Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

PHIL 366
Philosophy of Religion
3 Semester Hours
A philosophical investigation of the issues surrounding
religion and religious beliefs. Possible topics will include:
religious language, problem of evil, immortality, theism,
and atheism.
PHIL 368
Chinese Ethics and Asian Values
3 Semester Hours
This course explores four schools of thought in ancient
China—Confucianism, Taoism, Moism, and Legalism—
focusing on each school’s texts, important characteristics,
influences, ethical ideas, and their impacts on contemporary
Chinese ethical thought.
Offered in Beijing.
V. History of Philosophy
PHIL 381
Ancient Philosophy
3 Semester Hours
A study of pre-Socratic thought, Plato, and Aristotle. Part of
the history sequence for majors.
PHIL 382
Philosophy in Late Antiquity
3 Semester Hours
A study of major philosophical currents after Aristotle,
including Neo-Platonism, Stoicism, and early Christian
reactions to Greek philosophy.
PHIL 383
Medieval Philosophy
3 Semester Hours
A study of the major philosophical movements from
Augustine to Ockham. Part of the history sequence for
majors.
PHIL 385
Modern Philosophy I
3 Semester Hours
A study of 17th-century Rationalism and 18th-century
Empiricism, including Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke,
Berkeley, and Hume. Part of the history sequence for
majors.
PHIL 387
Modern Philosophy II
3 Semester Hours
PHILOSOPHY / 205
A study of Kant and post-Kantian developments, including
19th-century German idealism. Part of the history sequence
for majors.
PHIL 398
Special Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
PHIL 399
Independent Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
VI. Contemporary Movements
PHIL 421
Pragmatism
3 Semester Hours
A study of 19th and 20th century pragmatism, including
the philosophies of Charles Sanders Peirce, William James,
and John Dewey.
PHIL 422
The Analytic Tradition
3 Semester Hours
An examination of some of the most influential philosophers
whose work constitutes the Anglo-American tradition of
the 20th century, including Frege, Russell, G.E. Moore,
Wittgenstein, the Logical Positivists, the Ordinary Language
Philosophers, and several contemporary post-analytic
philosophers.
PHIL 423
Phenomenology
3 Semester Hours
An introduction to phenomenological method through
the close study of the works of Husserl and later
phenomenologists.
PHIL 424
Existentialism
3 Semester Hours
A study of 20th-century European existential philosophy
and its 19th-century forerunners.
PHIL 426
Postmodernism
3 Semester Hours
A study of strategies in Western philosophy from Meister
Eckhart and Nicolaus Cusanus to Spinoza/Nietzsche/
Scheler, Fichte/Peirce/Mead, Wittgenstein/Heidegger/
Gadamer, and Derrida/Foucault.