Fall 2015
PHL 101 - INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Section 001 (McClendon)
Theories of Knowledge, values, and reality. Topics such as objectivity, relativism and cultural diversity, moral responsibility, aesthetic values, and the self, existence of God, free will, minds and machines.
Section 002 (Steel)
Theories of Knowledge, values, and reality. Topics such as objectivity, relativism and cultural diversity, moral responsibility, aesthetic values, and the self, existence of God, free will, minds and machines.
Section 003 (Dotson)
Theories of Knowledge, values, and reality. Topics such as objectivity, relativism and cultural diversity, moral responsibility, aesthetic values, and the self, existence of God, free will, minds and machines.
Section 004 (Steel)
Theories of Knowledge, values, and reality. Topics such as objectivity, relativism and cultural diversity, moral responsibility, aesthetic values, and the self, existence of God, free will, minds and machines.
PHL 130 - LOGIC AND REASONING
Section 001 (O'Rourke)
Deductive and inductive reasoning. Topics such as rational argumentation, fallacies, definition, meaning, truth and evidence. Techniques for critical reading and thinking.
Section 002
Deductive and inductive reasoning. Topics such as rational argumentation, fallacies, definition, meaning, truth and evidence. Techniques for critical reading and thinking.
Section 003 (Schwartzman)
Deductive and inductive reasoning. Topics such as rational argumentation, fallacies, definition, meaning, truth and evidence. Techniques for critical reading and thinking.
Section 004 (Grey)
Deductive and inductive reasoning. Topics such as rational argumentation, fallacies, definition, meaning, truth and evidence. Techniques for critical reading and thinking.
Section 005 (Grey)
Deductive and inductive reasoning. Topics such as rational argumentation, fallacies, definition, meaning, truth and evidence. Techniques for critical reading and thinking.
PHL 210 - ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Section 001 (Katz)
Philosophical problems of existence, knowledge, and action as addressed in selected readings from the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophers.
PHL 291 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN INTRO PHILOSOPHY
Section 001 (McClendon)
Special topics supplementing regular course offering.
PHL 330 - FORMAL REASONING
Section 001 (McKeon)
Formal methods in deductive reasoning. Logic of connectives and quantifiers including identity, functions, and descriptions.
PHL 340 - ETHICS
Section 001 (Lindemann)
Inquiry through the writings of some important theorists, their critics and their contemporary followers. Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill, Sidgwick.
PHL 342 - ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
Section 001
Ethical perspectives on humanity's use of and relationship to nonhuman animals, the land, future humans, and the ecosystem itself.
PHL 344 - ETHICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE
Termination of treatment, truth-telling, informed consent, human experimentation, reproductive issues, allocation of scarce resources, justice and the health care system.
Termination of treatment, truth-telling, informed consent, human experimentation, reproductive issues, allocation of scarce resources, justice and the health care system.
PHL 345 - BUSINESS ETHICS
Section 001 (Roper)
Ethical dimensions of the relationships between a business and employees, consumers, other businesses, society, government, and the law.
PHL 350- INTRO TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Section 001 (Hedrick)
History of social and political philosophy; problems such as obligation, power, oppression, freedom, equality, and community.
PHL 353- CORE THEMES IN PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES
Section 001 (Whyte)
Core themes in peace and justice studies, including concepts of violence, conflict and reconciliation as informed by problems of inequality, power, and recognition. Institutional and practical approaches to nonviolence.
PHL 354- PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
Section 001 (Hedrick)
Legal concepts such as punishment, responsibility, rights and duties, and judicial decisions. Legal theories such as natural law, positivism and realism.
PHL 356- PHILOSOPHY ASPECT OF FEM
Section 001 (Schwartzman)
Conceptual and normative issues in feminist theory. Topics such as sexism, oppression, coercion, control, power, equality, personhood, respect and self-respect, rape, separatism, community, intimacy, and autonomy.
PHL 410- SOCRATES AND PLATO SEMINAR
Section 001 (Nails)
A selection of themes (ontology, epistemology, method, ethics) from Plato's Socratic and constructive dialogues. Variable by term in content.
PHL 413 - SEM IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Section 001 (Grey)
Topics selected from among the works of 17th and 18th century philosophers, e.g., Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume. Variable by term in content
PHL 415/810 - KANT SEMINAR
Section 001
A seminar in Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, or other areas. Variable by term in content
PHL 431- TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC AND LANGUAGE
Section 001 (O'Rourke)
Investigation of logical concepts. Philosophical significance of twentieth-century results in logic. Related issues in the semantics and pragmatics of natural language.
PHL 452/850 -ETHICS AND DEVELOPMENT
Section 001 (Gifford)
Ethical issues such as racism, health care disparities, war, genocide, famine, agricultural intensification, economic liberalization, democratization, gender equity, globalization, and environmental degradation.
PHL 456 - TOPICS IN FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
Section 001 (Lindemann)
Philosophical issues in a framework of feminist politics and critique. Standpoint theories, care/justice ethics, ontological status of genders/races, theories of power/domination, determinism/freedom.
PHL 460 - EPISTEMOLOGY
Section 001 (Dotson)
Theories and concepts of knowledge, belief, epistemic justification.
PHL 462 - PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
Section 001
Modern theories of the mind, other minds, and the mind's relation to the body. Theories include dualism, behaviorism, criteriology, reductive and eliminative materialism, and functionalism.
PHL 480 - PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Section 001 (Roper)
Structure of scientific theories and explanation. Causation, prediction, induction, confirmation, discovery, and scientific progress. (Roper)
PHL 492 - CAPSTONE FOR MAJORS
Section 001
Advanced, variable topic seminar for undergraduate majors. Presentations, substantial written work.
PHL 800/840- PROSEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY
Section 001 (NELSON)
The practice of graduate and professional work in philosophy: reading, writing, presentation, critique and revision; rigor of argument and clarity of expression; areas and methods of inquiry; cooperation and dialogue in inquiry; conferences, professional activities, and employment.
PHL 810- SEM HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Section 001 (Rauscher)
Major thinkers, themes, periods, or movements in the history of philosophy.
PHL 820- SEM CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
Section 001 (Lotz)
The topic of this seminar is Michel Foucault. We will focus on his social philosophy and its relation to French Marxist thought in the 70s, such as his relation to Althusser and Poulantzas.