Professor: W. Griffith
CRN: 92386
Distribution: A
Time: Tu Th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm ASP 302
of related interest: French Studies
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.
Professor: G. Hagberg
CRN: 92387
Distribution: A
Time: Tu Th 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm OLIN 202
of related interest: French Studies
A critical
examination of the work of some major figures in the history of philosophy, emphasizing historical
continuities and developments in the subject. Authors include Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke,
Berkeley, Hume, Nietzsche, and Russell.
Professor: D. Berthold-Bond
CRN: 92388
Distribution: A
Time: W F 9:00 am - 10:20 am OLIN 201
This is a course in informal logic. We will examine the functions of language and reasoning as they occur in everyday discourse. Beginning with an analysis of the structure of a wide variety of informal fallacies, we will turn to an investigation of how these fallacies are employed for such purposes as persuasion, deception, and indoctrination. Examples will be taken from the spheres of politics, the news media, advertising, and the writing of educational textbooks.
Professor: D. Berthold-Bond
CRN: 92389
Distribution: A
Time: W 1:20 pm - 3:20 pm OLIN 203
Cross-listed: French Studies
A close
study of the three great figures of seventeenth-century Continental rationalism: Descartes,
Spinoza, and Leibnitz.
Professor: D. Berthold-Bond
CRN: 92391
Distribution: A
Time: Tu Th 9:00 am - 10:20 am OLIN 201
A study of some of the main sources of aesthetic theory in the Western philosophical tradition. Selections from Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Tolstoy, Croce, and Dewey.
Professor: R. Martin
CRN: 92392
Distribution: A
Time: M W 9:00 am - 10:20 am OLIN 304
We will study the proof theory and model theory of first-order logic and prove its completeness, in the manner of Henkin 1949. Then we will develop formal arithmetic and prove some important limitative results, especially incompleteness (Goedel 1931). Finally, if time permits, we will study a variety of modal systems and some of their philosophical applications, e.g., tense logic and the logic of indexicals.
Professor: G. Hagberg
CRN: 92393
Distribution: A
Time: M 1:20 pm - 3:20 pm OLIN 306
We will examine in detail the content and methods of a number of classic works of American philosophy, emphasizing issues in epistemology. Our authors will include Peirce, William James, Royce, Dewey, Santayana, Mead, and a number of more recent writers. The philosophical movements we discuss include Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, Empiricism, and Realism. Our investigation of these works will take us into problems in the philosophy of religion, ethics, aesthetics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of education, and social and political philosophy.
Professor: W. Griffith
CRN: 92394
Distribution: A
Time: W 10:30 am - 12:30 pm HEG 300
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.