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PHIL
102
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Introduction
to
Philosophy
(3+0) h
Survey
of
philosophers
and
problems
in
the
Western
tradition
beginning
with
the
ancient
Greeks
(Plato,
Aristotle)
and
continuing
with
medieval
(e.g.,
Anselm,
Augustine,
Aquinas)
and
modern
European
thinkers
(e.g.,
Descartes,
Hume,
Kant,
Nietzsche).
Themes
and
topics
may
vary.
PHIL
108
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Science,
Critical
Thinking
and
Pseudoscience
(3+0) h
Examines
the
difference
between
science
and
pseudoscience,
making
use
of
the
tools
of
critical
thinking
to
understand
what
counts
as
knowledge.
Examples
are
drawn
from
evolutionary
theory,
creationism,
astronomy,
astrology,
history,
race
theory
and
Holocaust
revisionism.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
102
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
110
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Introduction
to
Political
Philosophy
(3+0) h
Introduction
to
historical
and
contemporary
issues
in
political
thought.
Topics
and
themes
vary,
but
include
questions
such
as:
Should
we
consent
to
be
governed?
What
is
civil
society?
What
does
it
mean
to
be
a
citizen?
What
are
the
basic
forms
of
government?
PHIL
202
(3
Credits)
Spring
Introduction
to
Eastern
Philosophy
(3+0) h
Basic
assumptions,
problems
and
systems
of
the
major
philosophical
traditions
of
the
Far
East.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
102
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
204
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Introduction
to
Logic
(3+0) h
Principles
of
deductive
and
inductive
logic
and
application
of
these
principles
to
critical
thinking
in
science
and
other
fields;
brief
introduction
to
symbolic
logic
and
its
application.
PHIL
275
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Yup'ik
Practices
in
Spirituality
and
Philosophy
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
275)
Exploration
of
the
processes
in
Yup'ik
natural
religion
and
the
underlying
philosophy
that
is
the
basis
for
Yup'ik
existence
in
the
spiritual
realm.
Wholeness
of
Yup'ik
existence
as
it
integrates
into
the
western
religion
and
philosophy.
PHIL
321
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Aesthetics
(3+0) h
The
nature
of
aesthetic
experience
in
poetry,
music,
painting,
sculpture
and
architecture;
studies
in
relation
to
artistic
production
and
the
role
of
art
in
society.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
102
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
322X
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Ethics
(3+0) h
"Ethic,"
from
the
Greek
"ethos"
meaning
character,
custom,
usage,
is
the
study
of
value
distinctions.
Examination
of
the
nature
of
value
judgments
--
their
historical
origins
and
philosophical
assumptions
--
and
exploration
of
the
application
of
value
distinctions
to
contemporary
social,
religious,
and
scientific/technical
issues.
Also
available
via
Independent
Learning.
(Prerequisite:
Junior
standing.
Recommended
but
not
required:
Two
courses
in
the
Perspectives
on
the
Human.)
PHIL
341O
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Epistemology
(3+0) h
The
nature
of
knowledge,
truth
and
certainty.
(Prerequisites:
COMM
131X
or
141X;
PHIL
102.)
PHIL
342
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Metaphysics
(3+0) h
Theories
of
reality
and
their
relationship
to
science,
philosophy
and
religion.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
102.)
PHIL
351
(3
Credits)
Fall
History
of
Ancient
Greek
Philosophy
(3+0) h
Review
of
the
philosophy
of
Plato
and
Aristotle;
minor
attention
to
Presocratics.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
102
or
its
equivalent.)
PHIL
352
(3
Credits)
Spring
History
of
Modern
Philosophy:
Descartes
to
Kant
(3+0) h
Review
of
continental
rationalist
and
British
empiricist
thought,
17th
-
19th
centuries.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
102
or
its
equivalent.
PHIL
351
strongly
recommended.)
PHIL
353
(3
Credits)
Summer,
As
Demand
Warrants
Survey
of
Buddhist
Thought
(3+0) h
Survey
of
the
major
themes
and
schools
of
Buddhist
thought.
Emphasis
on
the
interactions
with
surrounding
cultures
and
competing
philosophical
systems.
Includes
modern
developments
in
India,
China,
Japan,
Tibet,
and
other
parts
of
Asia.
(Prerequisite:
Upper
class
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
361
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Philosophy
in
Literature
(3+0) h
Examination
of
philosophical
issues
in
literary
works.
Topics
include
the
nature
of
free
will,
the
effects
of
choice
in
building
a
character,
the
desirable
(and
undesirable)
ways
of
confronting
morality,
and
the
nature
of
evil.
Topics
and
readings
vary.
PHIL
362
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Feminist
Philosophy
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
WMS
362)
Examination
of
contemporary
feminist
philosophical
positions.
Emphasis
on
feminist
ethics,
social
and
political
philosophy,
and
epistemology.
PHIL
375
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Native
American
Religion
and
Philosophy
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
375)
Philosophical
aspects
of
Native
American
world
views.
Systems
of
belief
and
knowledge,
explanations
of
natural
phenomena,
relations
of
humans
to
natural
environment
through
ritual
and
ceremonial
observances.
