PHIL 100 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Lect 10:00 MW/Disc 10:00 or 11:00 F/Instructor: Lee
Introduction to some central problems and methods of philosophy, through readings of classic and modern texts. We will discuss issues in philosophy of religion, theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, and ethics. Required texts: Elliott Sober, Core Questions in Philosophy.

PHIL 100 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Lect 10:00 MW/Disc 10:00 or 11:00 F/Instructor: to be announced
(Catalog description) A survey of traditional problems concerning the existence and nature of God, freedom, justification, morality, etc. Readings from historical or contemporary philosophers. Required texts: to be announced.

PHIL 100 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Lect 12:00 MW/Disc 11:00 or 12:00 F/Instructor: Schechtman
In this course we will try to get a sense of what philosophy is by looking in detail at several different philosophical debates. Topics will include: freedom of the will, the existence of God, state and society, and theories of knowledge. Course work will include two short papers, a mid- term, a final, and class participation. Required text: John Burr and Milton Goldinger, Philosophy and Contemporary Issues.

PHIL 100 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Lect 11:00 TR/Disc 10:00 or 11:00F/Instructor: Sinkler
The course will provide a general introduction to some of the central problems in philosophy: What do we know and how do we know it? Does a supremely perfect being exist? Do we have free will? What is the nature of morality? Readings will be from classic and contemporary sources. Required text: John Burr and Milton Goldinger, Philosophy and Contemporary Issues.

PHIL 100 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Lect-D 5:30-8:00 M/Instructor: to be announced
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Lect-D 5:30-8:00 M/Instructor: to be announced
(Catalog description) A survey of traditional problems concerning the existence and nature of God, freedom, justification, morality, etc. Readings from historical or contemporary philosophers. Required texts: to be announced.

PHIL 102 INTRODUCTORY LOGIC
Lect 10:00 TR/Disc 10:00 or 11:00 F/Instructor: Moore
We are often presented with arguments designed to convince us to believe certain things, or to act in certain ways. Most of the time we do pretty well at sorting out the bad arguments from the good ones, but we may not have a very clear idea of exactly what makes an argument good or bad. In this course we will develop an elementary formal language in which many arguments can be symbolized and analyzed, and will study certain basic semantical and syntactical tools---truth-tables and derivations, respectively---by means of which such logical concepts as validity, entailment and equivalence can be precisely defined. Required: Merrie Bergmann, James Moor, and Jack Nelson, The Logic Book.

PHIL 102 INTRODUCTORY LOGIC
Lect 11:00 MW/Disc 10:00 or 11:00 or 12:00 F/Instructor: Hylton
An introduction to the vocabulary, methods, and techniques of elementary modern logic. Required Text: Virginia Klenk, Understanding Symbolic Logic.

PHIL 102 INTRODUCTORY LOGIC
Lect-D 5:30 - 8:00 T/Instructor: to be announced
(Catalog description) Sentential logic: representation of English using truth-functional connectives, truth table methods, natural deduction techniques. Introduction to predicate logic: representation of English using quantifiers. Decision methods for monadic predicate logic. Required texts: to be announced.

PHIL 103 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS
Lect 11:00 MW/Disc 10:00 or 11:00 or12:00 F/Instructor: Hilbert
Some things people do are right, some are wrong. Other actions are uplifting, and yet others disgusting. In this course we will look at some of the theories that have been developed by philosophers to explain and systematize these kinds of evaluations. We will attempt to apply these ideas to various ordinary situations and discuss their possible relevance to some current ethical controversies, in particular, human cloning. Course requirements: two 4-6 page papers, midterm, final, section participation. Required texts: To be announced

PHIL 103 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS
Lect 9:30-10:20 TR/Disc 9:00 or 10:00 F/Instructor: Laden
Almost everyone agrees that racism and sexism are wrong. But what makes an act racist or sexist, and just what sorts of harms do racism and sexism inflict on their victims? How we answer these questions depends on how we understand the way in which race and gender function in our society, as well as how we think we ought to treat others. This course will focus on topics of racism and sexism, and ask what sorts of moral obligations we have both in general and in the particular context of living in a world marked by racism and sexism. Our aim will be to think more clearly about our moral obligations, but also to think more clearly about how to think about our obligations. Required texts: Readings will be from a variety of contemporary sources and will be available in a course packet.

