courses
Joseph Shieber
Courses taught (syllabi available upon request):
Lafayette College (Easton, PA), 2003 - present
Introduction to Philosophy
Logic
First Philosophers
Modern Philosophy
Existentialism
Theories of Knowledge
Philosophy of Science
Survey of 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Economics
Philosophy of Law
Philosophical Analysis
History of 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Mathematics Special Topics: Infinite Sets
Values and Science/Technology: Questions of Trust in Science
First Year Seminar: Beyond Belief
First Year Seminar: Propaganda
Independent Study: Advanced Logic
Independent Study: Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Winter Interim in Austria/Germany: The Colorful Sunset of the Hapsburg Empire
Winter Interim in Scandinavia: Northern Lights (Kierkegaard, Ibsen, Strindberg)
From 2006/7 to 2009/10, I also served as resident advisor of McKelvy House.
Honors Thesis Advisees at Lafayette College
2012 - Megan Feeney, "Themes in Contemporary Epistemology: Bootstrapping and Intuition" (Ph.D. in Philosophy, Rutgers University, 2019)
2019 - Ion Plamadeala, "Papers in Conceptual Ethics and Conceptual Engineering" (M.A. in Philosophy, Cornell University, 2021)
2021 - Kaijie (Dominic) Zhang, "Imagination or Rationalization: A Philosophical Analysis of Thought Experiments in Physics" (M.S.E. in Education, University of Pennsylvania, expected 2023; Teaching Fellow at the Northfield Mount Hermon School)
Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
Ancient Philosophy (Spring 2010)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002 - 3
Modern Philosophy
Theory of Knowledge
Brown University
Philosophy East and West
Logic
Reason and Religion
Connecticut College
Introduction to Philosophy
Stonehill College (Easton, MA)
Philosophy of the Human Person