102 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.
PHIL 2200The Outer Limits of Reasoning
3 hours; 3 credits Paradoxes and limitations arising in computer science, the physical sciences, and mathematics. Reasoning conundrums and paradoxes with an emphasis on examples from mathematics. Limitations of reason, logic, mathematics and computing. Reasoning about infinity. The inability to prove everything that is true. Problems that cannot be solved computationally in a reasonable amount of time. Unsolvable problems. The boundary between what can and cannot be known. Starting Spring 2018 Satisfies Pathways Required Core Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning requirement. This course is the same as Computer and Information Science 1002. (Not open to students who have completed CORC 3310.)
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical issues in major literary works and related classical and contemporary philosophical literature. Such issues as appearance and reality, personal identity, truth, freedom, evil, justice, and ideal government. (Not open to students who have completed Core Curriculum 3105.) 2017-2018: Satisfies Pathways College Option requirement. Starting Fall 2018 Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core Individual and Society requirement. Core areas of philosophy
3 hours; 3 credits Study of key philosophical works by such major philosophers as Buddha, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Nagarjuna, Augustine, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, Aquinas, Maimonides, Descartes, Conway, de la Cruz, Hume, Kant, Marx, Russell, de Beauvoir, Arendt, Leon- Portilla, Wiredu, Mudimbe. Develops critical reading and writing skills, analytical skills, research methods.
4 hours; 4 credits Development of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics in ancient thought. Influence on medieval and modern thought. Emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. (Not open to students who have completed Philosophy 11.)
3 hours; 3 credits The development of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, and logic in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy. Critical examination of such movements as Epicureanism, Stoicism, Skepticism, and of such philosophers as Cicero, Lucretius, Seneca, Philo Judaeus, Plotinus.
3 hours; 3 credits The development of epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics in medieval thought. Free choice of the will; the existence and properties of God; the nature of truth and human knowledge; Programs and Courses of Instruction the problem of universals. Jewish, Arabic, and Christian thought. Such medieval philosophers as Augustine, Abelard, Anselm, Maimonides, Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham. (Not open to students who are enrolled in or have completed Philosophy 41.)
3 hours; 3 credits The development of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and logic in Renaissance philosophy. Critical examination of Renaissance Humanism, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Skepticism. Such thinkers as Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Bruno, Bacon, Galileo, Montaigne, Machiavelli.
4 hours; 4 credits Development of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics since the Renaissance. Emphasis on Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. (Not open to students who have completed Philosophy 12.)
3 hours; 3 credits Critical examination of nineteenth-century philosophical movements and of such philosophers as Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Marx. The empirical tradition, including such philosophers as J.S. Mill and Brentano, may also be explored. (Not open to students who have completed Philosophy 49.)
3 hours; 3 credits Such major trends in analytic philosophy as logical atomism, logical positivism, and ordinary language analysis. Critical examination of the writings of such exponents of these approaches as Russell, Moore, Ayer, Ryle, Austin, and Wittgenstein. Some continental philosophers may also be examined. (Not open to students who have completed Philosophy 55.) Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1].
3 hours; 3 credits Critical study of major philosophers, philosophical movements and traditions in American philosophy. Movements such as transcendentalism and pragmatism. African-American, Latino/a, Native American, and feminist traditions. Such authors as Sagoyewatha, Jonathan Edwards, Ella Lyman Cabot, Ralph Emerson, Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, George Santayana, Jane Addams, Alain Locke, Luther Standing Bear, Cornel West, and Maria Lugones. Starting Spring 2024 satisfies Pathways Flexible Core U.S. in Its Diversity requirement.
3 hours; 3 credits The historical sources and origins of pragmatism in American philosophy. Pragmatism and logical positivism; pragmatism and analytic philosophy; pragmatism and naturalism; neo-
3 hours; 3 credits Phenomenological-existentialist critique of positivism, psychologism, and traditional humanism and the counter-claim to a deeper and more philosophical interpretation of man and his 'being in the world'. Readings from such philosophers as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty.
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical problems in Marxism. Early and Later Writings of Marx. Relationship of Marx to Hegel, Marx's concepts, methodology, theories of history and knowledge. Twentieth- century Marxists such as Lukacs, Habermas, Korsch, Althusser, Marcuse. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1].
3 hours; 3 credits An introduction to modern sentential and predicate logic. Among the topics are validity, consistency and proof, formal analysis of sentences and arguments in natural language. (Not open to students who are enrolled in or have completed Philosophy 3204 [33].)
