PHIL 310 Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1) The work of one or more important philosophers or philosophical movements before A.D. 500. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

PHIL 311 Studies in Medieval Philosophy (1) The work of one or more important philosophers or philosophical schools between A.D. 500 and 1600. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

PHIL 312 Studies in Modern Philosophy (1) The work of one or more important philosophers or philosophical movements between A.D. 1500 and 1800. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

PHIL 313-1 Kant ’s Critique of Pure Reason [Analytic] (1) Close examination of Kant ’s Critique of Pure Reason, concentrating on the nature and implications of Kant’s transcendental idealism, as well as his attempts to answer central philosophical questions concerning knowledge.

PHIL 313-2 Kant ’s Critique of Pure Reason [Dialectic] (1) Continuing close examination of Kant ’s Critique of Pure Reason, concentrating on Kant’s attempts to limit the claims of reason and to eliminate traditional, philosophical metaphysics.

PHIL 314 Studies in German Philosophy (1) A study of one or more key themes, figures, or historical developments in German Philosophy from the 18th up to the 21st century. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

PHIL 315 Studies in Studies in French Philosophy (1) One or more figures of 20th-century or contemporary French philosophy. May be repeated for credit when the content varies.

PHIL 316 Studies in American Philosophy (1) An examination of one or more classical texts or contemporary works in American philosophy. Representative authors are Peirce, James, Dewey, Mead, and Quine.

PHIL 317 Studies in 19th-and 20th-Century Philosophy (1) A study of one or more key philosophical themes, figures, or developments of the 19th century, 20th century, or both. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

PHIL 318 Studies in Contemporary Philosophy (1) Selected philosophical works of the later part of the 20th century or the 21st century. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

PHIL 319 Existentialism and Its Sources (1) An intensive study of one or a small number of major contributions to the existentialist tradition.

PHIL 324 Phenomenology (1) Major works contributing to the phenomenological movement: texts by Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Questions of methodology together with problems in theory of knowledge and ontology.

PHIL 325 Philosophy of Mind (1) Topics in the philosophy of mind: mind-body problems, problems of other minds, self-knowledge, personal identity, and philosophical psychology.

PHIL 326 Philosophy of Medicine (1) Topics such as the standing of medicine as a science, the separation of medicine and psychiatry, the conceptualization of the human body, and definitions of health and disease.

PHIL 327 Philosophy of Psychology (1) Nature of psychological explanation, experimentation and testing of psychological claims, the standing of psychology as a science, reductionism, the unconscious, and conceptualizing the psyche and its processes.

PHIL 328 Classics of Analytic Philosophy (1) Philosophical work that shaped the analytic movement. Readings from Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Quine, and others.

PHIL 350 Systematic Logic (1) Formal systems of deductive inference; metatheory, formal semantics, completeness, and set theory.

PHIL 351 Advanced Topics in Philosophical Logic (1) Methods of modern formal logic applied to traditional philosophical questions. Modal logic, deontic logic, epistemic logic, many-valued logic, and tense logic.

PHIL 352 Philosophy of Mathematics (1) Nature of mathematical entities and mathematical truth. Platonism, intuitionism, fictionalism, nominalism, the synthetic a priori, self-referential paradoxes, incompleteness and undecidability, consistency, alternative axiomatizations and uniqueness, the relation between mathematics and logic, and mathematical revolutions.

PHIL 353 Philosophy of Language (1) Nature and uses of language presenting philosophical problems. Theory of reference, the modes of meaning, definition, metaphor, problems of syntax, and semantics.

PHIL 354 Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (1) Contemporary scientific methodology. Discovery, conceptual change and the growth of scientific knowledge, explanation, relation of theory to observation, confirmation theory, space and time, causality, and philosophical implications of relativistic and quantum mechanics.

PHIL 355 Scientific Methods in the Social Sciences (1) An analysis of the philosophical foundations of social inquiry with reference to selected problems, thinkers, and schools, both classical and modern.

PHIL 358 Epistemology (1) Central problems in the theory of knowledge, emphasizing contemporary developments. A priori knowledge, perception, memory, induction, and theories of meaning and truth.

PHIL 359 Studies in Metaphysics (1) A study of the most general features of reality, currently refractory to empirical investigation, and their relation to thought and language. Topics may include existence, time, identity, properties, truth, causality, freedom, universals, and particulars.

