62 courses with the subject PHI, 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.
Discussion of views and methods of major philosophers. Topics drawn from metaphysics and epistemology, such as the foundations and scope of human knowledge, personal identity, freedom and determinism, and the mind-body problem.
Introduction to basic principles of reasoning and argumentation. Topics taken from syllogistic reasoning, probability, informal fallacies, the structural analysis of statements, and scientific methods.
Fundamental questions of ethics, such as the nature of the distinction between good and evil, moral right and wrong, the foundation of moral judgments, relativism, absolutism, and subjectivism. Readings from major figures in the history of ethics.
Philosophical readings and discussion of such current topics as abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, censorship, sexual morality, affirmative action and preferential hiring, environmental ethics, population control, and the morality of war.
This course explores the relationship between science, technology, and society. Looking at historical and contemporary examples from the sciences, technology, arts, literature, and philosophy, we will discuss contemporary issues such as human enhancement, climate change, and artificial intelligence.
A Foundations Course looking at different conceptions of free will and what implications these have for how we evaluate the morality of actions. Readings from historical and contemporary sources.
This course deals with the moral status of behavior relating to sex and death, such as homosexuality, prostitution, surrogate pregnancy, abortion, war, capital punishment, and euthanasia. This course also provides foundational skills necessary for academic success at UNCG.
This course focuses on the metaphysical and moral status of sports, including discussion of cheating, performance enhancing drugs, politics and sports, and sports issues relating to gender. This course also provides foundational skills necessary for academic success at UNCG.
This course focuses on questions in the philosophy of religion relating to the existence of God, the possibility of evil, objective moral truth, divine attributes, and more. This course also provides foundational skills necessary for academic success at UNCG.
This MAC Foundations course explores philosophical questions concerning the aims and nature of education. Students develop critical insight into how and why education is worth pursuing in light of their life projects and goals.
This course deals with philosophical questions concerning the human mind, its relation to the body, the brain, consciousness, what is sometimes called the "soul," etc. This course also provides foundational skills necessary for academic success at UNCG.
This course focuses on fundamental moral issues, including objective and subjective morality, whether the means justifies the ends, and the moral status of ordinary forms of behavior that we typically take to be unobjectionable. This course also provides foundational skills necessary for academic success at UNCG.
This course explores a variety of styles of reasoning and their evaluative standards while also exploring how the University is designed to facilitate critical thinking habits, and how developing good critical thinking habits can help students get the most out of their University experience.
This course is an introduction to philosophy through consideration of theories about what makes a life a good one, and the relation between one’s own well-being and the well-being of others.
Without using statistical testing, students will learn how to reason clearly about probability in everyday life and to avoid probability fallacies. Topics include different interpretations of probability, the axioms of the probability calculus, Bayesian reasoning, probability fallacies, and decision theory.
Students will use methods of philosophical analysis and argumentation to examine foundational texts of American Democracy, such as the US Constitution and MLK Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, as well as classic texts of political philosophy, such as Plato’s Republic and Locke’s Second Treatise of Government.
This is a variable topic, debate-oriented course, with different themes in different semesters. Please contact the department, or see Banner, for information about a specific semester. Themes may include philosophical perspectives on: contemporary moral issues, ethical theory, topics in religion, political theory, the nature of free will, and so on.
Moral problems in medicine including the patient's right to know, the confidentiality of doctor-patient communications, informed consent and experimentation with human subjects, abortion, euthanasia, socialized medicine, conflicts between medicine and religion, and genetic engineering.
This course introduces students to philosophical problems that touch our lives, engaging two basic branches of philosophy: theory of knowledge and study of the nature of reality. This course will also focus heavily on the development of clear writing skills.
The course will survey select moral problems arising from computer technology in contemporary life, focusing on analysis of specific problems, stakeholders, and consequences, and the historical impact of computer technology.
This course provides historical background for understanding racial inequalities, focuses on the concepts of race and gender and how they are connected to racism and sexism, and explores the concept of intersectionality.
This course deals with philosophical questions regarding the human body, especially the ways in which how a normal body is defined impacts how we think about health, wellness, and disability. We will also look at imaginative alternatives for defining the human body, its possibilities, and its boundaries.
Ethical theory and its application to business: economic justice, corporate responsibility, self-regulation and government regulation, conflict of interest, investment policy, advertising, and environmental responsibility.
Application of ethical theory to global entrepreneurship; including entrepreneur's role in ethical actions, economic justice, responsibility, self and government regulation, conflict of interest, investment policy, advertising, and environmental responsibility, and application to direct selling.
Ethical theory and its application to business with East Asian Ethics: Confucian Mercantilism, Confucian and Legalist bureaucratization, Mohism, guanxi, economic justice, corporate responsibility, self-regulation and government regulation, conflict of interest, investment policy, advertising, and environmental responsibility.
Introduction to the fundamental ideas of existentialism. Readings from Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre.
Are "you" the same "you" across a lifespan? What do we owe the elderly and our future, older selves? What is a good old age? How can age and ability-related discrimination affect the experience of growing old? This course engages these questions from various philosophical, interdisciplinary and international perspectives.
