Term:  

Spring Quarter

Dept Course No and Title Instructor
PHILOS (S24)1  INTRO TO PHILOSOPHYCOOPER, R.
A selection of philosophical problems, concepts, and methods, e.g., free will, cause and substance, personal identity, the nature of philosophy itself. Materials fee.

(IV)
PHILOS (S24)2  PUZZLES & PARADOXESKOSLOW, A.
Introduction to the formal tools needed to comprehend and evaluate philosophical arguments and theoretical reasoning in general.

(IV and VB ).
PHILOS (S24)4  INTRO TO ETHICSJAMES, A.
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According to Aristotle, ethical virtue is similar to athletic and musical virtue: it’s an exercise of skill. This course considers several ways that “know how” bears on philosophical questions of ethics, including: Why be moral? What is it to be happy? How is morality related to freedom and control in action? What is the value and future of work and leisure, especially in view of climate and technological change?


(IV)
PHILOS (S24)5  CONTEMP MORAL PRBLMDEAN, M.
Selected moral issues of current interest, e.g., abortion, sexual morality, euthanasia, capital punishment, reverse discrimination, civil disobedience, or violence.

(IV)
PHILOS (S24)13  HIST CONTEM PHILOSBONCOMPAGNI, A.
A study of recent philosophical developments in Anglo-American and Continental philosophy.

Prerequisite: Recommended: PHILOS 12.

(IV)
PHILOS (S24)22  INTRO LAW & SOCIETYHELMREICH, J.
What constitutes a legal system? What does it mean for a society to have a system as a part of the social fabric? Examines the social status of law and its use as a tool for fashioning society.

(III)
PHILOS (S24)30  INTR SYMBOLIC LOGICWEHMEIER, K.
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PHILOS (S24)31  INTRO INDUCT LOGICMAY, A.
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PHILOS (S24)101  INTR TO METAPHYSICSKOSLOW, A.
Imagine making a list of everything that exists. What would be on it? Biology studies living things. Astronomy studies celestial phenomena. Mathematics deals with numbers. These disciplines all study something, but none of them study everything. You might want a list of everything. Granted, you probably don’t want a list of every living beetle, or even one with entries like insect or star. But you might want a sufficiently general catalogue of the kinds of things that exist which doesn’t leave anything out, or list anything twice. Matter is on the list. What about collections of matter, like tables? Are colors on the list (in addition to surface reflectance properties)? Are causal relationships? Are numbers on the list? Are minds? Are economies? Are races? Is Harry Potter on the list? Are your children you might someday have on the list? This course investigates how to figure out what is on the list of things that exist. That is, this is a course in what is called “ontology.” We will consider some familiar sorts of things and the arguments for, and against, putting them on the list. To some degree, we will also consider the meta-ontological question of whether there is an objective fact of the matter about what exists, and what is at stake in disputes about the nature of existence.
PHILOS (S24)103  INTR TO MORAL PHILHELMREICH, J.
A study of one or more of the problems of contemporary moral philosophy, e.g., the nature of justice, liberalism versus conservatism, happiness and its relation to virtue and right conduct, the objectivity of moral standards.
PHILOS (S24)105C  INCOMPLETENESSMEADOWS, T.
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PHILOS (S24)110  PLATOPERIN, C.
A close reading of Plato's Republic.

Repeatability: May be taken for credit 2 times as topics vary.
PHILOS (S24)115  CARNAP TO SELLARSHEIS, J.
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PHILOS (S24)117  JAIN HIS PHIL ETHICDONALDSON, B.
Selected topics in the philosophies of Asia, e.g. Jainism, Buddhism, Yoga, Vedanta, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.
PHILOS (S24)123  PROCESS PHILOSOPHYDONALDSON, B.
Critical examination of concepts involved in the theological literature, e.g., the nature and existence of God, miracles, the problem of evil, divine command theories in ethics.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.
PHILOS (S24)140  SCIENCE & RELIGIONMANCHAK, J.
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PHILOS (S24)141C  QUANTUM MECHANICSBARRETT, J.
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PHILOS (S24)144  TPS PHIL SOC WORLDGILBERT, M.
Selected topics in the philosophy of the social sciences, e.g.: Is their goal to understand behavior or to predict and control it? Are they normative and the natural sciences not? Do they incorporate philosophical doctrines about language and mind?.

Repeatability: May be taken for credit for 4 units as topics vary.

Same as LPS 144.