LGIC1710 - Intro Logic
This course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.
LGST1000 - Ethics & Social Resp
This course explores business responsibility from rival theoretical and managerial perspectives. Its focus includes theories of ethics and their application to case studies in business. Topics include moral issues in advertising and sales; hiring and promotion; financial management; corporate pollution; product safety; and decision-making across borders and cultures.
PHIL1000 - Intro to Philosophy
Philosophers ask difficult questions about the most basic issues in human life. Does God exist? What can we know about the world? What does it mean to have a mind? How should I treat non-human animals? Do I have free will? This course is an introduction to some of these questions and to the methods philosophers have developed for thinking clearly about them.
PHIL1710 - Intro Logic
This course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.
PHIL2620 - Intro Epist and Metaphysics
Two basic assumptions of academic research are that there are truths and we can know them. Epistemology is the study of knowledge, what it is, how it is produced, and how we can have it. Metaphysics, the study of the basic constituents of reality, the study of being as such. In this introduction to metaphysics and epistemology, we will ask hard questions about the nature of reality and knowledge. No philosophy background is required for this course.
PHIL3330 - Topics in Ethics
This seminar for philosophy majors will cover selected topics in ethics. The content will vary from semester to semester.
PHIL3991 - Topics in Philosophy
This seminar is restricted to philosophy majors (all others require a permit). Topic will vary by semester.
PHIL4998 - Directed Honors Research
Open only to senior majors in philosophy. Student arranges with a faculty member to do an honors thesis on a suitable topic.
PHIL5562 - Topics in Philosophy of Work
This is a graduate course on topics in the philosophy of work. In this class, we'll look at work in philosophy and social science to examine questions like the following: What is work? What makes work meaningful and what makes it good? What role does and should work play in shaping workers ethically and epistemically? What role does and should work play in society more generally? What role do and should workers play in shaping the firms for which they work? How should we distribute or compensate for “bad” work? Should people be able to opt out of work (for instance, by receiving basic income payments)? What does a good relationship between a firm and a worker look like? Undergraduates need permission.
PHIL5620 - Topics in Epistemology
This seminar will cover topics of interest to contemporary epistemologists. Possible topics may include skepticism, accounts of knowledge and justification, virtue epistemology, formal epistemology, social epistemology, feminist epistemology, meta-epistemology and epistemic normativity.
PHIL5651 - Philosophy of AI
This is a graduate-level seminar focused on select philosophical questions raised by artificial intelligence. Potential questions that might be covered include: How should AI reshape work, education, research, art, and human relationships, and what would be gained or lost if it replaced humans in those domains? What are the implications of AI for society, democracy, and the long-term future of humanity? Can (non-human) machines think, understand, or be conscious? Can AI systems mean things by what they say, be creative, or make genuine scientific discoveries? What are algorithms, and can we know things on the basis of systems whose workings we cannot explain? Could a machine be morally responsible or have moral status of its own? Drawing on philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and ethics, the course examines both what AI is and what it means for human life. Specific topics vary by semester. No technical background is required.
PHIL5710 - Intro Logic
This graduate-level course provides an introduction to some of the fundamental ideas of logic. Topics will include truth functional logic, quantificational logic, and logical decision problems.
PHIL6000 - Proseminar
An intensive seminar for first-year doctoral students, with readings drawn from recent and contemporary eistemology and metaphysics, broadly construed. Students will develop their abilities to present and discuss philosophical texts, and to write and revise their own papers.
PHIL6999 - Independent Study
Directed readings in consultation with individual faculty members.
PHIL7000 - Dissertation Workshop
Registration required for all third-year doctoral students. Third-year students and beyond attend and present their dissertation work or their preliminary exam prospectus. From time to time, topics pertaining to professional development and dissertation writing will be discussed.
PHIL9998 - Teaching Practicum
Supervised teaching experience. Four semesters are required of all Doctoral students in philosophy.
PHIL9999 - Independent Study
Directed readings in consultation with individual faculty members.
