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Philosophy
PHIL 1000Introduction to Philosophy (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Introduces a broad spectrum of philosophical problems and approaches. Topics include basic questions concerning morality, skepticism and the foundations of knowledge, the mind and its relation to the body, and the existence of God. Readings are drawn from classics in the history of philosophy and/or contemporary sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/
PHIL 1410Forms of Reasoning (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Analyzes the structure of informal arguments and fallacies that are commonly committed in everyday reasoning. The course will not cover symbolic logic in any detail. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 1510Introductory Philosophy Seminars (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Discussion groups devoted to some philosophical writing or topic. Information on the specific topic can be obtained from the philosophy department at course enrollment time. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 1710Human Nature (3.00)
Examines a wide variety of theories of human nature, with the aim of understanding how we can fulfill our nature and thereby live good, satisfying and meaningful lives. Focuses on the questions of whether it is in our nature to be rational, moral and/or social beings. Readings are taken from contemporary and historical sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 1730Introduction to Moral and Political Philosophy (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Examines some of the central problems of moral philosophy and their sources in human life and thought. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 1740Issues of Life and Death (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Studies the fundamental principles underlying contemporary and historical discussions of such issues as abortion, euthanasia, suicide, pacifism, and political terror. Examines Utilitarian and anti-Utilitarian modes of thought about human life and the significance of death. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2000Internship in Philosophy: Teaching Philosophy in High Schools (2.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Students will intern in area high schools to work with teachers in support of their teaching of philosophy. In preparation for this, students will learn about the aims of the teachers with whom they intern, as well as the challenges they face. Students will support teachers with the construction of lesson plans, reading material, discussion points, and paper topics.
PHIL 2020Know Thyself (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Investigation of the nature and significance of our knowledge of ourselves, employing perspectives from Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Experimental Psychology, Neurosciences, and Buddhism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2060Philosophical Problems in Law (3.00)
Examines and evaluates some basic practices and principles of Anglo-American law. Discusses the justification of punishment, the death penalty, legal liability, good samaritan laws, and the legal enforcement of morality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2070Knowledge and Reality (3.00)
Knowledge and Reality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2110History of Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval (3.00)
Survey of the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratic period through the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2120History of Philosophy: Modern (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Surveys the history of modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes and extending up to the nineteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2330Computers, Minds and Brains (3.00)
Do computers think? Can a persuasive case be made for the claim that the human mind is essentially a sophisticated computing device? These and related questions will be examined through readings in computer science, the philosophy of mind, logic, and linguistics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2420Introduction to Symbolic Logic (3.00)
Introduces the concepts and techniques of modern formal logic, including both sentential and quantifier logic, as well as proof, interpretation, translation, and validity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2450Philosophy of Science (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Introduces the philosophy of science. Topics include experiment, casual inference, models, scientific explanation, theory structure, hypothesis testing, realism and anti-realism, the relations between science and technology, science versus non-science, and the philosophical assumptions of various sciences. Illustrations are drawn from the natural, biological, and social sciences, but no background in any particular science is presupposed. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2510Seminar in Philosophy (3.00)
Seminars aimed at showing how philosophical problems arise in connection with subjects of general interest. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2520Seminar in Bioethics (3.00)
Topics vary annually. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2650Free Will and Responsibility (3.00)
Examines whether our actions and choices are free and whether or to what extent we can be held responsible for them. Includes the threat to freedom posed by the possibility of scientific explanations of our behavior and by psychoanalysis, the concept of compulsion, moral and legal responsibility, and the nature of human action. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2660Philosophy of Religion (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Considers the problems raised by arguments for and against the existence of God; discussion of such related topics as evil, evidence for miracles, and the relation between philosophy and theology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2670God (3.00)
A detailed examination of the philosophical concept of God and also of diverse arguments for and against His existence, including various ontological arguments, causal arguments, the arguments from design, and the argument from evil.
PHIL 2690Justice, Law, and Morality (3.00)
Examines contemporary liberal theories of justice and of communitarian, Marxist, libertarian, utilitarian, and feminist criticisms of these theories. Uses landmark Supreme Court decisions to illuminate central theoretical disputes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2720Bioethics: A Philosophical Perspective (3.00)
Surveys biomedical ethics, emphasizing philosophical issues and methods. Includes moral foundations of the physician/patient relation, defining death, forgoing life-sustaining treatments, euthanasia, abortion, prenatal diagnosis, new reproductive technologies, human genetics, human experimentation, and the allocation and rationing of health care resources. Reflects on the various ethical theories and methods of reasoning that might be brought to bear on practical moral problems. Not open to those who have taken RELG 265. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2730Ethics and Film (3.00)
This course is designed both as an introduction to philosophy through moral issues, and as an exploration of film as a medium for ethical reflection. It focuses on the moving image and its potentila as a mode of philosophical thinking and examines the pertinence of ethical theories to particular issues, as these arise in contemporary films.