(Recommended:
PHIL
102.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
PHIL
380
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Conceptual
Foundations
of
Science
(3+0) h
Basic
presumptions
and
methods
of
science,
as
evidenced
in
the
development
of
a
uniquely
scientific
method
or
methods,
and
in
the
development
of
fundamental
scientific
theories
of
cosmology,
matter,
space
and
time,
history
or
evolution,
and
the
nature
of
the
living.
(Prerequisites:
PHIL
102
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
381
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Topics
in
Logics
(3+0) h
An
advanced
explanation
of
problems,
philosophies
and
approaches
in
logics,
including
classical,
symbolic
and
comparative
logics.
(Prerequisites:
PHIL
204
or
its
equivalent
and
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
382
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Science
and
Technological
Limits
(3+0) h
Critiques
of
science
and
technology
and
the
human
implications
of
20th
century
scientific
and
technological
advances.
Examination
of
the
limits,
if
any,
to
scientific
understanding,
and
in
what
sense,
if
any,
succeeding
theories
and
technologies
represent
progress
over
those
they
supplant.
(Prerequisites:
PHIL
102
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
402
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Biomedical
Ethics
(3+0) h
Issues
in
biomedical
ethics.
Topics
include
allocation
of
scarce
medical
resources,
euthanasia,
responsibility
for
medical
decision-making,
and
the
permissibility
of
developing
new
techniques
such
as
using
fetal
tissue.
Topics
will
vary.
(Prerequisites:
Junior
or
senior
standing,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Recommended:
a
course
in
philosophy,
science
or
nursing.)
PHIL
411W,O
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Classical
Political
Theory
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
PS
411W,O)
Political
ideas
from
ancient
Greece,
Rome,
and
the
Judaeo-Christian
tradition.
Theories
of
Plato,
Aristotle,
Cicero,
Augustine,
and
Aquinas.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X;
COMM
131X
or
141X;
PS
101;
PHIL
102;
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
PHIL
412W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Modern
Political
Theory
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
PS
412W)
Political
ideas
from
the
Renaissance
to
the
modern
world.
Theories
of
Machiavelli,
Hobbes,
Locke,
Rousseau,
Burke,
Marx,
and
Lenin.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X,
PS
101,
PHIL
102,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
PHIL
417
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Social
Theory
and
Public
Policy
(3+0) h
Cultural
and
philosophical
assumptions
embedded
in
public
policy
issues.
Various
schools
of
social
theory
are
reviewed
and
related
to
policy
formation,
analysis
and
implementation.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
102
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
436
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Ethical
Theory
(3+0) h
Major
ethical
theories.
Includes
virtue
theory,
social
contract
theory,
deontology
and
utilitarianism
with
major
arguments
for
and
against.
(Prerequisites:
Junior
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
471
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Contemporary
Philosophical
Problems
(3+0) h
Ideological
issues
facing
the
modern
world.
(Prerequisites:
PHIL
351
and
352;
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PHIL
472
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
International
Ethics
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
PS
472)
Examination
of
the
questions
including:
What
is
in
the
interest
of
the
nation-state
according
to
the
logic
of
statecraft?
How
does
the
national
interest
relate
to
the
broader
human
interest?
How
does
morality
relate
to
the
international
legal
order?
Examination
is
through
theory
and
case
studies.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
322X
or
equivalent;
or
PHIL
436;
or
PS
321;
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
476
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Ethics
and
Public
Policy
I
(3+0) h
Review
of
contemporary
moral
problems
as
they
relate
to
public
policy
formulation
and
implementation.
Readings
drawn
from
case
studies
in
current
public
policy
journals.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
322X
or
equivalent
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
477
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Ethics
and
Public
Policy
II
(3+0) h
Review
of
contemporary
moral
problems
as
they
relate
to
public
policy
formulation
and
implementation
(continuation
of
PHIL
476).
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
476,
PHIL
322X
or
equivalent
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
481
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Philosophy
of
Science
(3+0) h
Comparison
and
discussion
of
various
contemporary
methodological
positions.
(Prerequisite:
Junior
standing.)
PHIL
482
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Comparative
Philosophy
(3+0) h
Review
of
non-western
philosophical
thought,
e.g.,
African,
Jewish,
Latin
American,
Oriental,
and
others.
(Prerequisite:
Permission
of
instructor.)
PHIL
483
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Philosophy
of
Social
Science
(3+0) h
Comparison
and
analysis
of
various
contemporary
methodological
positions
in
the
social
sciences.
(Prerequisite:
Junior
standing.)
PHIL
485
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Topics
in
Comparative
Philosophies
(3+0) h
Explores,
on
an
advanced
level,
modern
and
traditional
philosophical
questions,
problems,
and
approaches
to
and
within
different
cultural
settings.
Student
should
have
at
least
an
acquaintance
with
a
second
language
and
some
multicultural
experience.
(Prerequisite:
Nine
credits
in
philosophy.)
PHIL
488
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
B.A.
Thesis
Research
(1+2+variable) h
Independent
research
on
a
topic
preparatory
to
writing
the
thesis
in
philosophy.
(Prerequisite:
All
major
requirements
in
philosophy.)
PHIL
499W
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
B.A.
Thesis
in
Philosophy
(1+2+variable) h
Writing
the
senior
thesis
in
philosophy.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X
and
PHIL
488.)
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