← Samuel Murray Teaching

Teaching

Courses in philosophy and neuroscience at Providence College.

Department

Philosophy

Program

Neuroscience

Level

Undergraduate

Note

Current course sites and selected syllabi are linked below

Current course sites

PHL / NEU 251

Neuroethics

Fall 2026 · Readings, schedule, handouts, slides, and assignments

Open course ↗

DWC 201

The West in the World

Fall 2026 · Readings, schedule, handouts, slides, and assignments

Open course ↗

Selected syllabi

PHL 103

Introduction to Philosophy

Knowledge, reality, value, religion, democracy, and race

Spring 2023 Spring 2024

PHL 202

General Ethics

Moral theory, moral psychology, political identity, and polarization

Fall 2022 Spring 2025

PHL / NEU 251

Neuroethics

Ethical questions raised by neuroscience

Fall 2024 Fall 2025

PHL 318

Philosophy of Science

Scientific method, explanation, confirmation, and cognitive science

Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025

DWC 201

Development of Western Civilization, 1789–Present

Modernity, knowledge, identity, and the West in the world

Fall 2023 Fall 2024 Fall 2025

DWC 202

Polarization

Disagreement, freedom, equality, civility, and political division

Spring 2024

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