Variable content.
Validity, consistency, implication, and the formal analysis of language. Propositional logic and quantification theory.
Discussion of concepts central to an understanding of the nature of human knowledge, such as truth, evidence, certainty, intuition, perception, testimony, memory, and theories of epistemic justification.
Analysis of the meaning of moral concepts such as good, right, ought, duty, and of the nature of ethical argument. Attention to current theories in normative ethics.
Philosophical problems concerning description, interpretation, and evaluation of the visual, performing, and literary arts, discussed generally and in relation to specific works of art. Readings in philosophy and art theory.
Concepts important to an understanding of the nature/goals of research in the natural sciences, such as observation, experiment, theory, law, and explanation. Philosophical problems about objectivity and conceptual change in science based on examples from the history of science. Nature of scientific knowledge.
What justifications (if any) can be offered for the existence and the power of the state? What would a just society look like, and can any sort of inequality exist in such a society? Is democracy the best form of government? This course examines these questions and others.
Theories of the origin and justification of legal systems, our obligation to obey the law, justice, punishment, and related issues. Readings from classical and contemporary sources.
Critical discussion of philosophical questions raised by criminal law, including the moral justification of punishment, the theoretical underpinnings of various criminal defenses, and the conceptual distinctions among types of crimes.
Critical discussion of topics such as human rights, the morality of war and terrorism, international distributive justice, poverty and international aid, self-determination and secession, immigration policy, and global environmental issues.
Survey of Western philosophical thought in the ancient period from the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Sceptics, Stoics, Epicureans. Particular choices of texts and philosophical ideas may vary.
Survey of Western philosophical thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, its historical background and its influences on subsequent intellectual developments. Reading from major figures of the period, such as Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Kant.
Recent philosophical movements in France and Germany. Application of structuralist models to the human sciences. Post-structuralist developments such as Deconstruction and Hermeneutics. Selections from such writers as Husserl, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Lacan, Althusser, Derrida, Gadamer, and Ricoeur.
Systematic examination of the works of a major philosopher.
Language is perhaps the single greatest ability that our species has. But how does it work? How do names refer to objects? How can mere words--like a declaration of war--change the world? We will attempt to answer these questions and others.
Selected metaphysical issues such as personal identity and the immortality of the soul, freedom and determinism, the nature of space, time and substance, the problem of universals, forms of realism, and theory of reference.
The mind-body problem, identity theories, functionalism, reductive and eliminative materialism, behavioral and causal theories of mind.
Arguments concerning God's existence, the problem of evil, God's foreknowledge and human freedom, the analysis of divine attributes, immortality, and the soul.
The ethics of our relationship to the environment. Traditions in environmentalism; treatment of animals, nature, plants, and species; application of environmental ethical theory to real-world environmental problems.
Students will develop and present projects making use of material from courses taken in fulfillment of the Medical Humanities Minor. The course will also include guest lectures on a variety of topics, as well as discussions led by the instructor of record.
Supervised reading and research for philosophy majors.
Prerequisite: Satisfaction of requirements for the major in philosophy and permission of instructor;
Detailed examination of a particular issue in biomedical ethics, such as research ethics, assisted suicide and euthanasia, and the acquisition and allocation of organs for transplantation.
Issues in philosophy of social and behavioral science from Hume to the present: explanation, theory construction, methodology of the social sciences, the status of the sociology of knowledge.
Study of a major current issue in the philosophy of science such as scientific progress and change, scientific methods, experiment and theory, scientific explanation, rationality, scientific realism, relations between philosophy of science and history of science. Examples drawn from modern history of the physical sciences.
Topics from social, political, and legal philosophy, such as property, justice, punishment, liberalism, conservatism, and a study of such major figures as Hobbes, Locke, Mill, and Rawls.
Axiomatic first order quantification theory with completeness theorems. Numbers and sets. Paradoxes and type theory. Introduction to modal logic.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor; 3.30 GPA in the major, 12 s.h. in the major;
Variable content. Senior-level philosophical work on some thematic topic. Elements and methods of philosophical argument, research and debate. Technology competencies and information skills/ research competencies in the major.
Issues in philosophy of social and behavioral science from Hume to the present: explanation, theory construction, methodology of the social sciences, the status of the sociology of knowledge.
Study of a major current issue in the philosophy of science such as scientific progress and change, scientific methods, experiment and theory, scientific explanation, rationality, scientific realism, relations between philosophy of science and history of science. Examples drawn from modern history of the physical sciences.
The mind-body problem, identity theories, functionalism, reductive and eliminative materialism, behavioral and causal theories of mind.
Axiomatic first order quantification theory with completeness theorems. Numbers and sets. Paradoxes and type theory. Introduction to modal logic.
Topics may include relativism, legal ethics, and artificial intelligence.
Ethical issues in the acquisition and application of knowledge about the human genome. Topics include genetic testing and abortion, predictive testing, testing for minors, confidentiality, gene therapy, and human cloning.
Source: University of North Carolina at Greensboro's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
