DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
Schedule of Classes
Fall Semester, 2005

PHI 1010 - INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS
This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

College of Lifelong Learning No prerequisites. No Credit after PHI 103. Satisfies the Philosophy and Letters (PL) General Education Requirement. An introduction to philosophy and the main schools of philosophical thought, through examination of some of the great philosophers of the past. Selected texts of writers such as Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Neitzsche, James, and Russell will be discussed.


PHI 1030 - INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS - 3 Cr.
This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

No prerequisites. No Credit after PHI 101. Satisfies the Philosophy and Letters (PL) General Education requirement. A survey and discussion of some of the enduring and most pressing issues that have occupied philosophers: does God exist? What is a good person? Do we have free will? Is the mind the same as the brain? What is the universe really like? What do we really know? The course will acquaint students with techniques for discussing such questions and for evaluating proposed answers to them.


PHI 1040 - HONORS INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL Problems
This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Open only to Honors students. See PHI 1030 for description.

PHI 1050 - CRITICAL THINKING - 3 Cr.
This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Critical Thinking (CT).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

College of Lifelong Learning No prerequisites. Satisfies the Critical Thinking (CT) General Education requirement. Knowledge and skills relevant to the critical evaluation of claims and arguments. Topics will include: the formulation and identification of deductively and inductively warranted conclusions from available evidence; the assessment of the strengths of arguments; the assessment of consistency, inconsistency, implications, and equivalence among statements; the identification of fallacious patters of inference; and the recognition of explanatory relations among statements.


PHI 1100 - CONTEMPORARY MORAL ISSUES:  PROFESSIONAL ETHICS - 3 Cr.
This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).
Only the section of PHI 1100 that meets on campus satisfies the College of Engineering's requirement in "Professional Ethics".

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


College of Lifelong Learning


No prerequisites. Satisfies the Philosophy and Letters (PL) General Education requirement. A critical discussion of contemporary moral issues emphasizing ethics in the professions:  ethical theory and business practice, corporate social responsibility (business and profit), acceptable risk (consumer risk, environmental risk, occupational risk), honesty in the workplace (whistleblowing, business bluffing, competitor intelligence gathering), ethical codes in the professions.

PHI 1850 - SYMBOLIC LOGIC - 3 Cr.
PHI 1860 - HONORS SYMBOLIC LOGIC - 3 Cr.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

No prerequisites. The logic of propositions; the general logic of predicates and relations.  (Crosslisted with LIN 1850)


PHI 2100 - ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY - 3 Cr.
This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

An introduction to the Western philosophical tradition from its origins in Ancient Greece through the medieval period. Unifying themes and important contrasts between the two eras will be stressed. Readings from the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas.

PHI 2320 - INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS - 3 Cr.
This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

College of Lifelong Learning No prerequisites. Satisfies the Philosophy and Letters (PL) General Education requirement. An introduction to some classical and modern views concerning such questions as: What determines the rightness and wrongness of actions? What is the nature of moral reasoning? What constitutes a moral life.

PHI 3500 - THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE - 3 Cr.
PHI 5530 - TOPICS IN EPISTEMOLOGY - 4 Cr.
PHI 3500 satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

No prerequisites for PHI 3500; prerequisite for PHI 5530:  one course from the Philosophical Problems group, or consent of instructor.  The distinction between knowledge and belief is germane to every field of inquiry. What is the difference between knowledge and belief? Do we know anything at all? Are we ever in a position of being certain about beliefs pertaining to an objective world? Is our belief in an objective world based on our subjective experiences?

PHI 3700 - PHILOSOPHY OF ART - 3 Cr.
This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

College of Lifelong Learning No prerequisites. Satisfies the Philosophy and Letters (PL) General Education requirement. What are art works? Why are they so moving? What is the nature of the experience they offer? This course introduces the student to some of the schools of thought on these issues. It also attempts to deal with the specific natures of the various artistic media, such as: drama, literature, film, painting, photography, music, and opera.

PHI 4870 - HONORS DIRECTED READING - 4 Cr.

PHI 5230 - PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE - 4 Cr. (Cross-listed with SOC 6080)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Prereq: PHI 1850 or 1860 or any course from the Philosophical Problems group or consent of instructor. Intensive investigation and discussion of special topics or particular authors in the philosophy of science.
PHI 5300 - 20th ANALYTIC ETHICS - 4 Cr.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
 Prereq: any philosophy course at the 2000- level or consent of instructor. Important twentieth century moral philosophers in the analytic tradition, such as G.E. Moore, W.D. Ross, Hare, Stevenson, Baier, and Rawls.
PHI 5350 - LOGICAL SYSTEMS I - 4 Cr.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
 Prereq: PHI 1850 or 1860 or 5050 or MAT 5600 or MAT 5420 or consent of instructor; for graduate students in Philosophy, satisfaction of the Elementary Logic Requirement.  Metaresults concerning formal systems of sentential and first-order logics; soundness, completeness; independence of axioms; introduction to recursive functions; discussion of Gödel's incompleteness theorem and Church's Theorem.

PHI 5440 - CONTINENTAL RATIONALISM - 4 Cr.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Prereq: any philosophy course at the 2000-level or above, or consent of instructor. Topics concerning Descartes, Spinoza, or Leibniz.

PHI 5530 - TOPICS IN EPISTEMOLOGY - 4 Cr.
PHI 3500 - THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE - 3 Cr.
PHI 3500 satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

No prerequisites for PHI 3500; prerequisite for PHI 5530:  one course from the Philosophical Problems group, or consent of instructor.  The distinction between knowledge and belief is germane to every field of inquiry. What is the difference between knowledge and belief? Do we know anything at all? Are we ever in a position of being certain about beliefs pertaining to an objective world? Is our belief in an objective world based on our subjective experiences?

PHI 5800 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY - 4 Cr.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
 Topics and Prerequisites to be announced in Schedule of Classes.

PHI 5990 - DIRECTED READING - 1-6 Cr. Prereq: undergrad., consent of chairperson and instructor; grad., consent of chairperson, graduate officer, and   instructor. Intensive investigation by student on topic chosen by student in consultation with instructor.

PHI 5993 - WRITING INTENSIVE - 0 Cr. - Staff
This course satisfies the Writing Intensive (WI) component of the General Education Requirements.

Prereq: junior standing; satisfactory completion of English Proficiency Examination; consent of instructor and departmental undergraduate adviser; coreq: any 3000- or 5000-level philosophy course PHI 5200, 5350, and 5390. Offered for S and U grades only. No degree credit. Required for all majors. Disciplinary writing assignments under direction of faculty member. Must be selected in conjunction with a course designated as a corequisite; see section listing in Schedule of Classes for corequisites available each term. Directed practice in rewriting assignments for the concurrently-elected course, for the purpose of perfecting skills in philosophical writing.

PHI 7800 - SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY:  MENTAL CAUSATION - 5 Cr.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


PHI 7810 - SEMINAR IN HISTORY OF PHILOSPHY:  THE THEOLOGY OF THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS - 5 Cr.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


PHI 7990 - MASTER'S ESSAY DIRECTION - 1-4 Cr.

PHI 8990 - MASTER'S THESIS DIRECTION AND RESEARCH - 1-8 Cr.

PHI 9990 - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DIRECTION AND RESEARCH- 1-16 Cr.
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