for writing assignments
5 writing assignments (4 midterm, 1 final) and 3 quizzes each term
- Philosophy
- The practice of thinking in an open, critical, systematic way about something with
the aim of understanding
- Love of wisdom
- Knowledge vs wisdom
- Applying and using what you know
- Questioning fundamental assumptions
- Tackling normative issues
- What you should do
- Think about/questions of the general nature of the world
- What is there and how is it possible
- Metaphysics
- William James
- (Metaphysics) Unusually obstinate effort to think clearly
- Practically clear, theoretically confusing
- Justification of beliefs
- Evidence, testimony, perception, memory
- Epistemology
- Thinking and reasoning
- Logic
- Investigating
- The conduct of life, how to live
- Value theory, axiology
- Morals, ethics, character, actions
- Esoteric, normative, abstruse questions
karen brown (clearihue hall b 314) office hours wednesday 1-2:20
Workshops in class for writing assignments
5 writing assignments (4 midterm, 1 final) and 3 quizzes each term
- Philosophy
- The practice of thinking in an open, critical, systematic way about something with
the aim of understanding
- Love of wisdom
- Knowledge vs wisdom
- Applying and using what you know
- Questioning fundamental assumptions
- Tackling normative issues
- What you should do
- Think about/questions of the general nature of the world
- What is there and how is it possible
- Metaphysics
- William James
- (Metaphysics) Unusually obstinate effort to think clearly
- Practically clear, theoretically confusing
- Justification of beliefs
- Evidence, testimony, perception, memory
- Epistemology
- Thinking and reasoning
- Logic
- Investigating
- The conduct of life, how to live
- Value theory, axiology
- Morals, ethics, character, actions
- Esoteric, normative, abstruse questions
