{"id":1181,"date":"2018-05-08T03:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/?page_id=1181"},"modified":"2021-10-24T05:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T05:17:48","slug":"don-becker-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/philosophy-faculty\/don-becker-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Becker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1229 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Philosophy_Dept_ACC_20151120_029.jpg?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of Don Becker\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Philosophy_Dept_ACC_20151120_029.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Philosophy_Dept_ACC_20151120_029.jpg?w=403&amp;ssl=1 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Don Becker &#8211;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts: Humanities and Communications<\/h2>\n<h2>Associate Professor of Philosophy<\/h2>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Colgate University, BA<br \/>\nUniversity of Pennsylvania, PhD<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Teaching Philosophy<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Through a combination of lecture and class discussion, I seek to help students further their ability to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Gain knowledge from readings and class presentations<\/li>\n<li>Understand complex sets of interrelated ideas<\/li>\n<li>Express those ideas clearly in writing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Political Philosophy<br \/>\nEthics<br \/>\nKant<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Courses Taught a<\/strong><strong>t ACC<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>PHIL-1301: Introduction to Philosophy<br \/>\nPHIL-2306: Ethics<br \/>\nPHIL-2303: Logic<br \/>\nPHIL-2307: Social and Political Philosophy<br \/>\nPHIL-2321: Philosophy of Religion<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Courses Taught Elsewhere<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Medical Ethics<br \/>\nPolitical Philosophy<br \/>\nHistory of Modern Philosophy<br \/>\nKant&#8217;s and Hegel&#8217;s Moral and Political Philosophy<br \/>\nSeminars on topics related to Kant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Becker &#8211; Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts: Humanities and Communications Associate Professor of Philosophy &nbsp; Biography Colgate University, BA University of Pennsylvania, PhD Teaching Philosophy Through a combination of lecture and class discussion, I seek to help students further their ability to: Gain knowledge from readings and class presentations Understand complex sets of interrelated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":2357,"menu_order":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":[{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"<p><strong>Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Austin Campus<br \/>\n1820 W. Stassney Lane<br \/>\nAustin, TX 78745<\/p>\n<p>Office: SAC 1143.1<\/p>\n","column_2":"<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dbecker@austincc.edu\">dbecker@austincc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>512.223.9203<\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""}],"hero_content":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1181\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}