Course Descriptions

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Philosophy Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 105 Introduction to Philosophy and Religion (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 110 Introduction to Critical Thinking I (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 130 Political and Social Philosophy (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 150 Contemporary Moral/Political Issues (3) Spring 2008
PHIL 160 Introduction to Philosophy of the Arts (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 205 Formal Logic I (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 210 Great Thinkers: East and West (3) Fall 2008
PHIL 301 Ancient Philosophy (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 302 Medieval Philosophy (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 303 Modern Philosophy (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 304 The Modern Revolution (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 315 Introduction to Global Peace Studies (3) Fall 2008
PHIL 320 GW Philosophical Analysis - GWAR (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 321 Being and Knowing (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 330 Political Philosophy (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 335 Law and Society (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 350 Philosophy of Science (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 355 Politics and Ethics of the Consumer Society (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 365 Science and Civilization (3) Spring 2008
PHIL 369 Philosophical Issues in Sexuality (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 375 Peace Law and Human Rights in the U.S. (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 380 Philosophy of Law (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 382 Women and Philosophy: Selected Topics (3) Effective Spring 1981
PHIL 382 Variable topics:
  PHIL 382 Feminist Philosophical Issues (3) Effective Spring 2007
PHIL 383 Ethics in Medicine (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 395 Ethical Issues: Science and Technology (3) Spring 2007
PHIL 410 Topics in the History of Philosophy (3) Effective Spring 1980
PHIL 410 Variable topics:
  PHIL 410 Early Medieval Philosophy (3) Fall 2008
  PHIL 410 From Descartes to Sartre (3) Fall 1986
  PHIL 410 Hume and Kant (3) Fall 1990
  PHIL 410 The Development of Empiricism (3) Effective Summer 2007
PHIL 413 Hannah Arendt (3) Spring 2006
PHIL 415 The Hebrew Bible (3) Spring 2008
PHIL 420 German-Jewish Ferment 1920s-1950s (3) Spring 2005
PHIL 425 Topics in Existentialism and Phenomenology (3) Effective Spring 1981
PHIL 430 Topics in Contemporary Philosophy (3) Effective Spring 1981
PHIL 430 Variable topics:
  PHIL 430 The Morality of Nuclear War (3) Fall 1985
  PHIL 430 Wittgenstein (3) Effective Spring 1989
PHIL 432 Nietzsche and Postmodernism (3) Fall 2008
PHIL 434 Arendt and Heidegger (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 435 Human Rights in Global Perspective (3) Fall 2008
PHIL 436 Islamic Political Philosophy (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 440 Ethics at Work I (3) Fall 2007
PHIL 445 Sex and Morality (3) Fall 2008
PHIL 450 Ethics (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 451 Feminist Moral Issues (3) Spring 2008
PHIL 455 Sex and the Law (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 460 Philosophy of Art (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 465 Philosophy of Literature (3) Effective Spring 1988
PHIL 470 Environmental Ethics (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 471 Aristotle (3) Spring 2007
PHIL 475 Selected Problems in Philosophy (3) Effective Spring 1980
PHIL 475 Variable topics:
  PHIL 475 Free Will / Determinism Problem (3) Effective Spring 2008
PHIL 482 Philosophy of Feminism (3) Effective Spring 2009
PHIL 500 Philosophy of Religion (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 501 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 502 World Religions (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 504 History of Christian Thought I (3) Fall 2007
PHIL 508 Indian Philosophy and Religion (3) Effective Spring 1980
PHIL 508 Variable topics:
  PHIL 508 Roots of the Hindu and Buddhist Traditions (3) Spring 1992
  PHIL 508 Upanishads & the Gita (3) Effective Spring 2008
PHIL 509 The Buddhist Tradition (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 511 Chinese Philosophy and Religion (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 514 Kabbalah and Mysticism in the Jewish Tradition (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 515 Semitic Religious Thought (3) Effective Spring 1980
PHIL 515 Variable topics:
  PHIL 515 Islamic Mysticism (3) Spring 2009
  PHIL 515 Philosophy of the Old Testament (3) Spring 1993
PHIL 516 Islamic Philosophy (3) Fall 2008
PHIL 525 The Nature of Religious Experience (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 530 Selected Religious Thinkers (3) Effective Spring 1981
