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Elective Courses

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PHIL 301
PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
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Short selections from the writings of contemporary philosophers. Among topics likely to be covered are: the nature and range of human knowledge, determinism and free will, personal identity, truth, reference and meaning. Existentialism, and the relation between mind and body.
PHIL 354
SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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A systematic study of fundamental explanations and concepts concerning human society and political institutions; distributive justice, equality, sovereignty, law, liberty and political obligations.
PHIL 375
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
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Investigation of some of the following topics: the mind-body problems, personal identity, the unity of consciousness, the unconscious, the problem of other minds, action, intention, and will.
PHIL 470
PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
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Foundations of mathematics and philosophical problems in the interpretation of the nature of mathematics.
PHIL 48C
SP.TP.BIOETHICS
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Study of selected topics in philosophy not covered in other courses at an undergraduate level.
PHIL 48J
FREUD,JUNG&PHIL.OF UNCONSCIOUS
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Study of selected topics in philosophy not covered in other courses at an undergraduate level.
PHIL 48N
KANTIAN ETHICS
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PHIL 331
ADVANCED LOGIC I
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ZF axioms for set theory, axiom of choice, well ordering, ordinal numbers, cardinal numbers, GCH, ultraproducts. Deduction theorem, completeness theorem, compactness theorem, non-standard models of arithmetic, elementary structures, chains.
PHIL 372
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
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An examination of the nature and structure of language and of philosophical problems arising in connection with it. Topics covered will include meaning, reference, speech acts and relevant issues of contemporary descriptive linguistics.
PHIL 402
THE SELF
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Philosophical examination of the self or ego or I as both subject and object in philosophy. Study of such questions as self-reference and indexicality, self-knowledge, the nature of the self, sympathy and identification with others in art and culture, isolation and social alienation from others, plasticity and historical constitution of the self, and the varieties of transcendence of the ego in ethics. Consideration of the question 'Who am I?'
PHIL 414
HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
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Analytic methods developed by Frege, Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein. The rise and fall of logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy. The impact of Quine, sense and reference, the picture theory of language, the verifiability theory of meaning, the private language argument, speech acts, Gricean strictures, ontological relativity, radical translation, the Davidson-Dummett controversy about meaning, and the issue of whether the analytical tradition has come to an end.
PHIL 461
AESTHETICS
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Overview of aesthetics: Nature of art, truth and representation, moral and political aspects of art and criticism.
PHIL 482
SEL.TOP.THE CARTESIAN TRADITION
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PHIL 48O
SL.TP.PLATO'S MIDDLE PERIOD:PHAEDO&SYMPO
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PHIL 49A
SEL.TOP.SELF-CONS.:KANT,HEGEL,CONTEMP.DE
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PHIL 241
APPLIED ETHICS
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Philosophical analysis of contemporary moral issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, affirmative action, the ethics of charity, animal rights, moral justification of war.
PHIL 48F
SP.TP.PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
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PHIL 48I
SP.TP.CONTEMP.ISSUES IN ETHIC.&POL.THOUG
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PHIL 48L
SEL.TOP.FRENCH EXISTENTIALISM
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PHIL 284
FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM
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The analysis of the concepts of action and intention. Philosophical problems arising in the context of determinism versus free will.
PHIL 320
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
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Introduction to the philosophical study of religion covering issues such as the existence of a Divine Creator, the nature and explanation of evil, the relation between religious belief and knowledge, and religious ethics.
PHIL 48R
SP.TP.SET THEORY
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PHIL 48S
SP.TP.PHILOSOPHY OF DEATH
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PHIL 48V
SP.TP.:EXTENDED&EMBODIED COGNITION
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PHIL 48Y
SP.TOPICS ARISTOTLE
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PHIL 49B
SP.TP.ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY
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PHIL 251
SPECIAL TOPICS IN LOGIC
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Selected topics on modal logic and Kripke semantics, tense logic, tensed modalities, epistemic logic, free logic, logic of existence, intuitionistic logic, Lesniewsky's mereology, philosophical grammar and formal semantics.
PHIL 332
ADVANCED LOGIC II
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Formal number theory, primitive recursive and recursive functions, arithmetization, MRDP theorem, Godel incompleteness theorems, recursive undecidability, Church's theorem, Turing machines, partial recursive functions, unsolvable problems, Kleene-Mostowski hierarchy, effective computability, decision problems.
PHIL 357
PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
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A survey of ontological, epistemological and methodological problems raised in the sciences of human behavior and society. Comparison between positivist and non-positivist approaches to society.
