In this course, students will practice the skills involved in "critical thinking" - the process by which they develop and support their beliefs and evaluate the strength of arguments. Students will ...

How do we escape the momentum of a meaningless and frustrating quotidien existence? How do we expand our selves and achieve union with the greater universe? How do we free ourselves from being shadow ...

The Miami Plan requires 3 credit hours of Humanities courses. This requirement can be fulfilled by taking any of the following: Philosophy 103: Society and the Individual Philosophy 104: Purpose or ...

Not everyone has ready access to top Dominican scholars to explain St. Thomas Aquinas to them. Well, at least not until this September, when the Thomistic Institute launched “Aquinas 101,” a free ...

If I were the czar of higher education that is not explicitly vocational, I would require every undergraduate to study philosophy. And if I were both czar and czarina, I would require all students to ...

To confront the questions and challenges in life that have no easy answers requires, in Kant’s words, the courage to use one’s own understanding. Our mission in the Philosophy Department at Miami ...