Philosophy (PHILOS)
PHILOS R1B Reading and Composition Through Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: R1A offered by any department, or an equivalent course.
Training in writing expository prose in conjunction with reading philosophical texts. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
PHILOS 2 Individual Morality and Social Justice 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Introduction to ethical and political philosophy.
PHILOS 3 The Nature of Mind 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Introduction to the philosophy of mind. Topics to be considered may include the relation between mind and body; the structure of action; the nature of desires and beliefs; the role of the unconscious.
PHILOS 4 Knowledge and Its Limits 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Introduction to the theory of knowledge.
PHILOS 6 Man, God, and Society in Western Literature 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Philosophical issues as expressed in poetry, drama, and the novel. This course will compare and contrast the Greek, Medieval, and modern worlds, as reflected in their greatest literature, with special emphasis on the role of the community in reconciling conflicts between sub-groups in society and the individual's ability to understand and control his own life. We will also follow man's realization that the changing answers to these questions are themselves self-interpretations.
PHILOS 7 Existentialism in Literature and Film 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Christian, agnostic, and atheistic existentialism as expressed in the works of Dostoyevsky, Melville, Kafka, Antonioni, Goddard, etc.
PHILOS 11 Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
A survey of basic issues in contemporary philosophy of religion, exploring arguments about God's existence, the status of religious experiences and beliefs, how souls might interact with bodies, and the relationship of God to morality.
PHILOS 12A Introduction to Logic 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Syntax, semantics, and proof theory of sentential and predicate logic.
PHILOS 13 Business Ethics 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course addresses the nature of ethical motivation and agency, with special attention to the individual's role in a business organization. Topics include theories of ethical motivation; individual character and organizational culture; personal integrity; corporate agency; corporate responsibility to society.
Instructor: Merritt
PHILOS 16 Introduction to Metaphysics 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course is an introduction to some of the traditional questions in metaphysics--the study of what there is in the world and how what there is is structured. Topics will include free will and determinism, the mind-body problem, and personal identity. If time permits, we will also examine arguments for the existence of God.
PHILOS 17 Concepts of the Person in Novel, Drama, and Film 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
In any culture, the way we act implies some view of what it is to be a person, and indeed what it is to be a particular kind of person, e.g., black or white, male or female, citizen or non-citizen. This view determines what roles and privileges are available to specific individuals and how these individuals will think of themselves and evaluate their actions and obligations. We will focus on works of philosophy, literature and film which have had a powerful and lasting impact on our culture.
PHILOS 18 Confucius for Today 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
The teachings of Confucius (6th to 5th century B.C.) have had a profound influence on Chinese and East Asian cultures, and have attracted significant interest throughout the world. In what ways are they still of relevance to life in the twenty-first century? The course will consider the contemporary implications of Confucius’ teachings for such topics as: family, rituals, life and death, fate, contentment and anxiety, anger and resentment, courage, respectfulness, modesty and humility, trustworthiness, learning, self-cultivation, semblances of virtue. In addition to reading selected passages from the Analects, we will also consider commentaries by later Confucians and read contemporary philosophical articles on the relevant topics.
Instructor: Shun
PHILOS 21X Philosophy of Biology 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture and 4 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Are living things simply complex machines? Many philosophers and biologists think that they are, for to think otherwise seems to fly in the face of recent scientific advances and threatens to reintroduce into biology unscientific notions like "spirit" and "vital force". This course takes seriously the position that life can not be reduced to chemical and physical processes. We will also study ways this question affects our understanding of the freedom of the will, the relation of the mind to the body, and "evolutionary" explanations of gender differences.
PHILOS 22X The Self and the World 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture and 4 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
What sort of thing am I? And what is my relation to others, and to the world in general? We will consider versions of these questions, as they are asked and answered in a variety of classical and contemporary philosophical texts: what can we know about the world? Is the skeptic right to answer: nothing? What is it in the nature of minds (and bodies) which makes knowledge seem so problematic? How are minds and bodies related to those things which have them: persons? And how does this bear on the question of the meaning of life?
PHILOS 23X Philosophy and Medicine 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
We will consider the following questions: Is medicine a science? What are its aims? How are the central concepts of "health" and "disease" defined? What is meant by the charge that there is an "overmedication of everyday life" in our society and is that charge justified? What is "medical reductionism" and what are its limits? What are the assumptions behind "specialistic" and holistic"approaches to medicine and which of these two approaches serves better the aims of medicine? What is the proper place of medicine in the social, legal, and moral contexts?
