| PHI 205 | Introduction to Philosophy | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Introduction to selected problems of enduring philosophical importance, including such topics as the nature of morality, knowledge, human freedom, and the existence of God. Content varies with different sections. |
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| PHI 214 | Issues in Business Ethics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| An analysis and evaluation of major issues in business ethics. Topics include the social responsibility of business; social justice and free enterprise; the rights and duties of employers, employees, manufacturers, and consumers; duties to the environment, the world's poor, future generations, and the victims of past injustices; the moral status of the corporation; and the ethics of advertising. |
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| PHI 221 | Contemporary Moral Issues | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Philosophical analysis and theory applied to a broad range of contemporary moral issues, including euthanasia, suicide, capital punishment, abortion, war, famine relief, and environmental concerns. |
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| PHI 250 | Thinking Logically | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Deductive arguments attempt to guarantee their conclusions. Inductive arguments attempt to make their conclusions more probable. Using a small number of simple, powerful logical techniques, this course teaches you how to find, analyze and evaluate deductive and inductive arguments, and thus how to avoid the most common errors in reasoning. |
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| PHI 298 | Special Topics in Philosophy | UNITS: 3 |
| Selected studies in philosophy that do not appear regularly in the curriculum. Topics will be announced for each semester in which the course is offered. |
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| PHI 300 | Ancient Philosophy | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Western philosophy of the ancient world, with special emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. |
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| PHI 301 | Early Modern Philosophy | UNITS: 3 |
| Western philosophy of the 17th and 18th centuries, including such philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. |
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| PHI 302 | 19th Century Philosophy | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Western philosophy of the 19th century, including such philosophers as Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche. |
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| PHI 303 | Medieval Philosophy | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Philosophy of the Middle Ages. Authors to be studied may include Augustine, Anselm, Avicenna, Maimonides, Aquinas, and Scotus. |
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| PHI 305 | Philosophy of Religion | UNITS: 3 |
| The existence and nature of God, including such topics as traditional proofs of God, skeptical challenges to religious belief, miracles, the problem of evil, faith and reason, and religious experience. |
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| PHI 309 | Contemporary Political Philosophy | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: One PHI course |
| Current theories about basic concepts in political philosophy, such as liberty, equality, justice, natural rights, and democracy, with special attention to disputes concerning the nature of a just social order. |
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| PHI 310 | Existentialism | UNITS: 3 |
| Philosophy of Existentialism, including such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Doestoevsky, Sartre, Heidegger, and Camus. |
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| PHI 312 | Philosophy of Law | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Fundamental legal issues such as what constitutes a law or legal system. Justifications of legal interference with individual liberty. Philosophical legal issues illustrated by specific legal cases. |
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| PHI 313 | Ethical Problems in the Law | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: PHI 221, 275, or 375 |
| Explores uses of the legal system, including such topics as the death penalty, plea bargaining, legalizing euthanasia, censorship, Good Samaritan laws, the insanity defense, civil disobedience, preferential treatment. |
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| PHI (STS) 325 | Bio-Medical Ethics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Interdisciplinary examination and appraisal of emerging ethical and social issues resulting from recent advances in the biological and medical sciences. Abortion, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, compromised infants, aids, reproductive technologies, and health care. Focus on factual details and value questions, fact-value questions, fact-value interplay, and questions of impact assessment and policy formulation. |
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| PHI 330 | Metaphysics | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: One PHI course |
| Metaphysical problems: distinction between appearance and reality, nature of space and time, free will and determinism, mind and body, nature of identity. |
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| PHI 331 | Philosophy of Language | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: One PHI course |
| Introduction to traditional and modern accounts of the relations between language and reality, the nature of truth, problems of intentionality and propositional attitudes. |
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| PHI 332 | Philosophy of Psychology | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: One PHI course or one PSY course |
| Problems and controversies that overlap the boundary between philosophy and psychology: the mind/body problem, behaviorism vs. cognitivism, the prospects for artificial intelligence, and language and the questions of innate knowledge. |
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| PHI 333 | Theory of Knowledge | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: One PHI course |
| Analysis of such central concepts as knowledge, belief, and truth, and the investigation of the principles by which claims to knowledge may be justified. |
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| PHI 340 | Philosophy of Science | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Nature of science highlighted by differences between science and pseudoscience, relationships between science and religion, and roles of purpose-directed (teleological) and causal explanation in physical, life and social sciences. |