PHIL 400
CURRENT ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY
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This course will involve a thorough discussion of a variety of current problems to be selected among philosophical issues such as the theory of identity, essentialism, subject-predicate distinction, prescriptivism, causality, etc.
PHIL 481
SEL.TP.METAPHYSICS
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PHIL 483
SEL.TP.MEDIEVAL ARISTOTELIANISM
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PHIL 484
SEL.TP.EASTERN PHILOSOPHY
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PHIL 48I
SP.TP.LATE WITTGENSTEIN
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PHIL 48W
SEL.TP.PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
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PHIL 49E
SP.TP.INTRO.TO FOUCAULT'S PHIL.
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PHIL 49L
SP.TP.EVOLUTION&ANIMAL COGNITION
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PHIL 48A
SP.TP. CRITCAL PHILOSOPHY OF RACE
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PHIL 48B
SP.TP.PHIL OF RELIGION AFTER WITTGENST.
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PHIL 48P
SEL.TP.IN PHIL OF SCIENCE
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PHIL 48Z
SP.TP.PHILOSOPHIES OF THE SELF
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PHIL 498
SEL.TOP: PHIL.IN CINEMA
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PHIL 486
SP.TP.SCIENCE AND ETHICS
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PHIL 48K
SP.TP.KANTIAN ETHICS
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PHIL 48X
SP.TP.IN METAPHYSICS
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PHIL 435
PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN FEMINISM
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A selection of philosophical issues that arise within feminist thinking, such as the nature of sexual equality, patriarchy, sexual harassment, oppression, and exploitation and the use of such concepts in feminist analysis of women's social position.
PHIL 442
ISSUES IN ETHICS
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An in-depth analysis of the ethical views of prominent philosophers on a major issue in ethics.
PHIL 49C
SP.TP.IN PHIL:NIETZSCHE AND MORAL PHIL.
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PHIL 487
SP.TP.METAPHYSICS THROUGH STAR TREK
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PHIL 48D
SP.TP.NON-CLASSICAL LOGICS
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PHIL 48E
SEL.TP. INDIAN PHILOSPHY
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PHIL 48F
SEL.TP. LIBERALISM AND ITS CRITICS
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PHIL 485
SP.TP.ANIMAL ETHICS
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PHIL 488
SP.TP.DESCARTES THEN AND NOW
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PHIL 48H
SP.TP.:NON -CLASSICAL LOGICS II
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PHIL 48C
SP.TP.TWENTIETH CENT.CONTINENTAL PHIL.
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PHIL 48U
SP.TP.ANIMAL MINDS
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PHIL 49J
SP.TP.AN INTRO.TO MODERN REPUB.THEORY
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PHIL 48G
SP.TP.HEIDEGGER
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PHIL 48M
SP.TP.IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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PHIL 48T
SP.TP.SELF.KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
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PHIL 412
ADVANCED HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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PHIL 421
THEORIES OF RATIONALITY
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An introduction to theories of rationality, including those that are implicit in rational choice theory, decision-making under uncertainty, and game theory. Emphasizing the relation between normative and descriptive theories of rational behavior.
PHIL 453
FREEDOM
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Contemporary debates about freedom in social and political philosophy, such as the negative and positive conceptions of freedom, the illusion of freedom, internal constraints on freedom, freedom of choice, free agency, social and political conditions of freedom.
PHIL 444
PHILOSOHY & LITERATURE
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Philosophical examination of literature with special emphasis on the logic of narrative, theories and strategies of interpretation, representation and truth in fiction, concept and function of unconscious, genesis and development of moral space and the notion of the self in the history of literature, and a comparison of poetic language to the language of philosophy.
PHIL 49R
SP.TP.DEMOCRACY
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PHIL 493
SP.TP.GOD IN POLITICAL PHIL.
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PHIL 473
PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE
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Historical and philosophical examination of the attempt to live on the basis of philosophical understanding, as it occurs in the work of such people as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Epicureans, Plotinus, Augustine, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, existentialists, and eastern philosophers.
PHIL 481
SL.TP.ANIMAL RIGHTS&EUTHENASIA
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PHIL 482
SL.TP.PROBABILITY&CHANCE
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PHIL 48L
SL.TP.REBUBLICANISM
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PHIL 49N
SL.TP.SOC.COGN.COLLEC.AGENCY
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PHIL 48S
SP.TP.PHILOSOPHY OF COSMOLOGY
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PHIL 48V
SP.TP.NIETZS.PHYSIO-PSYCH.PROJECT
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