Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
PHILOSOPHY
FILO 3001. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY:
MAJOR QUESTIONS. Three credit hours. Three
hours of lecture per week.
An introduction to the major questions dealt with in
philosophy, such as the nature of reality, the nature
of knowledge, the nature of moral and ethical
behavior, the nature and purpose of government.
FILO 3002. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY:
HISTORICAL APPROACH. Three credit hours.
Three hours of lecture per week.
An introduction to the major figures in the history
of philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes,
Locke, Kant, Hegel, and others.
FILO 3155. INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per
week.
Fundamentals of moral evaluation in human
conduct.
FILO 3156. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY
ETHICS. Three credit hours. Three hours of
lecture per week.
Modern and contemporary ethical systems, with
special emphasis on Puerto Rican moral thinkers.
FILO 3157. INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per
week.
Introduction to logical thinking. Syllogisms and
elementary truth functions, methods such as Venn
diagrams and truth tables used to solve elementary
arguments, and the nature of induction.
FILO 3158. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
History of philosophy from the Presocratics to
Plotinus.
FILO 3159. MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: FILO 3001 or FILO 3002 or FILO
3158.
History of philosophy from Saint Augustine to
Francisco Suárez.
FILO 3165. MODERN PHILOSOPHY. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: FILO 3001 or FILO 3002 or FILO
3158 or FILO 3159.
History of philosophy from the Renaissance to
Immanuel Kant.
FILO 3166. CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per
week. Prerequisite: FILO 3001 or FILO 3002 or
FILO 3165.
History of philosophy of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.
FILO 3167. SYMBOLIC LOGIC I. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
The method of deduction for solving truth
functions; quantification; laws of deduction
extended to quantified propositions.
FILO 3168. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: FISI 3171 or FISI 3161 or FISI 3151
or FISI 3091 or CIFI 3012.
Introductory philosophical exposition of the
development and the fundamental assumptions of
the principal concepts and theories of science,
particularly of modern physics.
FILO 3169. EXISTENTIALISM. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Fundamental categories of human existence
according to Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre,
and others.
FILO 3175. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Philosophical consideration of history as a human
process; principal theories.
FILO 3178. BUSINESS ETHICS. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Introduction to business ethics, morality in
production, marketing, advertising and labor
relations. Analysis of these topics in national and
multinational organizations from the perspective of
the Western Philosophical ethical tradition.
FILO 4025. MEDICAL ETHICS. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Moral values involved in medical decisions, using
as a basis the fundamental ethical theories of the
history of philosophy.
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