Spring Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| PHILOS (S25) | 1 INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY | O'CONNELL, R. |
| An introduction to some of the core themes and topics of philosophy, e.g., knowledge of the external world and other minds, free will, the nature of justice and the meaning of life. (IV) | ||
| PHILOS (S25) | 2 PUZZLES & PARADOXES | KOSLOW, A. |
| Introduction to the formal tools needed to comprehend and evaluate philosophical arguments and theoretical reasoning in general. (IV and VB ). | ||
| PHILOS (S25) | 4 INTRO TO ETHICS | JAMES, A. |
| ONLINE 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 (S25) | 5 CONTEMP MORAL PRBLM | PEDERNESCHI, A. |
| Selected moral issues of current interest, e.g., abortion, sexual morality, euthanasia, capital punishment, reverse discrimination, civil disobedience, or violence. (IV) | ||
| PHILOS (S25) | 30 INTR SYMBOLIC LOGIC | WEHMEIER, K. |
| Visit the Logic and Philosophy of Science website for more information. | ||
| PHILOS (S25) | 31 INTRO INDUCT LOGIC | HUTTEGGER, S. |
| Visit the Logic and Philosophy of Science website for more information. | ||
| PHILOS (S25) | 105C INCOMPLETENESS | MEADOWS, T. |
| Visit the Logic and Philosophy of Science website for more information. | ||
| PHILOS (S25) | 122 REASON, MIND AND NATURE | O'CONNELL, R. |
Human beings are rational: we think, speak and act in light of reasons which we take to justify what we think, say and do. Yet we are also a part of the natural world, a world that is explicable in terms of natural laws and material causes. The question of how to understand the human mind and its place in nature has therefore long exercised the philosophical imagination: How does mind relate to physical matter? What is the difference between explaining something in terms of reasons and explaining something in terms of causes? Can the mind’s characteristic activities be explained through the natural sciences, or are they irreducible to the natural laws presupposed in scientific explanations? We shall tackle these and related questions with the aid of both historical and contemporary readings. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. | ||
| PHILOS (S25) | 123 PROCESS PHILOSOPHY | DONALDSON, 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 (S25) | 130 ANIMAL ETHICS | DONALDSON, B. |
| Selected topics in ethics. Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. | ||
| PHILOS (S25) | 163 SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY | PEDERNESCHI, A. |
| Social epistemology is specifically concerned with questions concerning knowledge and justification that arise in a social context. Topics discussed include testimony, experts, disagreement, group knowledge, feminist epistemology, legal epistemology, and epistemology of education. | ||