Survey of some of the central problems, key figures, and great works in both traditional and contemporary philosophy. Topics and texts will vary with instructor and semester.
Intensive study of a philosophical issue or topic, or of a philosopher, group of philosophers, or philosophical school or movement. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.
Close reading and discussion of Being and Time and selected secondary sources. Special attention to the question of being, the status of hermeneutical phenomenology, the project of fundamental ontology, the idea of an analytic of Dasein, the notion of being-in-the-world, authenticity, temporality, death, anxiety, guilty and historicity.