PHIL 2740Ethics of Violence (3.00)
This course will study philosophical issues arising from the encounter and conflict between different cultures. Focusing on the Spanish conquest of the Americas will address the general question of whether there is a just war, relating this discussion to fundamental questions in contemporary ethics and political philosophy.
PHIL 2750Democracy (3.00)
Examines competing conceptions of the democratic ideal, both in the work of historic figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Madison and Mill, and in the work of a variety of contemporary political philosophers. Focuses in particular on the relation to the democratic ideal of majoritarian voting, civic association, public deliberation and basic liberal rights. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2760Classics of Political Philosophy (3.00)
Considers some of the perennial questions in political philosophy through an examination of classical works in the field, including some or all of the following: Aristotle's Politics, Hobbes's Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise of Government, and Rousseau's On the Social Contract. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2770Political Philosophy (3.00)
This course deals with the most basic problems of political philosophy. Discusses the justification of the state, political obligation and disobedience, social justice, demoncracy, and the morality of international politics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 2780Ancient Political Thought (3.00)
A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans, including such works as Plato's REPUBLIC, Aristotle's POLITICS and Cicero's DE RE PUBLICA. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3110Plato (3.00)
Introduces the philosophy of Plato, beginning with several pre-Socratic philosophers. Focuses on carefully examining selected Platonic dialogues. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3120Aristotle (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		An introduction to the philosophy of Aristotle, covering his major works in ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and literary theory. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3130Hellenistic Philosophy (3.00)
This course will focus on Epicurean and Stoic philosophy. We will discuss issues in ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, physics, psychology and religion. Prerequisite: at least one previous Philosophy course. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3140History of Medieval Philosophy (3.00)
Examines the continued development of philosophy from after Aristotle to the end of the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3150Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz (3.00)
Studies the central philosophers in the rationalist tradition. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3160Locke, Berkeley and Hume (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Studies the central philosophers in the empiricist tradition. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3170Kant (3.00)
Primarily a study of Kant's metaphysics and epistemology, followed by a brief look at the views of some of Idealist successors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3180Nietzsche (3.00)
A comprehensive study of the philosophy of Nietzsche, with an examination of his views on life, truth, philosophy, art, morality, nihilism, values and their creation, will to power, eternal recurrence, and more. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: instructor permission (previous course in philosophy preferred)
PHIL 3190Wittgenstein (3.00)
Study of Wittgenstein's major works. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: two PHIL courses or instructor permission; PHIL 242 recommended.
PHIL 3310Metaphysics (3.00)
Examines central metaphysical issues such as time, the existence of God, causality and determinism, universals, possibility and necessity, identity, and the nature of metaphysics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3320Epistemology (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Studies problems concerned with the foundations of knowledge, perception, and rational belief. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3330Philosophy of Mind (3.00)
Studies some basic problems of philosophical psychology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: PHIL 132 recommended.
PHIL 3500Seminar in Philosophy (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Topics change from semester to semester and year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3520Contemporary Philosophy (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Studies some recent contemporary philosophical movement, writing, or topic. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3610Aesthetics (3.00)
Critically investigates central philosophical issues raised by artistic activity: To count as an artwork must a thing have a modicum of aesthetic value, or is it enough that it be deemed art by the community? Is aesthetic value entirely in the eye of the beholder or is there such a thing as being wrong in one's judgment concerning an artwork? including Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Pears.
PHIL 3630Philosophy of Language (3.00)
Examines central conceptual problems raised by linguistic activity. Among topics considered are the relation between thought and language; the possibility of an essentially private discursive realm; the view that one's linguistic framework somehow 'structures' reality; and the method of solving or dissolving philosophical problems by scrutiny of the language in which they are couched. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: At least one course in philosophy at the 1000 level or above, or instructor permission.
PHIL 3650Justice and Health Care (3.00)
Philosophical account of health care practices and institutions viewed against the backdrop of leading theories of justice (e.g., utilitarianism, Rawlsian contractarianism, communitarianism, libertarianism). Topics include the nature, justifications, and limits of a right to health care; the value conflicts posed by cost containment, implicit and explicit rationing, and reform of the health care system; the physician-patient relationship in an era of managed care; and the procurement and allocation of scarce life-saving resources, such as expensive drugs and transplantable organs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: course in ethics of political philosophy from any department, such as RELG 265, PHIL 154, PLPT 301, etc.
PHIL 3651Genes, Nature and Justice (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		What is a normal human being? What is the natural course for the human species? What does justice have to do with our genes? The emergence of technology allowing the manipulation of the human genome raises a number of ethical social, and political problems. This class will explore these challenges through philosophical argument. In particular, we will attempt to wrestle with notions such as natural, human being, perfection, enhancement and cure. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3652Animals and Ethics (3.00)
This course will examine the moral status of non-human animals and what the major ethical theories imply for our treatment of animals, including in scientific research and food. In an effort to examine their moral status, we will explore the questions of whether and to what extent animals experience pain and emotions.
