17 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.
This course is an introduction to informal logic (sometimes called critical thinking), covering a variety of topics bearing on the understanding and rational assessment of claims and arguments.
An introduction to basic formal principles and techniques for distinguishing correct from incorrect reasoning.
An introduction to such major philosophical issues as the nature of knowledge, reality, religion and morals.
This course examines epistemic barriers to cooperative public discourse and agreement and proposes Socratic dialogue and method as a promising strategy for overcoming those barriers.
The study of the seven world religions with their specific origins and doctrines.
This course is designed to introduce students to normative ethical theories and controversial moral issues. Theories may include deontology, utilitarianism, feminist ethics, and virtue ethics, among others. Issues may include abortion, recreational-drug legalization, gender privilege, racial-justice issues, and LGBTQ issues, among others.
An introduction to the syntax and semantics of truth-functional and first-order languages, this course also covers proof theories for such languages as well as metatheoretical results.
This course will explore the relationship between ethics and engineering and apply moral theory to engineering issues encountered in industry.
This course focuses on ethical issues related to the practice of medicine and the conduct of medical research. It provides students with a broad ethical framework from which they can arrive at a better understanding of a variety of ethical issues in this field.
This course introduces students to issues in environmental ethics. A survey of traditional ethical theories provides a background to contemporary debates in this field, such as the moral status of individual living things; the ethical significance of species, wilderness, and ecosystems; and moral responsibilities concerning global warming.
This course examines the nature and basis of criticism in the fine arts and literature, the nature and function of art, aesthetic standards, the concept of beauty, artistic creativity, and the meaning of truth in literature and the arts.
This course will explore the basic question, “What does it mean to be human?” Related questions include, “What is our place in the universe?” and “What kind of lives should we live?” This course will provide a wide spectrum of perspectives, from Ancient Greek philosophy to contemporary neuro-philosophy.
The philosophy of mind is a sub-discipline of metaphysics concerned with the fundamental nature of mental phenomena. Various theories of mind will be discussed: i.e. dualism, behaviorism, functionalism, etc., along with related issues of personal identity, mental content, mental causation, and consciousness.
This course considers the nature of religion, speculations and arguments about the nature and existence of God, the possibility of religious knowledge, claims to religious experience and revelation, the problem of evil, the belief in immortality, and the meaning of religious language.
A course in philosophical theories of what makes sentences true or false.
This course attempts to answer the question: Should we believe what science tells us? It includes a critical inquiry into the nature of scientific theories and explanations, as well as an investigation into methods of theory confirmation. Other issues may include whether theoretical entities are real or only useful fictions, reductionism, etc.
This course focuses on a selected topic in philosophy centered on a particular philosophical sub-discipline, historical period, problem, tradition, or medium.
Source: Pennsylvania Western University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
