~EGULAR SESSION - University of Oregon

194 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
Phi 416. Aristotle. (G) 3 hours.
Aristotle's major writings on theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and ethics.
Zweig.
Phi 417. Hume. (G) 3 hours.
Hume's writings on knowledge, morals, and religion. Ebersole.
Phi 418. Kant. (G) 3 hours.
Kant's writings on knowledge, morals, and religion. Zweig.
Phi 421, 422. Russell and his Contemporaries. (G) 3 hours each term.
Bertrand Russell's major writings on the theory of knowledge, examined in
the context of parallel studies by his contemporaries. G. E. Moore and Wittgenstein.
Zweig.
Phi 431, 432. Philosophy in Literature. (G) 3 hours each term.
Selective study of major philosophical ideas and attitudes expressed in the
literature of Europe and America. Jessup.
Phi 435. Existentialism. (G) 3 hours.
The basic ideas of the Christian and atheistics divisions of the existentialist
movement; reading of selected works of Kierkegaard, Jaspers, Heidegger, and
Sartre; some attention to precursors and to the general modern philosophical
situation which negatively has generated the existentialist "rebellion." Jessup.
Phi 441, 442, 443. Aesthetics. (G) 3 hours each term.
Systematic study of the meaning and value of aesthetic experience in everyday
life and in the arts-painting, music, literature, etc. Jessup.
Phi 452. Philosophy of Language. (G) 3 hours.
Examination of philosophical theories of language and meaning; ideals and
methods of clarification; definition, analysis; philosophy as study of language.
Selected readings. Ebersole.
Phi 453, 454. Analytic Philosophy. (G) 3 hours each term.
A critical study of recent analytic philosophy, with special emphasis on the
writings of the logical positivists and their predecessors and of contemporary
British "linguistic" philosophers.
Phi 461, 462. Symbolic Logic. (G) 3 hours each term.
Elements of modern symbolic logic. Formal methods of determining logical
validity and consistency. Drange.
Phi 465. Logical Theory. (G) 3 hours.
Meta-logic; proofs of consistency and completeness for sentential calculus
and first-order predicate calculus; Tarski's definition of truth for formalized
languages; modal logic. Prerequisite: Phi 461. Drange.
GRADUATE COURSES
*Phl 503. Thesis. Hours to be arranged.
Phi 505. Reading and Conference. Hours to be arranged.
Phi 507. Seminar. Hours to be arranged.
Phi 511, 512, 513. Problems of Knowledge. 3 hours each term.
Examinations of attempts at philosophical analysis and justification of knowledge;
perception, memory, induction, the self and other selves. Ebersole.
Phi 514, 515, 516. Ethical Theory. 3 hours each term.
An examination of contemporary ethical theory.
* No-grade course.