History of Philosophy II

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History of Philosophy II
~Undergraduate Catholic Theology~
Immaculate Conception Seminary
School of Theology
PLTL 1112 AA/AB
History of Philosophy II
Course for
Spring 2015
Section AA
Tuesdays, Thursdays, &
Fridays
9:00 AM —9:50 AM
Section AB
Tuesdays, Thursdays, &
Fridays
10:00 AM—10:50 AM
Professor: Joseph P. Rice, Ph.D.
Immaculate
Conception
Seminary School of
Theology
Lewis Hall
Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
Phone: (973) 275– 2473
Website: theology.shu.edu
Email: theology@shu.edu
Course Description: An examination of four themes in modern and
contemporary philosophy, starting with Ockham and Bacon through
Descartes,
Locke,
the
Empiricists,
Enlightenment
and
contemporaries: the body-mind problem; success of the natural
sciences; expansion of liberty and equality; the question of God.
Joseph P. Rice, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology, earned his Ph.D.
from The Catholic University of America. He also holds degrees from the Pontifical
Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (Rome) and the University of Notre Dame. A classicallytrained specialist in the philosophical thought of Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), Dr.
Rice’s primary interests lie in investigating questions of intersubjectivity, conditions for
authentic participation in community, the ethics of marriage and family and the experience
of conscience as related to self-constitution. He has presented and published
internationally on the ethics of globalization, questions of faith and reason, issues in
intersubjectivity and a personalist account of phenomenological self-constitution. His
classes
include History of Philosophy III, Philosophy of Being, Philosophical
Ethics and Theory of Knowledge.
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~Undergraduate Catholic Theology~
Immaculate Conception Seminary
School of Theology
PLTL 2241 AA/AB
Philosophical Ethics
Course for
Spring 2015
Section AA
Tuesdays & Thursdays
11:00 AM —12:15 PM
Section AB
Tuesdays & Thursdays
2:00 PM— 3:15 PM
Professor: Joseph P. Rice, Ph.D.
Immaculate
Conception
Seminary School
of Theology
Lewis Hall
Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
Phone: (973) 275– 2473
Website: theology.shu.edu
Email: theology@shu.edu
Course Description: A study of e ns qua bonum w ill be done in this
course. Students will have the opportunity to delve into the question of the
moral nature of human action, understand what makes actions good and
bad, and establish how this is knowable. Different ethical systems will be
examined along with the metaphysics they presuppose. This course also will
examine representative authors such as Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant and Mill.
Through this course, students will analyze human action, natural law, moral
conscience and theory of virtue.
Joseph P. Rice, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology, earned his Ph.D.
from The Catholic University of America. He also holds degrees from the Pontifical
Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (Rome) and the University of Notre Dame. A classically
-trained specialist in the philosophical thought of Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), Dr.
Rice’s primary interests lie in investigating questions of intersubjectivity, conditions for
authentic participation in community, the ethics of marriage and family and the
experience of conscience as related to self-constitution. He has presented and published
internationally on the ethics of globalization, questions of faith and reason, issues in
intersubjectivity and a personalist account of phenomenological self-constitution. His
classes
include
History
of
Philosophy
III,
Philosophy
of
Being,
Philosophical Ethics and Theory of Knowledge.
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~Undergraduate Catholic Theology~
Immaculate Conception Seminary
School of Theology
PLTL 3216 AA/AB
Philosophy of God
Course for
Spring 2015
Section AA
Mondays & Wednesdays
9:30 AM —10:45 AM
Section AB
Tuesdays & Thursdays
11:00 AM —12:15 PM
Professor: Victor Velarde-Mayol, Ph.D.
Course Description: This cour se w ill enable students to study
the part of metaphysics dealing with Being that is first absolutely. Students
will delve deeper into the first principles and natural knowledge;
arguments for the existence of God; and the ways to God, including the
Thomistic approach; pantheism; Divine attributes.
Immaculate
Conception
Seminary School of
Theology
Lewis Hall
Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
Víctor Velarde-Mayol, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology,
earned an M.D. from the University of Navarra and University of Bilbao, Spain; an
A.B.D. in Theology from the University of Navarra; and a Ph.D. from the
University of Madrid. His doctoral dissertation is titled “The Theory of Objects.”
