{"id":74,"date":"2019-08-15T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T14:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:22:28","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/files\/2022\/01\/student_advising_banner-with-KP-in-classroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-334\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/files\/2022\/01\/student_advising_banner-with-KP-in-classroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/files\/2022\/01\/student_advising_banner-with-KP-in-classroom.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/files\/2022\/01\/student_advising_banner-with-KP-in-classroom-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/files\/2022\/01\/student_advising_banner-with-KP-in-classroom-1024x398.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/files\/2022\/01\/student_advising_banner-with-KP-in-classroom-768x298.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/files\/2022\/01\/student_advising_banner-with-KP-in-classroom-695x270.jpg 695w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/files\/2022\/01\/student_advising_banner-with-KP-in-classroom-386x150.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>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.<\/h4>\n<h4>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Environmental Philosophy<\/strong><\/span> 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. &nbsp;At the 200-level, I teach <em>Environmental Ethics<\/em> (PL243), which expands on the ethical, political, and humanistic dimensions of human relations to the natural world. I also teach <em>Philosophy of Nature<\/em> (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&nbsp;<em>Vegan Studies: Animals, Politics, Environment, and Health<\/em> (PL244), which includes a field trip to our local farmed animal sanctuary and readings in total liberation veganism. Finally, I also offer <em>Radical Ecologies<\/em> (PL328), which examines some of the more comprehensive environmental philosophical positions, including their ontological and ethico-political components.<\/h4>\n<h4>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Continental Philosophy<\/strong><\/span> 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 <i>Freedom, Resentment, and the Other <\/i>(formerly <em>Ethics on the Continent: From Kant to Levinas<\/em>) (PL240), and at the 300 level <i>Being, Difference, and Power <\/i>(formerly <em>Contemporary Continental Philosophy<\/em>) (PL378). Students can continue on to a deeper engagement with feminist, axiological, and liberation ethical theories in my <em>Material Ethics<\/em> (PL380B) course, and can explore in-depth the turn toward realism by a number of more recent contemporary authors in <em>Recent Continental Realisms<\/em> (PL380A). I have also taught our <em>Karl Marx and Marxist Philosophical Thought<\/em> (PL 314) course, as well as one of our <em>Philosophers in Focus<\/em> courses on Nicolai Hartmann (PL388).<\/h4>\n<h4>Feel free to contact me at krpeters [at] colby.edu &nbsp;for more information about the form and content of any of these courses.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1767,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/krpeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}