PHIL 103 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS
Lect 5:30-7:00 PM W/Disc 7:00 PM W/Instructor: to be announced
(Catalogue Description) Surveys attempts to answer central questions of ethics: What acts are right? What things are good? How do we know this? Required texts: to be announced.

PHIL 104 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL/POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Lect 9:00 MW/Disc 11:00 or 12:00 F/Instructor: Fleischacker
Imagine yourself trying to come up with a mode of government for a new country, one that you hope would be stable, efficient, and that would make for a fairer and more decent society than any other the world has yet seen. What theory of human nature, and of the goals of human life, would you adopt? How would you define "justice"? What rights would you proclaim? James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and the other founders of the United States found themselves in very much this position, of inventing a new mode of government for a new country. We live, that is, in a country whose government was explicitly formed by political philosophy, by people who were consciously thinking about what government is for, what rights individuals should retain against government, what "justice" means, and the like. Of course, while they may have thought deeply and well about some questions, they dealt very badly with others-how to end slavery, above all. But what they did represents extremely well why political philosophy is important, and how it can affect concrete political decisions. This introduction to political philosophy will therefore focus on the questions central to the founding of the United States, working outwards from sections of the Constitution to the philosophical writings that inspired those sections, and to the philosophical issues they raise. We will spend time, in particular, on property rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. Required texts will include works by Plato, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Required text: to be announced.

PHIL 115 DEATH
Lect 12:00 MW/Disc 11:00 or 12:00 F/Instructor: to be announced
This course will focus on two central questions: (1) Can reflecting on our own mortality make our lives more meaningful. (2) Is there empirical evidence suggestive of afterlife? Required texts: to be announced.

PHIL 116 MEDICAL ETHICS
Lect 11:00 MW /Disc 11:00 F/Instructor:
Chastain This is an introduction to biomedical ethics. We will examine some moral and public policy issues connected with health care, including abortion, euthanasia, mercy-killing and assisted suicide; decision-making by or for patients, refusal of medical treatment by competent patients, informed consent, and decision-making for the incompetent; paternalism, autonomy, and patients' access to information; privacy and confidentiality; experimentation on human subjects. The emphasis will be on the analysis of concepts and principles as they apply to particular cases, especially controversial ones. Required Textbook: Ronald Munson, Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics.

PHIL 202 PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY
Lect 9:30-10:15 TR TR/Disc 10:15-10:45 TR/Instructor: Hilbert
The course will have two main and interrelated themes. First will be the mind-body problem: the question of the relation between psychological descriptions and explanations and descriptions and explanations drawn from the physical and biological sciences. Second will be the conceptual structure of psychology itself: the analysis of the concepts and techniques used in psychological explanation. In both cases we will be concerned with both common-sense psychology and scientific psychology. Course requirements: two eight page papers, final, and class participation. Required texts: Brian Cooney, The Place of Mind. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy; or junior or senior standing in the physical, biological, or social sciences; or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 203 METAPHYSICS
Lect 12:30-1:15 TR/Disc 1:15-1:45 TR/Instructor: Edelberg
Selected topics in contemporary western metaphysics. We will consider alternative viewpoints on questions such as these: what is truth? are any human choices genuinely free? is everything that exists purely material? what are numbers? can the existence of God be proved? Our approach will place a high value on logical rigor and clarity of thought and expression. Required text: to be announced. Prerequisite: one previous course in philosophy.

