P = Prerequisite, R = Recommended, C = Concomitant
I = Fall Semester, II = Spring Semester, S = Summer Session(s)

PHIL P100 Introduction to Philosophy (3 cr.) Perennial problems of philosophy, including problems in ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. Readings in selected writings of philosophers from Plato to the present.

PHIL P105 Thinking and Reasoning (3 cr.) Basic rules of correct reasoning, roles of definitions and of language in thinking; roles of observation, hypothesis, and theory in knowledge; basic techniques for gathering information, testing beliefs for truth, and problem solving.

PHIL P135 Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism (3 cr.) Phenomenology as a project of describing human experience is studied in relation to existential themes such as being-in-the-world, authenticity, individualism, commitment and responsibility. Philosophers studied may include Husserl, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Buber, Sartre and Camus.

PHIL P140 Introduction to Ethics (3 cr.) Important philosophical answers to such ethical questions as the nature of good and evil, the relation of duty to self-interest, and the objectivity of moral judgements. Specific ethical issues addressed may include individual needs and public policy, lying, abortion, euthanasia, and punishment.

PHIL P150 Elementary Logic (3 cr.) Study of basic concepts of deductive and inductive logic, including practical applications of these concepts in the critical evaluation of informal arguments.

PHIL P200 Problems of Philosophy (1-3 cr.) Selected writings of philosophers concerning important philosophical problems. May be repeated for credit under new subtitle.

PHIL P201 Ancient Greek Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selective survey of ancient Greek philosophy (pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle).

PHIL P202 Medieval to Modern Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selective survey of medieval philosophy.

PHIL P214 Modern Philosophy (3 cr.) A survey of Western philosophy from 1600 to 1900. An examination of the breakdown of the medieval world view and the rise and revision of Cartesianism.

PHIL P250 Introductory Symbolic Logic (3 cr.) Study of and extensive practice with the concepts and techniques of formal deductive logic.

PHIL P283 Non-Western Philosophy (3 cr.) Selective survey of major philosophical systems from the Far East and India. Possible topics include Taoism, Confucianism, Upanishads, Samkhya, Buddhism, Vedanta, Sri Aurobindo, Zen.

PHIL P303 The British Empiricists and Kant (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selective survey of Continental Rationalism, British Empiricism, and Kant.

PHIL P304 Nineteenth Century Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected survey of post-Kantian philosophy.

PHIL P306 Business Ethics (3 cr.) A philosophical examination of ethical issues which arise in the context of business. Moral theory will be applied to such problems as the ethical evaluation of corporations, what constitutes fair profit, and truth in advertising.

PHIL P310 Topics in Metaphysics (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as existence, individuation, contingency, universals and particulars; monism-pluralism, Platonism-nominalism, idealism-realism.

PHIL P311 Metaphysics of Physical Nature (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as space, time, causality, determinism, events and change, relation of the mental and the physical, personal identity.

PHIL P312 Topics in Theory of Knowledge (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as various theories of perceptual realism, sense-datum theories, theories of appearing, phenomenalism, the nature of knowledge, the relation between knowledge and belief, relation between knowledge and evidence, and the problem of skepticism.

PHIL P313 Theories of Knowledge (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as the nature of knowledge, the relation of knowledge and belief, knowledge and evidence, knowledge and certainty, and the problem of skepticism.

PHIL P320 Philosophy and Language (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. A study of selected philosophical problems concerning language and their bearing on traditional problems in philosophy.

PHIL P325 Social Philosophy (3 cr.) Concentrated study of one or more major problems, positions, or authors. May be repeated for credit.

PHIL P335 Phenomenology and Existentialism (3 cr.) A study of Edmund Husserl's philosophy and its extension and criticism in the works of such existential phenomenologists as Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Topics include the nature of consciousness, intentionality, freedom, intersubjectivity.

PHIL P340 Classics in Ethics (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected readings from authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, Augustine, Aquinas, covering such topics as the relation of virtue and human nature, duty and self-interest, pleasure and the good.

PHIL P341 Ethical Classics 2 (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected readings from authors such as Spinoza, Hume, Butler, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, covering such topics as the role of reason in ethics, the role of the emotions in ethics, the objectivity of moral principles, the relation of religion to ethics.

PHIL P342 Problems of Ethics (3 cr.) P: 6 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. May concentrate on a single large problem, e.g., whether utilitarianism is an adequate ethical theory, or several more or less independent problems, e.g., the nature of goodness, the relation of good to ought, the objectivity of moral judgements.

PHIL P343 Classics in Social and Political Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected readings from ancient and medieval sources such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, focusing on such topics as metaphysical commitments and political theory, the ideal state, the nature and proper ends of the state, natural law, and natural rights.

PHIL P344 Classics in Social and Political Philosophy 2 (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected readings from seventeenth to nineteenth century sources, such as Machiavelli, Bodin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Marx, focusing on such topics as the ones mentioned in PHIL P343 and such additional topics as the social contract theory of the state and the notion of community.

PHIL P345 Problems in Social and Political Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Problems of contemporary relevance: justice and economic distribution, participatory democracy, conscience and authority, law and morality.

PHIL P346 Philosophy and Art (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected philosophical problems concerning art and art criticism. Topics such as the definition of art, expression, representation, style, form and content, the aesthetic and the cognitive.

PHIL P358 American Philosophy (3 cr.) This course is devoted to consideration of pragmatism as a distinctly American philosophy. Pragmatism is examined as a continuation of the Western philosophical tradition and as an attempt to overcome that tradition.

PHIL P360 Introduction to Philosophy of Mind (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected topics from among the following: the nature of mental phenomena (e.g., thinking, volition, perception, emotion); the mind-body problem (e.g., dualism, behaviorism, materialism).

PHIL P366 Philosophy of Action (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. The nature of human and rational action: the structure of intentions and practical consciousness; the role of the self in action; volitions; the connections of desires, needs, and purposes to intentions and doings; causation and motivation; freedom.

PHIL P371 Philosophy of Religion (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. The nature of religion and religious experience, the status of religious knowledge claims, the nature and existence of God.

PHIL P374 Early Chinese Philosophy (3 cr.) Origins of Chinese philosophical traditions in the classical schools of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and Legalism. Explores contrasting agendas of early Chinese and Western traditions.

PHIL P381 Religion and Human Experience (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as the phenomenology of religious experience, spirituality and human nature, selfhood and transcendence, spirituality and gender, and religious experience and human relationship.

PHIL P383 Topics In Philosophy (3 cr.) An advanced study of special, experimental, or timely topics drawn from the full range of philosophical discussion and designed to pursue interests unmet in the regular curriculum. May be repeated for credit under new subtitle.

PHIL P393 Biomedical Ethics (3 cr.) P: PHIL P100 or PHIL P105 or PHIL P140. A philosophical consideration of ethical problems that arise in current biomedical practice, e.g., with regard to abortion, euthanasia, determination of death, consent to treatment, and professional responsibilities in connection with research, experimentation, and health care delivery.

PHIL P394 Feminist Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Study of contemporary feminist philosophy in the United States and Europe.

PHIL P495 Senior Proseminar in Philosophy (1-4 cr.) For students in their junior or senior years of study. The proseminar will concentrate on a problem and/or figure selected by students and faculty involved. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours.

PHIL P590 Intensive Reading (cr. arr.)

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