Philosophy (PHILOS) 1 PHILOS 3 The Nature of Mind 4 Units Philosophy (PHILOS) Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2021 Courses Introduction to the philosophy of mind. Topics to be considered may include the relation between mind and body; the structure of action; the Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] nature of desires and beliefs; the role of the unconscious. PHILOS R1B Reading and Composition The Nature of Mind: Read More [+] Through Philosophy 4 Units Hours & Format Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020 Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Training in writing expository prose in conjunction with reading discussion per week philosophical texts. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per Reading and Composition Through Philosophy: Read More [+] week Rules & Requirements Additional Details Prerequisites: R1A offered by any department, or an equivalent course Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Hours & Format The Nature of Mind: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week PHILOS 4 Knowledge and Its Limits 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2018, Additional Details Spring 2016 Introduction to the theory of knowledge. Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Knowledge and Its Limits: Read More [+] Grading/Final exam status: Alternative to final exam. Hours & Format Reading and Composition Through Philosophy: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week PHILOS 2 Individual Morality and Social Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per Justice 4 Units week Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session Additional Details Introduction to ethical and political philosophy. Individual Morality and Social Justice: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Knowledge and Its Limits: Read Less [-] discussion per week Summer: PHILOS 5 Science and Human Understanding 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week 4 Units 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2018 Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Additional Details Science and Human Understanding: Read More [+] Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. discussion per week Individual Morality and Social Justice: Read Less [-] Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Science and Human Understanding: Read Less [-] 2 Philosophy (PHILOS) PHILOS 6 Man, God, and Society in Western PHILOS 9 Introduction to Feminist Literature 4 Units Philosophy 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2016, Fall Terms offered: Fall 1999, Summer 1996 10 Week Session, Spring 1993 2013 This course is an introduction to key issues in feminist philosophy. The Philosophical issues as expressed in poetry, drama, and the novel. This first part of the course focuses on building up a toolbox of important course will compare and contrast the Greek, Medieval, and modern feminist concepts. In the second unit of the course, we will consider worlds, as reflected in their greatest literature, with special emphasis on several major approaches to thinking about sex- and gender-based the role of the community in reconciling conflicts between sub-groups in oppression. Finally, we will bring our knowledge of those approaches society and the individual's ability to understand and control his own life. to bear on a number of special topics. Throughout the course, we will We will also follow man's realization that the changing answers to these focus on the ways in which questions about the nature, status, rights, and questions are themselves self-interpretations. abilities of women intersect with questions about race, class, sexuality, Man, God, and Society in Western Literature: Read More [+] coloniality, and disability. Hours & Format Introduction to Feminist Philosophy: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Man, God, and Society in Western Literature: Read Less [-] Formerly known as: Philosophy 09 PHILOS 7 Existentialism in Literature and Film 4 Units Introduction to Feminist Philosophy: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2015 PHILOS 10 Comparative Ethics 4 Units Christian, agnostic, and atheistic existentialism as expressed in the works Terms offered: Fall 2015 of Dostoyevsky, Melville, Kafka, Antonioni, Goddard, etc. A comparative study of topics in Chinese and Western ethical traditions. Existentialism in Literature and Film: Read More [+] Topics include love, compassion, benevolence; rituals, filial obligations, Hours & Format the individual and the family; pride, shame, guilt; conscientiousness, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of courage, wisdom; trustworthiness, forms of integrity; concepts of the discussion per week self; self-cultivation; human nature, destiny, the cosmic order; the concept of morality, morality and tradition. The course will conclude Summer: with a discussion of metaethical issues concerning the confrontation 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week between rival ethical traditions and methodological issues in the study of 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week comparative ethics. Comparative Ethics: Read More [+] Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details Existentialism in Literature and Film: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Shun Comparative Ethics: Read Less [-] Philosophy (PHILOS) 3 PHILOS 11 Introduction to the Philosophy of PHILOS W12A Introduction to Logic 4 Units Religion 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Summer 2020 8 Week Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 Session, Summer 2019 8 Week Session A survey of basic issues in contemporary philosophy of religion, exploring Intended as a first course in logic for students with no previous arguments about God's existence, the status of religious experiences and exposure to the subject, the course treats symbolic logic. Students beliefs, how souls might interact with bodies, and the relationship of God will learn to formalize reasoning in symbolic languages with precisely to morality. defined meanings and rules of inference. Symbolic logic is by nature Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion: Read More [+] a mathematical subject, but the course does not presuppose any Hours & Format prior coursework in mathematics—only an openness to mathematical reasoning. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of The course concentrates on three systems of symbolic logic: discussion per week propositional logic (or sentential logic); syllogistic logic; and predicate logic (or first-order logic). Students from philosophy, mathematics, Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per computer science, and linguistics will find important connections between week symbolic logic and their other coursework. Introduction to Logic: Read More [+] Additional Details Rules & Requirements Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate Credit Restrictions: Students can remove a deficient grade in Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. PHILOS W12A by passing PHILOS 12A. Students who pass PHILOS 12A receive no credit for passing PHILOS W12A. Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion: Read Less [-] Hours & Format PHILOS 12A Introduction to Logic 4 Units Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture and 4 hours of web- Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week based discussion per week Session Syntax, semantics, and proof theory of sentential and predicate logic. Online: This is an online course. Introduction to Logic: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Additional Details Credit Restrictions: Students can remove a deficient grade in Subject/Course Level: Philosophy/Undergraduate PHILOS 12A by passing PHILOS W12A. Students who pass PHILOS W12A receive