PHIL 204 INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Lect 2:00-2:45 TR/Disc 1:45-3:15 TR/Instructor: to be announced
The nature of scientific observation, explanation, and theories; confirmation of laws and theories; the relation between the physical and social sciences. Required texts: to be announced. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy; or junior or senior standing in the physical, biological, or social sciences; or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 210 SYMBOLIC LOGIC
Lect 2:00-2:45 TR/Disc 2:45-3:15 TR/Instructor: Jarrett
This course provides a review of truth-functional logic (the main focus of Philosophy 102, which is a prerequisite for this course) and a thorough treatment of first-order predicate logic ("quantification theory") with identity. We will develop a system of natural deduction for predicate logic, and we will cover some more advanced topics as time permits. The text for the course is Understanding Symbolic Logic (3rd edition), by Virginia Klenk. Requirements for the course include problem sets, a midterm exam, and a final exam. Grades will be computed by assigning to these three components the following approximate weights: problem sets 30%; midterm 30%; and final 40%. Required texts: Virginia Klenk, Understanding Symbolic Logic. Prerequisite: Phil 102; a grade of B or better in Phil 102 is recommended.

PHIL 220 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY I: PLATO AND HIS PREDECESSORS
Lect 12:00 MW/Disc 12:00 F/Instructor: to be announced
(Catalogue description) Same as Classics 220. Introduction to Plato and his predecessors in the ancient period. It is recommended that Philosophy 220 and 221 be taken as a sequence in successive terms. Required texts: to be announced. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 223 HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY I: DESCARTES AND HIS SUCCESSORS
Lect 11:00-11:45 TR/Disc 11:45-12:15 TR/Instructor: Downing
Descartes attempted to develop a novel physics, metaphysics, and epistemology. In doing so, he fundamentally affected the history of western philosophy by framing problems that his successors continued (and continue) to grapple with. This course will examine the varying solutions posed by Descartes, Malebranche, Leibniz, and Berkeley (and perhaps others) to a range of problems including the nature of matter/body, self-knowledge, the relation between the human mind and the human body, causation and the laws of nature, the existence of God and God's role in the world, and free will. Required texts: to be announced. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 230 TOPICS IN ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Lect 2:00-2:45 TR/Disc 2:45-3:15 TR/Instructor: to be announced
Survey of major topics in ethical theory and political philosophy. Emphasis varies. Required texts: to be announced. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor. Phil 103 or 109 or 112 or 116 is recommended.

PHIL 234 PHILOSOPHY AND FILM
Lect 2:00-3:30 TR/Disc 3:30-4:30 TR/Instructor: Schechtman
Many longstanding and difficult philosophical questions are also raised in a more lighthearted (and sometimes more entertaining) way in film. In this class we will view recent popular films which treat important philosophical issues while reading some of the traditional philosophical discussion of the same questions. Our goals will be first, to get a broader and more intuitive of the relevant philosophical questions by viewing them from two perspectives; second, to gain a better understanding of the way in which these issues impact our lives; and third, to compare and contrast their treatment in film and philosophical argument. Philosophical topics discussed will include free will, skepticism, personal identity, the mind/body problem. Movies will include The Matrix, Bladerunner, Total Recall, Dark City, Sliding Doors, The Man with Two Brains, The Net. Philosophical readings will come from a variety of sources, historical and modern, including: Descartes, Putnam, Parfit, and Shoemaker. Written work will involve short quizzes/reaction papers throughout the term and two papers (5-7 pages). Required text: Course Packet from the copy center.

