Goucher College 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
Goucher College 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

PHL 218 - Philosophy of Time (3 Cr.)


Examination of speculations about time in the Classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary periods and the specific ways these speculations have helped develop philosophy, physics, mathematics, religion, history, and psychology. Key themes include the role of time as a measure, changes in concepts of time, time and the cosmos, the ubiquitous presence of concepts of time in our understanding of the natural world, abstraction, classification, and our self-understanding throughout Western thought. Prerequisite: either sophomore standing, one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2014-15 and alternate years. Rose.