Philosophy
Courses
Lower-Division
1. The Nature of Philosophy (4) What
is philosophy? A study of major philosophical questions, making use
of both classical and contemporary sources. An introduction to the basic
methods and strategies of philosophical inquiry.
10. Introduction to Logic (4) Basic concepts
and techniques in both informal and formal logic and reasoning, including
a discussion of argument, inference, proof, and common fallacies, and
an introduction to the syntax, semantics, and proof method in sentential
(propositional) logic. (May be used to fulfill general-education requirements
for Warren and Eleanor Roosevelt Colleges.)
12. Logic and Decision Making (4) An
introduction to the study of probability, inductive logic, scientific
reasoning, and rational choice among competing hypotheses and alternative
courses of action when the evidence is incomplete or uncertain. (May
be used to fulfill general-education requirements for Marshall, Warren,
and Eleanor Roosevelt Colleges.)
13. Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics (4) An
inquiry into the nature of morality and its role in personal or social
life by way of classical and/or contemporary works in ethics. (May be
used to fulfill general-education requirements for Muir and Marshall
Colleges.)
14. Introduction to Philosophy: Metaphysics (4) A
survey of central issues and figures in the Western metaphysical tradition.
Topics include the mind-body problem, freedom and determinism, personal
identity, appearance and reality, and the existence of God. (May be
used to fulfill general-education requirements for Muir and Marshall
Colleges.)
15. Introduction to Philosophy: Theory of Knowledge (4) A
study of the grounds and scope of human knowledge, both commonsense
and scientific, as portrayed in the competing traditions of Continental
rationalism, British empiricism, and contemporary cognitive science.
(May be used to fulfill general-education requirements for Muir and
Marshall Colleges.)
27. Ethics and Society (4) (Same as Political
Science 27) An inquiry into the principles of ethical conduct and their
applications. The course examines some of the major theories (including
natural law, individual rights, utilitarianism) and the general issue
of rights and obligations with respect to adherence to law (as in civil
disobedience abortion and the refusal to obey an unjust law or order).
Case studies will be employed to consider the relevance of these principles
to various occupations such as business, engineering, law and government,
in order to enable students to anticipate some of the difficulties that
will arise for them in real-life situations whenever hard moral choices
must be made. Satisfies the Warren College ethics and society requirement.
This course is required for all Warren students entering the college
in fall 1985 and thereafter.
31. History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy (4) A
survey of classical Greek philosophy with an emphasis on Socrates, Plato
and Aristotle, though some consideration may be given to Presocratic
and/or Hellenistic philosophers. (May be used in fulfilling the Muir
College breadth requirement.)
32. History of Philosophy: The Origins of Modern Philosophy (4) A
survey of early modern philosophy. Beginning with the contrast between
medieval and modern thought, the course focuses on modern philosophy
and its relation to the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. Philosophers to be studied include Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza,
and Leibniz. (May be used in fulfilling the Muir College breadth requirement.)
33. History of Philosophy: Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment
(4) A survey of the major philosophers of
the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with a focus on the British
empiricistsLocke, Berkeley, and Humeand the critical philosophy
of Kant. (May be used in fulfilling the Muir College Breadth requirement.)
Upper-Division
100. Plato (4) A study of Socrates and/or
Plato through major dialogues of Plato. Possible topics include the
virtues and happiness; weakness of the will; political authority and
democracy; the theory of Forms and sensible flux; immortality; relativism,
skepticism, and knowledge. May be repeated for credit with change of
content and approval of instructor. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
101. Aristotle (4) A study of major issues
in Aristotles works, such as the categories; form and matter;
substance, essence, and accident; the soul; virtue, happiness, and politics.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
102. Hellenistic Philosophy (4) A study
of selected texts from the main schools of Hellenistic philosophyStoicism,
Epicureanism, and Skepticism. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor.
