DEPARTMENT OF
PHILOSOPHY
CLASSES
- WINTER SEMESTER, 2005
PHI
1010 - INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS
This course
satisfies
the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).
College of
Liberal Arts
3 Credits
-
MWF
10:40-11:35 -
Staff
-
MWF
12:50-1:45 - Staff
- TTh
1:55-2:50 - Staff
-
MW 4:30-5:50
- Staff
4 Credits
-
MWF
9:35-10:30
(plus discussion section) - Professor Stine
- TTh
11:45-1:10 (plus
discussion section) - Staff
College of
Lifelong Learning - 3 Credits
-
M 6:00-9:00 -
Oakland
Center - Staff
-
T 6:00-9:00 -
Harper
Woods - Staff
-
S 9:30-12:20
- Oakland
Center - Staff
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 SYSTEMS - 3 Credits
This course
satisfies
the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).
College of
Liberal Arts
-
MWF
10:40-11:35 -
Professor Powers
-
TTh
11:45-1:10 - Staff
-
TTh 1:25-2:55
- Professor
Lombard
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
1050 - CRITICAL THINKING - 3 Credits
This course
satisfies
the General Education Requirement in Critical Thinking (CT).
College of
Liberal Arts
-
MWF
9:35-10:30 -
Staff
-
TTh
10:40-11:35 (plus
discussion section) - Professor Granger
-
MW
11:45-12:40 -
(plus discussion section) - Professor McKinsey
-
MWF
12:50-1:45 - Professor Powers
-
MW 4:30-5:50
- Staff
- TTh
6:00-7:20 - Staff
College of
Lifelong
Learning
-
T 6:00-9:00 -
Oakland
Center - Staff
-
M 6:00-9:00 -
Haper
Woods - Staff
-
W 6:00-9:00 -
Oakland
Center - Staff
-
M 1:00-4:00 -
on
campus - Staff
No prerequisites.
Satisfies the Critical Thinking (CT) General Education Competency
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
Credits
This course
satisfies
the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).
Sections of PHI
1100 that are associated with Professor Corvino's course satisfy the
College
of Engineering's requirement in Professional Ethics.
College of
Liberal Arts
- MW
9:35-10:30 (plus
discussion section) - Professor Corvino
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
1100 - CONTEMPORARY MORAL ISSUES - 3 Credits
This course
satisfies
the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).
These sections
of PHI 1100 do NOT satisfy the College of Engineering's
requirement
in Professional Ethics; see the listing for PHI 1100 immediately above
for sections of PHI 1100 that do.
College of
Liberal Arts
College of
Lifelong
Learning
-
T
6:00-9:00
- Oakland Center - Staff
No prerequisites.
Satisfies the Philosophy and Letters (PL) General Education
Requirement.
A critical discussion of contemporary moral issues including
pornography,
adultery, incest, and homosexuality; abortion; preferential treatment;
obligations to the poor; capital punishment; terrorism.
PHI
2110 - 17th and 18th Century Philosophy - 3 Credits
This course
satisfies
the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).
College of
Liberal Arts
-
MWF
11:45-12:40 - Professor Stine
A survey of the views concerning
knowledge
and reality of the major European philosophers of the seventeenth and
eighteenth
centuries. Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant.
PHI
2320 - INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS - 3 Credits
This course
satisfies
the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).
College of
Liberal Arts
College of
Lifelong
Learning
-
M 6:00-9:00 -
Oakland
Center - Staff
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
2400 - INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION - 3 Credits
College of
Liberal Arts
No prerequisites.
Religious beliefs provide subject matter for philosophical study: Are
the
traditional arguments for the existence of God credible? Does the
existence
of evil conflict with a belief in God's omnipotence and
omnibenevolence?
What is the value of religious experience? Discussion of these
questions
will assist in evaluating a pervasive element within human experience.
PHI
3550 - METAPHYSICS - 3 Credits
PHI
3550H - HONORS METAPHYSICS - 3 Credits
PHI
5500 - TOPICS IN METAPHYSICS - 4 Credits
The 3000-level
sections of this course satisfies the General Education Requirement in
Philosophy and Letters (PL).
