The curriculum here at Colby in both Environmental Philosophy and Continental Philosophy goes beyond the typical offerings at four-year liberal arts colleges. Some of the courses included in it are listed below.

The Environmental Philosophy courses I teach span content areas and cover several of its aspects for both beginning and advanced students. They form a core part of our Environmental Humanities initiative here at Colby.  At the 200-level, I teach Environmental Ethics (PL243), which expands on the ethical, political, and humanistic dimensions of human relations to the natural world. I also teach Philosophy of Nature (PL216), which provides a more extensive consideration of theories of the natural world from Aristotle to contemporary ecology, and ends by considering the natural-social situatedness of knowledge producers in society. More recently, I have designed a course on Vegan Studies: Animals, Politics, Environment, and Health (PL244), which includes a field trip to our local farmed animal sanctuary and readings in total liberation veganism. Finally, I also offer Radical Ecologies (PL328), which examines some of the more comprehensive environmental philosophical positions, including their ontological and ethico-political components.

The Continental Philosophy courses provide both more traditional surveys of the field as well as some innovative engagement with two specific content areas: ethics and realism. At the 200 level, I offer Freedom, Resentment, and the Other (formerly Ethics on the Continent: From Kant to Levinas) (PL240), and at the 300 level Being, Difference, and Power (formerly Contemporary Continental Philosophy) (PL378). Students can continue on to a deeper engagement with feminist, axiological, and liberation ethical theories in my Material Ethics (PL380B) course, and can explore in-depth the turn toward realism by a number of more recent contemporary authors in Recent Continental Realisms (PL380A). I have also taught our Karl Marx and Marxist Philosophical Thought (PL 314) course, as well as one of our Philosophers in Focus courses on Nicolai Hartmann (PL388).

Feel free to contact me at krpeters [at] colby.edu  for more information about the form and content of any of these courses.