Patrick Frierson

Courses

If you would like to take any of these past courses, please let me know. I can usually teach any seminar as an independent study. Course schedules for the following academic year are typically decided a year in advance, but I take student interest into account in determining which seminars to propose. If you are interested in either an independent study or a course for next year, you can contact me at frierspr@whitman.edu

Major Courses: At present, the department requires Phil 202 for majors; Phil 304 is a requirement from earlier versions of the philosophy major

Modern European Philosophy (2021 version)

Phil 202: Readings in the History of Philosophy: Modern European Philosophy (2017 version, including moral and political philosophy)

Phil 202: Readings in the History of Philosophy: Modern European Philosophy (version emphasizing Anne Conway)

Phil 202: Readings in the History of Philosophy: Modern European Philosophy (classic version)

Phil 304: Kant and the 19th Century (version ending with Nietzsche)

Phil 304: Kant and the 19th Century (version ending with Heidegger)

Past Seminars

Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Korsgaard and Her Critics

What is the Human Being?

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Tutorial, most recent version)

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Tutorial, old version)

Phil 338: Kant's Moral Philosophy (Tutorial, old version)

Phil 338: Kierkegaard

Hume's Treatise

Contemporary Philosophy of Science

Contemporary Ethical Theories

Genealogies of Morals

The Ethical and the Real (no web material)

Past Introductory Courses

Exploring Complex Questions: Childhood, a First Year Semianar.

Philosophy of Education

Phil 120: Environmental Ethics

Phil 109: Symbolic Logic

Phil 127: Ethics

Phil 148: Philosophy of Religion

Gens 145: Antiquity and Modernity

Gens 146: Antiquity and Modernity

Past 200-level Courses (primarily for non-majors)

ENVS/PHIL 227: Concepts of Nature in Modern European Philosophy

Phil 277: Philosophy of Science

Phil 230: History of the Philosophy of Science

Phil 222: Education and Autonomy

In addition, I have run a Symbolic Logic Independent Study (Phil 488), based on the textbook LAnguage, Proof, and Logic