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PHIL 100: Logic
A study of correct reasoning with emphasis on sentential logic, the informal
fallacies and certain paradigms of inductive reasoning; topics involving
the nature of language, artificial and natural.
PHIL 303: Theories of Ethics
An examination of ethical theories of the Western philosophical tradition,
e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill, which includes consideration
of contemporary meta-ethical concerns of definition and justification.
PHIL 380: History of Philosophy: Presocratics
Through Aristotle
A critical study of the emergence of Western philosophical inquiry. The
course focuses on the interrelatedness of nature and human nature, the
origins of world-views from the Presocratics through Plato and Aristotle.
PHIL 382: History of Philosophy: Renaissance
through the Rationalists
Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment. Begins with Renaissance thinkers
and then focuses on the theme in Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz that
truth and the nature of reality are discovered through rational analysis,
not empirical investigation.
PHIL 383: History of Philosophy: Empiricists
& Kant
Works of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, culminating in an examination of Kant
and his synthesis of empiricist and rationalist perspectives.
PHIL 384: History of Philosophy: 19th Century
An examination of major philosophical problems in selected writings of
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and James or Peirce.
PHIL 385: History of Philosophy: China
A study of classic texts in Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and the I
Ching, focusing on the concepts amid differences with comparative reference
to Western philosophies. China encounters multiculturalism from within
and without.
PHIL 386: History of Philosophy: India
An introduction to classical themes of Indian philosophy. Selections from
the Rig Veda, Upanishads, Bhagavadgita, Shankara, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Explores Indian's approach to multi-culturalism and gender issues.
PHIL 420: Contemporary Epistemology and Metaphysics
Explores questions like "What does it mean to know?", "Are there different
kinds or sources of knowing?", "What exists and what are the basic categories
of being?".
PHIL 425: Philosophy of Science
A critical examination of the basic aims, assumptions, and norms of the
sciences. Topics: nature of satisfactory explanations, nature of theories
and their criteria of acceptability, etc.
Two Philosophy 485 courses:
PHIL 485: Seminar in Philosophy
Intensive study of a philosophical movement, a philosophical problem,
the writings of a philosopher, or a subdiscipline. Recent seminars have
included Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Thomas Kuhn,
Deconstruction, Emerson & Thoreau, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Death,
Madness & Human Nature, Animal Ethics, and Analytic Philosophy.
Plus 6 units of upper division elective credit from Philosophy Department
courses (from the 1-2 unit graded 391's, up to 3 units may be counted
toward elective req.) listed below:
PHIL 301: Reflections on the Arts
Various theories of art as they emphasize or suppress one or more of the
varied dimensions of artistic creation and aesthetic experience: form,
feeling, realism, fantasy; judgments of taste, style, and excellence.
PHIL 302: Environmental Ethics
Critiques various approaches to the relationship between human beings
and the environment.
PHIL 304: Philosophy of Sex & Love
What is love? What sexual activities are natural or moral? Friendship,
adultery, pornography, prostitution, sexual perversion, homosexuality,
and premarital sex.
PHIL 305: The Fractured Universe of Ideas
Investigate various philosophies (historic Western, non-Western, and contemporary)
focusing on themes that claim to be universal (problems of self, knowledge,
and ethics).
PHIL 306: Race, Racism & Philosophy
A philosophical study of the conceptual, metaphysical, moral, social and
political issues surrounding race and racism.
PHIL 309 / WLDF 309: Case Studies in Environmental
Ethics
Human influence on distribution of world's fauna. Ethical perspectives.
Prerequisite: completed lower division GE area B.
PHIL 309B: Perspectives: Humanities/ Science/Social
Science
Critiques perspectives, modes of inquiry, and products of the
humanities, biological and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences,
and their relationships.
PHIL 340: Philosophy Explores the Sacred
Reflections on topics such as: religious experience, mysticism, faith,
myth, symbol, evil and death. Is it possible to prove that God exists?
How do feminist theology and ecotheology interpret religious experience?
PHIL 355: Existentialism
Principal existential philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries, such
as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Marcel, and Buber.
PHIL 391: Seminar in Philosophy (Must
be approved by Department for credit)
Intensive study of a philosophical movement, philosophical problem, writings
of a philosopher, or a subdiscipline (for example, philosophy of mind).
Elective credit for philosophy majors requires prior departmental approval.
May be repeated.
PHIL 415: Intermediate Logic
Quantifiable logic, including the logic of relations; properties of axiomatic
systems; modal logic and its extensions; many-valued logic.
PHIL 475: Postmodern Philosophies
Postmodern and feminist critiques of traditional Western philosophy. Issues
include whether all knowledge is relative, whether rationality is sexist,
whether all knowledge must be deconstructed. Thinkers include Derrida,
Foucault, Irigaray.
PHIL 485: Seminar in Philosophy
Intensive study of a philosophical movement, a philosophical problem,
the writings of a philosopher, or a subdiscipline. Recent seminars have
included Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Thomas Kuhn,
Deconstruction, Emerson & Thoreau, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Death,
Madness & Human Nature, Animal Ethics, Analytic Philosophy, Heidegger,
Justice, War & Terrorism, and Philosophy v.s. Literature.
The foregoing course requirements total 42 semester units. A total of
120 units is needed to graduate, where approximately 48 of those units
will be in general education and the remainder can be elective units,
a second major, etc.
Independent reading groups ( PHIL 391's) with individual professors are
common, giving students the opportunity to work closely with faculty on
mutually interesting topics. Some topics of past independent studies are:
Aristotle, Wittgenstein's The Blue and Brown Books, Modal logic, Meta-logic,
Medical ethics, Study of the German text of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason,
Eco-Feminism, Genetic Engineering & Ethics, Seinfeld & Philosophy.
Please see the HSU
online catelog for
a complete listing of the Philosophy Department's offerings at HSU.
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