| PHI 0200 | Hist of Phi I:Ancient & Med |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1999 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 0210 | Contemporary Philosophy |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2003 , Spring 2002 , Fall 1999 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 0240 | Political Philosophy |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1999 , Spring 1999 , Fall 1998 , Fall 1997 |
| PHI 0241 | Political Philosophy II |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 , Spring 1999 |
| PHI 0265 | Philosophy of Women |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 1999 |
| PHI 0270 | Business Ethics |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 0285 | Aesthetics |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 |
| PHI 0295 | Environmental Philosophy |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1999 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 0310 | Introduction to Logic |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 , Spring 1999 |
| PHI 0360 | Ethics |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1999 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 0410 | Philosophy of Aristotle |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 , Spring 1998 |
| PHI 0460 | Philosophy of Immanuel Kant |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 1999 |
| PHI 0481 | Special Topics |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 1998 |
| PHI 1050 | Intro to Philosophy |
| Description: | The issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Readings include sources which give special consideration to the classical and Christian perspectives. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PHI 2010 | Logic & Critical Thinking |
| Description: | The study of logic and critical thinking. Topics include: argument identification and analysis; formal and informal logic; fallacies; inductive argument; the role of argumentative structures in various philosophical traditions. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PHI 2115 | Ethics for Health Care Prof |
| Description: | Rights and duties of the patient/client and the members of the health care team, death and dying, genetic engineering and manipulation. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PHI 2116 | Bioethics |
| Description: | Theories and conceptions of human suffering, death and life; issues of suicide, bereavement, grief and euthanasia. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 2121 | Environmental Ethics |
| Description: | The relation of the physical and biological environment to ethical values. Priorities among environmental, economic and political values as a basis for ethical decisions. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2008 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 |
| PHI 2130 | Business Ethics |
| Description: | Social justice and charity as principles of order in economic life and relationships: topics include consumer rights, corporate social responsibility, and ecology. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2007 , Fall 2006 , Spring 2006 , Fall 2005 |
| PHI 2140 | Phil of Criminal Justice |
| Description: | Philosophical dimensions of criminal justice; law and morality, criminal versus civil disobedience, philosophical presuppositions of the insanity defense, philosophical problems in controlling and correcting criminal and delinquent behavior. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 |
| PHI 2150 | Engineering Ethics |
| Description: | Whistle-blowing, conflicts of interest, political contributions, and the social responsibility of engineers. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 2160 | The Ethics of War |
| Description: | Just war theory, total war, nuclear deterrence and nuclear war, disarmament, genocide, war crimes and atrocities, terrorism, non-violent resistance, and pacifism. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 , Spring 2008 , Spring 2007 |
| PHI 2170 | Mass Media Ethics |
| Description: | The impact of the changing communications technologies on the human person and society; freedom of the press, violence; pornography and censorship, confidentiality of sources, advertising ethics and codes of ethics and standards of practice. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2003 , Fall 2001 , Fall 2000 , Fall 1999 |
| PHI 2180 | Computer Ethics |
| Description: | Codes of professional ethics, unauthorized access, ownership of software, and the social responsibility of computing professionals. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 , Spring 2008 , Spring 2007 |
| PHI 2190 | Freedom |
| Description: | Human freedom analyzed from a metaphysical and political perspective; readings from classical and contemporary sources on such topics as determinism, slavery, rights, authority and dissent. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Fall 2007 |
| PHI 2300 | Philosophy of Law |
| Description: | The nature and function of law, relation of law to ethics, the judicial process, the role of constitutions, the rights of citizens, law and international relations. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Fall 2008 , Spring 2008 , Fall 2007 |
| PHI 2400 | Social & Political Phil |
