Teaching — Anna Boessenkool

Courses Taught:

PHIL202: General Ethics

Core course on happiness and of the means used to attain it. Law, morality, and virtue are studied as contributing to the growth of each person to one's full intellectual, moral, and spiritual stature (Providence College)

Authors include Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Simone de Beavoir, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alain Badiou

Simone de Beauvoir with Jean-Paul Sartre in Stockholm, Sweden © ullstein bild, 1967

DWC201: Development of Western Civilization

Core seminar-style encounter with significant texts from Western and other world civilizations. 201 is the third course in a four-course core seqeunce, consisting in works from the modern period (Providence College)

Authors include Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, Frederick Douglass, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Pope Leo XIII, Samuel Johnson, Oppenheimer

Job and His Daughters by William Blake, pen and tempera on canvas, 27.3 x 38.4 cm © 1799/1800, The National Gallery

BPSI Explorations in Mind: Psychoanalysis In and Through Children’s Literature

Public course on children’s literature insofar as it is used in child analysis and as it expresses psychoanalytic idea, with Ava Bry Penman (Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute)

Authors include Maurice Sendak, Selma Fraiberg, Bruno Bettelheim, D. W. Winnicott, Margaret Wise Brown

The Waiting by Maurice Sendak, india ink on paper, 7.5 x 6.5 inches © Animazing Gallery, late 1960s–early 1970s

PHIL1070: Philosophy of the Person I

Core introduction to the history of philosophy course focusing on Ancient and Medieval perspectives on personhood, politics, happiness, and ethics.(Boston College)

Authors include Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Christine de Pizan, Aquinas, Dostoevsky, Ursula Le Guin

PHIL1071: Philosophy of the Person II

Core introduction to the history of philosophy course focusing on Modern and Contemporary perspectives on subjectivity, existentialism, feminist philosophy, and ethics (Boston College)

Authors include Descartes, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, W. E. B. Du Bois, Merleau-Ponty, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, Mari Ruti, Næss

PHIL1252: Practical Logic

Introduction to Aristotelian logic and other informal methods in logic

Topics include definition, fallacies, the categorical proposition and syllogism, stoic logic, induction (Boston College)

PHIL2264: Logic

Propositional, predicate, and categorical logic

Topics include predicate and propositional symbolization, natural deduction, truth table and tree methods, paradoxes (Boston College)

contact: aboessen@providence.edu