PHIL 530 Variable topics:
  PHIL 530 Transformative Knowledge (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 540 Selected Issues in Religious Thought (3) Effective Spring 1989
PHIL 540 Variable topics:
  PHIL 540 The Concept of God (3) Spring 2008
PHIL 552 Judaism: Religion and Text (3) Spring 2008
PHIL 605 Metaphysics (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 610 Theory of Knowledge (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 611 Philosophy of Perception (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 620 Philosophy of Mind (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 621 Minds, Brains and Computers (3) Effective Summer 2009
PHIL 630 Philosophy of Language (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 680 Field Project in Philosophy (1-3) Effective Spring 2007
PHIL 680 Variable topics:
  PHIL 680 Field Project in Philosophy (1) Fall 2009
  PHIL 680 Field Project in Philosophy (2) Fall 2009
  PHIL 680 Field Project in Philosophy (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 685 Projects in the Teaching of Philosophy (1-4) Effective Spring 1998
PHIL 685 Variable topics:
  PHIL 685 Projects in the Teaching of Philosophy (3) Summer 2009
PHIL 691 Reading Circle (1) Fall 2009
PHIL 695 Advanced Logic Workshop (3) Spring 2009
PHIL 696 Directed Reading: Learning Outcomes (1) Fall 2009
PHIL 699 Special Study (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
PHIL 699 Variable topics:
  PHIL 699 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  PHIL 699 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  PHIL 699 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 700 Seminar in Selected Problems (3) Effective Spring 1981
PHIL 700 Variable topics:
  PHIL 700 Justice for All? (3) Fall 2008
PHIL 715 Seminar in Philosophical Writing (3) Effective Summer 2009
PHIL 717 Projects in the Teaching of Philosophy (1-3) Effective Spring 1980
PHIL 717 Variable topics:
  PHIL 717 Projects in the Teaching of Philosophy (1) Fall 2009
  PHIL 717 Projects in the Teaching of Philosophy (2) Fall 2009
  PHIL 717 Projects in the Teaching of Philosophy (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 718 Teaching Philosophy (1) Fall 2009
PHIL 730 Seminar in the Philosophy of Religion (3) Effective Spring 1980
PHIL 770 Seminar in a Classical Author (3) Effective Spring 1981
PHIL 770 Variable topics:
  PHIL 770 ANALYTIC HEGELIANS (3) Effective Summer 2009
  PHIL 770 Descartes (3) Spring 2009
  PHIL 770 Foucault on Care of the Self (3) Spring 2009
  PHIL 770 Heidegger's Being and Time (3) Spring 2008
  PHIL 770 Kant (3) Fall 2008
  PHIL 770 Philosophy of David Hume (3) Spring 2008
  PHIL 770 Philosophy of Hegel (3) Spring 2008
  PHIL 770 Plato and Aristotle: Categories and Conceptions of Being (3) Fall 2007
  PHIL 770 Plato and Platonism (3) Spring 2009
  PHIL 770 Wittgenstein (3) Spring 2007
PHIL 771 Aristotle (3) Effective Spring 2007
PHIL 772 Seminar in a Classical School (3) Effective Spring 1980
PHIL 772 Variable topics:
  PHIL 772 Confucian and Buddhist Philosophy (3) Effective Summer 2009
  PHIL 772 Early Medieval Philosophy (3) Fall 2008
  PHIL 772 Seminar in Cartesianism (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 795 Early Modern Philosophy (3) Fall 2007
PHIL 805 Seminar in Metaphysics (3) Effective Spring 1980
PHIL 805 Variable topics:
  PHIL 805 Graduate Seminar in Space and Time-Cognitive Perspectives (3) Effective Fall 2010
  PHIL 805 Graduate Seminar on Essentially Indexical Information (3) Effective Fall 2010
  PHIL 805 Social Ontology (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 810 Seminar in the Theory of Knowledge (3) Fall 2007
PHIL 811 Seminar in Philosophy of Perception (3) Effective Summer 2009
PHIL 820 Seminar in the Philosophy of Mind (3) Effective Spring 2008
PHIL 830 Seminar in Philosophy of Language (3) Effective Spring 2008
PHIL 850 Seminar in the Philosophy of Science (3) Fall 2008
PHIL 890 Seminar on Current Issues in Philosophy (3) Effective Spring 1983
PHIL 890 Variable topics:
  PHIL 890 Environmental Ethics (3) Fall 2009
  PHIL 890 From Foucault to Feminism (3) Spring 1990
  PHIL 890 Issues in Political and Social Philosophy (3) Fall 2007
  PHIL 890 Philosophy of Experimentation (3) Fall 2009
  PHIL 890 Philosophy of Moral Psychology (3) Spring 2009
  PHIL 890 Realism and Naturalism (3) Fall 2008
  PHIL 890 Seminar on Philosophical Approaches to Science and the Self (3) Effective Fall 2010
  PHIL 890 Virtue Ethics (3) Spring 2008
  PHIL 890 Well-Being (3) Effective Summer 2007
PHIL 891 Graduate Reading Circle (1) Fall 2009
PHIL 896 Directed Reading in Fundamental Philosophical Texts (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 898 Master's Thesis (3) Fall 2009
PHIL 899 Special Study (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
PHIL 899 Variable topics:
  PHIL 899 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  PHIL 899 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  PHIL 899 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
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