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espectively, of their senior year. The hours earned in these two courses do not count toward
the twenty-seven hours required of all majors.
Group I—Introduction to Philosophy
111. Basic Problems of Philosophy. (3h) Examination of the basic concepts of several representative
philosophers, including their accounts of the nature of knowledge, persons, God, mind,
and matter.
Group II—Logic
121. Logic. (3h) Elementary study of the laws of valid inference, recognition of fallacies, and
logical analysis.
221. Symbolic Logic. (3h) Basic concepts and techniques of first-order logic; applications of firstorder
logic to arguments expressed in English; some discussion of such topics as the unsolvability
of the decision problem for first-order logic, the completeness of first-order logic, and
Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
Group III—Classical Ancient Philosophy
232. Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. (3h) Study of philosophical problems such as the nature
of faith, reason, universals, and God in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Abelard,
Anselm, Aquinas, and Ockham. P—PHI 111.
331. Plato. (3h) Detailed analysis of selected dialogues, covering Plato’s most important contributions
to moral and political philosophy, theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and theology.
P—One 200-level course in philosophy or POI.
332. Aristotle. (3h) Study of the major texts, with emphasis on metaphysics, ethics, and theory of
knowledge. P—One 200-level course in philosophy or POI.
Group IV—Classical Modern Philosophy
241. Modern Philosophy. (3h) Survey of major philosophers from Descartes to Kant. P—PHI 111.
341. Kant. (3h) Detailed study of selected works covering Kant’s most important contributions
to theory of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, religion, and aesthetics. P—One 200-level course
in philosophy or POI.
342. Studies in Modern Philosophy. (3h) Treatment of selected figures and/or themes in seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century European philosophy. P—One 200-level course in philosophy
or POI.
Group V—Other History
252. Contemporary Philosophy. (3h) Study of the principal works of several representative
twentieth-century philosophers. P—PHI 111.
253. The Main Streams of Chinese Philosophy and Religion. (3h) Introduction to the most important
traditions in Chinese philosophy and religion: Confucianism, Daoism (Taoism), and
Chinese Buddhism or Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhism. Also listed as REL 380.
P H I L O S O P H Y 192