3 hours; 3 credits Symbolic methods of modern deductive logic and their application to language. Metalogical techniques for the study of logistic systems. Alternative logics. Probability calculus. Highe functions. Type theory. Godellian incompleteness.
3 hours; 3 credits Examination and development of reasoning skills. Informal logic. Topics such as meaning, definition, the analysis of arguments, fallacies. Use of examples in reasoning to apply principles studied. Legal reasoning, support for claims about public policy, scientific and philosophical arguments.
4 hours; 4 credits An introduction to the methods and practices of philosophy, with an emphasis on the development of core philosophical skills. These skills include reasoning and logic, textual interpretation, argument analysis and reconstruction, and argument construction. Instructors will select appropriate philosophical materials for developing these skills. Philosophy 421
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical problems of formal logic: logical truth, entailment, meaning and reference, ontology, logical and semantical paradoxes, semantic categories, relation of formal logic to natural languages. equivalent logic course or permission of the chairperson.
3 hours; 3 credits Introduction to the theory of individual, group and social decision-making. Decision-making under risk and under ignorance. Probability theory, utility theory, game theory and their paradoxes. Theory of collective choice. Applications of decision theory in ethics, political philosophy and the theory of action.
3 hours, 3 credits An introduction to inductive logic. Philosophic problems of induction. Relation of induction to probability and scientific method. Causal reasoning. Mill's methods. Views of such philosophers as David Hume, Nelson Goodman, C. S. Peirce. Ethics, applied ethics, professional ethics
3 hours; 3 credits This course explores how American culture continues to shape and reflect ideas about ability and disability. Topics include: History of disability in the social, political, and environmental fabric of American society; talking about disability in medical ethics; negotiating constructed boundaries, stereotypes, and representations of disability; disability in arts and performance; American disability memoires. Students will be expected to participate in class and group work, do low-risk writing, give r presentations, and complete final papers/projects. This course is the same as MUSC 4435 and AMST 3710.
3 hours; 3 credits Critical examination of issues in personal ethics. Moral obligations to self, family, friends, love partners, neighbors, schoolmates, coworkers. Autonomy and integrity; responsibility and special obligation. Discussion of such topics as suicide, substance abuse, marriage, divorce, love and sex, parent-child relations, surrogacy, gambling, lying, and cheating. Conceptions of family, work, and leisure. Classical and contemporary philosophers.
3 hours; 3 credits Critical consideration of issues in social ethics. Discussion of such topics as racism and sexism, economic justice, civil disobedience, capital punishment, environmental pollution, nuclear power and weaponry, abortion, euthanasia, freedom of information, the right to privacy.
3 hours; 3 credits Critical examination of issues in global ethics. Human rights and global justice; justice of war; self-determination of peoples; sovereignty of states; legitimacy of external intervention; humanitarian intervention; justice of sanctions; conditionality or imperativeness of economic aid; ethical issues in international development; global citizenship. Classical and contemporary readings.
3 hours; 3 credits A philosophical examination of race and racism centered around the moral values of justice and equality. Topics addressed include race as a social category, racial identity, the nature of racism, race neutrality and race consciousness, multiculturalism, and the relationships among values such as fairness, equality, and well-being. Contrasting points of view on measures designed to counter racism, including civil disobedience, affirmative action, racial reparations, and race- based restrictions on speech.
3 hours; 3 credits Ethical aspects of human treatment of the natural environment, including the moral basis for pollution control, wilderness preservation, energy and resource conservation, protection of endangered species, and sustaining the earth's ecological diversity. Major theories of environmental ethics and their valuational foundations will be examined critically.
3 hours; 3 credits Conceptions of professions and their relationship to society. Professionals and ethics. Such topics as privacy, confidentiality, whistle-blowing, and conflicts of interest. Philosophical implications of Codes of Ethics of various professions. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1].
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical examination of moral issues arising from emerging biomedical technologies. Critically focuses on resulting ethical dilemmas within personal identity, free will and moral responsibility, public policy and law, and neuroscience. Considers challenges to traditional conceptions of who we are; how we reason, make decisions and value judgments; how and why we remember (and forget). Addresses the implications of biotechnological cognitive enhancement strategies, "brain reading” and similar technologies, and virtual and other technologically-facilitated embodiments.
