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Philosophy (PHIL)
PHIL 3113 Ancient Greek Philosophy (H) Prerequisites: PHIL 1113, PHIL 1313 or PHIL 2013, or any 3000-4000 level PHIL course. Description: Historically-based introduction to the philosophical ideas and works of Plato and Aristotle. Begin by reading excerpts and commentary on the Pre-Socratics and Sophists. End the course with readings from the Hellenistic schools of philosophy: Stoics, Skeptics, and Epicureans. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3213 17th and 18th Century Philosophy (H) Prerequisites: PHIL 1113 or PHIL 1313 or PHIL 2013, or any 3000-4000 level PHIL course. Description: Major philosophers and problems in Western thought from the 17th through the 18th century. Emphasis on Descartes, Hume and Kant. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3
PHIL 3513 Social Philosophy (H) Description: Major social thinkers and contemporary issues. Social authority, human rights, political forms and justice. Emphasis on Aristotle, Locke, Mill and Marx. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3523 Medieval Philosophy (H) Description: The central focus is on the philosophical and theological problems that engaged the minds of medieval thinkers from Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions, including Abelard, Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3
Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3553 Philosophy of Dreams (H)
Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities
Description: Critical examination of philosophical writings about dreams and dream theories. Topics include distinguishing dreams from reality, questions about morality In dreams, and debates about the evolutionary functions of dreams. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3613 Philosophy of Religion (H) Description: Nature of religion, religious experience and religious language. God-concepts, theistic arguments, God and evil, God and immortality. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3
PHIL 3313 19th and 20th Century Philosophy (H) Prerequisites: PHIL 3213 or consent of instructor. Description: Major philosophers and problems in Western thought from Hegel to the present. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3413 Ethical Theory (H) Description: Contemporary and classical views on the nature of moral judgments, moral value, relativity and objectivity, freedom and
Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3623 Philosophy of Race (DH)
responsibility. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3
Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3433 Happiness and Well-being (H) Description: An investigation into the science and philosophy of happiness and well-being as well as the relationship between the two. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities
Description: Philosophy of Race investigates race discourse within the texts of contemporary philosophers. The course begins with an examination of the concept of race from antiquity through postmodernity. Course discussion focuses on the biological veracity of race, the rise of race as a sociopolitical concept, and the role of modern philosophers in shaping the prevailing perception of people of non-European descent in the West and the implicit justification of slavery, which pervades their texts. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Diversity, Humanities
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