PHIL 241 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Lect 12:00 MW /Disc 12:00 F/Instructor: Chastain
We will study classic works on religion written by three great philosophers: Saint Augustine, David Hume, and William James. These works will be examined in their historical context and also analyzed with a view towards contemporary issues in philosophy and religion. We will consider our authors' opinions about the nature of divinity and the supernatural in monotheism and polytheism; revelation and authority in religion; faith and mystical experience; whether the existence of divine beings (one God or many gods) can be proved by rational arguments; miracles and prophecy; concepts of the soul and of survival after death. Required text: Confessions, Saint Augustine (translated by Henry Chadwick); Augustine, Henry Chadwick; Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume; The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 404 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Lect-D 2:00-3:15 TR /Instructor: Moore
Science plays a central role in our understanding of, and in our dealings with, the natural world. Yet as soon as we ask ourselves just what scienceis, or how it gives us knowledge of the world, we find ourselves confronted with deep and difficult philosophical questions. This course provides an overview of some of the main issues in the philosophy of science, including: confirmation, explanation, the status of theoretical entities, and the nature of scientific change. We will study texts in the once-dominant tradition of logical empiricism as well as key works of post-positivist philosophy of science. Required texts: to be announced. Prerequisite: Phil 102 or Phil 210 and one 200-level course in philosophy; or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 416 METALOGIC I
Lect-D 9:30 - 10:45 TR/Instructor: Hart
We will review the syntax and semantics of quantification theory with and without identity. The main focus of the course will be a proof of the completeness of these theories, and related results like the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem. Required texts: Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Elliott Mendelson. Prerequisite: Phil. 210 or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 422 MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Lect-D 12:30-1:15 TR/Instructor: Sinkler
The course will follow the development of philosophy in the Latin West from the beginning of the Christian era through the 15th Century. The emphasis will be on metaphysics, including philosophical theology, in the work of authors such as Augustine, Anslem, and Aquinas. Required texts: Kaufmann and Baird, eds., Medieval Philosophy; David Knowles, The Evolution of Medieval Thought. Prerequisite: Phil 220 or 221, or 420 or 421, or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 426 ANALYSIS AND LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
Lect-D 1:00 MWF/Instructor: Hylton
Our concern is with twentieth-century analytic philosophy, especially the more empiricist and scientifically-oriented aspects. We shall selectively discuss the development of this tradition, emphasizing the role of modern logic, the issue of the a priori, and the status of philosophy itself. (To some extent our emphases will be determined by the interests of the class.) We shall read one essay by Frege, but most of our reading will be from the work of Russell, of the Logical Positivists (especially Schlick and Carnap), and Quine. Required Texts: Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, and Lectures on the Philosophy of Logical Atomism. Recommended prerequisite: students should have taken Philosophy 210, or be taking it concurrently, or have equivalent preparation in quantification theory; they should, in addition, have taken at least two non-logic courses in Philosophy (i.e. other than Philosophy 102 and Philosophy 210). Prerequisite: Phil 210 or Phil 226 or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 429 SPECIAL STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Lect-D 12:00 MWF/Instructor: Lee
Close readings of three of Plato's middle and late dialogues: the Philebus (on pleasure and hedonism), Phaedrus (on philosophy, rhetoric and the nature and value of erotic love) and the Theaetetus (on knowledge). This is an advanced course on Plato which presupposes Phil 220 (Plato), and in particular, previous close reading of the early dialogues and the Republic. Required texts: Plato, Philebus (translated, with introduction and notes by Dorothea Frede; Plato, Phaedrus, (translated, with introduction and notes by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff; Plato, Theaetetus, (translated by M. J. Levett, with introduction and notes by M. F. Burnyeat. Prerequisite: one 200-level course in the history of philosophy or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 430 ETHICS
Lect-D 2:00-3:15 TR/Instructor: to be announced
Selected topics in moral philosophy, such as normative ethics, value theory, or meta-ethics. Required text: to be announced. Prerequisite: One 200-level course in philosophy or consent of the instructor. Credit in a course in moral, social or political philosophy is recommended.

PHIL 441 TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Lect-D 10:00 MWF/Instructor: Grossman
Topic: Mysticism and Eastern Philosophy This course will consist of three inter-related components. First, an introduction to some basic philosophical concepts taken from Hinduism and Buddhism. Second, a sampling of selected writings from some of the great mystics from all traditions. And third, a philosophical analysis of ideas and concepts which appear to be common to most mystics. Required texts: Huston Smith, The World's Religions; Abhayananda, History of Mysticism; Walter Stace, Mysticism and Philosophy; and Forman, Mysticism, Mind and Consciousness. Prerequisite: Phil 241 or consent of the instructor.

