Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2002
Philosophy (PHIL)

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PHIL 101   CONT MORAL&LEGAL ISSUES                  Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Examination of the moral and legal issues surrounding such topics as abortion,
euthanasia, war, capital punishment, and equality of opportunity.
001 HUM 117 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM     Sher, George              Enr: 50 Max: 0

PHIL 104   PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE    Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The nature, origins, and impact of scientific knowledge will be examined from a
variety of disciplinary perspectives.  In addition to works by some of
history's greatest philosophers, including Descartes and Hume, readings will
include selections from twentieth century philosophers, scientists, historians,
feminists and novelists.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Roush, Sherrilyn          Enr: 20 Max: 0

PHIL 105   HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY    Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Study and discussion of central ideas of Western philosophy as developed by its
original thinkers.
001 HUM 328 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM     Zuckert, Rachel           Enr: 15 Max: 0

PHIL 202   HIST OF PHILOSOPHY II                    Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the history of philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth
century.
001 HUM 227 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Kulstad, Mark A.          Enr: 15 Max: 0

PHIL 301   ANCIENT&MEDIEVAL PHIL                    Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Topics in the history of philosophy from the fourth century B.C. through the
fourteenth.
001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM         Morrison, Donald R.       Enr: 4 Max: 0

PHIL 302   MODERN PHILOSOPHY                        Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Examination of themes or authors in 17th and 18th century philosophy,
001 HUM 118 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM     Kulstad, Mark A.          Enr: 8 Max: 0

PHIL 311   PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION                   Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Examination of God's existence, the problem of evil, the relation between faith
and reason, and the varieties of religious experience.
001 HUM 119 - TTH 02:30AM - 03:50PM     Brody, Baruch Alter       Enr: 40 Max: 0

PHIL 312   PHILOSOPHY OF MIND                       Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Inquiry into the nature of mind, with emphasis on the mind/body problem.
Prereq- One prior course in philosophy recommended.
001 RH 123 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Margolis, Eric A.         Enr: 30 Max: 0

PHIL 313   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE                    Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of contemporary issues in the philosophy of science. How do scientific
theories provide us with an understanding of the world?  How do our
observations, in turn, provide support for scientific theories?  Scientific
theories are often thought to describe laws, or causal relations, but what are
these?  How are we to understand theories that tell us that certain events are
more or less probable?  No knowledge of any one science is presupposed.
Prereq- One course in philosophy
001 HUM 118 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Roush, Sherrilyn          Enr: 9 Max: 0

PHIL 314   THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE               Credits 3.00  Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The biomedical sciences, the practice of medicine, and health care policy
employ concepts of health, disease, disability , and defect in explanatory
accounts, intermixing factural cliams with moral and other evaluations.  This
course explores the interplay of evaluation and explanation in medicine's
models of disease and health.
001 HUM 120 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Engelhardt, H. Tristram   Enr: 19 Max: 0

PHIL 335   ADVANCED TOPICS IN VALUE THEORY          Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Equality appears to be one of the central moral and (especially) political
values in liberal societies. For some decades the goal to establish equality
was so obvious for political philosophers that the only remaining question
seemed to be:What exactly is it that should be equal for all? Recently, this
concensus came under severe attack. In the course, we will look at these
controversies about the meaning and the importance of the ideal of equality.
Pre-req- One course in Philosophy or permission of instructor.
001 SH 560 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Schlothfeldt, Stephan     Enr: 7 Max: 0

PHIL 353   PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE                   Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Philosophical investigation of relations among language, thought, and reality.
Prereq- one course in Philosophy or permission of instructor.
001 HUM 120 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Margolis, Eric A.         Enr: 8 Max: 0

PHIL 355   PHIL TOPICS IN ADVANCED LOGIC            Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Various systems of formalization for modalities, tenses and other intensional
concepts are studied syntactically and semantically.  Students use and compare
these systems and evaluate their strengths and limits.  These provide examples
for discussion of questions such as:  What is a logical constant?  What is the
scope of logic?
Prereq- Phil 305
001 HUM 327 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Grandy, Richard E.        Enr: 6 Max: NA

PHIL 390   CONTEMPORARY TOPICS: POLITICAL VIOLENCE  Credits 3.00  Spring 02
State and non-state actors alike uses sometimes violence to reach their
political goals. In general, we think that the state is the only institutuin
legitimized to employ violent means in quite restricted ways. There are two
problems with this view: In the case of war against other states, it is not
easy to restrict violence effectively. And there might be special conditions
justifying violent actions of non-state actors.
In the course, we will discuss
Michael Walzer's classical study "Just and Unjust War" (New York: Basic Books
2000(3) and a couple of new articles on Humanitarian Interventions, Resistance
and Terrorism.
001 HUM 227 - MWF 01:00AM - 01:50PM     Schlothfeldt, Stephan     Enr: 12 Max: 0

PHIL 402   INDEP. READING II                        Credits 3.00  Spring 02
See Phil 401.
001 TBA - TBA                           Crowell, Steven G.        Enr: 1 Max: 0

PHIL 501   SEMINAR IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY            Credits 3.00  Spring 02
No description
001 HUM 227 - T 02:00PM - 05:00PM       Morrison, Donald R.       Enr: 3 Max: 0

PHIL 508   SEMINAR IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY        Credits 3.00  Spring 02
The study of selected topics and figures in 20th century Enropean philosphy, in
particular the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and its
dissemination in movements such as existentialism, hermenueutics, and
deconstruction.
001 HUM 227 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM       Crowell, Steven G.        Enr: 7 Max: 0

PHIL 509   SEMINAR IN AESTHETICS                    Credits 3.00  Spring 02
NO DESCRIPTION
001 HUM 227 - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM       Zuckert, Rachel           Enr: 6 Max: 0

PHIL 530   SEMINAR IN HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPH Credits 3.00  Spring 02
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001 HUM 227 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM       Grandy, Richard E.        Enr: 3 Max: 0

PHIL 534   LIBERALISM                               Credits 3.00  Spring 02
An examination of the philosophical foundations of liberalism, with emphasis on
the thesis that government should be neutral toward competing conceptions of
the good life.
001 HUM 227 - TH 02:00PM - 05:00PM      Sher, George              Enr: 8 Max: 0

PHIL 599   ADVANCED INDEPENDENT READING             Credits   Spring 02
Directed reading and research.
Prereq- Philosophy graduate students only.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 2 Max: NA

PHIL 602   RESEARCH PAPER                           Credits 3.00  Spring 02
Research course normally for second year graduate students
completing research
paper requirement.
Prereq: Philosophy graduate students only.
001 TBA - TBA                           Crowell, Steven G.        Enr: 1 Max: 0

PHIL 652   MASTERS THESIS RESEARCH                  Credits   Spring 02
Research course for graduate students preparing a masters
thesis.
Prereq: philosophy graduate students only.
001 TBA - TBA                           Crowell, Steven G.        Enr: 1 Max: 0

PHIL 702   READING AND RESEARCH FOR COMPREHENSIVE E Credits   Spring 02
Reading courses in preparation for the comprehensive examination and thesis
proposal defense.
Preq-Philosophy Graduate Students only.
001 TBA - TBA                           Crowell, Steven G.        Enr: 3 Max: NA

PHIL 800   RESEARCH AND THESIS                      Credits   Spring 02
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Crowell, Steven G.        Enr: 10 Max: 0