660
Philosophy (PHIL)
PHIL 3843 Philosophy of Law (H) Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
PHIL 3933 Creation and Evolution (H) Description: Critical examination of claims that various Creationist/ Intelligent Design models offer better scientific explanations for selected biological phenomena than does the current dominant view of Darwinian Evolution. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3943 Asian Philosophy (HI) Description: Three main streams of Asian thought: Indian, Chinese and Buddhist. How various thinkers in the three traditions have dealt with questions of being and becoming, knowledge, ethics, and society. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities, International Dimension PHIL 3991 Contemporary Philosophy Research Prerequisites: Upper-division standing, at least 12 hours in philosophy completed. Description: Study of leading edge research in philosophy through presentation and discussion of current philosophy journal articles with faculty. Previously offered as PHIL 4991. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 4000 Senior Thesis in Philosophy Prerequisites: PHIL 4990 and consent of instructor. Description: Guided individual work on a thesis under the direction of a faculty member, with a second faculty reader and oral presentation. Intended for senior standing undergraduate Philosophy majors. Credit hours: 1-3
Description: Philosophical issues related to U.S. law. The relationship between law and morality, the nature and functions of law and grounds of liability. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3
Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3853 Pragmatism (H)
Description: A survey of Pragmatism and its history. While the course will primarily focus on two major figures of American Pragmatism, Charles Peirce and William James, we will also explore how pragmatism developed in the 21st century and track its influence in both philosophy and science. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3890 Advanced Honors Experience in PHIL Prerequisites: Honors Program participation and concurrent enrollment in a designated PHIL course. Description: A supplemental Honors experience in mathematics to partner concurrently with designated upper-division PHIL course(s). This course adds a different Intellectual dimension to the designated course(s). Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Honors Credit PHIL 3913 Existentialism (H) Prerequisites: Three credit hours of philosophy. Description: Selected writings and themes in the development of existentialism and related intellectual movements. Subjectivity, phenomenological description, hermeneutics, freedom and value; and such writers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Marcel and Buber. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy General Education and other Course Attributes: Humanities PHIL 3920 Contemporary Philosophical Problems Description: Selected contemporary problems and discussions. Offered for fixed credit, 3 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3
Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Philosophy PHIL 4003 Mathematical Logic and Computability
Prerequisites: PHIL 3003 or MATH 3613 or consent of instructor. Description: The basic metatheorems of first order logic: soundness, completeness, compactness, Löwenheim-Skolem theorem, undecidability of first order logic, Gödel's incompleteness theorem. Enumerability, diagonalization, formal systems, standard and nonstandard models, Gödel numberings, Turing machines, recursive functions, and evidence for Church's thesis. Same course as MATH 4003. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy
Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Philosophy
Powered by FlippingBook