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| PHI 375 | Ethics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Examination of traditional questions of philosophical ethics: What are the principles of moral conduct? What sort of life is worthy of a human being? Includes both classic and contemporary literature. |
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| PHI 376 | History of Ethics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: One PHI course |
| Topics in the history of ethics. Philosophers to be studied may include Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Butler, Hume, Kant, Sidgwick and Nietzsche. |
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| PHI 401 | Kant's Critique of Pure Reason | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: 6 credits in PHI |
| A text-based critical study of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Focusing on such topics as perception, judgment, knowledge, space, time, substance, causation and reality. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 401 and PHI 501. |
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| PHI 415 | Life Science Ethics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: One PHI course |
| Recent work in normative evaluation of human actions affecting living things. Advanced readings in moral theory, comparative value assessment, and public policy. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 415 and PHI 515. |
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| PHI 420 | Global Justice | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: One PHI course |
| The applications of the ideas of justice and right beyond and across the borders of individual nation states, attending to the facts of globalization and their consequences for political and economic justice and human rights. Topics: skepticism about global justice; transnational distributive justice, pollution, and poverty; national sovereignty, self-determination, and intervention; the ethics of war; international human rights; and global democracy. No one can receive credit for both PHI 420 and PHI 520. |
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| PHI 422 | Philosophical Issues in Environmental Ethics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: One PHI course |
| Ethical questions about the environment; in particular, what obligations we have to the environment. Topics: animal rights, obligations to species and ecosystems, intrinsic vs. extrinsic value, and policy implications of moral judgments. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 422 and PHI 522. Students who have received credit for PHI 322 cannot receive credit for either PHI 422 or PHI 522. |
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| PHI (PSY) 425 | Introduction to Cognitive Science | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: One upper-level PHI, PSY, CSC or Linguistics course |
| Philosophical foundations and empirical fundamentals of cognitive science, an interdisciplinary approach to human cognition. Topics include: the computational model of mind, mental representation, cognitive architecture, the acquisition and use of language. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI/PSY 425 and PHI/PSY 525. |
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| PHI 440 | The Scientific Method | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: One upper-level PHI course |
| Detailed examination of core issues in the philosophy of science: the confirmation of scientific theories, falsification, projectibility, the nature of scientific explanation, laws of nature, and causation. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 440 and PHI 540. |
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| PHI 445 | Philosophy of Biology | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: One 300 or 400-level PHI or biology course |
| Central issues in the philosophy of biology such as units of selection, philosophy of ecology, species, fitness, adaptationism, reductionism, development and innateness, evolutionary progress, and viability of applications of evolutionary theory to culture and "human nature". Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 445 and PHI 545. |
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| PHI 447 | Philosophy, Evolution and Human Nature | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Odd Years, Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: One 300 level or higher course in Philosophy, Biology, Psychology or Anthropology |
| This course covers philosophical issues in the evolutionary study of human cognition: the role of adaptationism; the values of psychological vs. behavioral approaches; the phenotypic gambit; the evolution of morality and altruism; the nature of culture and the possibility of cultural evolution; innateness, genetic determinism and development; and case studies of evolutionary explanation of human behavior or psychology. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 447 and PHI 547. |
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| PHI 475 | Ethical Theory | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: PHI 375 or PHI 376 |
| An introduction to some central themes and issues in ethical theory. Topics in normative and meta-ethics such as consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, constructivism, realism, relativism, subjectivism, and expressivism. Readings primarily from contemporary literature. |
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| PHI 494 | Writing in Ethics | UNITS: 1 - No Course Evaluation |
| Prerequisite: PHI 250, LOG 201 or 335 and one other PHI course, Corequisite: One of PHI 221, 275, 298, 306, 309, 310, 311, 313, 325, 375, 376, 420, 422, 475 or 498 |
| A substantial paper in ethics, assigned by the instructor of the corequisite; enrollment subject to departmental approval; may be repeated for credit. |
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| PHI 495 | Writing in History of Philosophy | UNITS: 1 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: PHI 250, LOG 201 or 335 and one other PHI course, Corequisite: One of PHI 298, 300, 301, 302, 303, 310, 401 or 498 |
| A substantial paper in history of philosophy, assigned by the instructor of the corequisite; enrollment subject to departmental approval; may be repeated or credit. |
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| PHI 496 | Writing in Contemporary Philosophy | UNITS: 1 - No Course Evaluation |
| Prerequisite: PHI 250, LOG 201 or 335 and one other PHI course, Corequisite: One of PHI 298, 305, 306, 330, 331, 332, 333, 340, 425, 440, 445, 447 or 498 |
| A substantial paper in contemporary philosophy, assigned by the instructor of the corequisite; enrollemtn subject to departmental approval; may be repeated for credit. |
