Course List
An advanced course focusing on particular topics in the history of philosophy. Special emphasis will be placed on ideas and disputes which were historically influential and continue to be philosophically significant. Consent required.
Current issues in the philosophy of mind, such as the relation between mind and body, knowledge of own's own and other minds, personal identity, consciousness, and artificial intelligence. Graduate standing required.
Examination of central problems of metaphysics, including existence, necessary truth, the problem of universals, causation, and free will. Attention will be given both to the historical development of these problems and to contemporary philosophical responses to them. Graduate standing required.
Exploration of topics including the foundations (or lack of foundations) of knowledge, the role of experience in knowledge, and whether knowledge of the present and the nearby gives us reasons for beliefs about the future, the past, or about events far away. Graduate standing required.
Examination of the foundations of morality including the meaning of ethical terms and judgments, the nature and grounds of ethical truth, the possibility of ethical knowledge, the rationality of ethical behavior, and the relations between ethical and scientific inquiry. Graduate standing required.
Development of first order logic: truth functional sentential logic and monadic predicate calculus with identity. Proof techniques and translation between natural and artificial languages.
Logical metatheory: consistency, completeness, and decidability of logical systems.
For students pursuing a Master of Arts degree with a non-thesis option. Variable credit course.
For students pursuing a Master of Arts degree with a thesis option. Variable credit course.
Close examination of a discipline, topic, or group of questions from a major philosophical tradition. May be repeated for credit, with permission and different content, for a maximum of 12 hours. Graduate standing required.
An advanced course focusing on particular topics in the history of philosophy. Special emphasis will be placed on ideas and disputes which were historically influential and continue to be philosophically significant. Gradaute standing required.
An examination of the structure and methodology of science as well as key concepts such as explanation, confirmation, realism, and instrumentalism. Graduate standing required.
An advanced course focusing on particular topics in ethics and political philosophy. Topics include: bioethics, normative ethical theories, political legitamacy and authority, and justice. Graduate standing required.
An examination of the structure and methodology of science as well as key concepts such as explanation, confirmation, realism, and instrumentalism. Graduate standing required.