104. The Rationalists (4) The major writings
of one or more of the seventeenth century rationalistsDescartes,
Spinoza, and Leibniz. Topics include the existence of God, the mind-body
problem, free will, the nature of knowledge, belief, and error. May
be repeated for credit with change of content and approval of instructor.
Prerequisite: upper- division standing or consent of instructor.
105. The Empiricists (4) The major writings
of one or more of the British empiricistsLocke, Berkeley, Hume,
and Reid. May be repeated for credit with change of content and approval
of instructor. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of
instructor.
106. Kant (4) A study of selected portions
of the Critique of Pure Reason and other theoretical writings and/or
his major works in moral theory. Prerequisite: Philosophy 33 or 105
or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit with change
in content and approval of the instructor.
107. Hegel (4) A study of one or more
of Hegels major works, in particular, The Phenomenology of Spirit
and The Philosophy of Right. Readings and discussion may also include
other figures in the Idealist traditionsuch as Fichte, Hþlderlin,
and Schellingand critics of the Idealist traditionsuch as
Marx and Kierkegaard. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent
of instructor.
108. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (4) A
study of one or more figures in nineteenth-century philosophy, such
as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Marx, Emerson, Thoreau, James,
and Mill. The focus may be on particular figures or intellectual themes
and traditions. May be repeated for credit with change of content and
approval of instructor. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or
consent of instructor.
109. History of Analytic Philosophy (4) Central
texts, figures, and traditions in analytic philosophy. Figures may include
Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Moore, Austin, Tarski, Quine,
Davidson, Kripke, and Putnam. May be repeated for credit with change
of content and approval of instructor. Prerequisite: Philosophy 120
or consent of instructor.
110. Wittgenstein (4) Central themes
and writings in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Topics include
the nature of logic and philosophy, solipsism, the private language
argument, certainty, meaning, and rule-following. Readings include Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations, and On Certainty.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
111. Contemporary Work in Epistemology and Metaphysics (4) A
study of a prominent figure or central issue in contemporary epistemology
and/or metaphysics. Exam-ples of figures: Quine, Putnam, Sellars; examples
of issues: the problem of universals, the nature of self-knowledge,
freedom, ontological relativity. May be repeated for credit with change
of content and approval of instructor. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
115. Philosophical Methods Seminar (4) This
course provides an introduction to the techniques of philosophical inquiry
through detailed study of selected philosophical texts and through extensive
training in philosophical writing based on those texts. Enrollment limited
and restricted to majors; must be taken for letter grade. May not be
repeated for credit. Prerequisite: open to philosophy majors only.
120. Symbolic Logic I (4) The syntax,
semantics, and proof-theory of first-order predicate logic with identity,
emphasizing both conceptual issues and practical skills (e.g., criteria
for logical truth, consistency, and validity, the application of logical
methods to everyday as well as scientific reasoning). Prerequisite:
Philosophy 10 or consent of instructor.
121. Symbolic Logic II (4) The meta-theory
of first-order predicate logic: expressive power, the notions of a model,
truth-in-a-model, effective procedure, proof and decidability, the completeness
of first-order logic (co-extensionality of the semantic and proof-theoretic
methods), etc. The course is fairly formal. Prerequisite: Philosophy
120 or consent of instructor.
122. Topics in Logic (4) A study of new,
extended, or alternative logics and/or special issues in meta-logic.
Topics include the nature of logic, modal logic, higher-order logic,
generalized logic, free logic, the Skolem-Lþwenheim theorem, the incompleteness
of arithmetic, undecidability. May be repeated for credit with change
in content and approval of instructor. Prerequisite: Philosophy 120
(and for advanced topics: Philosophy 121) or consent of instructor.
123. Philosophy of Logic (4) Philosophical
issues underlying standard and non-standard logics, the nature of logical
knowledge, the relation between logic and mathematics, the revisability
of logic, truth and logic, ontological commitment and ontological relativity,
logical consequence, etc. May be repeated for credit with change in
content and approval of instructor. Prerequisite: Philosophy 120
or consent of instructor.
