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PHIL 100 PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I An introduction to philosophy through such fundamental problems as the basis of morality, the foundation of state authority, determinism and freedom, and the possibility of knowledge. 001 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM PL*117 Arpaly, Nomy *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 106 LOGIC Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III A system of natural deduction is used to establish the validity of arguments which turns on their truth functional or quantificational form. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM Roush, Sherrilyn *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 108 THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE:A LITERARY & HIS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I An introduction to philosophy through historical and contemporary philosophical and literary sources-including Sophocles, Plato, Shakespeare, Descartes, Dostevsky, Nietzsche, Mann, Sartre, and others. 001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM SH*352 Crowell, Steven *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 202 HIST OF PHILOSOPHY II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I A survey of the history of philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. 001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SS*106 Kulstad, Mark *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 302 MODERN PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Examination of themes or authors in modern philosophy. 001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*303 Kulstad, Mark *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 303 THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Topics: analysis of knowledge, foundations of knowledge, skepticism, perception, etc. Prereq- one course in philosophy. 001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*352 Kovach, Adam *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 304 METAPHYSICS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Examination of metaphysical theories in the works of historical and contemporary thinkers. Topics may include: free will, the identity of persons overtime, causation, possibility and necessity, design and chance, the nature of existence, the nature of time. Prereq- one course in philosophy. 001 TTH 01:00PM-02:15PM PL*119 Kovach, Adam *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 306 ETHICS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I This course deals with fundamental questions of value and morality-questions such as: What sort of life is best? What kind of preson is it best to be? What does morality require of us? It also deals with important second-order questions about these fundamental questions-for example: Can morality be justified? How can we know what's right or good? Is there moral truth? What is the relation between morality and self-interest? Readings are drawn from both classical and contemporary sources. 001 MWF 02:00PM-02:50PM SH*303 Arpaly, Nomy *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 307 SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I What makes a society just? On what grounds may the liberty of individuals be legitimately limited? What social ends may a state legitimately pursue? 001 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM SH*309 Sher, George *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 317 ETHICS AND EXISTENCE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I An examination of the concept of ethical obligation from an existential point of view. Readings from Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, Levinas, and Apel. 001 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM SH*460 Crowell, Steven *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 357 INCOMPLETENESS, UNDECIDABILITY AND COMPU Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III Proof of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems for number theory in several forms and by various methods, as well as development of several difinitions of computability for number-theoretic functions,which are then shown to be equivalent. Includes proof of the unsolvability of the Halting Problem and analysis of Church's thesis, as well as exploration of the extension of the concept of computability to real-valued functions. 001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM PL*120 Grandy, Richard *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 402 INDEPENDENT READING II Credits 1.00 Spring 2000 See Phil 401. 001 TBA TBA Sher, George *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 513 SEMINAR: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 TH 01:00PM-04:00PM RH*240 Roush, Sherrilyn *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 521 SEMINAR IN KANT AND HEGEL Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 T 02:00PM-05:00PM Engelhardt, Hugo *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 530 HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Offered alternate years. 001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*352 Grandy, Richard *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 536 SEMINAR IN MEDICAL ETHICS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 An examination of the theoretical foundations of bioethics emphasizing principlism, utilitarianism, Kantianism, contractarianism, medicalism, post-modernism, and casuistry. Prereq- permission of instructor for undergraduates. 001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*352 Brody, Baruch *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 602 ADV INDEPENDENT READING II Credits 1.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA Sher, George *CURRENT ENR: 0 002 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 PHIL 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits 1.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA Sher, George *CURRENT ENR: 0
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