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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Nine hours in philosophy, graduate standing, or consent of instructor. An examination of selected philosophical issues in a discipline other than philosophy. One or more such disciplines as history, political science, psychology, sociology, biology, chemistry, physics, or mathematics will be chosen, and philosophical issues selected and announced prior to registration, usually in consultation with the other department concerned. This course is normally taught as a seminar and attempts to serve advanced students in other departments with or without previous background in philosophy. This is a variable content course and may be taken again for credit with the consent of the instructor and the department chair.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Senior standing; at least 12 hours of philosophy at the 1000 level or above; or consent of instructor. Intensive study of a central philosophical problem. The course emphasizes the fundamentals of philosophical writing and scholarship. Students will write a major paper to be evaluated by two members of the Philosophy Department and the course instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Required of all entering graduate students in the fall semester of the first full year of residency. Topics vary. Other graduate students may take this course with the permission of the instructor and the director of graduate studies in Philosophy. Students will be expected to write papers, give presentations, and join in class discussion.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing. In-depth study of work of a single philosopher. The philosopher selected will be announced prior to registration. This is a variable-content course any may be taken again for credit with consent of instructor and department chair.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Topics may include functionalism and physicalism; representation and nature of propositional attitudes such as belief, desire, and various emotions; folk psychology and knowledge of other minds; introspection and knowledge of one's own mind; conscious and unconscious mental states and processes. This is a variable content course and may be taken again for credit with consent of instructor and department chair.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Intensive study of selected topics, texts, or individuals in historical or contemporary analytic philosophy. Topics may include, but are not limited to, Frege semantics, Russell's theory of definite descriptions, logical positivism, Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, Quine on the analytic/synthetic distinction, Kripe possible-world semantics, theories of propositions, the analysis of knowledge, contextualism in epistemology and language, relativistic semantics, epistemic two-dimensionalism, conceivability vs. possibility, three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism, presentism vs. eternalism, and applications of core concepts in other areas of philosophy. This is a variable content course and may be taken again for credit with consent of instructor and department chair.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. An intensive study of contemporary philosophical debate about such issues such as civil liberty, economic justice, political decision-making, and state authority. Variable content course and may be taken again for credit with consent of instructor and department chair.
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3.00 Credits
Same as CRIMIN 5531. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. The historical development of punishment philosophies and techniques. Topics include the emergence of the modern prison, the joining of medical and legal treatment, and rationales for alternative forms of punishment.
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3.00 Credits
Same as CRIMIN 5533. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Examination of origins of law and the basis for legal obligation. Specific consideration of the justification of punishment, morality and law, and legal reasoning.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Answers questions from normative ethics or metaethics, which may include the following: What do all morally wrong actions have in common? What does the word "wrong" mean? How, if at all, can we verify moral judgements? Are any moral judgements valid for all societies? Do we always have good reason to be moral?
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