3 hours; 3 credits This course introduces students to the history of ethics in psychology. Topics include what makes clients of psychologists, their families and their communities vulnerable; how individual and group reasoning, and our own cognitive Programs and Courses of Instruction biases and heuristics can help or hinder our ethical behavior; how organizational climate and socio-cultural contexts can affect our ethical decision making; neuroethics; and diversity, equity and inclusion considerations relevant to ethics in psychology. This course is the same as PSYC 3020.
3 hours; 3 credits Basic approaches to moral reasoning and their application to such issues as justice and economic systems; corporate responsibility to society, the environment, and developing nations; and the duties of businesses to their employees, their customers, and their competitors. Accounting or Business or Economics, or Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1], or Core Studies 10.
3 hours; 3 credits Critical examination of ethical issues related to communication, information, and the media. Freedoms and responsibilities. Consideration of such issues as: privacy, confidentiality, censorship, deception, propaganda, accuracy, fairness, intellectual property rights, conflicts of interest, obscenity and pornography, civility and offensive speech. Classical and contemporary philosophers. (This course is the same as Communication 3200.) or permission of the Chairperson of the Philosophy department.
3 hours; 3 credits Analysis and discussion of problems concerning the physician- patient relationship, life and death, medicine on a social scale. (Not open to students who have completed Philosophy 24.)
3 hours; 3 credits Analysis of ethical issues pertaining to computers and the workplace, anonymity and privacy, copyright and patent law (as applied to software), computer crime, security, unauthorized use, codes of conduct for computer professionals, access and availability of computing technologies. Application of theoretical frameworks such as virtue ethics, deontological theories and utilitarianism to the ethical problems encountered in computing technologies. Writing intensive course. (This course is the same as Computer and Information Science 2820W.) Computer and Information Science 1000 [1.0] or Computer and Information Science 1110 [1.5] or 1115, and English 1012 [2].
PHIL 3319Ethical Issues in the Electronic Mass Media
3 hours; 3 credits Analysis and discussion of ethical issues related to television, Radio and Emerging Media. Case histories and role playing provide value judgments concerning entertainment, information, and advertising functions of mass media. This course is the same as Television, Radio and Emerging Media 3223. (Not open to students who have completed Philosophy [24.1])
4 hours; 4 credits Systematic study of the nature and grounds of moral judgments. Methods of justifying moral standards. Analysis of moral concepts. Ethical theories of classical and contemporary writers critically examined. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1].
3 hours; 3 credits Comparative and critical analysis of contrasting ideals of human virtue and prescriptions for its attainment. Focus on philosophic and literary texts representing several different cultures and historical periods.
3 Hours; 3 Credits Analysis of normative and evaluative concepts. Logic of justifying value judgments. Role of value in deliberation and decision making. Recent developments in the theory of value. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1].
3 hours; 3 credits Moral decision-making and the conditions for moral agency. Topics include: egoism, the possibility of altruism, the place of sympathy and empathy in ethics, moral motivation, the structure of emotions, the possibility of weakness of will and self- deception, addiction and compulsion, shame and regret, character and circumstance.
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical theories of happiness and of what gives life its meaning. Topics include the role of happiness in the history of ethics; the nature, value, and sources of happiness; current inter-disciplinary empirical research on happiness; a variety of approaches to the philosophical issue of the meaning of life. Classic and contemporary readings.
3 hours; 3 credits Issues relating to the integration of virtue and spiritual values such as creativity, integrity, social responsibility, economic justice, and environmental stewardship into the workplace and marketplace. Changing the corporate culture, importance of the mission statement, and leadership styles. Research on happiness and the role that meaningful work plays in happiness. Real life examples and cases to illustrate concepts and issues. This course is the same as BUSN 3251. chairperson. Philosophy 423 Metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind
4 hours; 4 credits Classical and contemporary theories of being and reality. Analysis of such concepts as particular, quality, relation, personal identity, free will and determinism, universals, substance, mind, matter, space, and time. Possibility of metaphysical knowledge. The relationship between metaphysics and other disciplines. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1].
4 hours; 4 credits Classical and contemporary theories of the nature of knowledge and belief. Discussion of skepticism, rationalism, empiricism, coherentism, foundationalism. Analysis of such concepts as probability, certainty, perception, evidence, truth. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1].
