Course	PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy
Professor	William Griffith
CRN	16007
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

An introduction to the problems, methods, and scope of philosophical inquiry. Among the philosophical questions to be discussed are those associated with morality, the law, the nature of mind, and the limits of knowledge. Philosophers to be read include Plato, Descartes, David Hume, William James, A. J. Ayer, Sartre, C. S. Lewis, and Lon Fuller. On-line

Course	PHIL 103A History of Ancient Philosophy
Professor	Garry Hagberg
CRN	16008
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm PRE 101
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

2 credits This short course, taught in the first half of the semester, will cover half of the material of Phil 103. We will give a close reading to Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, along with a good number of secondary sources on these and related works. Our work will take us into questions of philosophical method, epistemology, metaphysics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of education, philosophy of the arts, and numerous detailed issues in ethics (e.g. responsibility, intention, consequence, character, means and ends, moral strength and weakness, intellectual virtue, etc.) The course can serve either as an introduction to philosophy for those who want to make only one foray into the field or as a historical foundation for those who intend to pursue further work in the subject. Note: Taught in first half of semester only, class will end March 16^th.

Course	PHIL 108 Introduction to Philosophy
Professor	Mary Coleman
CRN	16009
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Western philosophers address questions that most of us naturally find puzzling, such as: do we have free will?; do we know what the world around us is really like?; does God exist?; how should we treat one another? We will critically examine historical and contemporary texts that address these and other central themes of the philosophical tradition. On-line

Course	PHIL 120 Introduction to Philosophy of Science
Professor	David Shein
CRN	16448
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Cross-listed: Science, Technology & SocietyIn this course, we will attempt to come to an understanding of the nature and limits of science and scientific reasoning. Our approach will be thematic and will include the following: the demarcation problem (what distinguishes scientific theories from putatively non-scientific theories such as astrology and creationism?), the riddles of induction (what reason is there to think the future will resemble the past?), models of explanation (what makes an explanation scientific?), the underdetermination thesis (can evidence ever confirm or disconfirm a theory?), and the realism/anti-realism debate (does science tell us what the world is really like?). Authors to be read include: Carl Hempel, David Hume, Thomas Kuhn, Karl Popper, WV Quine, Alan Sokal, Bas van Fraassen, and others. On-line

Course	PHIL 237 Symbolic Logic
Professor	William Griffith
CRN	16011
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am HEG 300
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: MATC

Students will learn to use several different symbolic systems, some developed thousands of years apart, in order to formally test the validity of deductive arguments expressed in ordinary language of various levels of complexity. Beginning from the common notion of a valid argument the course progresses through: truth tables; a system of natural deduction for propositional logic, which is proven to be consistent and complete; Aristotelian logic - immediate inference, mediate inference, the square of opposition; Venn diagrams; monadic quantificational theory; general quantificational theory, including identity. At each level the interrelationship between formal systems, their consistency and completeness being kept in view, and their interpretation in English is stressed. The course ends with a discussion of the extension of such work into higher orders of logic and the foundations of mathematics and the surprise (at the time) of Gödel’s incompleteness proof. No prerequisite. On-line See Prof. Griffith prior to On-line registration.

Course	PHIL 247 Philosophy of Mind
Professor	Mary Coleman
CRN	16012
Schedule	Wed Fr 9:00 - 10:20 am ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

An introduction to the philosophy of mind. We will focus on contemporary readings and such questions as: is your mind something different from your body and, in particular, something different from your brain?; can you know for sure that the people around you have conscious mental lives?; might it be, in principle, impossible for a computer or robot to have a mind, no matter how fancy the program it's running is?; is it possible that you yourself don't have a mind? On-line

Course	PHIL 256 Environmental Ethics
Professor	Daniel Berthold
CRN	16013
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities / Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Environmental Studies, Human Rights, Science, Technology & Society, Social Policy

The course will explore a variety of ethical issues surrounding the relation of human beings to their environment. We will look at several far‑reaching critiques of the anthropocentric character of traditional moral paradigms by deep ecologists, ecofeminists, social ecologists, ecotheologians, and others who argue in different ways for fundamentally new accounts of the moral standing of nature and the ethical duties of humans to non‑human creatures and things. While we will concentrate on contemporary authors and debates, we will begin by looking at the precedents and origins of the contemporary scene in such nineteenth‑century writers as Henry Salt, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and E. P. Evans, and early twentieth‑century writers like Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Rachel Carson. Throughout our discussion of opposing theoretical constructs, we will give attention to the implications for social policy, legal practice, and political action. On-line

Course	PHIL 332 The Paradoxes of Logic and Semantics
Professor	Robert Martin
CRN	16015
Schedule	Tu 9:30 - 11:50 am BLM
Distribution	OLD: A/B	NEW: Humanities

A family of paradoxes, known in the 12^th century as insolubilia and today as paradoxes of self-reference, has intrigued and puzzled philosophers since the 3^rd century B.C. Versions appear in texts as varied as the New Testament and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The paradox of set theory, discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1900 and quickly seen to belong to the same family of paradoxes, played a key role in the study of the foundations of mathematics. These paradoxes are also related to the famous proof by Kurt Gödel of the incompleteness of formal arithmetic. The grandfather of the family, the Liar, is central to Alfred Tarski's landmark work on formal semantics and the concept of truth. We will survey the history of the paradoxes and study many of the dozens of solutions that have been proposed. Students will be encouraged to develop and defend their own solutions. A warning is in order: there are perils to the study of the paradoxes. The mathematician/philosopher G. Frege wrote in 1902 that the Russell paradox destroyed his life's work. A gravestone from ancient times includes the words, "The argument called the Liar, and deep cogitation by night, brought me to death.” Prerequisites: Symbolic Logic or the equivalentOn-line

Course	PHIL 352A Philosophy of Language
Professor	Garry Hagberg
CRN	16014
Schedule	Mon 7:00 -9:20 pm ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

2 credits This short course, taught in the first half of the semester, will cover half of the material of Phil 352. We will discuss why the study of language is relevant to philosophical inquiry, arguments for and against taking the “linguistic turn” in recent philosophy, the value of the philosophy of language in facing traditional philosophical questions (particularly concerning questions of perception), and the presuppositions embedded in the question “What is the meaning of a word?” (the question with which Wittgenstein opened his Blue Book.) Readings from Hacking, Rorty, the Viennese positivists, Wittgenstein, Austin, Ryle, Wisdom, and others. At the end of our work we should find ourselves equipped to reflect on Wittgenstein’s gnomic utterance: “The limits of my language are the limits of my world”.

(Class will end March 13^th.)

Course	PHIL 371 The Philosophy of Kant
Professor	Daniel Berthold
CRN	16017
Schedule	Tu 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Cross-listed: German Studies

An introduction to one of the classic texts of western philosophy, Kant’s magnum opus, The Critique of Pure Reason. Prerequisite: a previous course in philosophy and permission of the instructor. On-line

Course	PHIL 375 The Philosophy of Nietzsche
Professor	William Griffith
CRN	16016
Schedule	Fr 12:00 -2:20 pm HEG 300
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Cross-listed: German Studies

Readings will include several of Nietzsche’s most famous works -- Human, All-To-Human (selections), and (complete) The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Toward a Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, Ecce Homo. While trying to do justice to the particularities of these works we will also seek to see what issues, if any, may lay claim to be central to his thinking. Those of an ethical or metaethical nature will receive the most attention, but issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language will also come before us. By permission of the instructor. On-line