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.
Supervised research usually with the goal of writing a senior thesis, under the direction of individual members of the department.
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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.
A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing in the Spring under the direction of an individual advisor. 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.