PHILOS 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment is limited to 15 freshmen.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 24X Social Justice 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture and 3.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course will examine the values underlying different visions of a just society. Freedom, equal opportunity, and community are considered important, for example, but there is little agreement on how theses values should be realized. The course will consider various perspectives on these values and their practical implications. Special attention will be devoted to the role of the government in economic affairs, equal educational opportunities, and nationalism.
PHILOS 25A Ancient Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
The history of ancient philosophy with special emphasis on the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle.
PHILOS 25B Modern Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
The history of modern philosophy from Descartes through Kant.
PHILOS 39M Freshman Seminar 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Study of various fields of philosophy of special interest to freshman. Topics will vary from semester to semester and will be individually announced. Freshman seminars are restricted to fifteen students each.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 98 Directed Group Study for Lower Division Students 1 Unit
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Prerequisites: Lower Division standing
Directed study on special topics. One unit per weekly hour of instruction. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. Please see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 98BC Berkeley Connect 1 Unit
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of discussion per week.
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 100 Philosophical Methods 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Two courses from 2, 4, 25A, 25B. Restricted to students in the major.
The course is designed to acquaint students with the techniques of philosophical reasoning through detailed study of selected philosophical texts and through extensive training in philosophical writing, based on those texts. Should be taken as early as possible after declaring the major.
PHILOS 104 Ethical Theories 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
The fundamental concepts and problems of morality examined through the study of classical and contemporary philosophical theories of ethics.
Formerly known as C104.
PHILOS 107 Moral Psychology 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
An investigation of central issues in moral psychology, such as: free will, weakness of will, self-deception, moral motivation, emotions, virtues, moral education.
PHILOS 108 Contemporary Ethical Issues 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 2 or 104, or two courses in philosophy, or consent of instructor.
This course will be devoted to in-depth discussion of a variety of problems in moral philosophy raised by real-life questions of individual conduct and social policy. Its contents will vary from occasion to occasion. Possible topics include philosophical problems posed by affirmative action, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, terrorism, war, poverty, and climate change.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor if the content changes sufficiently. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 109 Freedom and Responsibility 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
A systematic examination of freedom and responsibility. The following topics will be addressed (among others): the relations between freedom of will, freedom of action, and autonomy; moral responsibility and its conditions; naturalism, determinism, and their relevance for human freedom; practical deliberation and the structure of the will; weakness and strength of will. Readings may be drawn from both historical and contemporary sources.
PHILOS 110 Aesthetics 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Upper division courses in philosophy or consent of instructor. Majors in literature or the arts.
Visual arts/literature and music. Form, expression, representation style; interpretation and evaluation.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 112 Special Topics in Aesthetics 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
This course is intended to allow a more focused exploration of particular topics in aesthetics than is possible in Philosophy 110. Its contents will vary from occasion to occasion. Topics may include philosophical questions arising for particular art forms such as painting, music, or dance; questions about form, expression, representation, and emotion in aesthetic experience; or the ideas of particular aesthetic movements or schools of thought.
PHILOS C112/MUSIC C128P Music and Meaning 3 Units
Department: Philosophy; Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week. This course may include 1 field trip to a local concert.
This course will explore the question of whether music has meaning, and if so, what kind. Can music represent, say, birdsong, or the sea, or merely imitate? If music expresses emotions, then whose--those of the listener? The composer? The performer? We will consider parallels and contrasts between linguistic and musical meaning, theories of how music can be expressive, and the question of whether music can convey political meaning.
Students will receive no credit for Music C128P/Philosophy C112 after taking Philosophy 112. <BR/> Instructors: Smart, Ginsborg
PHILOS 114 History of Political Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: One course in philosophy.
A survey of the major political philosophers, including some or all of Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Bentham, Mill, and Marx.
PHILOS 115 Political Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Analysis of political obligation and related problems.
PHILOS 116 Special Topics in Political Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 115 or equivalent.
This course is designed to deal with a variety of topics in political philosophy. Its contents will vary from occasion to occasion. Possible topics include problems in liberal theory; justice, desert, and responsibility; communitarianism, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism.
PHILOS 119 Feminism and Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
This course will introduce students to a range of historical and contemporary feminist issues.
Instructor: Madva
PHILOS 122 Theory of Knowledge 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
PHILOS 125 Metaphysics 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
An advanced introduction to contemporary metaphysics, focusing on the ideas of objectivity, existence, naturalness, identity, time, causation, and possibility.
