Courses: Philosophy (PHIL)

1301: Introduction to Philosophy (formerly 1340)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. An introduction to philosophy through consideration of such central issues as the nature and extent of knowledge and value, the objectivity of scientific and other theories, the rationality of theistic and atheistic belief, the problem of human freedom, the nature of rationality, and the nature of man himself.

1305: Introduction to Ethics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. A historical introduction to the main problems and questions of moral philosophy.

1321: Logic I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: MATH 1310. May not be taken for credit by students who already have credit for PHIL 2321. Techniques for analyzing statements and evaluating arguments, primarily through use of the apparatus of modern symbolic logic.

1334: Introduction to the Mind
Cr. 3. (3-0). Philosophical perspectives on issues from the recent sciences of the mind such as: Is human psychology a product of evolution? Do thought and consciousness depend on language? What features of our visual world are constructed by our brains? Are emotions required for reasoning? How do cultures get communicated? Are mental illnesses brain diseases?

1361: Philosophy and the Arts
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303 or equivalent. An HFAC fine arts course. Introduction to philosophical topics in the visual and performing arts, including criticism, interpretation, moral issues, and cultural contexts.

1397: Selected Introductory Topics in Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

2310: Critical Thinking
Cr. 3. (3-0). Analysis and construction of good reasoning. Application to practical problems; identification of premises, conclusions, and chains of reasoning in English prose; methods for detecting validity and invalidity of arguments.

2321: Logic II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHIL 1321 or consent of instructor. Predicate logic with identity, and selected topics, including an introduction to metalogic.

3304: History of Seventeenth Century Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Philosophy of the seventeenth century: Descartes, Spinoza, Liebniz, and Locke.

3305: History of Eighteenth Century Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Philosophy of the eighteenth century: Hume, Berkeley, and Kant.

3311: Human Nature and Linguistics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Human nature and linguistic relativity; the biological, psychological, and logical notion of language; relationship of thought and language in children, adults, whales, apes, computers, and extraterrestrials.

3321: Logic III
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHIL 2321 or its equivalent. Formalized theories and their properties: consistency, completeness, and decidability.

3324: Inductive Logic and Decision Theory (formerly 2324)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. An introduction to probabilistic reasoning: the assessment of nondeductive arguments, calculation with probabilities, the foundations of statistical inference, and rational decision making under uncertainty.

3332: Philosophy of Language
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor.

3333: Metaphysics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Theories of being.

3334: Philosophy of Mind
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: six semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. The mind body problem, perception, personal identity, consciousness, and freedom.

3335: Theory of Knowledge
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Theories of knowledge.

3344: Philosophy of Science
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor.

3348: Philosophy and Evolution
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Implications of theories of evolution for ethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science.

3349: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: 3 hours in Philosophy or consent of instructor. Philosophical issues arising in such social sciences as psychology, archaeology/anthropology, and economics. May be repeated for credit with approval of chair when topics vary.

3350: Ethics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected problems in moral philosophy.

3351: Contemporary Moral Issues
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: 3 semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Philosophical analysis of contemporary issues such as abortion, affirmative action, the treatment of animals, capital punishment, euthanasia, and famine relief.

3354: Medical Ethics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Moral problems in the practice of medicine and in the design of health care systems.

3355: Political Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor.

3356: Feminist Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. An investigation of the major issues and approaches of feminist philosophy.

3358: Classics in the History of Ethics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Analysis of central works in the history of philosophical ethics, by selected authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Butler, Hume, Kant, Mill, and Sidgwick. May be repated for credit with approval of chair when authors vary.

3361: Philosophy of Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor.

3371: Depiction, Narration, and Critical Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: three semester hours in philosophy not including PHIL 1321, PHIL 2321, or consent of instructor. Representation in the plastic and literary arts, and its relationship to critical theory.

3374: Science and Religion
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. Historical relationship of science and religion, and how scientific theories might be thought to conflict with or support religious doctrines.

3375: Law, Society, and Morality
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy. An introduction to philosophy of law. Topics include the nature, function, and moral evaluation of law and legal systems.

3376: Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: three semester hours in philosophy and junior standing, or consent of instructor. Philosophical issues at the heart of the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

3377: Philosophy of Religion
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor.

3378: Leibniz, Hume and Kant
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: three semester hours in philosophy and junior standing, or consent of instructor. Metaphysical and epistemological views of three major figures in early modern philosophy.

3383: History of Ancient Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor.

3386: History of Nineteenth Century Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor.

3388: History of Twentieth Century Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor.

3395: Selected Topics in Philosophy (formerly 4395)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: six semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit with approval of chair.

3398: Special Problems
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

3399:4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

4198:4398: Special Problems
Cr. 1-3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

4396: Seminar in Philosophic Problems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: 12 semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit with approval of chair.

4397: Seminar in the History of Philosophy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: 12 semester hours in philosophy or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit with approval of chair.