Current version - Indiana University South Bend

IU SOUTH BEND COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 4375
PHIL-P 311
PHIL-P 312
PHIL-P 313
PHIL-P 320
PHIL-P 325
PHIL-P 335
PHIL-P 340
Metaphysics of Physical Nature (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. Topics such as
space, time, causality, determinism,
events and change, relation of the mental
and the physical, personal identity.
Topics in Theory of Knowledge (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. Topics such as
various theories of perceptual realism,
sense-datum theories, theories of
appearing, phenomenalism, the nature
of knowledge, the relation between
knowledge and belief, relation between
knowledge and evidence, and the problem
of skepticism.
Theories of Knowledge (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. Topics such as
the nature of knowledge, the relation of
knowledge and belief, knowledge and
evidence, knowledge and certainty, and
the problem of skepticism.
Philosophy and Language (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. A study of selected
philosophical problems concerning
language and their bearing on traditional
problems in philosophy.
Social Philosophy (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. Concentrated study
of one or more major problems, positions,
or authors. May be repeated for credit.
Phenomenology and Existentialism
(3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. A study of Edmund
Husserl’s philosophy and its extension and
criticism in the works of such existential
phenomenologists as Heidegger, Sartre,
and Merleau-Ponty. Topics include the
nature of consciousness, intentionality,
freedom, intersubjectivity.
Classics in Ethics (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. Selected readings
from authors such as Plato, Aristotle,
Stoics, Epicureans, Augustine, Aquinas,
covering such topics as the relation of
virtue and human nature, duty and selfinterest,
pleasure and the good.
PHIL-P 342
PHIL-P 343
PHIL-P 344
PHIL-P 345
PHIL-P 346
Butler, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, covering
such topics as the role of reason in
ethics, the role of the emotions in ethics,
the objectivity of moral principles, the
relation of religion to ethics.
Problems of Ethics (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. May concentrate
on a single large problem, e.g.,
whether utilitarianism is an adequate
ethical theory, or several more or less
independent problems, e.g., the nature of
goodness, the relation of good to ought,
the objectivity of moral judgements.
Classics in Social and Political
Philosophy (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. Selected readings
from ancient and medieval sources such
as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas,
focusing on such topics as metaphysical
commitments and political theory, the
ideal state, the nature and proper ends of
the state, natural law, and natural rights.
Classics in Social and Political
Philosophy 2 (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. Selected readings
from seventeenth to nineteenth century
sources, such as Machiavelli, Bodin,
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Bentham,
Mill, Marx, focusing on such topics as the
ones mentioned in PHIL-P 343 and such
additional topics as the social contract
theory of the state and the notion of
community.
Problems in Social and Political
Philosophy (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy
or consent of instructor. Problems of
contemporary relevance: justice and
economic distribution, participatory
democracy, conscience and authority, law
and morality.
classics in Philosophy of Art (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy
or consent of instructor. Selected
philosophical problems concerning
art and art criticism. Topics such
as the definition of art, expression,
representation, style, form and content,
the aesthetic and the cognitive.
PHIL-P 341
Ethical Classics 2 (3 cr.)
P: Three credit hours of philosophy or
consent of instructor. Selected readings
from authors such as Spinoza, Hume,