26 courses with the subject PHIL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Reality, knowledge, and value, from the perspectives of various African, Arabic, European, East Asian, South Asian and/or Native American cultures.
Basic issues in philosophy: theory of knowledge, human nature, morality, political systems, religious thought, the meaning of life, etc. Individual sections may focus on particular topics.
Study of a single philosopher or philosophical problem.
Reasoning about human values, human knowledge and our place in the scheme of things. Conceptual analysis, identifying and analyzing arguments, and recognizing fallacious reasoning.
The ways in which philosophical and feminist thinking enhance one another. A variety of perspectives, including race, class, and culture.
Ethical theories and their application to moral problems such as abortion, euthanasia and animal rights.
Critically evaluate the ethical dimensions of environmental and natural resource issues. Identify moral values in alternative solutions and encourage reasoned defense of proposed actions.
The existence of God, the problem of evil, the nature and justification of religious beliefs, religious diversity and the role of faith, revelation and science. 219
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre on the human subject. Existential phenomenology, knowledge, truth, freedom, personal relations, authenticity and value.
Formal study of deductive reasoning: categorical, propositional, and predicate logic. Translation, truth tables, and derivations using standard rules of inference.
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. The Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic and Roman philosophers, Augustine and Aquinas.
Western Philosophy from the Renaissance, through Descartes and the Rationalists, Hume and the Empiricists, and Kant.
The nature of morality. Theories of right action and the good person. The good life, facts and values, relativism, metaethics and relations between morality, religion and social attitudes. Pre-Requisite(s): PHIL211 or PHIL212 or PHIL213 or PHIL221 or PHIL222 or PHIL223 or PHIL251 or PHIL252
The nature of reality. God, the self, matter, mind, substance, modality, universals, free will, time, change, survival, death, and realism vs. anti- realism. Pre-Requisite(s): PHIL211 or PHIL212 or PHIL213 or PHIL221 or PHIL222 or PHIL223 or PHIL251 or PHIL252
The nature, value, and possibility of knowledge and justified belief. Sense perception, the a priori, skepticism, epistemic virtue, foundationalism, coherentism, internalism, externalism and naturalism. Pre-Requisite(s): PHIL211 or PHIL212 or PHIL213 or PHIL221 or PHIL222 or PHIL223 or PHIL251 or PHIL252
The nature and value of art, beauty, creativity, aesthetic experience and critical judgment. Pre-Requisite(s): PHIL211 or PHIL212 or PHIL213 or PHIL221 or PHIL222 or PHIL223 or PHIL251 or PHIL252
The nature of consciousness, the relation between the mind and body, our knowledge of other minds, theories of truth, meaning and reference. Pre-Requisite(s): PHIL211 or PHIL212 or PHIL213 or PHIL221 or PHIL222 or PHIL223 or PHIL251 or PHIL252
Theories of global justice and applied issues in global justice, such as individual and collective responsibility for global poverty and poor working conditions; environmental justice and climate change; refugee migration, migrant labor, immigration and citizenship; war and terrorism.
Theories, principles, and methods. Ethical issues in health care, such as patient autonomy, informed consent, genetic engineering, biomedical research on human and nonhuman subjects, and justice. Development of written arguments on bioethical issues.
Theories and principles of ethics, including virtue ethics and care ethics, applied to ethical issues in professional communication, such as the use of ethnic, racial, and regional terms to talk about individuals and groups of people, offensive images or language, privacy, transparency and disclosure, and their influence on social and ethical norms.
Credit for independent work by a single student arranged and supervised by a faculty member.
Study of a single philosopher, problem or special topic. May be repeated with different topics. Pre-Requisite(s): PHIL301 or PHIL302 or PHIL303 or PHIL323 or PHIL324
Advanced study of a single philosopher, problem or special topic in a seminar setting. May be repeated with different topics. Graduate students will complete additional assignments. Pre-Requisite(s): PHIL301 or PHIL302 or PHIL303 or PHIL323 or PHIL324
Credit for independent work by a single student arranged and supervised by a faculty member.
Study of a single philosopher, problem or special topic. May be repeated with different topics. Graduate students will complete additional assignments.
Advanced study of a single philosopher, problem or special topic in a seminar setting. May be repeated with different topics. Graduate students will complete additional assignments.
Source: Saint Cloud State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
