Philosophical Resources (M.A.)
The M.A. in Philosophical Resources program is undergoing a reimagining and will not be accepting applications for Fall 2020.
The MAPR program in philosophy is designed primarily for Jesuit scholastics, although it is open to others who seek to enhance their philosophical knowledge but do not satisfy the stand-alone MA program’s entrance requirement of 24 undergraduate credits in philosophy. The degree requires 36 hours of course work in philosophy for 12 courses. A cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 in coursework. Only six credits of 2.0 (C) will be credited toward the degree. Twelves credits of C eliminate a student from the program.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Introductory seminars | ||
| PHIL 5005 | Classical Modern Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 5002 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy | 3 |
| Author courses | ||
| PHIL 5001 | Introduction to Plato | 3 |
| PHIL 5009 | Introduction to Aristotle | 3 |
| PHIL 5012 | Introduction to St. Augustine | 3 |
| PHIL 5010 | Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas | 3 |
| Ethics courses | ||
| PHIL 5003 | Natural Law Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 5114 | Normative Ethical Theory | 3 |
| Contemporary Philosophy electives | ||
| Two courses with the PGCA, PGCC, or PGOC attribute | 6 | |
| Philosophic Integration seminars 1 | ||
| PHIL 5098 | Sem: Philosophic Integration 1 | 3 |
| PHIL 5099 | Sem: Philosophic Integration 2 | 3 |
| Language Requirement 2 | ||
| GERM 5002 | Grad.Readg.in German II | 0 |
| or FREN 5090 | French for Reading | |
| Examination | ||
| PHIL 0936 | Master's Comprehensive Examination-Philosophy | 0 |
| Total Credits | 36 | |
- 1
The Integration Seminar includes a requirement for a paper that integrates the work done in two courses taken in the program.
- 2
Students must demonstrate a reading knowledge of one language other than English, either through graduate reading courses or by taking departmentally administered language exams. Students who satisfy the requirement by taking a graduate reading course must earn a grade of B or higher in the course.
Contemporary Philosophy Courses
Courses in this group have one of the following three attributes: PGCA, PGCC, or PGOC.
Contemporary Analytical Philosophy (PGCA)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PHIL 5114 | Normative Ethical Theory | 3 |
| PHIL 5305 | Confronting Moral Controversy | 3 |
| PHIL 6410 | Understanding and Wisdom | 3 |
| PHIL 6420 | Expertise | 3 |
| PHIL 6436 | Philosophy of Time and Persistence | 3 |
| PHIL 6440 | The Epistemology of John Henry Newman | 3 |
| PHIL 6457 | Mind-Body Problem | 3 |
| PHIL 6471 | Responsibility and Blame | 3 |
| PHIL 6472 | Responsibility, Blame, and Forgiveness | 3 |
| PHIL 6580 | Virtue Epistemology | 3 |
| PHIL 6805 | Topics in Phil of Rel. | 3 |
| PHIL 7204 | Wittgenstein and Later Wittgenstein | 3 |
| PHIL 7215 | Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations' | 3 |
| PHIL 7240 | Contemporary Metaethics | 3 |
| PHIL 7340 | Humility and Arrogance | 3 |
| PHIL 7350 | Evidential Undermining | 3 |
| PHIL 7360 | Scientific Realism | 3 |
| PHIL 7465 | The Emotions | 3 |
| PHIL 7730 | Recent Work in Epistemology | 3 |
| PHIL 7752 | Divine Providence | 3 |
| PHIL 7760 | Dimensions of Political Justice | 3 |
| PHIL 7857 | Topics in Contmp Metaphy | 3 |
Contemporary Continental Philosophy (PGCC)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PHIL 5051 | Existentialism and Critical Phenomenology | 3 |
| PHIL 5075 | Continental Philosophy and Faith | 3 |
| PHIL 5250 | Philosophies of Race | 3 |
| PHIL 6215 | French Phil of Education | 3 |
| PHIL 6630 | Discourse Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 6850 | Hermeneutics | 3 |
| PHIL 7031 | Alienation and Reification | 3 |
| PHIL 7035 | Recent Critical Theory | 3 |
| PHIL 7145 | Phenomenology and Religious Experience | 3 |
| PHIL 7153 | Husserl's Later Thought | 3 |
| PHIL 7156 | Husserl and Heidegger | 3 |
| PHIL 7157 | Phenomenology | 3 |
| PHIL 7159 | Kierkegaard | 3 |
| PHIL 7161 | Nietzsche | 3 |
| PHIL 7164 | First Philosophy: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Presocratics | 3 |
| PHIL 7203 | Merleau-Ponty | 3 |
| PHIL 7229 | Derrida | 3 |
| PHIL 7235 | Husserl's 'Ideas II' | 3 |
| PHIL 7236 | The Emotions and Moral Perception | 3 |
| PHIL 7459 | Heidegger's Being and Time, Black Notebooks | 3 |
| PHIL 7580 | Biopolitics and Necropolitics | 3 |
| PHIL 7605 | Philosophical Aesthetics | 3 |
| PHIL 7664 | Philosophy of Literature | 3 |
Contemporary Philosophy - Other (PGOC)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PHIL 5003 | Natural Law Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 6120 | Democratic Political Economy | 3 |
| PHIL 6190 | Feminist Political Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 6251 | American Pragmatism | 3 |
| PHIL 6252 | American Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 6270 | Pragmatist Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 7210 | Whitehead | 3 |
| PHIL 7310 | Self-Cultivation Philosophies | 3 |
| PHIL 7675 | Moral Genealogies | 3 |
| PHIL 7758 | Human Dignity | 3 |
| PHIL 7770 | Philosophical Bioethics | 3 |