| PHIL 202 Problems of Philosophy |
3 Credits |
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This course introduces students to contemporary
research on the central problems of
philosophy such as the foundations of knowledge,
the basis of morality, the existence of
God, the relationship between mind and body,
and the problem of free will.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2023-2024 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2022-2023 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2021-2022 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2020-2021 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2019-2020 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2018-2019 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2015-2016 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Problems of Philosophy |
3 |
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| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 224 Philosophy and Film |
3 Credits |
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This course aims to discuss movies and read selected
philosophical texts in search of answers to a
number of interrelated questions such as: How are
philosophical problems depicted and
dealt with in motion pictures? How can philosophy help
us understand and interpret various conceptual
layers of visual narratives?
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2010-2011 |
Philosophy and Film |
3 |
| Summer 2009-2010 |
Philosophy and Film |
3 |
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| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 300 Philosophy of Science |
3 Credits |
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This course is an introduction to the main issues
and approaches in the philosophy of science.
Topics to be covered are the origins, the nature and the
aims of science; the problem of demarcation; the
problem of induction; the nature of scientific
explanation; the rationality of science and
scientific objectivity; scientific method,
theories and their testing; scientific
revolutions; realism/anti-realism debate; and
science and values.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2023-2024 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2022-2023 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2021-2022 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2020-2021 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2019-2020 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2018-2019 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2015-2016 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Philosophy of Science |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 301 Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 Credits |
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This course is an introduction to the main issues
and approaches in the philosophy of social
sciences, with a focus on questions of methodology.
These include whether social sciences employ
a methodology different from that of the natural sciences;
whether explanations in terms of reasons
differ in any way from those in terms of causes; the
nature of social reality; the relationship between
individuals and social structures; the debate
between methodological individualism and
methodological holism; whether social sciences are
value-free or not and the problem of objectivity.
General approaches to be discussed are
positivism, realism, the hermeneutical-interpretive
and critical schools. These approaches and
issues will be exemplified in the context of various
social scientific disciplines.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2023-2024 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2022-2023 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2021-2022 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2016-2017 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Fall 2011-2012 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
| Fall 2009-2010 |
Philosophy of Social Sciences |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 310 Philosophy of Mind |
3 Credits |
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This course introduces students to traditional and
current topics in philosophy of mind and
cognition. The first part of the course is devoted to
the mind-body problem and classical
responses to it like dualism, identity theory, and
functionalism. The second part deals with
two characteristic features of mind: intentionality and
consciousness. Accounts to be
discussed include representationalism and the
computer model of mind, connectionism and
neural networks, theories of mental content, theories
of phenomenal consciousness.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2021-2022 |
Philosophy of Mind |
3 |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Philosophy of Mind |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Philosophy of Mind |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Philosophy of Mind |
3 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Philosophy of Mind |
3 |
| Spring 2016-2017 |
Philosophy of Mind |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Philosophy of Mind |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Philosophy of Mind |
3 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Philosophy of Mind |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 313 Emotion and Reason |
3 Credits |
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This course explores the relations between reason
and emotion in moral cognition and cognition
more generally, through the works of selected major
philosophers and the findings of
contemporary psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2011-2012 |
Emotion and Reason |
3 |
| Summer 2010-2011 |
Emotion and Reason |
3 |
| Summer 2009-2010 |
Emotion and Reason |
3 |
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| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 321 Symbolic Logic |
3 Credits |
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This course introduces students to formal logic.
Topics to be covered include propositional
logic and predicate logic.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2023-2024 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Spring 2022-2023 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Fall 2021-2022 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Fall 2020-2021 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Fall 2019-2020 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Fall 2015-2016 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Symbolic Logic |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 322 Philosophy of Art |
3 Credits |
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This course aims to provide both an introduction
to philosophies of art and an opportunity to
philosophise art, actual and perhaps imaginary:
what has counted as art, for someone
somewhere, as well as what might count as such.
The aims of philosophy will be reviewed -
such as truth, value, understanding - in the light of
different works of art and different ways
of understanding them. The aims, or ends,
of art will also therefore be put in question.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2023-2024 |
Philosophy of Art |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 323 Imagination and Play |
3 Credits |
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This course analyzes various aspects of imagination that
puzzle philosophers and psychologists. It asks what kind of
puzzles emerge when, for example, children pretend to
be trains or to have a tea party, when we cry
while watching a movie (although we know it is just
fiction), when we resist imagining that killing babies on
the grounds of their gender is good, or when
philosophers believe to have disproven materialism by
imagining a zombie (a creature that is identical to us
except lacking consciousness). Special emphasis is put on
pretend play which is considered to present one of
the major skills of human mental development: Is children’s
fantasy totally unconstrained? Do they know that
they are only pretending? What is different in the
imaginative capacities of autistic children? What happens
when adults try to put themselves into another’s shoes?