PHILOS 127 Rationality and Irrationality in Science 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Science is often regarded as preeminently rational. Yet recent work in philosophy, history and sociology of science suggests that scientific knowledge is no more rationally established than other sorts of knowledge, and that scientists' convictions are driven more by party loyalty and ego than by a pureminded pursuit of truth. This course will consider the case for and against the rationality of science. It will also consider the recent controversy concerning "scientific" creationism.
PHILOS 128 Philosophy of Science 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
A survey of main topics in the logic of science and of other issues coming under the general heading of philosophy of science.
PHILOS 132 Philosophy of Mind 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Mind and matter; other minds; the concept "person."
PHILOS C132/L & S C160T Philosophy of Mind 4 Units
Department: Philosophy; Letters and Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Mind and matter; other minds; the concept of "person."
PHILOS 133 Philosophy of Language 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
PHILOS 134 Form and Meaning 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Eight units of philosophy courses and 12A (or equivalent).
How is the meaning of a whole sentence determined by the meanings of its parts, and by its structure? This question is addressed in empirical semantic theories for natural language. The character and content of such theories has been a central concern both of the philosophy of language and of recent linguistics, and it is the central focus of this course.
Instructor: Yalcin
PHILOS 135 Theory of Meaning 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: One course in logic or consent of instructor.
Language as social behavior. Language compared to other sign systems. The foundations of semantics, truth, meaning, reference. Issues of logical form in belief sentences, indirect discourse, sentences about causality, events, actions. Relations between thought and language.
PHILOS 136 Philosophy of Perception 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: One previous course in philosophy is recommended.
The philosophy of perception is a microcosm of the metaphysics of mind. Its central problems - What is perception? What is the nature of perceptual consciousness? How can one fit an account of perceptual experience into a broader account of the nature of the mind and the world? - are problems at the heart of metaphysics. It is often justifiably said that the theory of perception (and especially vision) is the area of psychology and neuroscience that has made the greatest progress in recent years. Despite this progress, or perhaps because of it, philosophical problems about perception retain a great urgency, both for philosophy and for science.
PHILOS 138 Philosophy of Society 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course deals with the ontology of society and thus provides a foundation for the social sciences. The main questions discussed are: 1) What is the mode of existence of social reality? 2) How does it relate to psychological and physical reality? 3) What implications does social ontology have for social explanations?
PHILOS 140A Intermediate Logic 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Major concepts, results, and techniques of modern logic. Basic set theoretic tools. Model theoretic treatment of propositional and first-order logic (completeness, compactness, Lowenheim-Skolem). Philosophical implcations of these results.
PHILOS 140B Intermediate Logic 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 140A or equivalent.
Major concepts, results, and techniques of modern logic. Turing machines, computability theory, undecidability of first-order logic, proof theory, Godel's first and second inompleteness theorms. Philosophical implications of these results.
PHILOS 141 Philosophy and Game Theory 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: One course in philosophy.
An exploration of how game theory and rational choice theory shed light on traditional philosophical problems; and of new paradoxes and problems introduced by these theories.
PHILOS 142 Philosophical Logic 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
The course aims at introducing students to the basic topics in philosophy of logic. Among the topics to be treated are the notions of validity, truth and truth functionality, quantification, and necessity.
PHILOS 143 Modal Reasoning 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Philosophy 12A (or equivalent) or consent of instructor.
An introduction to the logical study of modality in its many forms: reasoning about necessity, knowledge, obligation, time, counterfactuals, provability, and other modal notions. Covers core concepts and basic metatheory of propositional modal logic, including relations to first-order logic; basics of quantified modal logic; selected philosophical applications ranging from epistomology to ethics, metaphysics to mathematics.
PHILOS 146 Philosophy of Mathematics 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Foundations of mathematics: logicism, intuitionism, formalism. Set theoretical parardoxes, definition of numbers, problems of continuum.
PHILOS 149 Special Topics in Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course is conceived in analogy with Philosophy 129 (Special Topics in Philosophy of Science). It is supposed to allow the class to focus on more specific problems in philosophy of logic or mathematics than can be treated in a broad introductory course such as Philosophy of Mathematics (Philosophy 146) or Philosophical Logic (Philosophy 142).
PHILOS 155 Medieval Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
A study of some of the major philosophical texts from the medieval period with a focus on issues in metaphysics and epistemology. Topics may include universals, individuation, the nature and existence of God, faith and reason, skepticism, freedom, language, human nature and human cognition.
