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PHIL   100 PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY                   Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
An introduction to philosophy through such fundamental problems as the
basis of morality, the foundation of state authority, determinism and
freedom, and the possibility of knowledge.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM PL*117   Arpaly, Nomy                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   106 LOGIC                                    Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
A system of natural deduction is used to establish the validity of
arguments which turns on their truth functional or quantificational
form.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM          Roush, Sherrilyn               *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   108 THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE:A  LITERARY & HIS Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
An introduction to philosophy through historical and contemporary
philosophical and literary sources-including Sophocles, Plato,
Shakespeare, Descartes, Dostevsky, Nietzsche, Mann, Sartre, and others.

001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM SH*352   Crowell, Steven                *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   202 HIST OF PHILOSOPHY II                    Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the history of philosophy from the seventeenth to the
twentieth century.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM SS*106   Kulstad, Mark                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   302 MODERN PHILOSOPHY                        Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Examination of themes or authors in modern philosophy.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM SH*303   Kulstad, Mark                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   303 THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE                      Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Topics:  analysis of knowledge, foundations of knowledge, skepticism,
perception, etc.
Prereq- one course in philosophy.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM SH*352   Kovach, Adam                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   304 METAPHYSICS                              Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Examination of metaphysical theories in the works of historical and
contemporary thinkers.  Topics may include: free will, the identity of
persons overtime, causation, possibility and necessity, design and
chance, the nature of existence, the nature of time.
Prereq- one course in philosophy.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:15PM PL*119   Kovach, Adam                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   306 ETHICS                                   Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course deals with fundamental questions of value and
morality-questions such as: What sort of life is best? What kind of
preson is it best to be?  What does morality require of us?  It also
deals with important second-order questions about these fundamental
questions-for example: Can morality be justified?  How can we know
what's right or good?  Is there moral truth? What is the relation
between morality and self-interest? Readings are drawn from both
classical and contemporary sources.
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM SH*303   Arpaly, Nomy                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   307 SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
What makes a society just?  On what grounds may the liberty of
individuals be legitimately limited?  What social ends may a state
legitimately pursue?
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM SH*309   Sher, George                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   317 ETHICS AND EXISTENCE                     Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
An examination of the concept of ethical obligation from an existential
point of view.  Readings from Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre,
Derrida, Levinas, and Apel.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM SH*460   Crowell, Steven                *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   357 INCOMPLETENESS, UNDECIDABILITY AND COMPU Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Proof of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems for number theory in several
forms and by various methods, as well as development of several
difinitions of computability for number-theoretic functions,which
are then shown to be equivalent.  Includes proof of the unsolvability of
the Halting Problem and analysis of Church's thesis, as well as
exploration of the extension of  the concept of computability to
real-valued functions.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM PL*120   Grandy, Richard                *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   402 INDEPENDENT READING II                   Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
See Phil 401.
001 TBA     TBA                      Sher, George                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   513 SEMINAR: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE           Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TH      01:00PM-04:00PM RH*240   Roush, Sherrilyn               *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   521 SEMINAR IN KANT AND HEGEL                Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 T       02:00PM-05:00PM          Engelhardt, Hugo               *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   530 HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY           Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Offered alternate years.
001 M       02:00PM-05:00PM SH*352   Grandy, Richard                *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   536 SEMINAR IN MEDICAL ETHICS                Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
An examination of the theoretical foundations of bioethics emphasizing
principlism, utilitarianism, Kantianism, contractarianism, medicalism,
post-modernism, and casuistry.
Prereq- permission of instructor for undergraduates.
001 W       02:00PM-05:00PM SH*352   Brody, Baruch                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   602 ADV INDEPENDENT READING II               Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      Sher, George                   *CURRENT ENR: 0
002                                  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

PHIL   800 RESEARCH AND THESIS                      Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      Sher, George                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

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