Hi, I'm Katie Lowe and I'm a philosophy major at ASU. One of the things I love
about philosophy is that it allows me to meet people with other ideas and not
dismiss them as crazy or stupid when I don't agree.
Philosophy allows me to analyze their ideas and try to understand them in a
meaningful way. One of the things I love about my program is the great faculty.
Hi, I'm Cheshire Calhoun. I'm a professor of philosophy, and I think of philosophy
as something that's useful for everyday life and so what I work on is always
something that helps me think about my own life.
I'm Peter deMarneffe. I'm a professor of philosophy. I'm interested primarily in
political philosophy, individual rights, and liberty. I am Elizabeth Brake. I'm an
associate professor of philosophy in SHPRS at ASU and my work has been on
the ethics and politics of marriage and disaster, and I'm especially interested
in issues of equality. Hi, I'm Doug Portmore, I'm an associate professor of
philosophy here at ASU, and my main interest is in normative ethics, so I'm
interested in what we ought to do, how we ought to think, and how we
ought to feel. Hello! My name is Professor John McGregor. I'm a professor of
philosophy. My areas of specialization are legal philosophy, bioethics, and more
recently, the ethics of sustainability.
One of the classes I really enjoyed is indigenous people and intercultural
justice. It discussed highly controversial and personal topics but in
a rational and insightful way. But of course, there are a lot of great philosophy
classes to choose from. One of my favorite courses, and one of the
courses I teach most often, is history of modern philosophy, which is 1600s and
1700s. I think it's fun for everybody because we talk about all those wild
issues that you expect philosophers to talk about. For example, can you prove
that a physical world external to your mind exists? Are space and time real, or are
they really just projections? One of the courses I teach is philosophy of law and
that of course we focus on constitutional interpretation, how
properly to interpret the US Constitution, an important topic in
American politics. One of the courses I'm teaching this semester is the philosophy
of love and sex and one of the things that really draws me to philosophy is
that you can ask questions about anything, and we ask questions like, What
is love? What is sex? And then ask about the ethical and political institution, so
what's marriage? Why should anyone get married? One of my favorite courses to
teach is philosophy 101. I make the theme of the course is how you're wrong about
everything, so I argue that there's no God and that
we don't have free will, that you don't know that you exist, you don't know that I'm
here, and there's absolutely no possibility you're going to survive the
death and destruction of your body. So the point is to provoke students to
think. Bioethics is a course in which we look at the ethical implications of
biomedicine and biotechnology. So, for example, we look at the ethical issues
that are raised by genetic engineering and in particular the issues that are
now coming up with using genetic engineering and artificial reproductive
technologies.
Think critically. Be a philosophy major at ASU!