Course Criteria

Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
  • 1.00 Credits

    A critical introduction to the traditional and contemporary problems and issues surrounding the nature of mind and matter. Topics that may be included are the distinction between mind and body, the existence of other minds, the existence of matter, the nature of causation, free will and determinism, personal immortality, and computer simulation and artificial intelligence. HIPHI. Offered periodically.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course explores topics of moral and political philosophy by focusing on the dynamic between the individual and the community. Typical questions include: What is the extent of legitimate authority that a community has over an individual What obligations does a citizen have toward a government Under what conditions, if any, is civil disobedience justifiable What is the role of education in creating a citizenry Emphasis is generally given to classic texts such as Plato's Apology or Rousseau's The Social Contract. HIPHI, WRITI. Offered periodically.
  • 1.00 Credits

    How is education used to promote the status quo How do schools support and reproduce societies in the process of producing "good students" Conversely, how can education be used to bring about changes in a society In this course, we'll explore education both as a tool for preserving the status quo and as a mechanism for social and political change. This course counts toward fulfillment of the Peace Studies minor. HIPHI, WRITI. Offered periodically
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to philosophy by examining some of the writings of philosophical greats, such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, and Wittgenstein. The issues considered may include: Does God exist What is knowledge and how can we acquire it What is the meaning of life What is the "good life" HIPHI. Offered periodically.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course examines the ways in which contemporary attitudes toward the environment developed as well as alternative philosophical theories of the environment. Issues include the treatment of nonhuman animals, instrumental vs. intrinsic theories of environmental value, the impact of "first world" environmental perspectives on Third World peoples, and women's perspectives on the environment. Alternative approaches include Aldo Leopold's land ethic, deep ecology, and eco-feminism. This course counts toward fulfillment of the Environmental Studies major and the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies minor. HIPHI, WRITI. Spring semeste
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course is concerned with a vigorous, but elementary, examination of the concepts of validity, consistency, logical equivalence, and law of logic from both syntactic and semantic points of view. Criteria for the evaluation of arguments in natural language are developed by making use of artificial languages and the techniques of formalization. The course includes a treatment of statement logic (propositional logic) and, if time permits, monadic predicate logic. Credit cannot be given for both PHI-115 and PHI-236. MATHL. Fall semester.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Philosophy began in ancient Greece, and the problems that these first philosophers raised are still profound and significant. There are characteristically Greek philosophical problems: the nature of the soul, the state, the good, and the nature of reality. However, Greek philosophy is also a distinctive way of thinking about these problems. This course will focus on Greek modes of thought by examining in some detail its two principal representatives, Plato and Aristotle. Some attention may also be given to pre-Socratic, Hellenistic, and Roman philosophers. HIPHI, Fall semester.
  • 1.00 Credits

    The questions of modern philosophy are among the most perennial questions in Western thought. What is the relation between minds and bodies What is a substance What is the nature of knowledge Can we know anything with certainty-even our own existence This course surveys the works of several major figures in European philosophy of the 17th and 18th centuries, including Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Conway, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. HIPHI, WRITD, Spring semester.
  • 1.00 Credits

    An exploration of philosophy in the United States from the mid-19th through the early 20th centuries. Issues to be discussed may include: philosophical responses to slavery, conceptions of the individual and the community, and the nature of knowledge and truth. Philosophers may include Emerson, DuBois, Peirce, James, Dewey, Goldman, Addams, and Alain Locke. HIPHI, WRITD, Fall semester, even years.
  • 1.00 Credits

    A study of some of the major developments in philosophy during the 20th century. Philosophers examined typically include Russell, Moore, Whitehead, Carnap, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Austin, Ryle, Quine, and others. Prerequisite: PHI-202. Fall semester, odd years.
To find college, community college and university courses by keyword, enter some or all of the following, then select the Search button.
(Type the name of a College, University, Exam, or Corporation)
(For example: Accounting, Psychology)
(For example: ACCT 101, where Course Prefix is ACCT, and Course Number is 101)
(For example: Introduction To Accounting)
(For example: Sine waves, Hemingway, or Impressionism)
Distance:
of
(For example: Find all institutions within 5 miles of the selected Zip Code)
Privacy Statement   |   Cookies Policy  |   Terms of Use   |   Institutional Membership Information   |   About AcademyOne   
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.