Daniel Singer

Daniel Singer
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy

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Teaching

Current Courses

  • LGIC1710 - Intro Logic

    This course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.

    LGIC1710401

    LGIC1710402

    LGIC1710403

  • PHIL1710 - Intro Logic

    This course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.

    PHIL1710401

    PHIL1710402

    PHIL1710403

  • PHIL5562 - Topics In Philosophy Of Work

    This is a graduate course on topics in the philosophy of work. In this class, we'll look at work in philosophy and social science to examine questions like the following: What is work? What makes work meaningful and what makes it good? What role does and should work play in shaping workers ethically and epistemically? What role does and should work play in society more generally? What role do and should workers play in shaping the firms for which they work? How should we distribute or compensate for “bad” work? Should people be able to opt out of work (for instance, by receiving basic income payments)? What does a good relationship between a firm and a worker look like? Undergraduates need permission.

    PHIL5562301

  • PHIL5710 - Intro Logic

    This graduate-level course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.

    PHIL5710401

Past Courses

  • LGIC1710 - Intro Logic

    This course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.

  • LGST1000 - Ethics & Social Resp

    This course explores business responsibility from rival theoretical and managerial perspectives. Its focus includes theories of ethics and their application to case studies in business. Topics include moral issues in advertising and sales; hiring and promotion; financial management; corporate pollution; product safety; and decision-making across borders and cultures.

  • PHIL1000 - Intro to Philosophy

    Philosophers ask difficult questions about the most basic issues in human life. Does God exist? What can we know about the world? What does it mean to have a mind? How should I treat non-human animals? Do I have free will? This course is an introduction to some of these questions and to the methods philosophers have developed for thinking clearly about them.

  • PHIL1710 - Intro Logic

    This course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.

  • PHIL2620 - Intro Epist and Metaphysics

    Two basic assumptions of academic research are that there are truths and we can know them. Epistemology is the study of knowledge, what it is, how it is produced, and how we can have it. Metaphysics, the study of the basic constituents of reality, the study of being as such. In this introduction to metaphysics and epistemology, we will ask hard questions about the nature of reality and knowledge. No philosophy background is required for this course.

  • PHIL3330 - Topics in Ethics

    This seminar for philosophy majors will cover selected topics in ethics. The content will vary from semester to semester.

  • PHIL3991 - Topics in Philosophy

    This seminar is restricted to philosophy majors (all others require a permit). Topic will vary by semester.

  • PHIL4998 - Directed Honors Research

    Open only to senior majors in philosophy. Student arranges with a faculty member to do an honors thesis on a suitable topic.

  • PHIL5562 - Topics in Philosophy of Work

    This is a graduate course on topics in the philosophy of work. In this class, we'll look at work in philosophy and social science to examine questions like the following: What is work? What makes work meaningful and what makes it good? What role does and should work play in shaping workers ethically and epistemically? What role does and should work play in society more generally? What role do and should workers play in shaping the firms for which they work? How should we distribute or compensate for “bad” work? Should people be able to opt out of work (for instance, by receiving basic income payments)? What does a good relationship between a firm and a worker look like? Undergraduates need permission.

  • PHIL5620 - Topics in Epistemology

    This seminar will cover topics of interest to contemporary epistemologists. Possible topics may include skepticism, accounts of knowledge and justification, virtue epistemology, formal epistemology, social epistemology, feminist epistemology, meta-epistemology and epistemic normativity.

  • PHIL5710 - Intro Logic

    This graduate-level course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.

  • PHIL6000 - Proseminar

    An intensive seminar for first-year doctoral students, with readings drawn from recent and contemporary eistemology and metaphysics, broadly construed. Students will develop their abilities to present and discuss philosophical texts, and to write and revise their own papers.

  • PHIL6999 - Independent Study

    Directed readings in consultation with individual faculty members.

  • PHIL7000 - Dissertation Workshop

    Registration required for all third-year doctoral students. Third-year students and beyond attend and present their dissertation work or their preliminary exam prospectus. From time to time, topics pertaining to professional development and dissertation writing will be discussed.

  • PHIL9998 - Teaching Practicum

    Supervised teaching experience. Four semesters are required of all Doctoral students in philosophy.

  • PHIL9999 - Independent Study

    Directed readings in consultation with individual faculty members.

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