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Freshman level
Philosophy in Practice: The Stoic Life PHIL 1110-001
- The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties & Fate by Tad Brennan
- Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Philosophical Conversations: Virtue Ethics: East & West PHIL 1112-001
- The Republic by Plato
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy by Norden & Ivanhoe
Philosophical Conversations: Platoβs Phaedrus PHIL 1112-005
- Phaedrus by Plato
Ethics of Eating PHIL 1440
- Food, Ethics & Society by Barnhill et al.
Controversies About Inequality PHIL 1950
- The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich by Cristobal Young
- How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
- The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America by Oren Cass
- Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity by Joseph Fishkin
- Friends and Fortunes: Social Capital Inequality in America by Cornwell et al.
Sophomore level
Greek & Roman Philosophy PHIL 2200
- Early Greek Philosophy
- The Basic Works of Aristotle
- Plato: Complete Works
- Hellenistic Philosophy: Intro. Readings
Intro. to Deductive Logic PHIL 2310
- Language, Proof & Logic by Barker-Plummer et al.
Moral Dilemmas in the Law PHIL 2430
- The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law by Andrei Marmor
Senior level
Mathematical Logic PHIL 4310
- Mathematical Logic by Ebbinghaus et al.