| Description: | Social and political philosophers and the influence of their theories on the philosophical foundation of modern culture and society; emphasis on such conceptions as society, the state, justice and equality, and the social and political nature of persons. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Spring 2008 |
| PHI 2410 | Philosophy of Sex & Love |
| Description: | Embodiment, the nature of sexuality, the types of love, sexual ethics, marriage, sexual differences, and sexual discrimination. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Spring 2008 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 |
| PHI 2420 | Philosophy of Women |
| Description: | Nature and stutus of women from ancient times to the present, with consideration of the more general context of self-identity; contemporary feminist theories; feminism as a political movement. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 |
| PHI 2430 | Eco-Feminism |
| Description: | Basic positions in eco-feminism as they relate to the philosophical and religious traditions of the West. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2007 , Spring 2007 , Fall 2002 , Spring 2000 |
| PHI 2440 | Amer Indian Thought & Culture |
| Description: | Religious and philosophical concepts of personhood community, and nature; contrast of European and Euro-American Indian philosophies. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 2450 | Catholic Social Thought |
| Description: | Catholic Social Thought from Rerum Navarum to the present. Its Aristotelean-Thomistic grounding. The Church's challenge to analyses of contemporary social, political, and economic systems. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 |
| PHI 2550 | Technology & Society |
| Description: | Case studies of specific technologies (such as television, automobiles, health technology) and critical examination of ethical Philosophical and policy issues that these technologies raise. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 2650 | Philosophy of Sport |
| Description: | Nature of play, sport and game with special emphasis on the role of sport in modern society. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2008 |
| PHI 2700 | Philosophy of Science |
| Description: | Philosophical implications of specific laws and theories; Newton's laws, energy, evolution, relativity, atomic theory. Methodological problems of observation, discovery, testing; scientific realism, revolutions in scientific thought. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2008 , Fall 2007 , Spring 2006 , Fall 2005 |
| PHI 2710 | Theories of Knowledge |
| Description: | Nature and limits of human knowledge, kinds of knowledge, the nature of perception, subjectivity, belief, doubt, truth, and certitude. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2008 , Spring 2007 |
| PHI 2750 | Philosophy of Art |
| Description: | The principles and causes of beauty and art with special reference to the formation of art objects and the cultural context of philosophy and art. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2008 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 , Spring 2006 |
| PHI 2760 | Philosophy & Literature |
| Description: | Philosophical ideas in selected literary works; examination of the relation of literature to philosophy; fiction and truth, modes of communication. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Summer 2009 , Spring 2009 |
| PHI 2800 | Philosophy of History |
| Description: | Theories concerning the nature of history, the idea of progress, historical inevitability, the role of the "great man". 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 |
| PHI 2900 | Philosophy of Religion |
| Description: | The meaning of God, the experience of the Divine, nature of revelation, negative theology, the absence of God. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Fall 2008 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 |
| PHI 2910 | Mysticism & Philosophy |
| Description: | The metaphysical interpretation of God, humans and the world implicit in the writings of selected mystics; epistemological issues such as mysticism and logic, the value of mystical experience, mysticism and psychedelic experience, mysticism and ethics. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 2920 | Asian Philosophies |
| Description: | Sources of Eastern philosophies; aspects of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and/or Sufism. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Spring 2008 |
| PHI 2990 | Topics in Philosophy |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Fall 2008 , Spring 2008 |
| PHI 2993 | Internship |
| Description: | Departmentally related and academically creditable field work experience. See department chair for more information. Permission of Department Chair required. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PHI 2996 | Internship |
| Description: | Departmentally related and academically creditable field work experience. See department chair for more information. 6.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PHI 3020 | History of Ancient Philosophy |
| Description: | Plato, Aristotle and selected pre-Socratic and Hellenistic philosophers in the context of ancient and classical Greek civilization. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 |
| PHI 3030 | History of Medieval Philosophy |
| Description: | Philosophical movements from the early Middle Ages to the rise of modern philosophy; the influence of later Medieval speculation upon thinkers of the modern period; readings from Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, and others. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Fall 2008 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 |
| PHI 3040 | Hist of Early Mod Philosophy |
| Description: | The systems of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and the empiricists - Locke, berkeley, and Hume; Kant; selections read and evaluated. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 , Spring 2008 , Spring 2007 |
| PHI 3050 | Kant & 19th Cent Philosophy |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 , Spring 2008 , Fall 2007 , Spring 2007 |
| PHI 3100 | Augustine & Antiquity |
| Description: | Life and thought of Saint Augustine; the problem of certitude, the problem of evil, the nature of history, human knowledge and God, the soul-body relations, and political philosophy. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 , Spring 2005 , Fall 2001 , Spring 1997 |
| PHI 3120 | Augustine & Modernity |
| Description: | Influences of Augustine's major teachings in shaping medieval and modern thought. Augustine's position on human nature, human freedom, sin and grace, history, and the nature and end of society. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 , Fall 1999 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 3160 | History of Islamic Phil |
| Description: | Islamic thought, concentrating particularly on Islamic medieval theology and philosophy. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2008 , Spring 2005 , Fall 2004 , Fall 2002 |
| PHI 3410 | Thomas Aquinas |
| Description: | Historical influences in the formation of St. Thomas' thought; specific contributions of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism; theory of knowledge, being, persons and morality. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 , Spring 2008 , Fall 2005 |
| PHI 3720 | Marx & Marxism |
| Description: | Marx on the theories of human nature, freedom and history; related developments in Marxist thought. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Fall 2008 , Spring 2008 , Spring 2007 |
| PHI 3730 | American Philosophy |
| Description: | The growth of philosophy in America, concentrating on the thinkers of the classical period, especially Peirce, James, Royce, Dewey, and Santayana. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2006 |
| PHI 3740 | Analytic Philosophy |
| Description: | Major themes and trends in analytic philosophy: Russell, logical positivisim, Wittgenstein and present day linguistic philosophy. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 3990 | Topics in Hist of Philosophy |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 4100 | Plato & Aristotle |
| Description: | Selected texts and themes from Plato and Aristotle. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2005 |
| PHI 4110 | Metaphysics |
| Description: | Questions regarding the nature and possibility of metaphysics; selected texts from Greek philosophy to the present. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 , Fall 2005 |
| PHI 4120 | Philosophy of Biology |
| Description: | Key assumptions of the contemporary sciences: the meaning of life, the relevance of science, the structure of the life sciences, the "doctrine" of DNA and molecular genetics, evolutionary theory, ecology and the "Gaia" hypotheses, and the ethical and social issues spawned by new advances in biology and molecular genetics. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 4140 | Phil of Contemporary Music |
| Description: | Critical listening to rock pop, jazz, rap, funk, punk, dance, and ambient music; relation of music to noise; theories of Hanslick, Nietzsche, Adorno, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, and Cage. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Fall 2008 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 |
| PHI 4150 | Philosophy & Film |
| Description: | Analysis of selected classics and current films from the perspective of basic philosophical concepts and questions. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 , Fall 2008 |
| PHI 4200 | Philosophy of Language |
| Description: | Major classical and contemporary philosophical theories concerning language, including the relationship of language to thought, experience and reality; theories of meaning, communication, linguistics, translation, poetic and religious language. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1998 , Spring 1998 , Fall 1997 , Fall 1996 |
| PHI 4210 | Environmental Philosophy |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 4600 | Psychoanalysis & Philosophy |
| Description: | Philosophical implications of Freudian theory as it relates to the individual and culture; the role of the unconscious; interpretation, structure of the ego, human sexuality and the foundations of civilization. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2008 , Spring 2006 , Fall 2005 , Spring 2005 |
| PHI 4610 | Philosophy of Mind |
| Description: | The nature of mind, soul, consciousness; the mind-brain relationship; classical and contemporary philosophical approaches; the nature of person identity and moral responsibility. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 , Spring 2008 , Spring 2007 |
| PHI 4800 | French Existen & Phenom |
| Description: | The development of phenomenology and existentialism in post-war France; the challenge to this thought by structuralism. Sartre, Marcel, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Levinas. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 , Spring 2008 , Spring 2007 |
| PHI 4850 | German Existen & Phenom |
| Description: | Individual and mass society, freedom, our consciousness of the world, and death in the writings of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl and Heidegger. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2008 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 , Spring 2006 |
| PHI 4875 | Hermeneutics |
| Description: | Problem of interpretation; the possibility of a presuppositionless interpretation, interpretation, pre- understanding and the hermeneutic circle, historical, literary, scriptural and artistic interpretation. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2008 , Spring 2000 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 4900 | Feminist Theory |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 4990 | Independent Study & Research |
| Description: | Topic chosen by the student and approved by the professor and the chair. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PHI 5000 | Adv Sem for Phil Majors |
| Description: | Special topic in philosophy or current interest to faculty and students. Course is open to Philosophy majors and minors and graduate students with the approval of the Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 |
| PHI 6000 | Research Seminar |
| Description: | Inquiry in depth into one major philosophical problem or into the thought of one major philosopher; practice in the use of research and bibliographical techniques. techniques. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to PHI Majors |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 |
| PHI 7000 | The Pre-Socratics |
| Description: | An investigation of the origins and development of Western philosophy before Socrates 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2005 , Spring 2002 , Spring 1999 , Spring 1996 |
| PHI 7110 | Philosophy of Socrates |
| Description: | A study of the priority of definition, unity of virtue, irony, philospher's relation to the polis, friendship, character formation and the elenctic method which identifies Socrates in Plato's early dialogues, including Alcibiades, Apology, Charmides, Crito, Euthydemus, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Meno, Protagoras, and Republic I. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2003 |
| PHI 7120 | Plato: Middle Dialogues |
| Description: | Reading and discussion of The Republic, Symposium, and Timaeus. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2007 , Spring 2001 , Fall 1997 |
| PHI 7130 | Plato: Later Dialogues |
| Description: | Reading and discussion of the Thaetetus, Parmenides, and Sophist. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2005 , Fall 2000 , Spring 1997 |
| PHI 7220 | Aristotle: Theoret Phil |
| Description: | An examination of Aristotle's theoretical philosophy based on selections from the Metaphysics, Physics, De Anima, and the "Organon." 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2006 , Fall 2004 , Fall 2001 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 7230 | Aristotle: Practical Phi |
| Description: | An examination of Aristotle's practical philosophy based on selections from the Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, and Poetics. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2005 , Spring 2004 , Fall 2002 , Fall 1999 |
| PHI 7310 | Late Antiquity |
| Description: | An investigation of the philosophical schools of Roman antiquity and how the Roman context transformed the landscape of Hellenism: altered forms of skepticism, Stoicism, and Epicurean naturalism. Attention is also given to the development of Platonism during this period, especially by way of Plotinus and Augustine. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 7320 | Plotinus |
| Description: | A historical and critical inquiry into the philosophic synthesis of Plotinus with particular reference to the contributions of Middle Platonists. A detailed study of the Enneads and their influence upon early Christian speculation. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2004 |
| PHI 7330 | Medieval Philosophy |
| Description: | A study of selected texts from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic thinkers. This course will also include reference to the origins medieval philosophy in ancient philosophy and/or the anticipation of modern philosophical concerns. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 |
| PHI 7340 | Topics in Hist Philosophy |
| Description: | A number of important topics, e.g., space and time or the eternity of the world, are best considered both in immediate historical settings and across traditional historical divisions. Such topics will be considered as they are defined and redefined in ancient, medieval, and modern terms. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 |
| PHI 7350 | The Problem of God |
| Description: | The search for God; varying views on the nature of God; the phenomenon of atheism. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 7360 | Late Antiquity |
| Description: | An in vestigation of the philosophical schools of Roman antiquity and how the Roman context transformed the landscape of Hellenism: altered forms of skepticism, Stoicims, and Epicurean naturalism. Attention is also given to the development of Platonism during this period, especially by way of Plotinus and Augustine. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 7410 | Augustine's Speculative |
| Description: | Augustine's epistemology, anthropology, and metaphysics. Topics include the possibility and process of knowledge, freedom, the problem of evil, the existence and nature of God. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2002 |
| PHI 7420 | Augustine's Prac Phil |
| Description: | Augustine's ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of history. Topics include Happiness, Good and Evil, the Family, the State, origins and destiny of the human being. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1995 |
| PHI 7510 | Aquinas: Metaphysics |
| Description: | The nature of metaphysics; the potency-act relationship; essence-existence; matter-form; substance-accidents; efficient, final, and exemplary causality; the existence and nature of God; the transcendentals. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2007 , Spring 1999 , Fall 1997 |
| PHI 7520 | Aquinas: Ethics and Law |
| Description: | Selected texts from the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas on the nature of morality and the essence of law. Special attention given to such topics as human destiny, human acts, habits, virtues, and law. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1995 |
| PHI 7530 | Aquinas: Phil Human Nat |
| Description: | The hylomorphic theory; the soul as substantial form; the soul-body relationship; the cognitive and appetitive powers of the human soul; abstraction; the immateriality and immortality of the human mind; free will. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2008 |
| PHI 7610 | Topics: Early Mod Phil |
| Description: | Selected texts and themes from the early modern period. The readings will be taken from major philosophical figures of the period such as: Descartes, Locke, Malebranche, Leibniz, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Reid. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2003 , Fall 2001 , Fall 1999 , Spring 1998 |
| PHI 7620 | The Rationalists |
| Description: | An examination of the philosophers of the rationalist tradition; selected texts from Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 7630 | The Empiricists |
| Description: | An examination of the philosophers of the empiricist tradition with concentration on their theories of knowledge and metaphysics; selected texts from Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 7640 | Spinoza |
| Description: | A study of such major works as the Ethics or Theologico-Political Treatise in their historical context and with respect to contemporary problems. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Fall 2007 |
| PHI 7710 | Kant's First Critique |
| Description: | Textual and philosophical analysis of the Critique of Pure Reason; the historical framework of the Critique. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 , Fall 2006 , Spring 2003 , Fall 2002 |
| PHI 7720 | Kant's Practical Phil |
| Description: | The principle themes of Kant's practical philosophy. Selected readings from the Critique of Practical Reason, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of Judgement, The Metaphysical Elements of Justice, and other writings. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1996 |
| PHI 7730 | Kant's Third Critique |
| Description: | A close reading of the third critique along with some of the contemporary responses to it by Lyotard, Gadamer, Derrida, Arendt, Deleuze. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2000 , Fall 1997 |
| PHI 7810 | Romanticism to Idealism |
| Description: | Readings from Kant, Hegel, Reinhardt, Schelling, Fichte, Schlegel, Schiller, and Holderlin. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2006 , Spring 2004 , Fall 1995 |
| PHI 7910 | Hegel's Phenom of Spirit |
| Description: | A detailed reading of Hegel's 1806 Phenomenology of Spirit with particular emphasis upon its anticipation of Hegel's later works. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Fall 2006 , Spring 2005 , Spring 2001 |
| PHI 7920 | Hegel's Logic |
| Description: | A detailed reading of both Hegel's 1812 Science of Logic and the 1830 Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. A study of Hegel's dialectical treatment of the logical categories, initiating with the famous triad "Being- Nothingness-Becoming." 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 7930 | Hegel's Phil of Right |
| Description: | A study of Hegel's social and political philosophy with particular emphasis upon its influence upon contemporary thought. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 1995 |
| PHI 8010 | Kierkegaard |
| Description: | The attack on Hegel; the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious stages; truth and subjectivity; the significance of the pseudonyms; the attack on Christendom; Kierkegaard's relationship to existentialism and phenomenology. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2003 , Spring 1996 |
| PHI 8020 | Marx |
| Description: | The early philosophical writings of Marx; the influence of Hegel and Feuerbach on him; the problem of humanism. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1995 |
| PHI 8070 | Nietzsche |
| Description: | Nietzsche's relationship to Schopenhauer; the Apollonian and the Dionysian; the critique of morals; the death of God; the "Ubermensch"; eternal recurrence; the will to power; Nietzsche's relationship to existentialism and phenomenology. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 , Fall 2004 , Fall 2001 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 8090 | American Philosophy |
| Description: | A survey of the thought of the philosophers of America's classical period, roughly 1875 to 1935, such as Pierce, James, Royce, Mead, Santayana, and Dewey. They are closely connected to the movements named idealism, naturalism, and pragmatism. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 |
| PHI 8110 | History of Analytic Philosophy |
| Description: | The development of analytic philosophy from its beginnings in Moore and Russell up to the present; topics such as: logic and language, the mind-body problem, and ontology. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2004 |
| PHI 8120 | Wittgenstein |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2003 |
| PHI 8125 | Aesthetics |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8210 | Husserl |
| Description: | The problem of psychologism, the ideal of a strict science; transcendental phenomenology; phenomenology and idealism; the phenomenology of the lifeworld; Husserl's phenomenology and existential phenomenology. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2005 , Fall 2002 , Fall 1999 , Fall 1998 |
| PHI 8220 | Heidegger's Being/Time |
| Description: | A reading of Heidegger's early masterpiece, taking up such issues as the question of being, the idea of fundamental ontology, the analytic of Dasein, exxistence, being-in-the- world, care, resoluteness, temporality and historicity; the pre-Being and Time period; the "turning" after Being and Time. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 , Spring 2006 , Fall 2003 , Fall 2000 |
| PHI 8225 | Heidegger's Late Writings |
| Description: | A study of the "thought of being" in Heidegger's work after Being and Time, taking up such issues as the question of humanism, releasement, truth, language, poetry, the principle of reason, the essence of technology, the Fourfold, the history of being, overcoming metaphysics, the end of philosophy, the Event of Appropriation. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2005 , Spring 2000 |
| PHI 8230 | Sartre |
| Description: | The development of Sartre's philosophy from the phenomenological beginnings, to dialectic, and beyond. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2008 , Fall 2004 , Spring 2002 |
| PHI 8240 | Camus and Marcel |
| Description: | The confrontation between atheistic and theistic humanism in the major works of Camus and Marcel. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8250 | Merleau-Ponty |
| Description: | Interpretation of phenomenology; science and the lifeworld; perception; body and language; art and being. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 , Fall 2006 , Fall 2003 , Fall 2000 |
| PHI 8260 | Gadamer |
| Description: | A study of Gadamer's major writings focussing on Truth and Method and treating such issues as the hermeneutic circle, objectivism and relativism, the tradition, the classic, understanding, dialogue, play, the work of art, history, language; Gadamer's interpretation of Plato, Aristotle, and Hegel; the exchanges with Habermas and Derrida. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1999 , Fall 1995 , Summer 1995 |
| PHI 8270 | Ricoeur |
| Description: | The development of Ricoeur's thought from phenomenology to hermeneutics. Emphasis will be on the methodology, his dialogue with contemporary thinkers, and his unique contributions, such as his work on metaphor and narrative. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8280 | Arendt |
| Description: | The major themes of her philosophy including, labor, work, and action; the private, the social, the public; totalitarianism, revolution, and civil disobedience; Eichmann and evil; freedom and authority; thinking, willing, and judging. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2007 , Spring 2004 , Fall 1997 |
| PHI 8290 | Habermas |
| Description: | A close examination of the principal works of the major philosophical theorist of society in late industrial capitalism. Included in this study are the critical differences between Habermas and French poststructuralist theory. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8310 | Levinas |
| Description: | A study of Levinas' principal works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, emphasizing such issues as ethics as first philosophy, the question of the other, sensibility, substitution, and responsibility; the influence of Levinas on Derrida and Lyotard and the question of postmodernism and ethics; Levinas' critique of Heidegger. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2007 , Fall 2004 , Spring 1998 |
| PHI 8340 | Derrida |
| Description: | A study of Derrida's principal writings, from the early work on Husserl to the present treating such issues as: the idea of deconstruction, difference, trace, arch-writing, textuality, the signature, literature, the gift, the quasitranscendental, the ethical and political implications of deconstruction; relationship to Heidegger. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2001 , Spring 1999 |
| PHI 8350 | Foucault |
| Description: | A close study from Foucault's principal texts and interviews of some combination of the following themes: archaeology, genealogy, taxonomy, transgression, voices from the outside, the author, the death of man, power, discipline, cart- ography, panoptocism, the archive, the event series, the limit experience, the aesthetics of existence. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2004 , Spring 2000 , Spring 1997 |
| PHI 8420 | Healthcare Ethics |
| Description: | A comparison and contrast of various theoretical approaches to healthcare ethics. Issues include healthcare rationing, human beginnings, death with dignity, refusing medical interventions, and professional-patient/client interactions. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1996 , Spring 1995 |
| PHI 8430 | Concept Hlth and Disease |
| Description: | Consideration of the various and often competing epistemological/aesthetic approaches that ground the non- moral judgements about what is healthy or diseased, what is normal or abnormal, what is beautiful or disfigured, and what is a good quality of life. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 1998 , Spring 1996 |
| PHI 8440 | Metaethics |
| Description: | Foundationalist and anti-foundationalist versions of moral enquiry will be contrasted and compared, and other problems of metaethics will be discussed. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2005 |
| PHI 8510 | Political Philosophy |
| Description: | A survey of major political theories from works such as Plato's Republic, Machiavelli's The Prince, Hobbes' Leviathan, Rousseau's Discourses, Hegel's Philosophy of Right, and Rawls' Theory of Justice with some consideration of such contemporary post-Hegelian thinkers as Kojeve and Fukayama who maintain that political philosophy has come to an end. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2006 , Spring 1997 |
| PHI 8520 | Liberalism & its Critics |
| Description: | A study of the historical development of liberalism from Hobbes to contemporary liberal theory with careful attention to the critique of liberalism mounted by contemporary communitarian theory, especially the theories of Alistair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and William Gladstone. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2002 |
| PHI 8530 | Crit Thry Frankfurt Schl |
| Description: | A study of the historical development of critical theory in the Frankfurt School, from its inception in Kantian philosophy to its present formation in the work of Jurgen Habermas. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8540 | Feminist Theories |
| Description: | A study of the philosophical foundations of a philosophy of women with an emphasis on the metaphysical, ethical, and epistemological questions raised by feminist criticism. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 , Spring 1997 , Spring 1996 |
| PHI 8550 | Body Politics |
| Description: | Readings and discussions studying the centrality of the body for theories about and practices of politics. Themes such as the lived body, structured body, fluid body, disciplined body, desiring body, gendered body, marked body will be treated in the works of writers such as Sartre, Merleau- Ponty, Irigaray, Foucault, Deleuze, Lingis, Butler. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2006 , Fall 2001 , Fall 1998 , Spring 1996 |
| PHI 8560 | Philosophy of Language |
| Description: | Theories of reference, meaning, semiotics and symbolism and their historical implications in the twentieth century. Authors may include: Saussure, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida, Lacan, Davidson. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2007 |
| PHI 8610 | Topics in Postmodernism |
| Description: | Readings selected from recent postmodern writers such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze, and others. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1995 |
| PHI 8620 | Modernity & Postmodern |
| Description: | Readings from Havermas, Lyotard, Derrida, Heidegger, Gadamer, Nietzsche, and Weber. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8630 | Philosophy of the Image |
| Description: | A study of the aesthetics of painting, photography and film in light of the commentaries by Heidegger, Derrida, Barthes, Goodman, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, and Rosalind Krauss. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1997 |
| PHI 8640 | Philosophy Contemporary Music |