3 hours; 3 credits Examination of philosophical and scientific theories about the nature and existence of the mind, and its relation to the brain, body, and environment. Philosophical examination of contemporary issues in artificial intelligence (A.I.), neuroscience, theories of consciousness, extended and embodied cognition, animal minds, emotions, perception, rationality and thought, mental causation and intentionality, and problems of personal identity.
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical questions raised by psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive science, and sociobiology. Philosophical problems related to theories of unconscious mental processes, repressed memories, multiple personality, mental illness, innate knowledge, the origins of concepts of truth and moral rightness, animal cognition. Theories of classical and contemporary thinkers critically examined.
PHIL 3422Philosophical Issues in Cognitive Science
3 hours; 3 credits Introduction to select foundational issues in cognitive science. Consideration of such topics as concept formation, meaning, representation, language, reasoning, consciousness, rationality, the human mind, and machine intelligence.
3 hours; 3 credits Contemporary issues in philosophy and psychology such as the mind-machine analogy, the artificial intelligence model of the human mind, intentionality, representation, consciousness, concept formation, free will, behaviorism, mechanism. Discussion and evaluation of contemporary work in the field. This course is the same as Computer and Information Science 1410 and Psychology 3580. (Not open to students who have completed Computer and Information Science 32.1.)
3 hours; 3 credits Nature and value of art and aesthetic experience. Aesthetic theories examined abstractly and with reference to the living arts. Methods and criteria for forming aesthetic judgments.
3 hours; 3 credits Concept of beauty in history of philosophy; Beauty in 18th century. British aesthetic theory; Kant's theory of beauty; contemporary theories of beauty; renewal of interest in beauty in philosophy; beauty and morality; beauty and environment; beauty and cognitive science; feminist theory and beauty.
3 hours; 3 credits A critical examination of the philosophical dimensions of various theories of literature, literary criticism, and film. Examination o logical, metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic issues in narrative fiction.
3 hours; 3 credits Critical examination of philosophical issues pertaining to music. Consideration of such issues as: the definition or concept of music, the ontology of music, musical meaning and understanding, musical expressiveness and arousal, musical representation, musical performance and authenticity of performance, the power and value of music, and the aesthetics of jazz, rock, and popular music. Classical and contemporary philosophers. (This course is the same as Music 4960.)
3 hours; 3 credits Traditional and contemporary philosophical discussions of aesthetic experience of the natural environment. Beautiful, sublime and picturesque. Natural versus artifactual appreciation. Cultural and urban environments. Environmental and public art. Theories of aesthetic appreciation of environment. Science, emotions and imagination in aesthetic Programs and Courses of Instruction experience. Aesthetic judgments of nature. Aesthetics, ethics and environmental conservation. Urban environmental field trip.
3 hours; 3 credits Survey of the main topics in the philosophy of language. Different approaches to the description of language. Types of grammar. Acquisition and use of language. Classification, definition, and meaning. Place of linguistic data in philosophical arguments. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1]. Philosophy and the sciences
3 hours; 3 credits Logical structure of mathematics and of the natural sciences. Explanation in the physical sciences. Cognitive status of scientific laws and theories.
3 hours, 3 credits Philosophical examination of the nature and impact of technological systems and technical knowledge. Such philosophical topics as: What is technology?; the effects of technology on our conceptions of nature, human, science, and society; ethical issues concerning the development and use of technology. Various philosophical approaches including phenomenology, pragmatism, feminism, and analytic philosophy.
3 hours, 3 credits Introduction to philosophy of mathematics. Classical philosophers of mathematics (Pythagoreans, Plato, Aristotle, f Kant, Mill). Major 20th-century schools (logicism, intuitionism, formalism). Recent developments (realism/nominalism debate, structuralism, philosophy of set theory). Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1] or permission of the chairperson.
3 hours; 3 credits Intensive study of selected areas in the philosophy of biology including the origin of life: teleological, functional, and mechanistic explanations; the theory of evolution and the neo- Darwinian synthesis; reductionism, genetics, and hierarchies; taxonomy and the species problem; and sociobiology.
3 hours; 3 credits A critical examination of the development of theories of nature, life, and cosmology. Classical and modern issues in natural philosophy. Such topics as the structure of the natural world, the nature of space and time, theories of the organism, classic debates concerning mechanism, vitalism, atomism and monism, determinism, the relation between God and nature. Views on issues in natural philosophy of such thinkers as
3 hours; 3 credits Development of philosophical points of view in physics from ancient times to the present. Interplay of ideas from science, philosophy, and the world views of various societies. (Not open to students who have completed Physics 36.) This course is the same as Physics 1060. Curriculum 1331 [3.31]/Physics 1005 or its equivalent, or Core Studies 10, or Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1], or one course in philosophy, or permission of the chairperson. Philosophy, culture and the social sciences
3 hours; 3 credits Logic of social scientific inquiry. Behaviorism, functionalism, historicism, methodological individualism, and structuralism. Analysis of such basic social scientific concepts as culture, group, norm, person, action, and ideology. Values in the social sciences. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1].
