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Instructor | | PHILOS (S08) | 1 INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY | BENCIVENGA, E. | A selection of philosophical problems, concepts, and methods, e.g., free will and cause and substance, personal identity, the nature of philosophy itself. | | PHILOS (S08) | 4 INTRO TO ETHICS | BENCIVENGA, E. | Selected topics from the history of ethics, e.g., the nature of the good life and the moral justification of conduct. | | PHILOS (S08) | 5 CONTEMP MORAL PRBLM | OGLE, J | Selected moral issues of current interest, e.g., abortion, sexual morality, euthanasia, capital punishment, reverse discrimination, civil disobedience, or violence. | | PHILOS (S08) | 11 HIST MEDIEVAL PHILO | GREENBERG, S. | In this course, we will study major works of several major philosophical figures from 350 to 1450—Augustine, Boethius, Anselm and Aquinas—focusing on their accounts of the nature of God and human freedom. | | PHILOS (S08) | 21 INTRO PHIL & RELIGN | BENCIVENGA, E. | An analysis of three main attitudes on the relations between religion and philosophy: philosophical argument can vindicate religious tenets, philosophical criticism can expose the irrationality of those tenets, and philosophy finds its limit in the attitude of religious faith. These three attitudes will be explored through a careful study of Anselm's Proslogion, David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, and Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. Grades will be based on a midterm and a final. A course packet including exam questions and lecture notes will be mailed electronically to the course list at the beginning of the course. | | PHILOS (S08) | 30 INTR SYMBOLIC LOGIC | ROGERS, B. | Please visit website for Logic and Philosophy of Science for course description: http://www.lps.uci.edu/home/courses/index.html | | PHILOS (S08) | 31 INTRO INDUCT LOGIC | SMEAD, R. | Please visit website for Logic and Philosophy of Science for course description: http://www.lps.uci.edu/home/courses/index.html | | PHILOS (S08) | 40 BIOMEDICAL ETHICS | NICKEL, P. | This course will acquaint students with some current issues in the ethics of biology and medicine. Students will learn the ethics and science surrounding topics of serious contemporary significance, such as genetics in health care, human embryonic stem cells, the role of physicians at the end of life, and the ethics of epidemiology. In general, Tuesdays will be devoted to lectures on various topics by guest speakers, and Thursdays will be devoted to short lectures on biological issues, and small group discussions led by student coordinators. | | PHILOS (S08) | 102 INTRO TO KNOWLEDGE | BERNECKER, S. | This course is a survey of central issues in contemporary epistemology. We will start by considering the difference between a justified and an unjustified belief. This will take us into questions like the following: If you know something, will you always know that you know it? Does knowledge always have to be based on secure foundations? What are the connections between knowledge and evidence? Then we will examine skeptical arguments that we can't really know whether the world is the way it appears to us. Perhaps things only appear the way they do because we are wired up to computers which are force-feeding us the experiences we have. If so, then
all we can really know about are our own private thoughts and experiences. | | PHILOS (S08) | 105C INCOMPLETENESS | JOHNSON, K. | Please visit website for Logic and Philosophy of Science for course description: http://www.lps.uci.edu/home/courses/index.html | | PHILOS (S08) | 106 MODAL LOGIC | ANTONELLI, G. | Please visit website for Logic and Philosophy of Science for course description: http://www.lps.uci.edu/home/courses/index.html | | PHILOS (S08) | 113 LOCKE, BERKELEY, AND HUME | GREENBERG, S. | In this course, we will read John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, George Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, and the first book of David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. Our focus will be on these philosophers’ contributions to theoretical philosophy, in particular, on their accounts of the scope of human knowledge and the nature of cognition. Special attention will be given to the interaction of philosophy and religion in these works. | | PHILOS (S08) | 114 GERMAN IDEALISM | BERNECKER, S. | This course offers an introduction to the epistemology and metaphysics of post-Kantian Idealism. We will study selected texts by Kant, Reinhold, Schulze, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel.
| | PHILOS (S08) | 130 VIRTUES AND VICES | KENT, B. | “Virtue ethics” now ranks with Kantianism and consequentialism as one of the dominant approaches to normative ethics. This course surveys recent theories of virtue and objections to them, as well as specific virtues and
vices. Perhaps the greatest challenge comes from social psychology: that the general character traits today’s philosophers usually treat as virtues, such as honesty, don’t even exist. All assigned readings will be on the course website. Two papers and a final exam. | | PHILOS (S08) | 141C QUANTUM MECHANICS | BARRETT, J. | Please visit website for Logic and Philosophy of Science for course description: http://www.lps.uci.edu/home/courses/index.html |
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