printer friendly pagePHIL 61: Science, Religion, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy (HPS 61)
Galileo's defense of the Copernican world-system that initiated the scientific revolution of the 17th century, led to conflict between science and religion, and influenced the development of modern philosophy. Readings focus on Galileo and Descartes.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 103: 19th-Century Philosophy
Focus is on ethics and the philosophy of history. Works include Mill's
Utilitarianism, Hegel's
The Philosophy of World History, Marx's
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, Kierkegaard's
The Sickness Unto Death, and Nietzsche's
On the Genealogy of Morals.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 104: Philosophy of Religion
Key issues in the philosophy of religion. Topics include the relationship between faith and reason, the concept of God, proofs of God's existence, the meaning of religious language, arguments for and against divine command theory in ethics and the role of religious belief in a liberal society.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 106: Ancient Skepticism (PHIL 206)
The ancient Pyrrhonian skeptics who think that for any claim there is no more reason to assert it than deny it and that a life without any beliefs is the best route to happiness. Some ancient opponents of the Pyrrhonian skeptics and some relations between ancient and modern skepticism.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 109: Topics in Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle on Art and Rhetoric (PHIL 209)
Plato's and Aristotle's views on the nature of art and rhetoric and their connections with the emotions, reason and the good life. Readings include Plato's Gorgias, Ion and parts of the Republic and the Laws and Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
PHIL 110: Plato (PHIL 210)
Plato's
Republic.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 111: Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics (PHIL 211)
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on virtue, happiness, pleasure, practical reasoning, and particularism. Sources include the Eudemian Ethics, contemporary philosophers who have taken many of these topics up again, and contemporary material such as that by Anscombe, Foot, Hursthouse, Korsgaard, and McDowell.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 113: Hellenistic Philosophy (PHIL 213)
Epicureans, skeptics, and stoics on epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and psychology.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 118: British Empiricism, 1660s-1730s
Focus is on the big three British Empiricists and their developments of thought based on the foundational role that they give to sensory perception or experience as the source of knowledge. Topics may include the theory of ideas, idealism, personal identity, human agency, moral motivation, causation, and induction. Readings predominantly from Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
PHIL 119: Rationalists (PHIL 219)
Developments in 17th-century continental philosophy. Descartes's views on mind, necessity, and knowledge. Spinoza and Leibniz emphazing their own doctrines and their criticism of their predecessors. Prerequisite: 102.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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