125. Games and Decisions (4) Formal and
philosophical issues in the theory of games and the theory of rational
decision. Prerequisite: Philosophy 12 or consent of instructor.
130. Metaphysics (4) Central problems
in metaphysics, such as free will and determinism, the mind-body problem,
personal identity, causation, primary and secondary qualities, the nature
of universals, necessity, and identity. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
131. Topics in Metaphysics (4) An in-depth
study of some central problem, figure, or tradition in metaphysics.
May be repeated for credit with change of content and approval of instructor.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
132. Epistemology (4) Central problems
in epistemology such as skepticism; a priori knowledge; knowledge of
other minds; self-knowledge; the problem of induction; foundationalist,
coherence, and causal theories of knowledge. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
134. Philosophy of Language (4) Examination
of contemporary debates about meaning, reference, truth, and thought.
Topics include descriptional theories of reference, sense and reference,
compositionality, truth, theories of meaning, vagueness, metaphor, and
natural and formal languages. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor.
136. Philosophy of Mind (4) Different
conceptions of the nature of mind and its relation to the physical world.
Topics include identity theories, functionalism, eliminative materialism,
internalism and externalism, subjectivity, other minds, consciousness,
self-knowledge, perception, memory, and imagination. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
138. Consciousness (4) Philosophical
issues about consciousness, such as multiple or split consciousness,
altered consciousness, perspectives and points of view, neuroscientific
and cognitive theories, animal, machine, and social consciousness, the
evolution of consciousness, zombies. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
139. The Nature of Representation (4) A
philosophical grounding in concepts and distinctions that govern the
use of representations in various media, such as analog/digital, implicit/explicit,
imagistic/propositional, indexical/descriptive, medium/message, distributed/local,
symbolic/associative, situated/ context-independent, and opaque/transparent.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
145. Philosophy of Science (4) Central
problems in philosophy of science, such as the nature of confirmation
and explanation, the nature of scientific revolutions and progress,
the unity of science, and realism and antirealism. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
146. Philosophy of Physics (4) Philosophical
problems in the development of modern physics, such as the philosophy
of space and time, the epistemology of geometry, the philosophical significance
of Einsteins theory of relativity, the interpretation of quantum
mechanics, and the significance of modern cosmology. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
147. Philosophy of Biology (4) Philosophical
problems in the biological sciences, such as the relation between biology
and the physical sciences, the status and structure of evolutionary
theory, and the role of biology in the social sciences. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
148. Philosophy and the Environment (4) Investigation
of ethical and epistemological questions concerning our relationship
to the environment. Topics may include the value of nature, biodiversity,
policy and science, and responsibility to future generations. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
149. Philosophy of Psychology (4) Philosophical
issues raised by psychology, including the nature of psychological explanation,
the role of nature versus nurture, free will and determinism, and the
unity of the person. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent
of instructor.
150. Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences (4) Theoretical,
empirical, methodological, and philosophical issues at work in the cognitive
sciences (e.g., Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Artificial Intel-ligence,
and Computer Science), concerning things such as mental representation,
consciousness, rationality, explanation, and nativism. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
151. Philosophy of Neuroscience (4) An
introduction to elementary neuroanatomy and neurophysiology and an examination
of theoretical issues in cognitive neuroscience and their implications
for traditional philosophical conceptions of the relation between mind
and body, perception, consciousness, understanding, emotion, and the
self. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
152. Philosophy of Social Science (4) Philosophical
issues of method and substance in the social sciences, such as causal
and interpretive models of explanation, structuralism and methodological
individualism, value neutrality, and relativism. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
153. Philosophy of History (4) A study
of classical and/or contemporary conceptions of history and historical
knowledge. Topics may include the structure of historical explanation,
historical progress, objectivity in historiography, hermeneutics and
the human sciences. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent
of instructor.
160. Ethical Theory (4) Systematic and/or
historical perspectives on central issues in ethical theory such as
deontic, contractualist, and consequentialist conceptions of morality;
rights and special obligations; the role of happiness and virtue in
morality; moral conflict; ethical objectivity and relativism; and the
rational authority of morality. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor.
161. Topics in the History of Ethics (4) Central
issues and texts in the history of ethics. Subject matter can vary,
ranging from one philosopher (e.g., Aristotle, Hobbes, Kant, or Mill)
to a historical tradition (e.g., Greek ethics or the British moralists).
May be repeated for credit with change in content and approval of instructor.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
162. Contemporary Moral Issues (4) An
examination of contemporary moral issues, such as abortion, euthanasia,
war, affirmative action, and freedom of speech. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
163. Biomedical Ethics (4) Moral issues
in medicine and the biological sciences, such as patients rights
and physicians responsibilities, abortion and euthanasia, the
distribution of health care, experimentation, and genetic intervention.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
164. Technology and Human Values (4) Philosophical
issues involved in the development of modern science, the growth of
technology, and control of the natural environment. The interaction
of science and technology with human nature and political and moral
ideals. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
166. Classics in Political Philosophy (4) Central
issues about the justification, proper functions, and limits of the
state through classic texts in the history of political philosophy by
figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and
Marx. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
167. Contemporary Political Philosophy (4) Different
perspectives on central issues in contemporary political philosophy,
such as the nature of state authority and political obligation, the
limits of government and individual liberty, liberalism and its critics,
equality and distributive justice. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor.
168. Philosophy of Law (4) A study of
issues in analytical jurisprudence such as the nature of law, the relation
between law and morality, and the nature of legal interpretation and
issues in normative jurisprudence such as the justification of punishment,
paternalism and privacy, freedom of expression, and affirmative action.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
169. Feminism and Philosophy (4) Examination
of feminist critiques of, and alternatives to, traditional philosophical
conceptions of such things as morality, politics, knowledge, and science.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
170. Philosophy and Race (4) A philosophical
investigation of the topics of race and racism. The role of race
in ordinary speech. The ethics of racial discourse. Anthropological
and biological conceptions of race. The social and political significance
of racial categories. Post-racialist conceptions of race.
175. Aesthetics (4) Central issues in
philosophical aesthetics such as the nature of art and aesthetic experience,
the grounds of artistic interpretation and evaluation, artistic representation,
and the role of the arts in education, culture, and politics. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
177. Philosophy and Literature (4) A
study of philosophical themes contained in selected fiction, drama,
or poetry, and the philosophical issues that arise in the interpretation,
appreciation, and criticism of literature. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
180. Phenomenology (4) An examination
of the phenomenological tradition through the works of its major classical
and/or contemporary representatives. Authors studied will vary and may
include Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Bourdieu.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
181. Existentialism (4) Classical texts
and issues of existentialism. Authors studied will vary and may include
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Heidegger. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
182. Marx and Marxism (4) Central issues
in the writings of the early and late Marx, such as alienation, false
consciousness, exploitation, historical materialism, the critique of
capitalism, and communism. Attention may be given to Marxs philosophical
predecessors (e.g., Smith, Rousseau, Hegel, Feuerbach) and/or to subsequent
developments in Marxism (e.g., the Frankfurt school and analytical Marxism).
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Not offered in 2003-2004.
183. Topics in Continental Philosophy (4) The
focus will be on a leading movement in continental philosophy (e.g.,
the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, structuralism and deconstruction,
post-modernism) or some particular issue that has figured in these traditions
(e.g., freedom, subjectivity, historicity, authenticity). May be repeated
for credit with change in content and approval of instructor. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
185. Philosophy of Religion (4) A general
introduction to the philosophy of religion through the study of classical
and/or contemporary texts. Among the issues to be discussed are the
existence and nature of God, the problem of evil, the existence of miracles,
the relation between reason and revelation, and the nature of religious
language. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
190. Special Topics (4) A special philosophical
topic. May be repeated for credit with change of content and approval
of instructor. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of
instructor.
191. Philosophy Honors (4) Independent
study by special arrangement with and under the supervision of a faculty
member, including a proposal for the honors essay. An IP grade will
be awarded at the end of this quarter; a final grade will be given for
both quarters at the end of 192. Prerequisites: department stamp;
consent of instructor.
192. The Honors Essay (4) Continuation
of 191: independent study by special arrangement with and under the
supervision of a faculty member, leading to the completion of the honors
essay. A letter grade for both 191 and 192 will be given at the end
of this quarter. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
199. Directed Individual Study (4) Directed
individual study by special arrangement with and under the supervision
of a faculty member. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisite: consent of
instructor.
GRADUATE COURSES
200. Proseminar (4) Introduction to philosophical
methods of analysis through study of classic historical or contemporary
texts. Writing intensive. Enrollment limited to entering graduate students.
201A. Core Course in History (4) A study
of selected texts or topics in the history of philosophy. Usually the
focus will be on a single major text. May be taken for credit nine times
with changed content.
202. Core Course in Ethics (4) An introduction
to some central issues in ethical theory with emphasis on classic texts
or contemporary authors. May be taken for credit three times with changed
content.
203. Core Course in Political Philosophy (4) A
study of central topics concerning the nature, justification, and limits
of state authority. The emphasis may be on classic texts or contemporary
writings. May be taken for credit three times with changed content.
204A. Core Course in Philosophy of Science (4) An
introduction to one or more central problems in the philosophy of science,
or in the philosophy of one of the particular sciences, such as the
nature of confirmation and explanation, the nature of scientific knowledge,
reductionism, the unity of science, or realism and antirealism. May
be taken for credit three times with changed content.
205A. Core Course in Metaphysics (4) An
introduction to central topics in metaphysics with emphasis on classic
texts or contemporary authors. May be taken for credit three times with
changed content.
206A. Core Course in Epistemology (4) An
introduction to central topics in epistemology with emphasis on classic
texts or contemporary authors. May be taken for credit three times with
changed content.
209A. Introduction to Science Studies (4) Study
and discussion of classic work in history of science, and philosophy
of science, and of work that attempts to develop a unified science studies
approach. Required of all students in the Science Studies Program.
209B. Seminar in Science Studies (4) Study
and discussion of selected topics in the science studies field. Required
of all students in the Science Studies Program. The topic varies from
year to year and students may, therefore, repeat the course for credit.
May be taken for credit three times with changed content.
209C. Colloquium in Science Studies (4) A
forum for the presentation and discussion of research in progress in
science studies, by graduate students, faculty, and visitors. May be
taken for credit two times with changed content.
210. Greek Philosophy (4) A study of
selected texts or topics from the history of Greek philosophy. Usually
centers on works by Plato or Aristotle. May be taken for credit six
times with changed content.
214 . Early Modern Philosophy (4) A study
of selected texts or topics from philosophers of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, or Locke. May be taken for credit
six times with changed content.
215. Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (4) A
study of selected texts or topics from philosophers of the eighteenth
century: for example, Kant or Hume. May be taken for credit six times
with changed content.
216. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (4) A
selective study of major philosophical texts for the period, with emphasis
on such figures as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, and others. May be
taken for credit six times with changed content.
217. Twentieth-Century European Philosophy (4) A
study of selected topics in twentieth-century European philosophy as
reflected in the major writings of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty,
and others. May be taken for credit six times with changed content.
218. Contemporary Analytical Philosophy (4) A
study of the historical development of the analytical movement, with
emphasis on major texts. May be taken for credit six times with changed
content.
221. Advanced Symbolic Logic (4) Topics
in mathematical logic and set theory, metatheory, nonstandard logics,
and other contemporary developments in logical theory. May be taken
for credit five times with changed content.
222. Philosophy of Logic (4) A study
of selected issues in the philosophy of logic. The focus may be on contemporary
texts or historical works or both. May be taken for credit six times
with changed content.
230. Metaphysics (4) Topics may include
identity, personal identity, universals and particulars, modality and
possible worlds, causation, reduction, supervenience, freedom and determinism,
space and time, and realism versus antirealism. May be taken for credit
six times with changed content.
232. Epistemology (4) This seminar will
cover issues such as rival accounts of knowledge, justification, and
warrant, traditional and contemporary perspectives on empiricism, rationalism,
and pragmatism, and skepticism. May be taken for credit six times with
changed content.
234. Philosophy of Language (4) Central
issues in contemporary philosophy of language, such as the nature of
linguistic meaning, truth, content, reference, the syntax and semantics
of various linguistic constructions, presupposition, speech acts, the
epistemology of language understanding and language learning, the mental/psychological
basis of linguistic understanding and use. May be taken for credit six
times with changed content.
236. Philosophy of Mind (4) Contemporary
debates on the nature, function, and operation of the mental. May include
questions about the mind-body relation, mental causation, perception,
consciousness, and mental representation. May be taken for credit six
times with changed content.
245. Philosophy of Science (4) This seminar
will cover current books and theoretical issues in the philosophy of
science. May be taken for credit seven times with changed content.
247. Philosophy of Biology (4) Historical
and contemporary perspectives on foundational issues about biology.
May include questions about the nature of biological explanation, the
relation of biology to chemistry and physics, the status of attributions
of function, and the relation of biology to the social sciences. May
be taken for credit six times with changed content.
250A. Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences (4) Contemporary
debates about the study of the mind-brain as studied in one or more
of the empirical cognitive sciences. May include questions about the
different strategies of explanation invoked, the conceptions of representation
employed, the connections between theoretical models developed. May
be taken for credit six times with changed content.
260. Ethics (4) Topics may include metaethics
(e.g., the semantics, metaphysics, epistemology, and normativity of
ethics), consequentialism and deontology, moral psychology (e.g., freedom,
responsibility, and weaknesses of will), or substantive moral problems.
The approach may be systematic, historical, or both. May be taken for
credit six times with changed content.
267. Political Philosophy (4) Topics
may include the nature and limits of state authority, liberty and equality,
distributive justice, liberalism and its critics (e.g., feminists, libertarians,
and others), or issues in jurisprudence. The focus may be on classic
texts or contemporary authors. May be taken for credit six times with
changed content.
275. Aesthetics (4) An exploration of
problems in the philosophy of art, aesthetic experience, and aesthetic
judgment within the context of a critical survey of some current aesthetic
theories, and their illustrative application in various fields of art.
May be taken for credit six times with changed content.
285. Seminar on Special Topics (4) Focussed
examination of specific problems or themes in some area of philosophy.
May be taken for credit nine times with changed content.
290. Directed Independent Study (4) Supervised
study of individually selected philosophical topics. S/U grades permitted.
292. Writing Workshop (1-3) Each enrolled
student produces a research essay ready for publication, presents it
to students and faculty, and offers critiques of other students
presentations. Units will vary according to enrollment in course. To
be taken in fall quarter of third year of philosophy graduate study.
295. Research Topics (1-12) Advanced
individual research studies under the direction of a member of the staff.
Hours of outside prep.will vary with number of units taken. May be taken
for credit nine times with changed content.
299. Thesis Research (1-12) S/U grades
permitted.
500. Apprentice Teaching (1-4) A course
designed to satisfy the requirement that graduate students should serve
as teaching assistants, either in the Department of Philosophy or in
one of the writing programs offered by the various colleges. Each Ph.D.
candidate must teach the equivalent of quarter time for three academic
quarters. Students are permitted to sign up as TAs for a maximum of
eighteen quarters.
Philosophy Courses
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