PHILOSOPHY (PHIL) PHIL 2045. Introduction to Logic. 3 Credits. Introduction to informal logic, scientific argument, and formal Explanation of Course Numbers logic. The informal logic component focuses on fallacies of reasoning and practical applications of logic. The formal • Courses in the 1000s are primarily introductory logic component focuses on translation from English into undergraduate courses propositional logic, truth tables, and proofs in propositional • Those in the 2000s to 4000s are upper-division logic. undergraduate courses that also may be taken for graduate PHIL 2111. History of Ancient Philosophy. 3 Credits. credit with permission and additional work assigned History of Western philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the • Those in the 6000s and 8000s are for master’s, doctoral, Stoics (sixth century BCE to first century CE). Major emphasis and professional-level students on the writings of Plato and Aristotle. Among themes to • The 6000s are open to advanced undergraduate students be covered: knowledge and reality, political and moral with approval of the instructor and the dean or advising philosophy. office PHIL 2111W. History of Ancient Philosophy. 3 Credits. PHIL 1000. Dean's Seminar. 3 Credits. History of Western philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the The Dean’s Seminars provide Columbian College first- Stoics (sixth century BCE to first century CE). Major emphasis year students focused scholarship on specific intellectual on the writings of Plato and Aristotle. Among themes to challenges. Topics vary by semester; see department for more be covered: knowledge and reality, political and moral details. philosophy. Includes a significant engagement in writing as a form of critical inquiry and scholarly expression to satisfy the PHIL 1051. Introduction to Philosophy. 3 Credits. WID requirement. Readings from major philosophers and study of their positions on the most basic questions of human life. Topics include such PHIL 2112. History of Modern Philosophy. 3 Credits. issues as: What is justice? What is knowledge? What is reality? History of Western philosophy of the 16th through 18th Does God exist? What is the mind? Do humans have free will?. centuries; Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism from the scientific revolution through the Enlightenment; major PHIL 1062. Philosophy and Film. 3 Credits. emphasis on Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Philosophical problems and theories of perception, meaning, Hume, and Kant. Prerequisite: PHIL 1051 . personal identity, and moral agency and their illustration in the context of cinema. Cinema and its derivatives (TV, PHIL 2124. Philosophies of Disability. 3 Credits. video) as prime routes to experience of the natural and social Disability presents an intense and interesting challenge to worlds in an age of communication. Readings in classical and traditional philosophical presuppositions and principles. This contemporary philosophy and in film theory; screening of a course examines various philosophical approaches to disability series of films. —historical, individual, and medical paradigms as well as those that rely on frameworks of social or human rights. Same As: PHIL 1099. Variable Topics. 1-36 Credits. PHIL 2124W. PHIL 1153. The Meaning of Mind. 3 Credits. PHIL 2124W. Philosophies of Disability. 3 Credits. Introductory course for students with no background in Disability presents an intense and interesting challenge to philosophy or the sciences of the mind. The central questions, traditional philosophical presuppositions and principles. This assumptions, and hypotheses about the human mind. The course examines various philosophical approaches to disability nature of thought, consciousness, and self; knowledge of other —historical, individual, and medical paradigms as well as those minds; implications of the sciences of the mind for freedom of that rely on frameworks of social or human rights. Includes a the will and responsibility; and the relationship between the significant engagement in writing as a form of critical inquiry mind and the brain. and scholarly expression to satisfy the WID requirement. Same PHIL 1193. Introduction to Existentialism. 3 Credits. As: PHIL 2124. The philosophical themes of selfhood, mortality, authenticity, PHIL 2125. Philosophy of Race and Gender. 3 Credits. and ethical responsibility from an existentialist perspective, Differing theoretical perspectives on how race, sexuality, including the writings of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Nietzsche, gender, class, and ethnicity inform (and re-form) individual as Camus, and Sartre. The place of existentialism in the history of well as group identities; consequences of being marginalized philosophy. because one is associated with an allegedly inferior race, sex, and/or gender. PHIL 2125W. Philosophy of Race and Gender. 