Courses
PHIL 101 - Philosophy and the Examined Life
3 Credit Hours
Critical thinking about basic philosophical questions through analysis of readings in the sciences, literature, and the arts.
PHIL 105 - Critical Thinking
3 Credit Hours
A practical, cross-disciplinary introduction to handling evidence: how to uncover, analyze, and evaluate arguments, and why that is important. Emphasis upon asking critical questions and upon typical fallacies, elementary probability, patterns of valid inference, induction, abduction, hypothesis testing and the ?ethics? of belief.
PHIL 111 - History of Philosophy I: The Classical Age to Descartes
3 Credit Hours
Representative readings from the Classical age through the Medievals.
Prerequisites: One course in philosophy.
PHIL 121 - Philosophy of Religion
3 Credit Hours
Critical thinking about problems in natural theology, religious experience, faith and reason, theodicy, the soul, afterlife, and the significance of religious language.
PHIL 130 - Environmental Ethics
3 Credit Hours
An introduction to ethics and to important issues in environmental ethics. Among the issues addressed are: What are our obligations to non-human animals? Do we have an obligation to preserve resources for future generations? In what respects, if any, is concern for the environment a feminist issue?
PHIL 201 - Logic
3 Credit Hours
An introduction to traditional syllogistic logic and to elements of modern symbolic logic with emphasis on improving the student?s critical skills.
PHIL 211 - Political Philosophy
3 Credit Hours
The philosophical study of the nature and good of politics.
Prerequisites: One course in philosophy.
Other: May be credited toward a major or minor in political science.
PHIL 230 - Ethics
3 Credit Hours
The philosophical study of such topics as the nature of obligation, character, practical reason, and the good for persons.
PHIL 260 - History of Philosophy II: Descartes to Nietzsche
3 Credit Hours
Representative readings from Continental Rationalism, British Empiricism, and the Nineteenth Century.
Prerequisites: One course in philosophy.
PHIL 270 - History of Philosophy III: Twentieth Century Thought
3 Credit Hours
Representative readings from 1900 to the present.
Prerequisites: One course in philosophy.
PHIL 340 - Metaphysics and Epistemology
3 Credit Hours
Advanced course in problems in the theory of knowledge and metaphysics.
Prerequisites: PHIL 105 or 201 and 260.
PHIL 460 - Senior Essay
2 Credit Hours
Directed by departmental instructors, the student will write a philosophy paper and defend it before faculty and students.
Prerequisites: Philosophy major.
Other: Satisfies advanced composition requirement for general studies.