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical examination of various facets of culture, including the arts, mass media, high art and low art, popular culture, the avant-garde, modernism, post-modernism, myth, language, religion, the sciences, society, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Classic and contemporary philosophers from a broad cross-section of philosophical traditions.
4 hours; 4 credits History of theories of the underlying principles of law and social organization. Principles of just distribution; rule of men versus rule of law; natural law and social contract theories; social justice versus individual liberty. Such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Thoreau, Rawls, and Nozick are discussed. (Not open to students who have completed Philosophy 39.)
4 hours; 4 credits Philosophical theories of society and human nature. Analysis of such social concepts as authority, law, rights, the state, justice, the common good, liberty, and sovereignty. Methods of justifying political principles. Social ideals and general theory of value. (Not open to students who have completed Philosophy 40.)
3 hours; 3 credits Critical analysis of concepts of education; major philosophies of education; aims of education; social issues and education. (Not Philosophy 425 open to students who have completed Education 18.)
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical problems involved in the study of history. Nature of historical knowledge and of explanation in history. Concept of progress in history. Historical inevitability. Meaning of history. Place of moral judgments in historical writing. Vico, Hegel, Marx, Tolstoy, Collingwood, Toynbee, Hempel, Berlin, Popper.
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical analysis of the methodology of economics, and of the ethical implications of economic theory and its applications to public policy. Survey of major philosophical approaches to economic methodology, considering classical and contemporary sources. Rationality in economics and morality. Ethical analysis of such basic concepts of economic theory as welfare and efficiency, and their relationships to liberty, rights, equality and justice. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1].
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical feminism. Critical examination of current issues in feminist scholarship. Issues of discrimination, equality, and difference; women in relation to science, epistemology, and political and moral philosophy. This course is the same as Women's and Gender Studies 3135. one philosophy course, or one Women’s and Gender Studies course, or permission of the chairperson.
Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1], or Core Studies 10, or
PHIL 3721Jewish Philosophy
3 hours; 3 credits Jewish philosophers and philosophic movements. Historical roots and wider cultural context of Jewish philosophy. Existentialist, feminist, and postmodernist developments in Jewish philosophy. Classic and contemporary philosophers, such as Philo of Alexandria, Maimonides, Gersonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Buber, Rosenzweig, Hermann Cohen, Leo Strauss, Emmanuel Levinas.
3 hours; 3 credits Development of Indian thought in such sources as the Vedic hymns, the Upanishads, the Bhagavadgita, Jainism, Buddhism, and the darshana. Chinese, Indian, and Japanese thought through the ancient, medieval, and modern periods.
3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of some of the central philosophical issues in African-American philosophy. Such topics as race, gender, respect, social justice, reparations. Diverse philosophical perspectives, such as existentialism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, post-structuralism. Classic texts and writings of contemporary philosophers. Starting Fall 2026 Satisfies
3 hours; 3 credits Examination of some of the central issues in Latin American philosophy in the medieval, modern and contemporary periods. Such topics as the definition of humanity, morality and colonialism, independence, race, gender, identity, social justice, moral and aesthetic value. Various philosophical perspectives such as positivism, pragmatism, existentialism. Starting Spring 2025 Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core World Cultures and Global Issues requirement.
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical examination of race and the question of its validity as a scientific, social, and census category. Such issues as the metaphysical legitimacy and social reality of racial designations; race, subjectivity, and sense of self; mixed race persons; racial identities and their political effects; the relationship between the continued use of racial categories and the persistence of racism.
3 hours; 3 credits Examination of metaphysical, epistemological and ethical issues arising from the experience of the LGBT community, including: philosophical critiques and defenses of the concept of sexual orientation; homosexuality in the Western philosophical tradition; LGBT marriage and familial relations; the ethics of outing and of being closeted; ethical issues affecting LGBT people in medicine, education and the law. This course is the same as Women's and Gender Studies 3137.
3 hours; 3 credits Environmental concerns of major religious traditions. Spiritual and doctrinal views of the environment in the Abrahamic faiths, Eastern religions and indigenous traditions. Philosophical roots of religious environmentalism. Religious influences on environmental philosophy. Religiously based conceptions of ecojustice and its connections with economic, racial, and gender justice. This course is the same as Studies in Religion 3728 and Urban Sustainability SUST 2401.
and Christians 3 hours; 3 credits History of theology in the Mediterranean basin from ancient through medieval periods. Same as CLAS 3022, JUST 3023, and RELG 3022.
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical interpretations of the data of religious experience. Religion and magic, science, ethics, and world views. Religious language. Criteria of religious knowledge. Programs and Courses of Instruction
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical foundations of sport. Definitions and descriptive characteristics of sport in relation to games, play, exercise, and physical movement. Ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and metaphysical issues in the practice and appreciation of sport. Sport and society.
3 hours; 3 credits Can animals think? Do animals have rights? Examination of such issues as animal consciousness, cognition, intelligence; obligations to animals; pets and pests; vegetarianism; experimentation with animal subjects; genetic engineering of animals; endangered species. Classical and contemporary philosophers. Special topics, seminars and customized courses
3 hours; 3 credits Special topic, problem, figure, or school of thought in philosophy not otherwise covered in the regular courses of the curriculum. Topics vary and reflect special interests of students and faculty. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course twice, with the permission of the department chairperson, but may not repeat topics. Core Curriculum 1210 [2.1]. Internship/professional training
1 hour conference, minimum of 6 hours unsupervised fieldwork; Field experience in professional organizations that contribute to the preparation for careers in such areas as law, government, medicine, business, teaching. Individual and group conferences with faculty mentor. Directed reading and writing in applied philosophy related to field experience. Preparation and presentation of a critical report of the experience. permission of the chairperson.
1 hour conference, minimum of 6 hours unsupervised fieldwork; Field experience in professional organizations that contribute to the preparation for careers in such areas as law, government, medicine, business, teaching. Individual and group conferences with faculty mentor. Directed reading and writing in applied philosophy related to field experience. Preparation and presentation of a critical report of the experience. Seminars and research courses
3 hours and independent work§; 4 credits A philosophical problem or set of connected problems. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course twice, with the permission of the department chairperson, but may not repeat topics. chairperson, of advanced Philosophy Department courses and permission of the chairperson.
3 hours and independent work§; 4 credits A period in history of philosophy, a school of philosophy, or an individual philosopher. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course twice, with the permission of the department chairperson, but may not repeat topics. chairperson, of advanced courses in philosophy and permission of the chairperson.
4 hours; 4 credits A significant recurrent theme in Western literature and philosophy. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Reports and term paper. Offered jointly by the Departments of Classics, English, and Philosophy. This course is the same as Classics 5000, Comparative Literature 4602, English 4112. courses in the major field and permission of the instructors and the chairperson.
Minimum of 9 hours of conference and independent work§; 3 credits Intensive study of an area of philosophy. Approved reading, research, and writing assignments, and final examination. instructor and of the chairperson.
3 hours; 3 credits An honors seminar on a problem in philosophy. Topics vary and reflect the interests of faculty and students. Students may take this course twice, with the permission of the department chairperson, but may not repeat topics. in philosophy.
3 hours; 3 credits An honors seminar on a problem in philosophy. Topics vary and reflect the interests of faculty and students. Students may take this course twice, with the permission of the department chairperson, but may not repeat topics. in philosophy.
3 hours; 3 credits An honors seminar on an outstanding philosophic thinker. Philosophers selected vary and reflect the interests of faculty and students. Students may take this course twice, with the permission of the department chairperson, but may not repeat topics. in philosophy.
3 hours; 3 credits An honors seminar on an outstanding philosophic thinker. Philosophers selected vary and reflect the interests of faculty and students. Students may take this course twice, with the permission of the department chairperson, but may not repeat topics. in philosophy.
Minimum of 9 hours conference and independent work§; 3 credits Independent study in a major area of philosophy supervised by a faculty member. Approved reading. Final examination. chairperson, of advanced courses in philosophy and permission of the instructor and the chairperson.
PHIL 7805GSpecial Studies in Ethics, Aesthetics, or
Philosophy of Law, History, the State or Religion 30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Topics vary from term to term. The following inactive course(s) will only be offered if there is sufficient demand:
