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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Philosophy 230. Continuation of Philosophy 230. Preliminary examination of various extensions of classical formal systems such as theory of identity, theory of descriptions and modal logic, and an introduction to the methods of appraising formal systems (consistency and semantic completeness).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Examination of the conceptual problems religious claims pose and arguments regarding knowledge of God, evil, miracles, death and survival, religious experience, religion and morals, faith and reason. Regular written assignments will be required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Philosophical examination of issues relating to religion, for instance, whether religion requires belief, how drugs relate to religious experience, the nature of mysticism, and the relation between religion and ethics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Examination of some of the main issues in the thought of Kierkegaard and the thought of Nietzsche, such as subjective and objective truth, the logic of faith, the category of transvaluation and the death of God.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of the lower division writing requirement; 3 units of philosophy. Study of some representative works of the major existentialists, with the aim of discovering the fundamental tenets of existentialism. Emphasis placed on existentialism’s influence on and relevance to contemporary thought. Regular written assignments will be required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Survey of Indian philosophy from the Vedic period to the modern era with attention to relationships between India=s philosophies, history and culture. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Survey of Chinese philosophy from Confucius to the People’s Republic with attention to relationships between China’s philosophies, history and culture. Regular written assignments required. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Philosophical analysis of the concept woman in contemporary U.S. culture, and other central concepts in feminist thought; for example, the nature of oppression, equality and justice, and relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality. A critical study of philosophical issues in feminism. Regular written assignments will be required. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Philosophical examination of the concepts, values, and arguments relevant to understanding and evaluating practical social and political issues central to current public debates concerning such matters as civil and political rights, social and economic inequality, the environment, biotechnology, economic policy and global trade, and the national defense. Regular written assignments will be required. (Available for General Education, Arts and Humanities) (IC)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of the lower division writing requirement and 3 units of philosophy. An examination of traditional epistemological problems with attention to major positions such as empiricism and rationalism and with attention to related metaphysical topics such as causality, space and time, substance, and possible worlds. Will also include regular sessions on philosophical writing and methodology. Regular written assignments will be required.
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