2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book
Philosophy
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Faculty:
Department Chairperson:
Brenda O’Sullivan
Office: May 218
bosullivan@stonehill.edu
Professor:
R. Capobianco
A. Lannstrom
E. McGushin
Associate Professors:
B. O’Sullivan
C. Mekios
M. Mitchell
Assistant Professors:
J. Velazquez
Housed in the May School of Arts and Sciences , the Department of Philosophy offers a major and minor in Philosophy. In addition, the Department offers a minor in Ethical Leadership and a major in Philosophy with an Ethical Leadership emphasis.
Departmental Mission
The Department of Philosophy is committed to the ideals of a liberal education and understands the study of Philosophy as an essential to such an education. The courses offered by the Department allow its students to develop the logical and critical skills needed to read intelligently and to think clearly, to learn how Philosophy developed over the centuries, and to appreciate the contributions of the great philosophers to our culture. The study of Philosophy reveals the complexity of reality and the difficulty of the problems to be faced in the search for truth.
Stonehill graduates with a major in Philosophy have become college presidents and vice presidents, academic deans, professors, judges, lawyers, priests, businesspeople, and authors. Some have become directors of personnel, others political and social analysts; still others have entered government service and politics. Liberally educated persons are ready to move in many directions. But more than preparing students for a career, a major in Philosophy prepares them for life and a lifelong pursuit of wisdom.
Learning Goals
Majors in Philosophy will complete a senior seminar in which they will demonstrate mastery of the following learning goals:
- An ability to clearly state a nuanced position on a philosophical question and argue effectively for that position.
- Explain clearly a significant portion of the relevant philosophical literature.
- Argue effectively against relevant alternative positions or draw out some interesting philosophical and/or existential implications of the position.
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