PHI 2400.  Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.  Cr. 3.

Religious beliefs provide subject matter for philosophical study: Are the traditional arguments for the existence of God credible? Does the existence of evil conflict with a belief in God's omnipotence and omnibenevolence? What is the value of religious experience? Discussion of these questions will assist in evaluating a pervasive element within human experience.

The College of Liberal Arts offers a Minor in Religious Studies.  For information about this program, click here.

This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

The distinction between knowledge and belief is germane to every field of inquiry. What is the difference between knowledge and belief? Do we know anything at all? Are we ever in a position of being certain about beliefs pertaining to an objective world? Is our belief in an objective world based on our subjective experiences?

This course satisfies the General Education Requirement in Philosophy and Letters (PL).

A survey and examination of some of the enduring questions of metaphysics concerning the nature of reality. Topics include: the nature of physical objects, abstract entities, the concepts of time and change, the relation between mind and body, causation, and the nature of metaphysics.

Prereq: one course in philosophy or in a physical science or consent of instructor. A survey of some principle problems concerning the concepts of space and time and their relation to physical theories. Topics include: our knowledge of the geometric features of the world, the existence of space and time, time without change, the passage of time, the philosophical foundations and implications of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, and the explanation of motion and the General Theory of Relativity. No prior knowledge of modern physics will be presupposed.

Prereq: PHI 1850 or 1860 or any course from the Philosophical Problems group or consent of instructor. Intensive investigation and discussion of special topics or particular authors in the philosophy of science.

Prereq: any course from the Philosophical Problems group or consent of instructor. Intensive investigation and discussion of special topics or particular authors in metaphysics.

Prereq: any course from the Philosophical Problems group or consent of instructor. Intensive investigation and discussion of special topics or particular authors in the theory of knowledge.

Prereq: any course from the Philosophical Problems group or consent of instructor. Intensive investigation and discussion of special topics or particular authors concerned with the nature and status of the mental and theories about the mental.

Prereq: PHI 1850 or 1860 or any course from the Philosophical Problems group or graduate student in linguistics consent of instructor. Intensive investigation and discussion of philosophical problems concerning meaning, truth, and the nature of language.

Prereq: PHI 1850 or 1860 or any course from the Philosophical Problems group or consent of instructor. Major works, movements, and writers in the analytic tradition in the twentieth century up to the 1940's. Frege, Russell. Moore, the early Wittgenstein, Carnap.

Prereq: PHI 1850 or 1860 or any course from the Philosophical Problems group or consent of instructor. Major works, movements, and writers in the analytic tradition in the twentieth century from the 1940's to the present. Quine, Austin, Ryle, the later Wittgenstein.

Prereq: one 5000-level philosophy course or consent of instructor.

Prereq: one 5000-level philosophy course or consent of instructor.

Prereq: one 5000-level philosophy course or consent of instructor.

            Prereq: one 5000-level philosophy course or consent of instructor.

Prereq: one 5000-level philosophy course or consent of instructor.