College of
Liberal Arts
-
TTh
11:45-1:10 -
Professor Lombard
No prerequisites
for PHI 3550. Satisfies the Philosophy and Letters (PL) General
Education
Requirement. Survey and examination of some of the enduring
questions
of metaphysics concerning the nature of reality. Topics include: the
nature
of physical objects, abstract entities, the concepts of time and
change,
the relation between mind and body, causation, the nature of
metaphysics.
PHI
3700 - PHILOSOPHY OF ART - 3 Credits
This course
satisfies
the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).
College of
Liberal Arts
-
MW
10:40-12:05 -
Professor Yanal
-
MW 6:00-7:20
- Professor Stidd
College of
Lifelong
Learning
-
T 6:00-9:00
-Oakland
Center - Professor Stidd
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
4890 - HONORS PROSEMINAR - 4 Credits
PHI
5050 - ADVANCED SYMBOLIC LOGIC - 4 Credits
College of
Liberal Arts
-
MW 1:55-3:45
- Professor
Stidd
Prereq: Junior,
senior,
or graduate student standing. Formal, extensive treatment of
first-order
predicate logic with emphasis on the notions of a formal logical
language
and truth in a model; the logic of identity definite descriptions;
brief
introductions to set theory and the metatheory of propositional and
first-order
logic; some additional advanced topics to be selected by instructor.
PHI
5240 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- 4 Credits
College of
Liberal Arts
-
MW 3:55-5:45
- Professor
Yanal
Prereq: any
philosophy course
at the 2000-level or above or major in political science or consent of
instructor. Selected topics and readings from major social and
political
philosophers. Topics to be announced in the Schedule of Classes.
PHI
5280 - HISTORY OF ETHICS - 4 Credits
College of
Liberal Arts
-
TTh 1:25-3:15
- Professor
Russell
Prereq: any philosophy course at the
2000-level or consent of instructor.
A survey and discussion of historically important moral
philosophers from Plato to Mill.
PHI 5410 - PLATO-
4 Credits
College of Liberal Arts
-
TTh 1:25-3:15 - Professor Granger
Prereq: any philosophy course at
the 2000-level
or above, or classics major, or consent of instructor. Selected
readings
on topics in Plato.
PHI
5500 - TOPICS IN METAPHYSICS - 4 Credits
PHI
3550 - METAPHYSICS - 3 Credits
The 3000-level
sections of this course satisfies the General Education Requirement in
Philosophy and Letters (PL).
College of
Liberal Arts
-
TTh
11:45-1:10 -
Professor Lombard
Prerequisites for
PHI 5500: any course from the Philosophical Problems group or consent
of
instructor. Intensive investigation and discussion of special topics or
particular authors in metaphysics.
No prerequisites
for PHI 3550.
Satisfies the
Philosophy and Letters (PL) General Education Requirement. Survey
and examination of some of the enduring questions of metaphysics
concerning
the nature of reality. Topics include: the nature of physical objects,
abstract entities, the concepts of time and change, the relation
between
mind and body, causation, the nature of metaphysics.
PHI
5990 - DIRECTED READING - 1-6 Credits
PHI
5993 - WRITING INTENSIVE - 0 Credits
PHI
7790 - SEMINAR IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE: Topic to be
announced - 5 Credits
College of
Liberal Arts
- W
4:30-7:15 - Professor
McKinsey
PHI
7840 - SEMINAR IN ETHICS -
5 Credits
College of
Liberal Arts
-
T 4:30-7:15 -
Professor Corvino
PHI
7999 - MASTER'S ESSAY DIRECTION - 1-3 Credits
PHI
8999 - MASTER'S THESIS DIRECTION AND RESEARCH- 1-8 Credits
PHI
9990 - PREDOCTORAL CANDIDATE RESEARCH- 1-8 Credits
PHI 9991 - DOCTORAL
CANDIDATE
STATUS 1 - 7 Credits
PHI 9992 - DOCTORAL
CANDIDATE
STATUS 2 - 7 Credits
PHI
9993
- DOCTORAL CANDIDATE STATUS 3 - 7 Credits
PHI 9994 - DOCTORAL
CANDIDATE STATUS 4 - 7 Credits
PHI 9995 - DOCTORAL
CANDIDATE
MAINTENANCE - 0 Credits
PHI 9999 - DOCTORAL
DISSERTATION
AND RESEARCH - 1-16 Credits