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College of Liberal Arts

Philosophy Courses

Fall 2009

LOWER DIVISION
PHIL 1010 Introduction to Logic Different Faculty    
PHIL 1020 Introduction to Ethics Different Faculty    
PHIL 1030 Ethics and theHealth Sciences Different Faculty    
PHIL 1040 Business Ethics Different Faculty    
PHIL 1017 Honros Logic Marcus    
PHIL 1027 Honors Ethics Hamawaki    

UPPER DIVISION
PHIL 3060 Philosophy of Film Shelley TR 2:00 PM
PHIL 3300 Philosophy of Religion Davis MWF 1:00 PM
PHIL 3330 Ancient Philosophy Long MWF 10:00 AM
PHIL 3700 Metaphysics Rohrbaugh Marcus TR 9:30 AM
PHIL 4970 Epistemology Sutton TR 11:00 AM
RELG 4970 Religion and the Enviornment Penaskovic TR 11:00 AM

Spring 2010

LOWER DIVISION
PHIL 1010 Introduction to Logic Different Faculty    
PHIL 1020 Introduction to Ethics Different Faculty    
PHIL 1030 Ethics and the Health Sciences Different Faculty    
PHIL 1040 Business Ethics Different Faculty    
PHIL 1017 Honros Logic Marcus TR 12:30
PHIL 1027 Honors Ethics Hamawaki TR 11:00 AM
PHIL 1037 Honors Ethics and the Health Sciences Long TR 9:30 AM

UPPER DIVISION
PHIL 3110 Symbolic Logic Rohrbaugh TR 11:00 AM
PHIL 3340 Early Modern Philosophy Hamawaki TR 2:00 PM
PHIL 3540 Philosophy of Mind TBA    
PHIL 3620 Modern Ethical Theories Graham M 10:00 AM
PHIL 4970 Special Topics: Metaphysics Marcus & Rohrbaugh TR 9:30 AM

All Courses

PHIL 1010 INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC
(3). LEC. 3. Philosophy Core. Basic logical principles and applications: definition, informal fallacies, categorical logic, elementary propositional logic, analogy and selected inductive inferences.

PHIL 1017 HONORS LOGIC
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., membership in the Honors College.Philosophy Core. Basic logical principles and applications: definition, informal fallacies, categorical logic, elementary propositional logic, analogy and selected inductive inferences.

PHIL 1020 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS
(3). LEC. 3. Philosophy Core. Major ethical theories from the history of philosophy, their foundations in epistemology and metaphysics, and their extension into social thought.

PHIL 1027 HONORS ETHICS
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., membership in the Honors College. Philosophy Core. Major ethical theories from the history of philosophy, their foundations in epistemology and metaphysics, and their extension into social thought.

PHIL 1030 ETHICS AND THE HEALTH SCIENCES
(3). LEC. 3. Philosophy Core. Ethical inquiry into such major issues as abortion, eugenics, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, health-care delivery methods, and informed consent.

PHIL 1037 HONORS ETHICS AND THE HEALTH SCIENCES
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., membership in the Honors College. Philosophy Core. Ethical inquiry into such major issues as abortion, eugenics, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, health-care delivery methods, and informed consent.

PHIL 1040 BUSINESS ETHICS
(3). LEC. 3. Philosophy Core. Types of ethical theory; application to such normative issues in commerce as advertising, management, and business abroad.

PHIL 1100 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
(3). LEC. 3. The methods of philosophical inquiry and an examination of selected philosophical topics.

PHIL 3050 AESTHETICS
(3). LEC. 3. Modern and contemporary theories of the nature of art.

PHIL 3110 SYMBOLIC LOGIC
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., PHIL 1010 or departmental approval. Propositional logic and predicate logic through relations: natural language and logic; some philosophical problems in logic.

PHIL 3300 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
(3). LEC. 3. Nature religion, religious language, religious knowledge, religious theories of humanity and evil, examines arguments for the existence of God and immortality of soul.

PHIL 3330 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I: ANCIENT AND EARLY MEDIEVAL
(3). LEC. 3. Philosophic thought from the Pre-Socratics through Aquinas, emphasizing Plato and Aristotle.

PHIL 3340 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY II: LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
(3). LEC. 3. Philosophical thought from Occam to Kant emphasizing major thinkers.

PHIL 3350 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY III: RECENT AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
(3). LEC. 3. Various representatives of the major philosophical trends during these periods.

PHIL 3400 MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
(3). LEC. 3. Philosophical thought from late antiquity through the Middle Ages. Emphasis on Plotinus, Islamic thinkers, Augustine, Abelard, Anselm and Thomas Aquinas.

PHIL 3500 EPISTEMOLOGY
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., junior standing. The origin, nature, kinds, and validity of knowledge with a consideration of faith, intuition, belief, opinion, certainty and probability.

PHIL 3520 PRAGMATISM
(3). LEC. 3. Emphasis on Peirce, James and Dewey. Some philosophical issues examined from a pragmatic viewpoint.

PHIL 3540 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., junior standing. Classical and modern texts on the phenomenology of consciousness and mind-body problems.

PHIL 3550 PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
(3). LEC. 3. A survey of contemporary philosophical discussions of the nature of language.

PHIL 3600 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
(3). LEC. 3. The political thought of both classical and contemporary thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Spencer, Marx, Rawls, and Nozick.

PHIL 3640 PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
(3). LEC. 3. The function of law including judicial reasoning, ground of authority, natural law, legal responsibility, punishment, civil disobedience, and the relation of law to ethics.

PHIL 3660 APPLIED ETHICS
(3). LEC. 3. Advanced philosophical study of the ethical issues that arise in such intellectual endeavors as medicine, law, business, military science, engineering, etc.

