College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Courses: Philosophy (PHIL)

63045: History of 17th Century Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Philosophy of the seventeenth century: Descartes, Spinoza, Liebniz, and Locke.

6305: History of 18th Century Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Philosophy of the eighteenth century: Hume, Berkeley, and Kant.

6321: Modal Logic
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHIL 2321 or its equivalent. Formalized theories and their properties: consistency, completeness, and decidability.

6324: Inductive Logic and Decision Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. An introduction to probabilistic reasoning: the assessment of nondeductive arguments, calculation with probabilities, the foundations of statistical inference, and rational decision making under uncertainty.

6332: Philosophy of Language
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Theories of meaning, truth, and refernece; the relationship of language to reality. Works by key figures such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine, Davidson, Fodor, etc.

6333: Metaphysics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Theories of being.

6334: Philosophy of Mind
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Six semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. The mind body problem, perception, personal identity, consciousness, and freedom.

6335: Theory of Knowledge
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Theories of knowledge.

6342: Philosophy of Mathematics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHIL 2321. The nature and existence of mathematical objects. Mathematical truth. Introduction of logicism, formalism, and intuitionism, Set-theoretical foundations of mathematics.

6343: Introduction to Cognitive Science
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: 3 semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Presents the basic topics and concepts of Cognitive Science, including their development over the last fifty years.

6344: Philosophy of Science
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. The demarcation of science from non-science, scientific method, the nature of explanation, realism vs. anti-realism, induction and abduction.

6350: Ethics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected problems in moral philosophy.

6351: Contemporary Moral Issues
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Philosophical analysis of contemporary issues such as abortion, affirmative action, the treatment of animals, capital punishment, euthanasia, and famine relief.

6355: Political Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Theories of the state addressing issues such as justice, consent, punishment, freedom, rights.

6354: Medical Ethics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Moral problems in the practice of medicine and in the design of health care systems.

6356: Feminist Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in Philosophy or consent of instructor. An investigation of the major issues and approaches of feminist philosophy.

6358: Classics in the History of Ethics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Analysis of central works in the history of philosophical ethics, by selected authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Butler, Hume, Kant, Mill, and Sidgwick.

6375: Law, Society, and Morality
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy. An introduction to philosophy of law. Topics include the nature function, and moral evaluation of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. <

6376: Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Philosophical issues at the heart of the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

6382: History of Medieval Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. This course covers the writings of influential Christian, Jewish and Islamic medieval philosophers on issues like the problem of evil, free will, God's existence, morality and the basis of knowledge.

6383: History of Ancient Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Ancient Greek philosophy from the Pre-Socratics through the Hellenistic period.

6386: History of Nineteenth Century Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Important figures such as Mill, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

6387: History of American Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. American philosophy from Emerson and Thoreau on through pragmatism to the contemporary period.

6395: Seminar in Philosophic Problems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: 15 semester hours in philosophy or approval of chair. May be repeated for credit with approval of chair. Intensive examination of a selected philosophical problem.

6396: Seminar in the History of Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: 15 semester hours in philosophy or approval of chair. May be repeated for credit with approval of chair. Intensive treatment of a selected movement, system, or topic.

6397: Selected Topics in Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of chair. Selected topics in philosophy, including ethics, logic, metaphysics, and history of philosophy. Can be repeated for credit with a different topic.

6399:7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.