Susan Mills

As a teacher, Dr. Mills often tries to incorporate her research interests into the design of her courses and will use her courses to explore those interests in deeper and different directions. No matter the course topic or level, she puts a lot of emphasis on primary texts, using class lectures to draw out and examine the development and consequences of the core ideas contained in those texts. She strives to clarify those ideas without sacrificing their complexity so that students can grasp how various philosophical ideas fit (or don't fit) together in a bigger whole. Students in her courses can expect assignments that emphasize philosophical reading, writing, and thinking skills, as well as particular attention to the process of philosophical reading, writing, and thinking. Courses taught at MacEwan include: PHIL 100 Introduction to Philosophy: The Examined Life PHIL 200 Metaphysics PHIL 204 Philosophical Writing and Analysis PHIL 240 Early Modern Philosophy (formerly Descartes to Kant) PHIL 341 Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz PHIL 342 British Empiricism: George Berkeley PHIL 355 Studies in the Philosophy of Nature: Descartes on Health PHIL 360 Philosophy of Death and Dying PHIL 401 Senior Seminar: Princess Elisabeth as Philosopher PHIL 402 Topics in the History of Philosophy: Leibniz on the Individual PHIL 405 Topics in Contemporary Philosophy: Life and Death | Descartes, early modern philosophy, philosophy of death

Susan Mills is Associate Professor, Philosophy | Philosophy at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include As a teacher, Dr. Mills often tries to incorporate her research interests into the design of her courses and will use her courses to explore those interests in deeper and different directions. No matter the course topic or level, she puts a lot of emphasis on primary texts, using class lectures to draw out and examine the development and consequences of the core ideas contained in those texts. She strives to clarify those ideas without sacrificing their complexity so that students can grasp how various philosophical ideas fit (or don't fit) together in a bigger whole. Students in her courses can expect assignments that emphasize philosophical reading, writing, and thinking skills, as well as. This summary considered all 2 collected sources.