| Description: | A critical revaluation of Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful with an ear for the comments in selected writings by Nietzsche, Atalli, Cage, Adorno, Barthes, Goodman, and Kivy as well as for the music made by selected contemporary composers. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2002 |
| PHI 8670 | Philosophy & Tragedy |
| Description: | A close reading of selected texts by Plato, Aristotle, Holderlin, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and and Benjamin dealing with the interpretation of tragedy. Special attention is given to Antigone. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1998 , Spring 1995 |
| PHI 8705 | Kant's Practical Phil |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8710 | Seminar in Philosophical Tops. |
| Description: | A specialized study of one or more important philosophical themes. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Fall 2008 , Spring 2008 |
| PHI 8720 | Sem: Phil Figures |
| Description: | A specialized study of one or more important philosophers. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 , Fall 2007 , Fall 2005 |
| PHI 8725 | Hegel |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8800 | Heidegger |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8810 | Husserl |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8815 | Contemp Hermeneutics |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8830 | Independent Study I |
| Description: | Independent research on a topic chosen by the student and approved by the professor and the graduate director. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PHI 8835 | Independent Study II |
| Description: | Independent research on a topic chosen by the student and approved by the professor and the graduate director. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Summer 2009 , Spring 2009 |
| PHI 8840 | Visiting Prof. Seminar I |
| Description: | A course taught by a visiting professor on a subject in that professor's area of expertise. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2004 , Fall 2003 , Fall 1999 , Spring 1997 |
| PHI 8845 | Visiting Prof. Seminar II |
| Description: | A course taught by a visiting professor on a subject in that professor's area of expertise. 1.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2003 |
| PHI 8870 | Consortium I |
| Description: | Graduate courses offered at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University and taken by students participating in the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 , Spring 2008 |
| PHI 8875 | Consortium II |
| Description: | Graduate courses offered at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University and taken by students participating in the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 , Spring 2008 |
| PHI 8880 | Sartre |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 8890 | Reading Phil in Greek |
| Description: | A review of basic grammar in the context of the translation of passages of Greek philosophy. This course is designed for students who are interested in developing an adequate level of competency. However, the course would be of interest to beginners who would initially learn from listening to the translations of more advanced students. It would also be beneficial for advanced students who wish to have the opportunity to keep up their skills. 1.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2000 , Spring 2000 , Fall 1999 , Spring 1999 |
| PHI 8920 | Teaching Practicum I |
| Description: | Supervised experience in teaching philosophy. Students will work with a faculty member in the teaching of an introductory philosophy course. Students will assist in working with individual undergraduates, classroom teaching, and designing and grading examinations. 1.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2000 , Spring 2000 , Fall 1999 , Spring 1999 |
| PHI 8930 | Teaching Practicum II |
| Description: | Supervised experience in teaching philosophy. Students will work with a faculty member in the teaching of an introductory philosophy course. Students will assist in working with individual undergraduates, classroom teaching, and designing and grading examinations. 1.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 , Spring 1999 , Spring 1998 , Spring 1997 |
| PHI 8999 | Seminar in Phil Problems |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 9000 | Doctoral Dissertation I |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2008 |
| PHI 9001 | Independent Study I |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1995 |
| PHI 9020 | Doctoral Dissertation II |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PHI 9052 | Consortium III |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| PHI 9070 | Doctoral Comps Prep |
| Description: | This is a non-credit semester course which enables qualified doctoral students to prepare extensively for their Doctoral Comprehensive Examinations. 0.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2004 , Fall 2003 , Spring 2003 , Fall 2002 |
| PHI 9080 | Thesis Continuation |
| Description: | Description not available. 0.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2003 , Spring 2003 , Fall 2002 , Spring 2002 |
| PHI 9081 | Dissertation Continuation |
| Description: | Description not available. 0.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |