PHI 2100 Introduction to Logic . . . . . 3(3,0)
Methods and principles used in distinguishing correct from incorrect reasoning: definition, informal fallacies, traditional Aristotelian categorical logic.

PHI 2603 Ethics in Contemporary Society . . . . . 3(3,0)
Explores the fundamental problems of Western ethics, the classical and Judeo-Christian traditions, modern ideals of the good for the individual business, politics and the environment.

PHI 3130 Modern Logic . . . . . 3(3,0)
Training and skills of modern symbolic logic and their application to evaluation of arguments. Propositional logic, predicate logic.

PHI 3400 Philosophy of Science . . . . . 3(3,0)
Concepts and types of explanation used in sciences. May include differences between natural and social sciences, inductive reasoning and scientific explanation, and relation of science to society.

PHI 3640 Environmental Ethics . . . . . 3(3,0)
This course introduces students to issues and problems in the field of environmental ethics. Theories of value are investigated in the effort to clarify the interrelations between humanity and nature. Discussions concerning the moral status of the nonhuman community will not be restricted to debates over value theory alone, but will also encompass metaphysical issues that bear upon environmental problems.

PHI 3670 Ethics . . . . . 3(3,0)
Philosophical theories concerning nature of the good, moral obligation, human excellence and application of ethical theory to problems of the individual in relation to society.

PHI 3700 Philosophy of Religion . . . . . 3(3,0)
Problem of religious language. Arguments for atheism and existence of God. Phenomenology of religious experience. Problems of evil and nature of God. Theories of immortality.

PHI 3800 Philosophy of Art . . . . . 3(3,0)
Creative process-artist and percipient. Various art forms: painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, theatre, music. Theories of evaluation. Artist and community; commercialism, propaganda and pornography.

PHI 3883 Philosophy in Existential Literature . . . . . 3(3,0)
Study of selected contemporary existential novelists such as Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Malraux, Camus, Sartre, who emphasize changing approaches to perennial philosophical problems like the nature and destiny of man, evil, freedom and God.

PHI 4300 Theory of Knowledge . . . . . 3(3,0)
Various theories of relation between human knowledge and reality; empirical, rationalistic, linguistic and phenomenological.

PHI 4422 Phenomenology of Human Emotions . . . . . 3(3,0)
A phenomenological description and analysis of some of the most fundamental human emotions such as dread, guilt, boredom, rage, love, hate, horror, joy and sorrow.

PHI 4636 Ethics and the Professions . . . . . 3(3,0)
This course is designed to introduce students to the moral and conceptual foundations of ethics, to various ways of analyzing selected problems in the field, and to applications of various theories to the professions.

PHI 5349 Hermeneutics and Art . . . . . 3(3,0)
Traditional, structuralist and post-structuralist art theory and philosophy and their relation to human self-understanding.

PHI 5681 Man, Nature and Values . . . . . 3(3,0)
Explores the interrelationship that exists between man, nature and value. Emphasis will be given to historical development on ideas concerning man's place in nature as well as to metaphysical foundations and the impact they have on the way value is conferred on the world. Issues treated will include; metaphysical theories of reality, belief systems and their influence on axiological positions, value theories of nature, anthropocentric and biocentric theories of ethics.

PHI 6425 Humanistic Understanding . . . . . 3(3,0)
Comparison of scientific explanation and humanistic understanding in the social sciences and humanities.

PHI 6646 Moral Development . . . . . 3(3,0)
Contributions of moral philosophy and other fields to the subject of ethics. Attention will be given to thoughts of David Hume and Alasdair McIntyre.

PHI 6767 Philosophy of Comparative Religion . . . . . 3(3,0)
Philosophical analysis and evaluation of philosophical and religious propositions of selected world religions. Special problems include: ultimate reality, personal or beyond all distinctions? hierarchy or coalescence of values? persons, real or illusory?

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