Philosophy poses such fundamental questions as What can we know How should we live and How do the results of human inquiry obtained so far hang together It is an excellent preparation for professional studies such as law and medicine it provides perspective on other disciplines such as psychology mathematics literature and political science and it centers on a set of questions that thinking people cannot avoid At Hopkins it can be studied in a variety of ways A number of our courses are designed to provide broad introductions to the subject Both AS 150 111 Philosophic Classics and AS 150 112 Philosophical Problems cover a wide range of topics the former through the study of some of the major texts of Western thought the latter by more systematic examination of representative issues Either one will show a student a variety of approaches to philosophical problems The courses AS 150 201 and AS 150 205 offer historically oriented introductions to the subject giving the student a basic grasp of the development of philosophy in two of its major periods Other courses such as AS 150 118 Introduction to Formal Logic AS 150 223 Formal Methods of Philosophy and AS 150 220 Introduction to Moral Philosophy are designed for students with an interest in the particular areas they cover All of these courses are readily available without prior study of philosophy

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