Philosophy (PHIL)
PHIL 5300. Independent Study for Graduate Students. (1-6 Credits)
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 30 credits
PHIL 5301. Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy. (3 Credits)
An introduction to contemporary philosophers such as Russell, Carnap, Ayer, Quine, Putnam, and Kripke.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
PHIL 5302. Introduction to Moral Philosophy. (3 Credits)
Introduction to ethical theory. Readings in historical and contemporary moral philosophy.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to Philosophy Graduate students only, others with permission of instructor.
PHIL 5305. Seminar in Aesthetics. (3 Credits)
A consideration of some of the basic problems in aesthetics.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
PHIL 5307. Logic. (3 Credits)
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 9 credits
PHIL 5312. Seminar in the Philosophy of Science. (3 Credits)
A discussion of selected current, methodological issues in the philosophy of science. Topics may include scientific realism versus nonrealism; theories of scientific explanation; the nature of scientific revolutions; theories of the lawfulness of nature; and feminist theories of science.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 6 credits
PHIL 5314. Action Theory. (3 Credits)
Examination and analysis of the concept of "action" and related concepts such as "agent" and "intention."
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
PHIL 5315. Seminar in Moral Philosophy. (3 Credits)
A discussion and analysis of significant problems in ethical theory.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 6 credits
PHIL 5320. Seminar in the History of Philosophy. (3 Credits)
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 9 credits
PHIL 5325. Topics in Africana Philosophy. (3 Credits)
Philosophical problems from across African American philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, and African philosophy, examined using approaches from Africana analytical, dialectical, existential, feminist, phenomenological, and pragmatist thought. May include a historical focus on ideas from ancient African philosophy. May be repeated for up to nine credits with change in content.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy and to others with permission.
May be repeated for a total of 9 credits
PHIL 5327. Seminar on Kant. (3 Credits)
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
PHIL 5330. Seminar on Theory of Knowledge. (3 Credits)
Problems in the foundations and nature of knowledge. A critical study of recent treatments of the problem of mind. Issues such as the mind-body problem, our knowledge of the existence of other minds, the existence of private languages, will be dealt with in detail.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 12 credits
PHIL 5331. Seminar in Philosophy of Mind. (3 Credits)
A critical study of recent treatments of the problem of mind. Issues such as the mind-body problem, our knowledge of the existence of other minds, the existence of private languages, will be dealt with in detail.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 6 credits
PHIL 5340. Seminar on Metaphysics. (3 Credits)
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 9 credits
PHIL 5342. Seminar in Philosophy of Language. (3 Credits)
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 6 credits
PHIL 5344. Seminar in Philosophical Logic. (3 Credits)
Topics in the philosophies of logic and mathematics. May include completeness results for non-classical logics, higher-order languages and logics, diagonalization, limitative theorems (Tarski, Godel), paradoxes, and formal theories of truth.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to Philosophy Graduate students only, others with permission of instructor.
May be repeated for a total of 6 credits
PHIL 5350. Seminar in Recent Social and Political Philosophy. (3 Credits)
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 6 credits
PHIL 5397. Seminar. (3 Credits)
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
May be repeated for a total of 18 credits
PHIL 5484. Proposal, Prospectus, and Dissertation Writing Seminar. (2-3 Credits)
Philosophy students will write and circulate drafts and get feedback on their proposal, prospectus, or dissertation, and practice the presentation of their work. Students working on philosophical theory outside the department are also welcome.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to graduate students in Philosophy; others by instructor consent.
May be repeated for a total of 12 credits
PHIL 5800. Race in the Formation of the Human Sciences. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as ANTH 5800.) Exploration of how race and the human sciences emerged out of the theological, epistemological, and political upheavals that resulted in the Euromodern world.
Enrollment Requirements: Not open for credit to students who have passed PHIL 5380.