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id='breadcrumbDepartmentID'><div id='breadcrumb'><a href="/" class="zone-6-breadcrumb">SMU Home</a><span class="zone-7-breadcrumb"> > </span><a href="/philosophy" class="zone-6-breadcrumb">Department of Philosophy</a><span class="zone-7-breadcrumb"> > </span><span class="zone-6-breadcrumb-currentpage">Home</span></div></div>  <p class="p1"><b>COURSES IN PHILOSOPHY - Spring 2009</b></p> <p class="p2"><b></b><br></p> <p class="p2"><b></b><br></p> <p class="p3"><b></b><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 1300 - INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL REASONING.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>This is a practical course in logic and the art of reasoning.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The course covers the tools of logic -- deductive reasoning, probability, scientific inference, semantics, fallacies and statistics -- as well as the application of those tools to controversial subjects such as abortion, creation vs. evolution, capital punishment, and the Iraq War.</p> <p class="p5">001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>12:00PM – 12:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Lamb</p> <p class="p5">002<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>11:00AM – 11:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 200 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Mion</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 1301 - ELEMENTARY LOGIC.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b> The study of logic is of value in that it fosters clear and precise thinking.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pursued in a serious fashion, precise thinking can become habit forming.</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>08:00AM – 09:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Ehring</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>002<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>09:30AM – 10:50<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> </span>Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Ehring</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 1305 - INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Students will be introduced to some of the main branches of philosophy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Topics to be covered include the nature of philosophy and questions about reality, knowledge, God, and society.</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>03:30PM – 04:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Lockard</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>002<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>02:00PM – 03:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 204 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Howell</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>003<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>03:30PM – 04:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Chuard</p> <p class="p5">004H<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>12:30PM – 01:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Thompson</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>005<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>12:30PM – 01:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 200 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Fisher</p> <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 1317 - BUSINESS ETHICS.</b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This course allows students and teacher to discuss the moral and political issues surrounding a free-enterprise system.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Students will be introduced to basic moral theory.</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>11:00AM – 11:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 142 Dallas Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Hiltz</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>002<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>12:00PM – 12:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Mion</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>003<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>08:00AM – 08:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Daley</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>004<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>11:00AM – 11:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Popovic</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>701<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>M<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>06:30PM –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>09:20<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> </span>Room 201 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Popovic</p> <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 1318 - CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>An introduction to philosophical ethics focusing on questions in applied ethics. Students will explore ethical theories, philosophical methods, and their application to some of the most controversial and pressing issues confronting contemporary society. Topics vary, but the following are representative: abortion, animal rights, affirmative action, capital punishment, economic justice, euthanasia, sexuality, war and terrorism, and world hunger. Class discussion is an important component of the course, as is reading and writing argumentative essays about these issues.</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>02:00PM – 03:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 107 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Sverdlik</p> <p class="p5">002<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>11:00AM – 12:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 102 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Robinson</p> <p class="p5">003<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>02:00PM – 02:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 201 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Littlejohn</p> <p class="p5">004<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>03:00PM – 03:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 204 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Littlejohn</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>005<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>11:00AM – 11:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 103 Perkins Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Littlejohn (Hilltop)</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>006<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>10:00AM – 10:50<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> </span>Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Popovic</p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>007H<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>02:00PM – 02:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 104 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Gollop</p> <p class="p5">008<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>01:00PM – 01:50 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> </span>Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Daley</p> <p class="p5">009<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>11:00AM – 11:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Daley</p> <p class="p5">010<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>10:00AM – 10:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Daley</p> <p class="p5">011<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>08:00AM – 08:50 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> </span>Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Mion</p> <p class="p5">012<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>09:00AM – 09:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 204 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Mion</p> <p class="p5">013<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>01:00PM – 01:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 201 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Hiltz</p> <p class="p5">701<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MW<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>06:30PM – 07:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Hiltz</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3301 – INTERMEDIATE LOGIC.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Students are introduced to the formal theory of the logical systems they have already learned to use: namely, Sentential Logic and Predicate Logic.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Students will learn to prove the completeness and soundness of both of these systems.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In addition, they may also learn some simple nonstandard logical systems, such as Modal, Epistemic or Deontic logic, if time permits. </p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>01:00PM – 01:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Popovic</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3302/RELI 3302 – PROBLEMS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b> The philosophy of religion, considering such problems as religious experience, human freedom, good and evil, belief in God, and immortality.</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001H<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>10:00AM – 10:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Room 107 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Littlejohn</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3310 – ADVANCED TOPICS: CONCIOUSNESS.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>What is consciousness?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Can the phenomenal aspects of mental states—such as what it is like to feel pain, taste chocolate, or see red—be explained physically?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Is a science of consciousness possible?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What can we learn from, and how should we understand, various "disorders of consciousness" such as those found in blindsight, split-brain patients, and synaesthesia?