PHILOS 156A Foundations of Analytic Philosophy: Frege 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
The work of Gottlob Frege with special emphasis on his contributions to logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of language.
Instructor: Sluga
PHILOS 160 Plato 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
PHILOS 161 Aristotle 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
PHILOS 163 Special Topics in Greek Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Philosophy 25A or equivalent.
The course is designed to deal with a variety of topics in Greek philosophy. Its contents will vary from occasion to occasion. Possible topics are: the close study of one or more of Plato's dialogues, the reading of one of Aristotle's texts, stoicism, scepticism, and neo-platonism.
PHILOS 170 Descartes 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
PHILOS 172 Spinoza 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
PHILOS 173 Leibniz 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
PHILOS 176 Hume 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
PHILOS 178 Kant 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
PHILOS 181 Hegel 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
PHILOS 183 Schopenhauer and Nietzsche 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
An examination of the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
PHILOS 184 Nietzsche 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
PHILOS 185 Heidegger 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
A study of Heidegger's .
Formerly known as 187.
PHILOS 186B Later Wittgenstein 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
A close reading and extended discussion of central parts of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
PHILOS 187 Special Topics in the History of Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
The course's specific content will vary from occasion to occasion but either the course will focus narrowly upon problems drawn from the work of a philosopher in the 160 to 178 series, or it will study several influential philosophers, active mainly before the twentieth century, who shared a common outlook or who were linked by other types of philosophically significant reaction to one another's work.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 188 Phenomenology 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Backgrounds of phenomenology and existentialism. Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.
Formerly known as 186.
PHILOS N188 Phenomenology 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Backgrounds of phenomenology and existentialism. Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.
Formerly known as 186.
PHILOS 189 Special Topics in Recent European Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
The course is designed to deal with a variety of topics in recent European philosophy. Its contents will vary from occasion to occasion. Possible topics include: further work in phenomenology and existentialism, the study of a particular text by an important figure in contemporary European philosophy, current French and German philosophy.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 190 Proseminar 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Philosophy majors who have taken at least two upper-division philosophy courses.
A seminar-style exploration of some topic in philosophy. The students and insturctor will investigate the topic in a collaborative way, through discussion rather than lecture. Topics vary from semester to semester. Enrollment is limited to 15 undergraduate philosophy majors.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS H195 Philosophy Tutorial 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks. Zero hours of Tutorial per week for 8 weeks. Zero hours of Tutorial per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Students in Honors Program.
The department will designate a tutor, under whose guidance the student will seek to satisfy the thesis requirement of the Honors Program.
PHILOS 198 Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Tutorial. 1 unit per weekly hour of instruction.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Directed study on special topics.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
PHILOS 198BC Berkeley Connect 1 Unit
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of discussion per week.
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Tutorial. 1 unit per weekly hour of instruction.
Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section in this catalog.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 200 First-Year Graduate Seminar 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
A combination seminar and tutorial, required of and limited to first year graduate students in philosophy.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 250 Special Studies 1 - 9 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Tutorial.
Prerequisites: Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 251 Directed Studies 1 - 9 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Tutorial.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Open to qualified students wishing to pursue special study or research under the direction of a member of the staff.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 290 Seminar 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Advanced study in various fields of philosophy. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 295 Dissertation Seminar 2 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students who are writing dissertations in philosophy.
Presentations by graduate students of dissertation research in progress.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 109.
PHILOS 299 Independent Study 2 - 12 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Independent study.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PHILOS 301 Professional Preparation: The Teaching of Philosophy 2 - 6 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Appointment as a graduate student instructor.
Students will work as teachers under the guidance of a faculty member. They will attend lectures, guide classroom discussion, and participate in a workshop in teaching methods.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for doctoral degree.
PHILOS 375 Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Seminar 3 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1 1-hour seminar per week.
Prerequisites: Admission to Ph.D. program.
A hands-on training seminar for new philosophy GSIs that addresses both practical and theoretical issues.
Formerly known as Philosophy 302.
PHILOS 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students 1 - 8 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Independent study.
Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates of the Ph.D.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 16 units.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 16 units. Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for doctoral degree.
PHILOS 603 Independent Philosophical Studies 1 - 4 Units
Department: Philosophy
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Independent study.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
Reading or other advanced study by arrangement with a staff member, for preparation in advance of an examination for a higher degree.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for doctoral degree.
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