PHIL 3700 METAPHYSICS
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., junior standing. A critical analysis of such topics as monism and pluralism, freedom and determinism, realism and nominalism and the mind-body problem.

PHIL 3740 EXISTENTIALISM
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., junior standing. Selected works of such authors as Kierkegaard, Neitzsche, Sartre, Jaspers, and Heidegger.

PHIL 3970 SPECIAL TOPICS
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., junior standing, departmental approval. Topics vary. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

PHIL 4500 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(3). LEC. 3. Empirical meaning, verifiability, measurement, probability, causality and determinism.

PHIL 4540 PHENOMENOLOGY
(3). LEC. 3. The phenomenological method and its application in the works of William James, Husserl, Heidegger, Sarte, and Merleau-Ponty.

PHIL 4620 MODERN ETHICAL THEORIES
(3). LEC. 3. Recent analyses of the meanings, presuppositions, and problems of ethical terms and judgments.

PHIL 4700 PLATO
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., junior standing. Plato’s Methodology, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, political theory.

PHIL 4750 ARISTOTLE
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., junior standing. Aristotle’s logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, political theory, psychology.

PHIL 4780 KANT AND TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM
(3). LEC. 3. The philosophy of Kant in particular but also of the early Fichte and Schelling and of neo-Kantians.

PHIL 4960 READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY
(1-6). IND. Pr., junior standing, departmental approval. Specific reading programs on a particular philosopher, period or problem. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

PHIL 4967 READINGS FOR HONORS IN PHILOSOPHY
(1-3). IND. Pr., membership in the Honors College, departmental approval. Reading programs on a philosopher, period or problem. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours.

PHIL 4997 HONORS THESIS
(1-3). IND. Pr., enrollment in Honors College. Senior thesis for students in the university Honors College. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours.

PHIL 5950 SEMINAR
(1-3). SEM. Pr., departmental approval. The content will vary from movements of thought to an intensive study of one of the great thinkers. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

PHIL 6950 SEMINAR
(1-3). SEM. Pr., departmental approval. The content will vary from movements of thought to an intensive study of one of the great thinkers. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours.

RELG 1010 INTRODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES
(3). LEC. 3. Major themes in religion, including religious experience, religion and society and the diversity of religions. Examples from various religious traditions.

RELG 1020 INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES
(3). LEC. 3. Historical-critical study of the Hebrew Scriptures in their cultural setting. Emphasis on development of ancient Hebrew thought.

RELG 1030 INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
(3). LEC. 3. Historical-critical study of the New Testament in its cultural setting. Major issues in New Testament study.

RELG 2020 THE CURRENT RELIGIOUS SCENE
(3). LEC. 3. Religious themes and developments in contemporary American Life.

RELG 2030 HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
(3). LEC. 3. Development of Christianity from 100 C.B. to the present. Major personalities, events and movements.

RELG 3330 EASTERN RELIGIONS
(3). LEC. 3. Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism with secondary attention to other Asian religions.

RELG 3340 WESTERN RELIGIONS
(3). LEC. 3. Islam, Judaism and Christianity, with attention to Druze religion and Bah’al.

RELG 4350 20TH CENTURY RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
(3). LEC. 3. Major 20th Century theologians: Protestant, Catholic, Jewish.

RELG 4960 READINGS IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., junior standing. Only for PHIL major with Religious Studies option. A program of independent study on a special topic. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

RELG 4967 HONORS READING COURSE
(3). LEC. 3. Pr., membership in the Honors College; junior or senior standing. Discuss readings on specialized topics in Religious Studies.

RELG 4970 SPECIAL TOPICS
(3). LEC. 3. Course may be repeated with change in topic.

 

 

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Last updated September 22, 2009

- Dr. Rohrbauh and Dr. Marcus, Metaphysics, PHIL 3700:
This class introduces students to issues in contemporary ontology, including identity, existence, modality, vagueness, constitution, reduction, causation and causal overdetermination, the nature of time, and more. The focus is on understanding widely accepted arguments that our so-called ordinary ontology—rocks, tables, chairs, people, and so on—is radically mistaken and that the true ontology of the universe consists of some scientifically respectable alternative that includes none of what we ordinarily take to exist. The goal is to prepare students for consideration of advanced topics in the Spring, with a heavy emphasis on reading primary texts.

- Dr. Long, ancient Philosophy, PHIL 3330:
In this course we will think with and through the arguments of such philosophers as Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, the Stoics, Plotinus, and Augustine. Our focus will be primarily, though not exclusively, on such issues as knowledge and meaning, causation and agency, reductionism and the unity of the self.

- Dr. Penaskovic, Religion and the Environment, PHIL 4970:
This course explores the various ways religious studies, science, culture, and spirituality can help us understand the crisis of environmental degradation and what we as individuals can do to offset this deteriorization of the environment.

- Dr. Rohrbaugh, Symbolic Logic PHIL 3110:
This is the required logic class for all philosophy majors. It aims to supply a rigorous foundation in formal logic for all their philosophical endeavors. This class covers the fundamental techniques of formal logic and, in general, the study of inference through its representation in formal systems. The class will cover propositional logic and first-order predicate logic, as well as some additional topics in basic set theory and number theory. The focus here will be on learning to use this apparatus by translating natural language sentences into symbolic representations and on giving derivations within the apparatus.

- Dr. Shelley. Philosophy of Film, PHIL 3060
An introduction to philosophical reflection on film, particularly on the narrative, live -action, fictional motion picture. Questions to be addressed include: Are photographs transparent? Can the live-action motion picture, given its photographic basis, be an art? How is the difference between a still photograph and a photographic motion picture best described? Is a motion depicted in a motion picture real or illusory? Why do we respond emotionally to the plights of characters we know to be fictional? What is it to identify with a character and how central is such identification to our experience of narrative motion picture?