GEC Coordinator: Lauren Ashwell

This concentration introduces students to the reflective enterprise that is philosophy. There is a sense in which philosophy is the original interdisciplinary subject. In the words of the twentieth-century American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars: "The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term." As such, philosophy attempts to understand how all of the many descriptions and explanations of things that are given by the other disciplines are related to one another.

Complete any four courses in Philosophy or designated with the (C042) GEC attribute. Two non-Bates courses may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval. This concentration is not open to students who have declared a Philosophy major or minor.

Active course offerings include:

Course List (Per Attribute)

Code	Title
FYS 288	Moral Luck and Social Identity
NRSC 372	Consciousness in Science
PHIL 195	Introduction to Logic
PHIL 274	20th C European Philosophy: Consciousness and Reality
PHIL 362	Consciousness in Science