Eric S. Nelson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854 USA

Email:
eric underscore nelson at uml.edu

Links:

Academia.edu

Amazon

philpapers
Curriculum Vitae
on Asian Philosophy
on European Philosophy

Media of The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger

 

Fall Semester 2013

Fall Office Hours: T TH 11:15 am- 12:15, 2:00-3:15 pm, and by appointment

45.340.201 (D, E) Mysticism: East and West     T TH 12.30-1:45 pm

An exploration of different varieties of mystical experience and philosophy (erotic, ascetic, meditative, apophatic-skeptical) in Asian (Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist) and Western/Middle Eastern (Platonic, Christian, Jewish, Sufi Islamic) contexts.

45.371.202 (D, E) Buddhist and Zen Philosophy  T TH 3.30- 4:45 pm

An exploration of Buddhist philosophy from ancient India to the modern world.

45.491.203 Directed Studies

Sample Courses from Previous Semesters

45.201  Introduction to Philosophy

45.206  Introduction to Political Philosophy

45.203  Introduction to Ethics

45.323 Philosophy Classics: Nietzsche

45.327 Environmental Philosophy

45.336  Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant

45.342 Critical Theory and Society: Hegel, Marx, and the Frankfurt School

45.348 Eastern Philosophy and Religion

45.352 Existence and Anxiety / Existentialism

45.359 Nineteenth-Century Philosophy: Kant to Nietzsche

45.371  Buddhist and Zen Philosophy

45.372  Chinese Philosophy 

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