He has taught Philosophy since 1986 and has taught at Seton Hall University since
1999. Dr. Velarde-Mayol’s areas of specialization are Metaphysics; the Philosophy
of St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomism; Philosophy of Mind/Epistemology; and
Phenomenology. Among his classes are Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical
Psychology, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of Being and Philosophy of God. In
addition to numerous articles, his publications include five books: La Estructura
Psicológica en Ética y Estética (Editorial Universidad y Empresa, 1989); La
Teoría del Objeto en Alexius von Meinong (Publicaciones de la Universidad
de Madrid, 1991); On Brentano. Intentionality and Consciousness
(Wadsworth, 1999); On Husserl. Phenomenon and Consciousness (Wadsworth,
2000); and On Fodor. The Language of Thought Hypothesis (Wadsworth, 2001).
Phone: (973) 275– 2473
Website: theology.shu.edu
Email: theology@shu.edu
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~Undergraduate Catholic Theology~
Immaculate Conception Seminary
School of Theology
PLTL 2223 AA/AB
Philosophy of Nature
Course for
Spring 2015
Section AA
Tuesdays & Thursdays
12:30 PM —1:45 PM
Section AB
Tuesdays & Thursdays
2:00 PM —3:15 PM
Professor: Timothy Fortin, Ph.D.
Course Description: A stu dy of ens m o bile , inclu ding the
analysis of movement and nature, the first division of being into
substance and accidents, and the second division of being into
Immaculate
matter and form in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition will be made
Conception
in this course. Special analysis will be given to Aristotle’s physics
Seminary School of
and Aquinas’ commentaries on Aristotle’s books on nature as well.
Theology
Lewis Hall
Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Avenue
Phone: (973) 275– 2473
Website: theology.shu.edu
Email: theology@shu.edu
Timothy P. Fortin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophical Theology,
earned an M.A. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America,
Washington, DC, and an M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Institute for the
Psychological Sciences, Arlington, VA. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy
from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy. Dr. Fortin’s
areas of specialization include the philosophy of psychology and the
philosophy of fatherhood. Among his classes are History of Philosophy
I, Philosophy of Being and Philosophy of Nature.
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~Undergraduate Catholic Theology~
Immaculate Conception Seminary
School of Theology
PLTL 2243 AA
Theory of Knowledge
Course for
Spring 2015
Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays
Time: 9:30 AM —10:45 AM
Professor: Victor Velarde-Mayol, Ph.D.
Immaculate
Conception
Seminary School
of Theology
Lewis Hall
Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
Phone: (973) 275– 2473
Website: theology.shu.edu
Email: theology@shu.edu
Course Description: A study of e ns qua ve rum , including
consideration of the ontological nature of human knowledge as knowledge,
followed by an historical survey of epistemological theory, with special
emphasis on the rise of critical philosophy in the modern period will be
made in this course. Special emphasis will be given to topics such as the
notion of truth, certainty, evidence, the problem of skepticism, idealism
and realism.
Víctor Velarde-Mayol, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology,
earned an M.D. from the University of Navarra and University of Bilbao, Spain; an
A.B.D. in Theology from the University of Navarra; and a Ph.D. from the
University of Madrid. His doctoral dissertation is titled “The Theory of Objects.”
He has taught Philosophy since 1986 and has taught at Seton Hall University since
1999. Dr. Velarde-Mayol’s areas of specialization are Metaphysics; the Philosophy
of St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomism; Philosophy of Mind/Epistemology; and
Phenomenology. Among his classes are Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical
Psychology, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of Being and Philosophy of God. In
addition to numerous articles, his publications include five books: La Estructura
Psicológica en Ética y Estética (Editorial Universidad y Empresa, 1989); La
Teoría del Objeto en Alexius von Meinong (Publicaciones de la Universidad
de Madrid, 1991); On Brentano. Intentionality and Consciousness
(Wadsworth, 1999); On Husserl. Phenomenon and Consciousness (Wadsworth,
2000); and On Fodor. The Language of Thought Hypothesis (Wadsworth, 2001).
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