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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(220) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: At least one of PHIL 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107. Bloomfield, Parekh Ontology and epistemology of human rights investigated through contemporary and/or historical texts.
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3.00 Credits
(224W) Prerequisite: At least one of PHIL 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107; ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. Readings from philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Marx and Engels, Bentham, Mill Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard; topics such as the debate between individualism and collectivism in the nineteenth century.
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3.00 Credits
(225W) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: At least one of PHIL 2210, 2221, 2222; ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. The reaction, after Russell, against formal theories and the belief in an ideal language, and the turn to familiar common-sense "cases" and everydaylanguage in judging philosophical claims. Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Ryle and Strawson.
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3.00 Credits
(226) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: At least one of PHIL 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, which may be taken concurrently. The nature of law; law's relation to morality; law'srelation to social facts; the obligation to obey the law; interpreting texts; spheres of law; international law; the justification of state punishment; the good of law; related doctrines of contemporary theorists such as Herbert Hart and Ronald Dworkin.
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3.00 Credits
(228) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: At least one of PHIL 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107; open to juniors or higher. Doctrines advanced by recent American philosophers.
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3.00 Credits
(230) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: At least one of PHIL 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, which may be taken concurrently. Marx's criticisms of capitalism; the distinctive functional explanations Marx offered for the relations of production and the superstructure; application of such explanations to aspects of American culture.
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3.00 Credits
(231) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: At least one of PHIL 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107. Various religious absolutes, their meaning and validity, existentialism and religion, the post-modern religious quest.
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3.00 Credits
(234) Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: At least one of PHIL 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107. Husserl's theory of meaning; its promise of silencing skepticism and setting philosophy on a new footing; the challenge to it posed by applying it to talk about other minds.
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3.00 Credits
(241) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: PHIL 1102 or 2211, and at least one of PHIL 2210, 2221, 2222. An analysis of the concepts used in thinking about language.
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3.00 Credits
(247) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: Any one of PSYC 2500, 3500, 3550W, 3551W, or 3552; and at least one three-credit philosophy course or instructor consent. Conceptual issues in theoretical psychology. Topics may include computational models of mind, the language of thought, connectionism, neuropsychological deficits, and relations between psychological models and the brain.
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