43 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.
GE:HU Introduces some of the main philosophical questions about knowledge, existence, and value, e.g. What can we be certain of? Does God exist? What is the difference between right and wrong? Selected readings from major philosophers.
EE:DL GE:HU Introduces major ethical theories and questions such as: What is justice? What is virtue? What are human rights? What is happiness?
EE:GL FD1 FD2 GE:HU Philosophical basis of main social, political, and economic systems. Classic issues such as civil disobedience, justification of revolution, institution of private property, and redistribution of wealth.
GE:HU Introduces non-symbolic logic. Topics may include how to recognize simple valid arguments, avoid common fallacies, define terms, criticize arguments, and answer objections.
GE:HU Introduces philosophical thinking and writing by study of issues at foundations of contemporary biology. Topics may include philosophical import of evolutionary theory, nature of scientific justification, reductionism versus holism in biological theory, and ethical issues in biological research.
GE:HU Introduces philosophical thinking and writing by study of issues at foundations of psychology. Topics may include competing models of mind (biological, information processing, holistic), nature of scientific justification, pharmacological versus more traditional methods in psychiatry and clinical psychology, and ethical issues in psychological research.
GE:HU Philosophical consideration of some central moral problems of modern society and civilization, such as abortion, euthanasia, war, sexual morality, government paternalism, reverse discrimination, animal rights, environmental ethics, and capital punishment. Topics vary.
EE:GL GE:HU Analysis of some main concepts, arguments, and issues in philosophy of religion. Topics include meaning of religious language, arguments for existence of God, problem of evil, miracles, and meaning of religious experience.
GE:HU Focuses on several philosophers, each from different historical periods. Emphasis on selections from their writings and their influence. Historical periods include Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Periods and nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
GE:HU or GE:MA Introduces basic logical notions: statement, argument, validity, consistency, and proof. Various methods for analyzing these notions. Translation of natural language statements into logical system and other topics.
EE:GL GE:HU Explores whether or not there is an afterlife as well as other philosophical issues relating to death and dying, including ethical, social, and political questions concerning abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, and other controversial matters.
EE:GL GE:HU Explores philosophical themes that emerge in the science fiction genre through rigorous philosophical analysis, addressing topics in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and moral philosophy.
EE:GL GE:HU An examination of moral and epistemological issues surrounding freedom of speech.
GE:HU Investigation into nature of science and scientific method. Topics include nature of scientific theories, existence of theoretical entities, structure of space-time, and causality.
GE:HU Introduces classical and current philosophical theories explaining the nature and value of art. Emphasis on general understanding of such theories and their application to the art world. Past and current developments in philosophy linked with work and theories of currently influential artists and historical figures in the arts.
EE:DL GE:HU Survey of main theories of normative ethics and their application to moral issues that arise in business, such as employee rights and responsibilities, honesty in advertising, trade secrecy, and corporate social responsibility.
GE:HU Concept of a professional and obligations of professionals to their clients and others. Survey of related ethical issues in law, accounting, health care, engineering, education, scientific research, etc.
GE:HU Survey of the main theories of normative ethics and their application to ethical issues that arise with respect to the environment. Topics may include animal welfare, climate change, population growth, poverty, mass migration, global justice, and the moral status of ecosystems.
GE:HU Introduction to philosophical ethics and value theory by way of application to various issues in biomedicine, such as medical paternalism and patient autonomy, human research, abortion, euthanasia, and justice in the distribution of health care resources.
GE:HU Introduces philosophy of sport through study of philosophical writings relevant to sport and contemporary writings in philosophy of sport.
FD1 FD2 GE:HU Explores philosophical topics arising from study and application of legal principles, such as nature of law and obligation, civil liberties, rights, and theories of punishment.
GE:HU Study of representative writers from late nineteenth and twentieth-century tradition of existentialism and phenomenology, such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Sartre, and Heidegger.
WI* P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Philosophical problems concerning the mind, such as intentionality and subjectivity of our mental states. Nature of psychology and cognitive sciences and their implications for philosophy.
WI* P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Philosophical examination of issues related to knowledge and acceptable belief. Topics may include role of experience, perception, sensation, and reasoning in generating knowledge or acceptable, true beliefs, and extent to which our various knowledge seeking activities (such as pursuit of scientific methodologies) succeed in producing what is being sought.
P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Philosophical examination of issues such as nature and foundation of aesthetic value, relevance of aesthetics to current developments in art world, whether the concept of art is an evolving concept, and relevance of artist’s intention to nature and value of art.
EE:DL GE:HU Survey of moral problems pertaining to study and practice of medical sciences and study of philosophical concepts and methods as they pertain to those problems.
WI P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Topics discussed in PHIL 1290 pursued thoroughly. Ramifications and implications of opposing positions and arguments.
WI* P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Study of major writings of ancient period, such as those of the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus.
WI* P: 3 s.h. in philosophy or consent of instructor. Critical examination of the ideas of the great European philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries: such as Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume and Kant.
WI* P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Major movements, themes, and figures in mainstream of philosophy from 1900 to present, such as Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine, and Austin.
WI* May be repeated for credit with change of topic. P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Intensive study of a great philosopher. Selected from such major figures as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Kierkegaard, Sartre.
GE:HU May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair. Independent study of particular topic for which general department curriculum does not provide adequate opportunity.
GE:HU May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair. Independent study of particular topic for which general department curriculum does not provide adequate opportunity.
GE:HU WI* May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair. Independent study of particular topic for which general department curriculum does not provide adequate opportunity.
May be repeated for credit. P: Consent of instructor and dept chair.
GE:MA P: PHIL 1500 or MATH major or consent of instructor. Review of propositional logic. Logical notions of validity, consistency, and proof are extended to predicate logic. Emphasis on derivations in this system. Other topics may be included.
WI* P: 6 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Inquiry concerning philosophical questions about reality, the world, the mind, God, universals, essences, and substances.
WI* P: 6 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Intensive study of particular issue or theory, such as meaning and justification of ethical statements, utilitarianism, responsibility, blame, and punishment.
FD1 FD2 WI* P: 6 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Analysis of conceptual problems and normative questions that arise in social and political philosophy. Foci may include justice theory, injustice theory, the philosophy of family, or theories of political obligation.
WI* P: 6 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Problems of meaning, truth, reference, necessity, naming, concepts, propositions, speech acts, semantic theories, and nature of language.
May be repeated for credit. P: Consent of instructor and dept chair.
May be repeated for credit with consent of directing professor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair.
May be repeated for credit with consent of directing professor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair.
Source: East Carolina University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
