PHIL 100. Logic (3). Study of correct reasoning. Sentential logic, informal fallacies, and certain paradigms of inductive reasoning. Nature of language, artificial and natural. (CAN PHIL 6)
PHIL 104. Asian Philosophy (3). Critically evaluate principal philosophies of China, India, and Japan. Compare and contrast with Western philosophical orientations. Asian thought as a creative proving ground for multiculturalism. DCG, GE.
PHIL 106. Moral Controversies (3). Major moral theories applied to contemporary issues such as: environmental ethics, abortion, discrimination, world hunger, the death penalty. (CAN PHIL 4)
PHIL 107. Introduction to Philosophy (3). Questions such as: What is knowledge? Is morality objective? Does God exist? What is beauty? Is there free will? (CAN PHIL 2)
PHIL 301. Reflections on the Arts (3). Theories of art as they emphasize or suppress one or more dimensions of artistic creation and aesthetic experience: form, feeling, realism, fantasy. Judgments of taste, style, and excellence.
PHIL 302 / WLDF 302. Environmental Ethics (3). Critique approaches to relationship between human beings and the environment. GE.
PHIL 303. Theories of Ethics (3). Ethical theories of Western philosophical tradition Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill. Contemporary metaethical concerns of definition and justification.
PHIL 304. Philosophy of Sex & Love (3). What is love? What sexual activities are natural or moral? Friendship, adultery, pornography, prostitution, sexual perversion, homosexuality, and premarital sex.
PHIL 306. Race, Racism & Philosophy (3). A philosophical study of the conceptual, metaphysical, moral, social and political issues surrounding race and racism. GE, DCG.
PHIL 309 / WLDF 309. Case Studies in Environmental Ethics (3). Human influence on distribution of world's fauna. Ethical perspectives. CWT. Prereq: completed lower division GE area B.
PHIL 309B. Perspectives: Humanities/ Science/Social Science (3). Critiques perspectives, modes of inquiry, and products of the humanities, biological and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and their relationships. CWT.
PHIL 351. 20th Century Philosophy: Selected Topics (3). Study of a major movement, school of thought, or philosopher of the 20th century, such as Logical Positivism, Pragmatism, Analytic, Postmodern, Continental, Process Philosophy, Dewey, Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, Sartre.
PHIL 355. Existentialism (3). Principal existential philosophers of 19th and 20th centuries, such as Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Sartre, Marcel, Buber.
PHIL 371. Contemporary Social & Political Philosophy (3). A critical study of the main contemporary Western theories of the ideal state and how these theories deal with such core political values as justice, liberty, equality, and community.
PHIL 380. History of Philosophy: Pre-Socratics through Aristotle (3). Critiques emergence of Western philosophical inquiry. Interrelatedness of nature and human nature. Origins of world views from pre-Socratics through Plato and Aristotle.
PHIL 382. History of Philosophy: Renaissance through the Rationalist (3). Philosophy in Age of Enlightenment. Begins with Renaissance thinkers, then focuses on theme (in Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) that truth and nature of reality are discovered through rational analysis, not empirical investigation.
PHIL 383. History of Philosophy: Empiricists & Kant (3). Works of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Culminates with Kant and his synthesis of empiricist and rationalist perspectives.
PHIL 384. History of Philosophy: 19th Century (3). Major philosophical problems in writings of Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and James or Peirce.
PHIL 385. History of Philosophy: China (3). Classic texts in Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and I Ching. Focus on unifying concepts amid differences. Compare to Western philosophies. China encountering multiculturalism from within and without.
PHIL 386. History of Philosophy: India (3). Classic themes of Indian philosophy. Selections from Rig Veda, Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, Buddhism, Jainism, and Shankara. India's approach to multiculturalism and gender issues.
PHIL 391. Seminar in Philosophy (1-3). 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. Rep.
PHIL 392. Experiential or Service Learning (1). Participation in 12-24 hours of designated activity with a reading and discussion component. Mandatory CR/NC.
PHIL 415. Symbolic Logic (3). Quantifiable logic, including the logic of relations; properties of axiomatic systems; modal logic and its extensions; many-valued logic. Prereq: PHIL 100 or IA.
PHIL 420. Contemporary Epistemology & Metaphysics (3). What exists? What are the basic categories of being? What does it mean to know? Are there different kinds or sources of knowing? Recommended preparation: PHIL 100.
PHIL 425. Philosophy of Science (3). Critique aims, assumptions, and norms of various sciences. Nature of satisfactory explanations, nature of theories, and their criteria of acceptability. Recommended preparation: PHIL 100.
PHIL 475 / WS 375. Postmodern Philosophies (3). 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 (1-3). Intensive study of a philosophical movement, philosophical problem, writings of a philosopher, or a subdiscipline (for example, philosophy of mind). Rep. Two of these seminars required for philosophy majors.
PHIL 499. Directed Study (1-2). Rep.
PHIL 680. Special Topics (1-3). Intensive study in selected philosophers and/or topics. Rep.
activ = activity section
(C) = may be concurrent
CAN = California articulation number (for a more complete explanation, see section 3 under Transfer Requirements).
coreq = corequisite(s)
CR/NC = credit/no credit grading
DA = department approval
DCG = diversity & common ground elective course
disc = discussion section
F, S, Su = fall, spring, summer. To help in long-range academic planning, these letters signify that a course is regularly offered in a fall, spring, or summer term.
GE = general education elective course
IA = instructor approval
lect = lecture section
prereq = prerequisite(s)
rep = may be repeated