PHIL 360 Topics in Moral Philosophy (1) Philosophical analysis of recent or contemporary issues, theories, or figures in moral philosophy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

PHIL 361 Topics in Social and Political Philosophy (1) Philosophical analysis of a recent or contemporary issue, individual philosopher, or school of thought in social and political philosophy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

PHIL 362 Studies in the History of Ethical and Political Theory (1)
Examination of one or more major figures or movements in the history of moral or political philosophy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

PHIL 363 Philosophy of History (1) Theories of history and historiography, examining issues such as historical memory, the objectivity of interpretation, narrative structures, freedom and causal determinism, teleological purpose, and the social responsibility of the historian.

PHIL 365 Advanced Studies in the Philosophy of Law (1) Normative and conceptual issues arising in legal contexts.

PHIL 366 Advanced Studies in the Philosophy of Religion (1) Central problems in the philosophy of religion.

PHIL 367 Studies in African-American Philosophy (1) Work of one or more African-American philosophers or philosophical movements of the 19th or 20th centuries. Topic varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

PHIL 369 Philosophy and Gender (1) A survey of approaches to sex and gender throughout the history of philosophy. From Plato through to today, we look at the changing conceptual foundations of philosophical accounts of sexual difference, equality, and gender identity.

PHIL 370 Philosophy and Literature (1) Issues involving the relationship of philosophy and literature.

PHIL 372 Philosophy of Education (1) Educational theories of representative philosophers as related to their culture and the problems of their times.

PHIL 380 Philosophy of Art (1) Nature and purpose of art, art and perception, the nature of creativity, and the social responsibility of the artist.

PHIL 390 Special Topics in Philosophy (1) Topics vary from year to year. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

PHIL 401-1,2 Proseminar (1)(1) Essential aspects of philosophical inquiry, culminating in the production of professional-quality writing. Subject matter varies between value theory and metaphysics/ epistemology. Limited to first-year graduate students in philosophy.

PHIL 402-1,2 Proseminar (1)(1) Essential aspects of philosophical inquiry, culminating in the production of professional-quality writing. Subject matter varies between value theory and metaphysics/ epistemology. Limited to second-year graduate students in philosophy.

PHIL 410 Seminar: Special Topics in Philosophy (1)

PHIL 414 Seminar in German Philosophy (1) Topics, individual figures, or developments in German philosophy from Kant until the present. Likely philosophers to be studied include Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, or Habermas.

PHIL 415 Seminar in French Philosophy (1) Close critical reading of important texts in French philosophy. Likely philosophers to be studied include Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.

PHIL 420 Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1) Work of one important philosopher or philosophical movement before A.D. 300. Topic varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

PHIL 421 Studies in Medieval Philosophy (1) Work of one important philosophical school between A.D. 300 and 1600. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

PHIL 422 Studies in Modern Philosophy (1) Work of one important philosopher or philosophical movement between A.D. 1600 and 1900. Topic varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

PHIL 423 Studies in Contemporary Philosophy (1) Work of one important philosopher or philosophical movement of the 20th century. Topic varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

PHIL 426 Seminar in Philosophy of Mind (1) Nature of mental phenomena; the relation between mind and body (matter); the nature of sensations, emotions, and belief; the explanation of actions; the status of psychology as a science.

PHIL 450 Philosophy of Logic (1) Philosophical aspects of formal systems. Logic and ontology. Nominalism and realism in the 20^th century. Theories of the nature of mathematics.

PHIL 454 Philosophy of Science (1) Nature of scientific explanation, statistical and deterministic laws, the relation of theory to observation, inductive logic and scientific method, conceptual change, and space and time.

PHIL 459 Seminar in Metaphysics (1) Theories of existence and reality.

PHIL 465 Seminar in Social and Political Theory (1) Study of an important problem, author, or school in social and/or political philosophy. Topics vary. May be repeated with change of topic.

PHIL 466 African Philosophy Seminar (1) Analysis of philosophical discourse on Africa. Ethno-philosophical approaches to African thought, critics of ethnophilosophy. Oral and written intellectual traditions in Africa.

PHIL 467 Seminar in Critical Race Theory (1) Advanced philosophical work relating to theories of race, racism, and racial identity.

PHIL 468 Seminar in Epistemology (1) Skepticism, perception, other minds, memory, inference, the analysis of knowledge-claims, and induction.

PHIL 469 Seminar in Philosophy and Gender (1) Addresses the work of one or more major feminist philosophers and/or one or more major themes in contemporary feminist philosophy.

PHIL 477 Seminar in Ethical Theory (1) Egoism; altruism; the analysis of good, right, and virtue; duty and the is-ought controversy; relativism; ethical motivation; justice; free will and determinism; utilitarianism; deontological ethics; happiness.

PHIL 499 Independent Study (1,2,or 3) May be repeated for credit. Permission of instructor and department required.

PHIL 590 Research (1,2,or 3) Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.