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| PHI 497 | Writing in Logic, Representation and Reasoning | UNITS: 1 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: LOG 201 or 335, and one other PHI course, not PHI 250, Corequisite: One of LOG 335, 435/535, 437, PHI 298, 330, 331, 332, 333, 340, 425/525, 440/540, 445/545, 447 |
| A substantial paper in logic, representation and reasoning, assigned by the instructor of the corequisite. enrollment subject to departmental approval; may be repeated for credit |
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| PHI 498 | Special Topics in Philosophy | UNITS: 1-6 - No Course Evaluation |
| Prerequisite: Six credits in PHI courses |
| Detailed investigation of selected topics in philosophy. Topics determined by faculty members in consultation with head of the department. Course may be used for individualized study. |
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| PHI 501 | Kant's Critique of Pure Reason | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: Graduate Standing |
| A text-based critical study of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason focusing on topics such as perception, judgment, knowledge, space, time, substance, causation, and reality. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 401 and PHI 501. |
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| PHI 515 | Life Science Ethics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Recent work in normative evaluation of human actions affecting living things. Advanced readings in moral theory, comparative value assessment, and public policy. Credit will not be given for both PHI 415 and PHI 515 |
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| PHI 520 | Global Justice | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| The applications of the ideas of justice and right beyond and across the borders of individual nation states, attending to the facts of globalization and their consequences for political and economic justice and human rights. Topics: skepticism about global justice; transnational distributive justice, pollution, and poverty; national sovereignty, self-determination, and intervention; the ethics of war; international human rights; and global democracy. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 420 and PHI 520. |
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| PHI 522 | Philosophical Issues in Environmental Ethics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Ethical questions about the environment; in particular, what obligations we have to the environment. Topics: animal rights, obligations to species and ecosystems, intrinsic vs. extrinsic value, and policy implications of moral judgments. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 422 and PHI 522. Students who have received credit for PHI 322 cannot receive credit for either PHI 422 or PHI 522. |
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| PHI (PSY) 525 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Philosophical foundations and empirical fundamentals of cognitive science, an interdisciplinary approach to human cognition. The computational model of mind, mental representation, cognitive architecture, the acquisition and use of language. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI/PSY 425 and PHI/PSY 525. |
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| PHI 540 | The Scientific Method | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Detailed examination of core issues in philosophy of science: confirmation of scientific theories, falsification, projectibility, nature of scientific explanation, laws of nature, and causation. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 440 and PHI 540. |
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| PHI 545 | Philosophy of Biology | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate Standing |
| Central issues in the philosophy of biology such as units of selection, philosophy of ecology, species, fitness, adaptationism, reductionism, development and innateness, evolutionary progress, and viability of applications of evolutionary theory to culture and "human nature". Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 445 and PHI 545. |
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| PHI 547 | Philoshophy, Evolution and Human Nature | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Odd Years, Offered in Spring Only |
| Core philosophical issues in the evolutionary study of human cognition: the role of adaptationism; the value of psychological vs. behavioral approaches; the phenotypic gambit; the evolution of mortality and altruism; the nature of cultural evolution; innateness, genetic determinism and development; and case studies of evolutionary explanation of human behavior and psychology. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 447 and PHI 547. |
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| PHI 575 | Ethical Theory | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate Standing. |
| An introduction to some central themes and issues in ethical theory. Topics in normative and meta-ethics such as consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, constructivism, realism, relativism, subjectivism, and expressivism. Readings primarily from contemporary literature. Students cannot receive credit for both PHI 475 and PHI 575. |
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| PHI 598 | Special Topics in Philosophy | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
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| PHI 635 | Advanced Independent Study In Philosophy | UNITS: 1-6 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Independent study of advanced topic in philosophy under supervision of a faculty member. |
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| PHI 696 | Summer Thesis Res | UNITS: 1 |
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| PHI 798 | Advanced Topics In Philosophy | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Detailed investigation of selected advanced topics in philosophy. Topics determined by faculty members in consultation with head of department. |
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| PHI 816 | Introduction to Research Ethics | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Institutional rules guiding the responsible conduct of research (RCR) and their philosophical justification. Rudiments of moral reasoning and their application to RCR. Topics: plagiarism, falsification and fabrication of data, and ethics versus custom, law, science, and religion. |
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| PHI 896 | Summer Dissert Res | UNITS: 1 |
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