I (
ShaughanLavine) put together this classification fast and without much thought to provide a basis for discussion. There is probably something in it to offend every member of the Department. Within each area, courses are in order by number. My assignment of courses to areas is of necessity somewhat arbitrary, since I know nothing of most of the courses beyond their catalog descriptions. This, after all, is the point of a wiki: if you see something you don't like,
change it. I apologize for the long ugly line immediately below each course name. That line populates the list of people who have taught the course. If you move or copy a course, move or copy that line along with it. Note that is is a single line: if you break it into pieces, it will stop working. Remember: The system saves every version of everything, and so you can't break anything. The worst that can happen is that you'll have to ask
ShaughanLavine to restore an old version.
The point of the attempt at classifying courses into areas is that it will provide a forum for discussing which areas need more courses, given our present faculty, which need fewer, and which are so thin that that suggests that we need to think about hiring faculty.
Areas of Philosophy
History of Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy
AncientPhilosophy260
ReadingsinGreekPhilosophy412
GreekPhilosophy470
AncientPhilosophy472A
AncientPhilosophy472B
ReadingsinGreekPhilosophy512
GreekPhilosophy570
AncientPhilosophy572A
AncientPhilosophy572B
HistoryofPhilosophyAncient
Ancient Philosophy Comments
Rachana Kamtekar will be arriving in Fall 2005, and so more courses will be taught in Ancient Philosophy. Julia proposes the following: replace
GreekPhilosophy470 and
GreekPhilosophy570 with two new course sequences, say,
IssuesinGreekPhilosophy4xx ,
IssuesinGreekPhilosophy5xx ,
TopicsinGreekPhilosophy4xx , and
TopicsinGreekPhilosophy5xx . (The reason for the question marks is that no course description has as yet been filled in.) Julia feels that making the topics of the courses more specific (Hellenistic Philosophy, Ancient Ethics, Ancient Skepticism, and so forth) would result in so many courses that they would wind up not being taught often enough and being dropped from the catalog. That seems sensible to me. In addition, we would need to increase the number of times the ancient courses can be repeated for credit and require approval of the instructor. I have made more specific proposals under the different course descriptions.
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Medieval Philosophy
MedievalPhilosophy
Modern Philosophy
TwentiethCenturyPhilosophy
EarlyModernPhilosophy
FromHegelNietzsche19thCenturyPhilosophy
RationalismandEmpiricism471A
RationalismandEmpiricism471B
RationalismandEmpiricism571A
RationalismandEmpiricism571B
History of Analytic Philosophy
EarlyAnalyticPhilosophy467
EarlyAnalyticPhilosophy567
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Metaphysics
ShaughanLavine - 27 Apr 2005 - 20:35 - 1.7 " class="twikiLink">Metaphysics440
ShaughanLavine - 27 Apr 2005 - 20:36 - 1.4 " class="twikiLink">Metaphysics540
ShaughanLavine - 09 Dec 2004 - 20:41 - 1.2 " class="twikiLink">Metaphysics596B
Epistemology
TheoryofKnowledge441
KnowledgeandSociety443
TheoryofKnowledge541
KnowledgeandSociety543
ShaughanLavine - 09 Dec 2004 - 20:41 - 1.2 " class="twikiLink">Epistemology
Mind, Language, and Logic
Mind
MindsBrainsandComputers
KnowledgeandCognition
NeuralNetworkModels445
PhilosophyofMind450
PhilosophyandPsychology451
PhilosophyandArtificialIntelligence455
NeuralNetworkModels545
PhilosophyofMind550
PhilosophyandPsychology551
PhilosophyandArtificialIntelligence555
PhilosophyofMind596K
PhilosophyandCognitiveScience
Language
IntroductiontothePhilosophyofLanguage
MeaninginLanguageandSociety
PsychologyofLanguage432
PhilosophyofLanguage463
ShaughanLavine - 09 Dec 2004 - 23:09 - 1.5 " class="twikiLink">Pragmatics465
LexicalSemantics
PsychologyofLanguage532
PhilosophyofLanguage563
FormalSemantics
ShaughanLavine - 09 Dec 2004 - 20:37 - 1.2 " class="twikiLink">Pragmatics565
TopicsinLinguisticsandPhilosophy
PhilosophyofLanguage596L
Logic
LogicandCriticalThinking
IntroductiontoSymbolicLogic
SymbolicLogic401A
SymbolicLogic401B
MathematicalLogic402
PhilosophicalLogic
PhilosophyofMathematics416
FoundationsofMathematics403
SymbolicLogic501A
SymbolicLogic501B
MathematicalLogic502
FoundationsofMathematics503
Moral and Political Philosophy
JusticeandVirtue
IntroductiontoMoralandSocialPhilosophy
PhilosophicalFoundationsofWesternCivilizationJusticeandVirtue
HistoryofMoralandPoliticalPhilosophy410A
HistoryofMoralandPoliticalPhilosophy410B
HistoryofMoralandPoliticalPhilosophy510A
HistoryofMoralandPoliticalPhilosophy510B
Moral Philosophy
ShaughanLavine - 10 Dec 2004 - 03:34 - 1.3 " class="twikiLink">Ethics596A
- ShaughanLavine - 27 Apr 2005 - 20:16 - 1.2 " class="twikiLink">DavidSchmidtz
Applied Ethics
PersonalMorality
MedicalEthics
BusinessEthics
EnvironmentalEthics
- ShaughanLavine - 27 Apr 2005 - 20:16 - 1.2 " class="twikiLink">DavidSchmidtz
Metaethics
EthicalTheory430A
EthicalTheory430B
EthicalTheory530A
EthicalTheory530B
Political Philosophy
PhilosophyofFreedom
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ShaughanLavine - 27 Apr 2005 - 20:16 - 1.2 " class="twikiLink">DavidSchmidtz
PhilosophicalPerspectivesonSociety
InductionandProbability419
SocialandPoliticalPhilosophy434
GamesandDecisions436
PhilosophyofLaw438A
InductionandProbability519
SocialandPoliticalPhilosophy534
GamesandDecisions536
PhilosophyofLaw538A
SocialandPoliticalPhilosophy596F
PhilosophyofLaw596G
Philosophy of Science and the Special Sciences
Philosophy of Science
ScienceandInquiry
IntroductiontoPhilosophyofScience
PhilosophyofScience420
PhilosophyofScience520
Philosophy of Mathematics
PhilosophyofMathematics416
PhilosophyofMathematics516
PhilosophyofMathematics596S
Philosophy of Physics
PhilosophyofthePhysicalSciences426
PhilosophyofthePhysicalSciences427
PhilosophyofthePhysicalSciences526
Searched: PhilosophyofthePhysicalSciences526;^bytaught" scope="text" web="Curriculum" order="topic" nosummary="on" nosearch="on" regex="on" nototal="on" noheader="on" format=" * $topic "
Number of topics: 0
PhilosophyofthePhysicalSciences527
PhilosophyofPhysicalScience596H
Philosophy of Biology
PhilosophyoftheBiologicalSciences421
PhilosophyoftheBiologicalSciences521
Non-Anglo-American Philosophy
African Philosophy
AfricanAmericanStudiesAHistoryofIdeas
Continental Philosophy
TwentiethCenturyPhilosophy
Eastern Philosophy
Aesthetics
PhilosophyinLiterature
ShaughanLavine - 09 Dec 2004 - 23:01 - 1.5 " class="twikiLink">Aesthetics433
ShaughanLavine - 09 Dec 2004 - 20:26 - 1.2 " class="twikiLink">Aesthetics533
None of the Above
PhilosophyofReligion
ExistentialProblems
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