Phil 100: The Western Philosophical Tradition: Classical Beginnings (4 Units)
Philosophical thought about the nature of reality, knowledge and morality, tracing its origins in Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. 

Phil 101: Philosophical Foundations of Modern Western Culture (4 Units)
The influence on modern Western culture of philosophical thought about reality, knowledge and morality as developed by such philosophers as Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant.

Phil 115: Ancient Greek Culture and Society (4 Units)
Focus on the literary achievement from the beginning of Greek literature to the fourth century with a special emphasis on the philosophers.

Phil 130: Legal Issues and Critical Thinking (4 Units)
Development of critical thinking and reasoning skills by examination and evaluation of arguments on both sides of controversial legal issues.

Phil 140: Contemporary Moral and Social Issues (4 Units)
Application of philosophical theories in ethics to problems such as racial and sexual discrimination, I.Q., and social justice, rights of animals, law and morality, and privacy. Concurrent enrollment: WRIT 140.

Phil 141: The Professions and the Public Interest in American Life (4 Units)
The study of the nature and role of professionals in life and society, forces that shape and direct them, foundations and applications of professional ethics.

Phil 155: Modern Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (4 Units)
Modern philosophical treatments of the problem of the meaning or purpose of human life; special attention to Existentialism.

Phil 200: Problems in Philosophy (4 Units)
Introduction to analysis of philosophical problems such as freedom, value, knowledge, mind and God. Includes both classical and contemporary philosophical writers.

Phil 220: Science, Religion and the Making of the Modern Mind (4 Units)
Philosophical and religious implications of the scientific revolution of the 17th century and the Darwinian revolution in the 19th century.

Phil 240: Ethics (4 Units)
Leading approaches to moral thinking, such as theological ethics, egoism, utilitarianism, and the moral philosophies of Kant, Rawls, and others.

Phil 242: Theories of Art (4 Units)
An introduction to general theories of art and to issues concerning particular arts such as literature and drama, photography and film, painting, architecture and music.

Phil 242: Theories of Art (4 Units)

Phil 250: Elementary Formal Logic (2-2, FaSp Units)
Critical reasoning skills and their many everyday applications; theory of logically correct reasoning and its associated formal techniques.

Phil 262: Mind and Self: Modern Conceptions (4 Units)
Philosophical problems about the nature of mind associated with the rise of modern science; topics include the mind/body relation, personal identity, rationality and freedom.

Phil 300: Introduction to the Philosophical Classics (4 Units)
An examination of philosophical works which have had a profound impact on the nature of Western thought.

Phil 315: History of Western Philosophy: Ancient Period (4 Units)
Major figures in the history of Western philosophical thought from the pre-Socratics to the Hellenistic period; emphasis on Plato and Aristotle.

Phil 320: History of Western Philosophy: Modern Period (4 Units)
The development of philosophy from the 16th to the 19th centuries; emphasis on Continental Rationalism, British Empiricism, and the philosophy of Kant.

Phil 330: Theories of Law (4 Units)
Examination of some of the major classical and contemporary theories of the nature and functions of law and of its relation to morality.

Phil 335: Theoretical Models of Leadership (4 Units)

Phil 337: History of Modern Political Philosophy (4 Units)
Analysis of some of the main political philosophies of the modern era; emphasis on the ethical and metaphysical foundations of political philosophy.

Phil 338: Political Economy and Social Issues (4, Sp Units)
(Enroll in ECON 338) Contending politico-economic perspectives in modern Western thought and culture; absolutist, liberal, democratic, Marxist, anarchist, and other traditions, topics and issues.

Phil 340: Ethics (4 Units)
Leading approaches to moral thinking, such as theological ethics, egoism, utilitarianism, and the moral philosophies of Kant, Rawls, and others. (Duplicates credit in former PHIL 240.)

Phil 345: Greek Ethics (4 Units)
Examination of the progress of the ethical thought and legal and political institutions of ancient Greece with an emphasis on the Nichomachean Ethics of Aristotle.

Phil 347: Philosophy in Literature (4 Units)
Philosophical content in representative European and American literature; philosophical problems about literature such as the nature of truth and meaning in fiction.

Phil 350: Symbolic Logic (4, Fa Units)
Introduction to formal logic through two formal systems: propositional calculus, quantification theory; consistency, completeness, other advanced topics. Especially for philosophy, mathematics, science, and engineering majors.

Phil 355: Existentialism (4 Units)
A critical survey of major 19th and 20th century existentialist writers, including Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre.

Phil 360: Epistemology and Metaphysics (4 Units)
Examination of problems in metaphysics and/or epistemology. Conducted at the intermediate level.

Phil 361: Philosophy of Religion (4 Units)
The existence of God; mysticism, miracles and the possibility of disembodied existence; the problem of evil; religion and morality; the meaning of religious language.

Phil 385: Science and Rationality (4 Units)
Examination of the rationality of the scientific enterprise, and of the relation between science and human values.

Phil 390: Special Problems (1-4 units) (1-4 Units)
Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.

Phil 410: Early Greek Thought (4 Units)
A study of the Greek thinkers from Homer to the age of Socrates; emphasis on the pre-Socratic philosophers.

Phil 411: Plato (4 Units)
Detailed study of the evolution of Plato's thought as revealed in selected dialogues.

