Academic Catalog

Philosophy and Psychology (C031)

GEC Coordinator: Lauren Ashwell

This concentration is intended to acquaint students with scholarly work on questions of interest to philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists and to facilitate students' own clear thinking on such issues. Given the breadth of the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, a wide variety of issues is addressed in these courses. Topics include moral judgment, moral responsibility, sensation and perception, the self, theory of mind, and the relationship between mind and brain. Students consider such issues from both disciplinary perspectives.

Complete four courses designated with the (C031) GEC attribute, two of which must be from philosophy list and two of which must be from psychology and neuroscience list below. Only one of the applicable FYS courses may count towards the Philosophy requirement and Psychology requirement. Two non-Bates credits may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Philosophy

BIO 323EPhilosophy of Evolution
CMS 271Ancient Philosophy
DCS 252Philosophy of Cognitive Science
FYS 288Moral Luck and Social Identity
GSS 262Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 150Philosophies to Live By
PHIL 195Introduction to Logic
PHIL 210Philosophy of Cognitive Science
PHIL 211Philosophy of Science
PHIL 213Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 233Making Moral Minds: Nature, Nurture, and the Sources of Morality
PHIL 235Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 236Theory of Knowledge
PHIL 256Moral Philosophy
PHIL 257Moral Luck and Social Identity
PHIL 260Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 262Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 271Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 272Philosophy in the Modern Era (1600-1800)
PHIL 27420th C European Philosophy: Consciousness and Reality
PHIL 310Buddhist Philosophy
PHIL 323EPhilosophy of Evolution
PHIL 324ASeminar: Kantian Ethics
PHIL 324EVirtue and Emotions
PHIL 341Aristotelian Ethics
PHIL 350BSeminar on Major Thinkers: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Music
PHIL 350CSeminar on Major Thinkers: Plato on Love, Death, & the Soul
PHIL 362Consciousness in Science
PHIL 362Consciousness in Science
PHIL S17The Ethics of Care
PHIL S34What is Philosophy? Metaphilosophy and Philosophical Methodology
REL 260Philosophy of Religion

Psychology and Neuroscience

ASIA 260Cultural Psychology
EXDS S21Life Architecture: Designing Your Future Work
MUS 253Music and the Embodied Mind
NRSC 160Introduction to Neuroscience
NRSC 252Philosophy of Cognitive Science
NRSC 330Cognitive Neuroscience/Lab
NRSC 335Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System
NRSC 363Physiological Psychology/Lab
NRSC 372Consciousness in Science
PSYC 101Principles of Psychology
PSYC 160Introduction to Neuroscience
PSYC 210Social Psychology
PSYC 211Psychology of Personality
PSYC 215Medical Psychology
PSYC 230Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 234Philosophy of Mind
PSYC 235Psychopathology
PSYC 240Developmental Psychology
PSYC 253Music and the Embodied Mind
PSYC 260Cultural Psychology
PSYC 275Psychology of Sport, Exercise, and Performance
PSYC 302Sensation and Perception
PSYC 317Psychology and Law
PSYC 330Cognitive Neuroscience/Lab
PSYC 363Physiological Psychology/Lab
PSYC 381The Self
SOC 210Social Psychology