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2012-2013 |
Puzzles of the Imagination: From Children?s Worlds |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 330 Philosophy of Language |
3 Credits |
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This course examines the major issues and approaches
in philosophy of language in three parts: analytical
philosophy of language, pragmatics, and philosophy of
linguistics. The first part covers main theories of
meaning, reference, and truth from Frege to Kripke.
The second part covers theories of
speech acts, implicature and related issues by such
philosophers as Searle, Austin, and Grice. The final part
is concerned with linguistic relativism,
Saussure’s structuralism, and Chomsky’s generative grammar.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Philosophy of Language |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 340 Bioethics |
3 Credits |
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This course introduces students to the ethical issues
that arise in the medical sciences and
related fields. Topics to be covered
include utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics,
euthanasia, ethical issues in cloning
and genetic enhancements, ethics of biomedical research,
justice in the distribution of healthcare,
global justice, the social and political framework of
biotechnological research, and human nature.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2021-2022 |
Bioethics |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Bioethics |
3 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Bioethics |
3 |
| Fall 2011-2012 |
Bioethics |
3 |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
Bioethics |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 342 Philosophy of Biology |
3 Credits |
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This course is an introduction to the main issues in
philosophy of biology. It begins by briefly explaining
some of the fundamental matters in philosophy of
science such as: scientific inquiry, the problem
of demarcation, science and values, biology’s place
in sciences and following these it opens up an
examination of what life is. It then continues with
introductions to major philosophical topics in
biology such as: evolution, units of selection,
genotype and phenotype, environment, innateness,
epigenetics, developmental biology, genomics and
phenomics, reductionism, complexity, biological laws,
sociobiology and its controversies, biology and ethics.
The course aims include encouraging students to discuss
these topics as well as helping them to understand
the main features of biology as a scientific discipline
and also to familiarize themselves with philosophical
problems related to methodologies of biology and
its close connections with social issues.
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 399 Independent Study |
3 Credits |
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This course allows students to explore an area of academic
interest not currently covered in regular
course offerings. Under the supervision of a
faculty member, students are expected
to take responsibility for their own learning, including
developing together a reading list and
forms of evaluation. Students must receive the approval
of a supervisor faculty member
prior to enrollment.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2023-2024 |
Independent Study |
3 |
| Spring 2022-2023 |
Independent Study |
3 |
| Fall 2021-2022 |
Independent Study |
3 |
| Fall 2019-2020 |
Independent Study |
3 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Independent Study |
3 |
| Spring 2016-2017 |
Independent Study |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Independent Study |
3 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Independent Study |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Independent Study |
3 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Independent Study |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 401 Epistemology |
3 Credits |
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This course explores the central issues in the
theory of knowledge. Topics to be covered
include the traditional analysis of knowledge,
the Gettier problem, skepticism, coherentism,
foundationalism, and reliabilism.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
Epistemology |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Epistemology |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 421 Personhood and Personal Identity |
3 Credits |
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This course pursues a philosophical inquiry into the
significance of being a `person? and the conditions
of personal identity, through a critical examination of
some of the major theories on personal
identity and personhood developed so far.
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Course Name |
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| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 425 European Humanism and After |
3 Credits |
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The aim of this course is to offer insight in the
humanist tradition in Europe (Vico, 19th
century's historicism, 20th century's philology),
with a focus on its "reactivation" by Edward
Said before and after Orientalism. This will
provide the opportunity to give some hints about
humanist philosophy in the 20th century
as well as anti-humanist thinking (e.g. Nietzsche,
Foucault, Derrida). The stake is the necessity
of producing a general critique of the
philological enterprise in the last two centuries.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
European Humanism and After |
3 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
European Humanism and After |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| PHIL 450 Science and Society |
3 Credits |
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This course aims to study the two-way
interaction between science and society.
It aims to understand how science and
science-driven technology change society and
in turn how social factors influence them.
Topics covered will include: the changing nature
of scientific research, the challenges to
formulating science policy in democratic societies, the
comercialization of scientific research, how scientific
controversies on matters of interest to
the public are played out, and normative questions
that these issues raise.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2023-2024 |
Science and Society |
3 |
| Spring 2021-2022 |
Science and Society |
3 |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Science and Society |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Science and Society |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Science and Society |
3 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Science and Society |
3 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Science and Society |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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