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We will examine these and related questions by looking at recent work primarily from the philosophy of mind but also from psychology and neuroscience.</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></b>701<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>T<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>06:30PM – 09:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Room 201 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Thompson</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3312 – INTRO TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>In this course, we will discuss various fundamental questions concerning the nature of language, such as: What it is for a sentence to be true?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What it is for a linguistic expression, such as a name, to stand for something in the world?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How should we understand the ways in which language, logic, thought, and reality are related?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In what sense is language conventional?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What is linguistic meaning?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Throughout the course, we will examine ways in which philosophical reflection on language provides illuminating perspectives on fundamental problems in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></b>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>12:30PM – 01:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Lockard</p> <p class="p3"><b></b><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3314 – METAPHYSICS. </b>What are persons? Under what conditions can I be said to be the same person I was twenty years ago? How does time affect the identity of persons and objects? Is consciousness essential to being the sorts of persons we are? The course will focus on a cluster of issues about the nature and identity of persons and objects, and how time is crucial for understanding consciousness and personal identity. We will be looking at a variety of contemporary answers in analytical metaphysics.</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>02:00PM – 03:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Room 157 Dallas Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Chuard</p> <p class="p3"><b></b><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3315 – PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Is it really plausible that minds are just brains?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Are minds just like very sophisticated computers, or is there something more to being a conscious, experiencing being?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While investigating these topics we will discuss views such as dualism, behaviorism, and functionalism, and we will focus on problems such as mental causation and the nature of subjectivity.<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p6"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p4"><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>11:30AM – 12:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Howell</p> <p class="p3"><b></b><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3352 - HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY (MODERN).</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A study of major developments in modern Western philosophy from Descartes to Kant. We will concentrate on the metaphysical and epistemological theories of the greatest thinkers of the period, but also look at some recent reactions to these theories.</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>09:00AM – 09:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Room 152 Dallas Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Gollop</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3362/CF 3341 – CREATIVITY, DISCOVERY, AND SCIENCE.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>This course investigates the nature of creativity in rational thought. Central questions include: What is creativity? Are creative thought processes rule governed, or are they by their very nature rule violating? How does our understanding of creativity differ when viewed from a philosophical as opposed to a psychological perspective? Along the way we will survey various issues in the history and philosophy of science, including the nature of scientific method and the logic of scientific discovery. We will investigate case studies in the genesis of scientific theory and problem solving strategies in other problem solving disciplines (such as police work). We will also investigate theories of creativity and strategies for measuring human creativity produced by cognitive psychologists. Course requirements differ somewhat depending on whether the student is taking the course for CF or Philosophy credit.<span class="s2"> </span></p> <p class="p3"><b></b><br></p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001C<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MWF<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>09:00AM – 09:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Room 107 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Barnes</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3364 – PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>This course considers both some classic issues in philosophy of biology (including evolution versus creationism, fitness, units of selection and adaptationism) and some issues involving the evolution of human cognition (including evolution of intentionality, cultural evolution, social cognition and niche construction).</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001C<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>03:30PM – 04:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 204 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Fisher</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3375 – CHARACTER & EMOTION IN ETHICS.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>We will be studying the psychological concepts that are central to ethics. These include pleasure, happiness, well-being, character and character traits (or virtues and vices), reason and emotion, as well as some of the most important 'moral emotions' (shame, guilt, sympathy, resentment and indignation). Readings will include selections from classic philosophers like Aristotle and Mill, as well as contemporary figures like Bernard Williams and Barbara Herman.</p> <p class="p3"><b></b><br></p> <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>001<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>09:30AM – 10:50<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Sverdlik</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3375 – TOPICS IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY: THE MEANING OF LIFE.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>A rigorous, analytic examination of the "big questions": How can life be meaningful if I’m just a grain of sand in a huge universe? Can religion give my life meaning? Can I overcome meaninglessness by creating things that outlast me, like art, literature, or simply children? Is a life devoted to good deeds the solution? Or is there no solution? Is life just inherently absurd?</p> <p class="p5">701<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>W<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>06:30PM – 09:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Room 111 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Kazez</p> <p class="p7"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3380 – ETHICAL THEORY</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This course examines the more fundamental—and more abstract—questions in philosophical ethics. This term it will examine three central topics in <span class="s3">normative ethical theory</span>: well-being, moral obligation, and moral rights. What is the Good Life: in what does human happiness or well-being consist? In particular, is the Good Life the pleasant life, the satisfied life, or something else? What are the basic principles that determine or govern our moral rights and obligations? In particular, is acting rightly simply a matter of acting for the greater good (maximizing utility), or are their moral limits (deontological constraints) on what we may do to individuals in the name of the greater good? And if there are such limits, do they include "natural" rights, or is talk of non-legal rights "simple nonsense"? We will explore these and related questions through a close and critical examination of classic and contemporary works in philosophical ethics.</p> <p class="p3"><b></b><br></p> <p class="p5">001C<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TTH<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>02:00PM – 03:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Room 110 Hyer Hall <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Robinson</p> <p class="p3"><br></p> <p class="p4"><b>PHIL 3382 – 20<sup>TH</sup> CENTURY EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>An examination of some methods and principles of European philosophies in the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Philosophical schools studied:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>phenomenology, existentialism, Neo-Kantianism, life-philosophy, hermeneutics, and Neo-Marxist critical theory.</p> <p class="p5">701<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MW <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>05:00PM – 06:20<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Room 110 Hyer Hall<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Professor Bartlett</p> <p class="p6"><br></p> </div>  <div id='bottom'></div></div></div></div><div id='footerImage'> </div></div><div id="footer"><div align="center"><a href="http://smu.edu/"><img src="/sitecore/design/images/smu-stays-classy-red.gif" width="40" height="40" /></a></div> <p align="center">© Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas | <a href="#">Legal</a> | <a href="#">A-Z Site Index</a> | <a href="http://smu.edu/AboutSMU/ContactSMU.aspx">Contact SMU</a></p> </div> </body> </html>