PHIL 500 WRITING IN PHILOSOPHY
Disc 1:30-4:00 M/Instructor: Fleischacker
This course, required for all first-year students, is intended to give practice in writing philosophy. We will use a variety of styles, and criticize one another's work. Papers every other week. Required texts: to be announced. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

PHIL 505 SEMINAR IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Disc 2:30-5:00 T/Instructor: Downing (Note change of date and time)
This seminar will examine the philosophical debate surrounding Newton's theory of gravity and the notion of attraction. In doing so, we will cover a significant amount of modern philosophy, since we will first need to consider what grounds had been provided for the mechanist conception of matter/body as passive, as possessing a limited number of qualities, and as interacting only at contact by impact. We will then examine how Newtonians sought to undermine or evade the demands of mechanism, including the strategies of separating physics from metaphysics and reconstruing scientific explanation. Readings will include Descartes, Boyle, Newton, Leibniz, Clarke, and Berkeley, as well as some less well-known figures. Required texts: to be announced. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

PHIL 522 FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
Disc 2:00-4:30 R/Instructor: Bartky (Note change of date and time)
We will focus this semester on feminists theories of embodiment. Some writers we will read are Luce Irigaray on the meaning of sexual difference; Catharine MacKinnon on sexual difference as sadomasochistic in character; Judith Butler on "performativity" as critical to the social reproduction of femininity; Simone de Beauvoir on the female body as "immanence," denied by cultural tradition, not biology, from the freedom of "transcendence." We will examine as well claims about the dominant metaphors through which we understand female bodily processes (Emily Martin, The Woman in the Body); claims that the transformation of a female body into a "feminine" one involves the imposition of disciplinary practises in the Foucaultian sense (Bartky) and indictments of the way in which Western religious and philosophical traditions have yielded a depreciated female body, as can be seen in contemporary popular art and advertising (Susan Bordo). We will also look at philosophical writings on rape, pornography and prostitution and, if time permits, controversies arising out of the new reproductive technologies. Required texts: one purchased text, as yet undetermined, as well as a variety of passages from books and articles that will be available for students to photocopy. Requirement: Attendance; short reading summaries; two shorter or one longer paper on a philosophical topic related to the course material. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

PHIL 526 ETHICS
Disc 11:00-1:30 R/Instructor: Laden (Note change of date)
An investigation of three major contemporary moral theories/theorists. We will try to work through most of Thomas Nagel's The Possibility of Altruism, Bernard Williams's Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, and Christine Korsgaard's The Sources of Normativity. Apart from being three of the most important works of ethics of the last thirty years, they each offer distinctive approaches to central moral questions, in terms of not only their doctrines, but also their methodologies, particular conceptions of the landscape of moral theory, and their understandings of the relationship of moral theory to other branches of philosophy, and to the history of philosophy. My hope is that a concentrated focus on these three authors will at the same time provide a reasonably broad overview of the questions, methods and theories currently animating moral philosophy. It will thus serve as a "core" seminar in ethics, suitable for students with little or no background in ethics as well as for those with stronger background and/or interests in doing further research in ethics. Required texts: Christine Korsgaard et al., The Sources of Normativity. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

PHIL 536 EPISTEMOLOGY
Disc 11:00-1:30 T/Instructor: Jarrett (Note change of date and time)
This seminar will focus on the principles and applications of Bayesian epistemology. On one approach to the notion of confirmation, the support conferred upon a hypothesis by a bit of evidence is an all-or-nothing affair; that is to say, either the bit of evidence does or it does not support the hypothesis, with no middle ground. In contrast to this understanding of the confirmation relation, the Bayesian approach treats the support conferred upon a hypothesis by a bit of evidence as a matter of degree, so that a bit of evidence will lend a quantifiable measure of support to a hypothesis, which support is typically only partial. What truly distinguishes Bayesianism from other approaches of this sort is the construal of this measure of support as a subjective "degree of belief" constrained by principles of rationality to obey the axioms of probability. Bayesianism gives rise to a fresh look at a range of traditional issues in the philosophy of science. We will try to assess the adequacy of Bayesianism as an account of scientific epistemology. Required texts: Colin Howson and Peter Urbach, Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

PHIL 590 RESEARCH SEMINAR
Disc 2:00-4:30 R/Instructor: Mills
Phil 590 provides a forum for students to present their topical and dissertation work, and have their ideas discussed, in an atmosphere of friendly and constructive criticism. As such, it constitutes an important part of the training required for students to become academic professionals. In addition, other job-related subjects will be discussed there, such as strategies for publication, and how to construct a CV. Prerequisite: completion of 10 of the 14 required courses for the Ph.D. in Philosophy.