3 Credits. A theoretical examination of the bodily, social, discursive, and political effects of patriarchy, racism, and classism. Includes a significant engagement in writing as a form of critical inquiry and scholarly expression to satisfy the WID requirement. 1 Philosophy (PHIL) PHIL 2131. Ethics: Theory and Applications. 3 Credits. PHIL 2281. Philosophy of the Environment. 3 Credits. Examination of leading ethical theories (e.g., utilitarianism, Three models of environmental sustainability: the current deontology, virtue ethics), and methodology in ethics. paradigm in economic and cultural thinking (neoclassical Engagement with contemporary problems. economics); redistribution of resources toward greater global PHIL 2132. Social and Political Philosophy. 3 Credits. equity (a macroeconomic perspective); and de-growth in Philosophical theories about how economic, political, legal, the developed economies (ecological economics). The and cultural institutions should be arranged. Topics include the models offer different perspectives on what environmental meaning and significance of liberty, the legitimate functions sustainability means and how it can impact the cultural, of government, the nature of rights, the moral significance of religious, moral, metaphysical, and existential situation. social inequality, and the meaning of democracy. PHIL 3099. Variable Topics. 1-12 Credits. PHIL 2132W. Social and Political Philosophy. 3 Credits. PHIL 3100. Selected Topics. 3 Credits. Philosophical theories about how economic, political, legal, Topic announced in the Schedule of Classes. May be repeated and cultural institutions should be arranged. Topics include the for credit provided the topic differs. meaning and significance of liberty, the legitimate functions PHIL 3100W. Selected Topics. 3 Credits. of government, the nature of rights, the moral significance of Topic announced in the Schedule of Classes. May be repeated social inequality, and the meaning of democracy. Includes a for credit provided the topic differs. Includes a significant significant engagement in writing as a form of critical inquiry engagement in writing as a form of critical inquiry and scholarly and scholarly expression to satisfy the WID requirement. expression to satisfy the WID requirement. PHIL 2133. Philosophy and Nonviolence. 3 Credits. PHIL 3113. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. 3 Credits. Violence and nonviolence in the personal and social struggle European philosophy of the nineteenth century, with major for meaningful, just, and peaceful existence; philosophical emphasis on Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and foundations of pacifism and nonviolent resistance in the Nietzsche. Prerequisite: PHIL 1051. thought of Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, and others; philosophical inquiry into war, terrorism, genocide, and ethnic conflict, as PHIL 3113W. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. 3 Credits. well as human rights, humanitarian intervention, and just war European philosophy of the 19th century, with major emphasis theory. on Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Includes a significant engagement in writing as a form of critical PHIL 2134. Philosophy of Human Rights. 3 Credits. inquiry and scholarly expression to satisfy the WID requirement. Conceptual, ethical, and theoretical analyses of human rights Prerequisite: PHIL 1051. Same As: PHIL 3113. with emphasis on the justification of human rights, the debate over cultural relativism, and the application of human rights PHIL 3121. Symbolic Logic. 3 Credits. norms in domestic and global contexts. Analysis and assessment of deductive arguments, using propositional, predicate, and other logics; philosophical basis PHIL 2135. Ethics in Business and the Professions. 3 and implications of logical analysis; metatheory of logic; modal Credits. and non-standard logics. Prerequisites: Permission of the Ethical theories and basic concepts for analysis of moral issues instructor. arising in business and in professional practice. PHIL 3142. Philosophy of Law. 3 Credits. PHIL 2136. Contemporary Issues in Ethics. 3 Credits. Systematic examination of fundamental concepts of law and Introduction to a range of debates in applied ethics, jurisprudence; special emphasis on the relationship between including both classic debates concerning topics such as the law and morality. permissibility of abortion, animal treatment, and suicide as well as more current debates concerning our interactions with PHIL 3142W. Philosophy of Law. 3 Credits. the environment and our obligations to the poor in a global Systematic examination of fundamental concepts of law and context. jurisprudence; special emphasis on the relationship between law and morality. Includes