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2007-2009 PHIL/RS Catalog and Course Descriptions PHIL 299 Orientation and Methods (5) This course provides new and possible philosophy majors with an overview of the philosophy major and practice in the methodology of good philosophical thinking. The overview may include information about the requirements for the major, computer and information competency, academic and non-academic careers, and graduate school (including financial issues). Practice in methodology will help you to do research, to read philosophical texts carefully, discern the extended arguments within a text, and write clearly and precisely. [F] PHIL 307 Analytic Philosophy (5) This course will investigate the origins, nature, and progression of analytic philosophy in the 20th century. Topics may include the rise of analytic philosophy from its phenomenologist and idealist roots, its distinguishing features from other philosophical traditions, various analytic "schools," such as realism, Platonic atomism, logical atomism, logical positivism, and ordinary language philosophy, and major figures in the tradition, including Frege, Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine, and Kripke. PHIL 308 The American Philosophical Heritage (5) The focus of this course is on American Philosophy as critical reflection on and response to the interactions of cultural, racial, gendered, and economic differences in the geographical context of the United States as a nation. It will explore key philosophical ideas such as the Mind-Body-Self relationship; the nature of Knowledge and Inquiry; notions of Community and Power, Slavery and Freedom, and Democracy and Cultural Pluralism. Among the philosophers who may be studied are William James, Josiah Royce, John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, and Jane Addams as well some Native American contributions. PHIL 309 Recent Continental Philosophy (5) This course provides a study of recent work within the Continental European tradition, which may include an examination of contemporary movements such as phenomenology, critical theory, structuralism, French feminism, genealogy, hermeneutics, deconstruction, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and postmodernism. [Alternate Years] PHIL 355 Philosophy of Language (5) This course will investigate the relations between language and thought, speech, world views, interpersonal relations, and reality. Topics may include meaning, reference, grammar, truth, intersubjective constructions of reality, beliefs, formal versus ordinary languages, speech acts, semiotics, and conversational dynamics (pragmatics). This course is a philosophical examination of conceptual and moral issues relating to war. It discusses the Just War Tradition, and examines questions about the sorts of events/conflicts that count as war, when it is just to go to war, and the means by which a war may be justly fought. Other specific topics to be examined may include fundamental questions about terrorism (such as the definition of terrorism, whether terrorism is a warfare strategy/activity), moral justification of military intervention, the moral rights of noncombatants, war crimes, moral responsibility of crimes caused by obedience to orders. Debates about connection between religion and war may also be discussed. [Offered irregularly] |
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