College Bulletin 2025-2026 
    
    Aug 06, 2025  
College Bulletin 2025-2026

PHIL 010. First-Year Seminar: Questions of Inquiry


A chronological introduction to perennial philosophical problems through readings that center on inquiry in the theories and practices of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Mill, Russell, and Lewis ‘62, among others. Problems include philosophical questions that arise in science, morality, religion and in philosophy itself. Writing assignments advance the skills of reading philosophical literature.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Fall 2025. Raff.
Catalog chapter: Philosophy  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy


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