Phil 1021: Accelerated Introduction to Logic                  
Instructor Devora Shapiro

May Session 05/21/07-06/08/07   3 cr
101 LEC 10:40-12:30 MTWThF                                      
102 DIS 1:25-2:15 MTWThF  

(Meets CLE req of Mathematical Thinking Core)

Logic provides us with a set of formal techniques that can help us sharpen our thinking and present clearer arguments. Examine the structure of arguments, and identify the assumptions used to support a position.   Propositional and predicate logic, truth tables, truth trees, and the logical symbolization of English statements and arguments.

Phil 1026W: Philosophy and Cultural Diversity
Instructor Britt Johnson

May Session 05/21/07-06/08/07   3 cr
101 LET 4:45 pm-7:15 pm MTWThF

(Meets CLE req of Cultural Diversity Theme, Other Humanities, Writing Intensive)

The goal of the course is not to make everyone into philosophers in three weeks.   Rather, you are starting the course as philosophers.   You will be doing philosophy for three weeks.   The goal of the course is to acquaint you with a few of the types of questions that arise in philosophy, how philosophers approach such questions, and how philosophers work to answer those questions.   Perhaps most importantly, you will learn how to participate in the conversation of philosophy.  

Phil 3322W: Moral Problems of Contemporary Society
Instructor Thomas Doyle

May Session 05/21/07-06/08/07   3 cr
101 LET 8:00-10:30 MTWThF  

(Meets CLE req of Citizenship/Publ Ethics Theme, Other Humanities Core, Writing Intensive)

How should I live?In this course, we will pursue this question bythinking about how we ought to respond to some pervasive and morallyproblematic features of our world:economic inequality, poverty andhunger; destruction of the environment; war and torture.We willlook to ethical theory to see what light it might shed on ourpursuit, and we will consider some skeptical challenges to the veryidea of morality.There will be approximately 20-25 pages of reading per night; short daily writing assignments; and a 7-10 page paper(which will be revised on the basis of some comments.)

PHIL 4326 Lives worth living: Questions of self, vocation, and community
Professor John Wallace                                                      

101 FWK (Field Work) 6 cr

(Meets CLE req of Citizenship Publ Ethics Theme, Other Humanities Core)
Limited to 18.

4 week study field experience in southwestern Minnesota.  

* Permission required from instructor.

Immersion experience.   Students live together as a residential community of learners.   Works of philosophy, history, and literature form backdrop for exploring such questions as How is identity constructed?   What is vocation?   What experiences of community are desirable in a life?   Each student creates a life-hypothesis for a life worth living.

For more information see the web site : www.philosophycamp.org.