Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Philosophy (PHIL)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
NOTE: Course web pages are available for some PHIL courses.
PHIL 100 PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 103 PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I An examination of current research in cognitive science and its philosophical implications. Topics include whether the mind is a computational system, how the mind is organized, whether certain components of the mind are innate. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 106 LOGIC Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 108 PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE: A LITERARY/HIST. INT Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Intro to philosophy. 001 TBA - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Crowell, Steven G. Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 202 HIST OF PHILOSOPHY II Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I A survey of the history of philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. 001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Kulstad, Mark A. Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 301 ANCIENT&MEDIEVAL PHIL Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Survey of major philosophical writings from the fourth century B.C. through the fourteenth. Also offered as PHIL 501 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 302 MODERN PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Examination of themes or authors in modern philosophy. 001 TBA - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Kulstad, Mark A. Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 303 THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Topics: analysis of knowledge, foundations of knowledge, skepticism, perception, etc. Prereq- one course in philosophy. 001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 304 METAPHYSICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 306 ETHICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 307 SOCIAL&POLITICAL PHIL Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Sher, George Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 308 CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Close study of topics and figures in 20th century European philosophy, with an emphasis on the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl and Heidegger. Topics vary from year to year; may be repeated for credit with departmental permission. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 311 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 312 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I This course provides a survey of contemporary philosophical theories about the mind, with a special emphasis on the problem of consciousness and the problem of mental representation. How is it that human beings, and perhaps other animals, are able to have conscious experiences? How is that we are able to represent the world to ourselves in thought? What are thougths? Are they neurological/physical states? If not, what else could they be? No prerequisites. One prior course in philosophy recommended. Also offered as PHIL 512 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 313 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 315 ETHICS, MEDICINE & PUB POLICY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Examination of ethical and policy questions raised by contemporary medical techniques and by contemporary modes for the delivery of medical services. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 316 PHILOSOPHY OF LAW Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Examination of social control of private property, compensation in the law of torts, the right to privacy and bodily integrity, and justice through compensatory discrimination, etc. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 317 ETHICS AND EXISTENCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA - MWF 11:00PM - 11:50PM Crowell, Steven G. Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 321 KANT & 19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 An examination of Kant and post-Kantian philosophy on the 19th century - including Hegel and German Idealism, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Dilthey. Topics vary from year to year; may be repeated for credit with departmental permission. 001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 353 PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Philosophical investigation of relations among language, thought, and reality. Prereq- one course in Philosophy or permission of instructor. Also offered as LING 353 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 355 PHIL TOPICS IN ADVANCED LOGIC Credits 3.00 Spring 00 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 strenghts 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 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 357 INCOMPLETENESS, UNDECIDABILITY AND COMPU Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Grandy, Richard E. Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 390 PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 An introduction to some of the philisophical issues arising in classical and/or twentieth-century physical theories, such as Newtonian mechanics, classical electrodynamics, relativity theory, and quantum mechanics. Topics to be chosen for class discussion may include the debate between different views about the nature of space and time and interpretative problems in quantum theory. Some background in physics is a plus, but the relevant technical material is introduced in class as needed. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 402 INDEP. READING II Credits Spring 00 See Phil 401. 001 TBA Sher, George Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 501 SEMINAR IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description Also offered as PHIL 301 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 504 SEMINAR IN METAPHYSICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 506 ETHICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 508 SEM IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: PHIL 513 SEMINAR IN PHILSOPHY OF SCIENCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 521 SEMINAR IN KANT AND HEGEL Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Engelhardt, H. Tristram Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 530 HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Offered alternate years. 001 TBA - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Grandy, Richard E. Enr: 0 Max: 50 PHIL 536 SEMINAR IN MEDICAL ETHICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 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 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Brody, Baruch Alter Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 602 ADV INDEP READING II Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Sher, George Enr: 0 Max: NA 002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA PHIL 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Sher, George Enr: 0 Max: NA
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