Phil 415: Western Philosophy from Aristotle to St. Thomas (4 Units)
Intensive examination of select figures and problems in the history of philosophy in the late Greek and early Medieval period; emphasis on Aristotle and St. Thomas

Phil 421: Continental Rationalism (4 Units)
Development of philosophy on the continent from the 17th to the 19th centuries; emphasis on the philosophical works of Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza.

Phil 422: British Empiricism (4 Units)
Development of philosophy in Great Britain from the 17th to the 19th centuries; emphasis on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.

Phil 423: The Critical Philosophy of Kant (4 Units)
Intensive study of the philosophical works of Kant.

Phil 424: 19th Century Philosophy (4 Units)
Leading figures and movements in 19th century philosophy; works of such philosophers as Hegel, Schopenhauer, Mill, Nietzsche, and Bradley.

Phil 425: American Philosophy (4 Units)
Leading figures and movements in American philosophy; works of such philosophers as Jonathan Edwards, Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and C. I. Lewis.

Phil 426: 20th Century European Philosophy (4 Units)
Main philosophers and movements from 1900, including the major developments within phenomenology and existentialism, the emergence of structuralism and hermeneutics.

Phil 427: 20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy (4 Units)
Leading figures and movements in recent Anglo-American philosophy; Russell (logical atomism), Dewey and Lewis (pragmatism), Ayer and Carnap (positivism), Wittgenstein and Austin (linguistic analysis).

Phil 429: Oriental Philosophy (4 Units)
Selected readings from the major philosophical writers of India, China, and Japan.

Phil 430: Philosophy of Law (4 Units)
The nature of law, legal realism, legal positivism; concepts used in law, such as punishment, responsibility, insanity, negligence, strict liability; law and morality.

Phil 432: Philosophy of History (4 Units)
Western historical writing and thought; the nature of historical knowledge; historical explanation; history and values.

Phil 434: Law and Ethics in Classical Greece (4 Units)
Progress of written and ethical thought in Ancient Greece. Special emphasis on (a) the transition from oral to custom law, and (b) Greek ethics from Homer to Aristotle. Prerequisite: departmental approval.

Phil 437: Social and Political Philosophy (4 Units)
The nature of man and society, the nature of justification of state and government, political rights and political obligation, justice and equality.

Phil 440: Contemporary Ethical Theory (4 Units)
Ethical theories in the 20th century; contemporary theories of value and obligation; metaethical theories; intuitionism, naturalism, and non-cognitivism; concepts of justice, human rights, and freedom.

Phil 442: History of Ethics to 1900 (4 Units)
An historical and critical study of the great moral philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, and the British moralists.

Phil 443: Value Theory (4 Units)
The evaluation of individual and social ends; consideration of such topics as values and rational choice, the good of a person, hedonism, welfare, ideals, and utopias.

Phil 445: Philosophy of the Arts (4 Units)
Principal theories of the nature of, and response to, art; examination of form and content in various arts; consideration of the role of criticism.

Phil 446: Aesthetics and the Film (4 Units)
Problems in the philosophy of art raised by film, such as the notion of "cinematic"; the nature of interpretation of films; criteria for evaluating films.

Phil 450: Intermediate Symbolic Logic (4, Sp Units)
Review of propositional and quantificational logic; elementary set theory; alternative proof systems. Prerequisite: PHIL 350 or departmental approval.

Phil 460: Metaphysics (4 Units)
Systematic introduction to basic concepts, including identity, difference, existence, individuals, substance, quality, and relation; emphasis on idealism, materialism, and the ontology of intentionality.

Phil 462: Philosophy of Mind (4 Units)
Philosophical analysis of concepts of mind and mental phenomena, such as emotion, intention, and sensation; consideration of the mind/body problem and contemporary responses to it.

Phil 463: Theories of Action (4 Units)
Systematic investigation of classical and contemporary theories of action and study of "action-concepts" central to recent developments in meta-ethics and metaphysics.

Phil 465: Philosophy of Language (4 Units)
The nature of communication, meaning, reference, truth, necessity, speech acts, convention, and language.

Phil 470: Theory of Knowledge (4 Units)
Discussion of the nature and scope of human knowledge; consideration of such concepts as meaning, evidence, perception, belief, and certainty.

Phil 473: Wittgenstein (4 Units)
A detailed study of the philosophical works of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Phil 480: Philosophy of Mathematics (4 Units)
The nature of mathematical truth and the nature of mathematical entities.

Phil 485: Development of Physical Science (4 Units)
Concepts central in the advance of physical science such as the concepts of space, time, mass, force; philosophical problems concerning quantum mechanics.

Phil 486: Methodologies of the Sciences (4 Units)
Comparison of the methodologies of the natural, social, and/or behavioral sciences; consideration of such topics as the concept of scientific law, prediction, explanation, confirmation.

Phil 490: Directed Research (2-8, max 8 Units)
Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit. Prerequisite: departmental approval.

Phil 494: Senior Thesis (4 Units)
Independent studies for philosophy majors, and guidance in the preparation of the senior thesis for students who wish to graduate with honors in philosophy. Not open to graduate students.

Phil 499: Special Topics (2-4, max 8 Units)
Selected topics in various specialty areas within philosophy.