PHIL 3670Law and Society (3.00)
Examines competing theories of law; the role of law in society; the legitimacy of restrictions on individual liberties; legal rights and conflicts of rights; and the relationships between law and such social values as freedom, equality, and justice. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3710Ethics (3.00)
History of modern ethical theory (Hobbes to Mill) with especial emphasis on the texts of Hume (Treatise, Book III) and Kant, (Grundlegung), which will be studied carefully and critically. Among the topics to be considered: Is morality based on reason? Is it necessarily irrational not to act morally? Are moral standards objective? Are they conventional? Is it a matter of luck whether we are morally virtuous? Is the morally responsible will a free will? Are all reasons for acting dependent on desires? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3720Contemporary Ethics (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Studies Anglo-American ethics since 1900. While there are selected readings from G. E. Moore, W. D. Ross, A. J. Ayer, C. L. Stevenson and R. M. Hare, emphasis is on more recent work. Among the topics to be considered: Are there moral facts? Are moral values relative? Are moral judgments universalizable? Are they prescriptive? Are they cognitive? What is to be said for utilitarianism as a moral theory? What against it? And what are the alternatives? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3730Ancient Ethical Theory (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 3780Reproductive Ethics (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		The focus of the course will be the exploration of various moral, legal and policy issues posed by efforts to curtail or enhance fertility through contraception, abortion, and recent advances in reproductive technology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: One prior course in ethics from any department.
PHIL 3790Research Ethics (3.00)
Canvasses the history of research scandals (e.g., Nuremberg, Tuskegee) resulting in federal regulation of human subjects research. Critically assesses the randomized clinical trial (including informed consent, risk/benefit ratio, randomization, placebos). Examines the ethics of research with special populations, such as the cognitively impaired, prisoners, children, embryos and fetuses, and animals. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: One course in ethics or bioethics, or instructor permission.
PHIL 3999Philosophical Perspectives on Liberty (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Examination of the nature and function of liberty in social theorists such as Adam Smith, JJ Rousseau, Ayn Rand, John Rawls, Robert Nozick. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 4010Seminar for Majors (3.00)
Topic changes from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Philosophy majors.
PHIL 4020Seminar for Majors (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 4500Special Topics in Philosophy (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 4990Honors Program (1.00 - 15.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the departmental honors program.
PHIL 4993Directed Reading and Research (1.00 - 3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 4995Directed Reading and Research (1.00 - 3.00)
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 4999Senior Thesis (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 5100The Historiography of Philosophy (3.00)
Examines the issues arising from the study of the history of philosophy. Authors include Aristotle, Hegel, Russell, Collingwood, and Rorty. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 5130Topics in Medieval Philosophy (3.00)
Seminar on St. Augustine, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus. Topics include the existence of God, accounts of necessity and possibility, the justification and acquisition of concepts, and the interaction between Platonism and Aristotelianism in Christian thought. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 5420Advanced Logic (3.00)
Examines various results in metalogic, including completeness, compactness, and undecidability. Effective computability, theories of truth, and identity may also be covered. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: PHIL 242 or equivalent.
PHIL 5450Language and Logic (3.00)
This course will examine, in light of classical readings and with the aid of the techniques of formal semantics and formal pragmatics, topics that have been given the most intense treatment: distinction between sense and reference, nature of meaning, relation between thought and language, etc.
PHIL 5460Philosophy of Science (3.00)
Logical analysis of the structure of theories, probability, causality, and testing of theories. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 5470Philosophy of Mathematics (3.00)
Comparison of various schools in the philosophy of mathematics (including logicism, formalism, and conceptualism) and their answers to such questions as 'Do numbers exist?' and 'How is mathematical knowledge possible?' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Some familiarity with quantifier logic or instructor permission.
PHIL 5480Philosophy of the Social Sciences (3.00)
Problems studied include explanation in the social sciences; the place of theory; objectivity; the relation between social science and natural science, philosophy, and literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Six credits of philosophy or instructor permission.
PHIL 5500Bioethics Seminar (3.00)
Topics vary annually and include 'Methods of Practical Ethics' and 'Reproductive Ethics.' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Fourth-year bioethics minor or interdisciplinary bioethics major.
PHIL 5510Seminar on a Philosophical Topic (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 5760Global Justice, Health & Human Rights (3.00)
This seminar attempts to expand the horizons of bioethics to include a set of important issues impacting global health. The focus is on current work in political phil bearing on the rationale and limits of political toleration; assistance to the ¿distant needy¿; nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism; the objectives and measures of human development;and the proposed role of human rights as a transcultural lingua franca for international ethics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 5770Methods of Practical Ethics (3.00)
An in depth exposition and analysis of several important methods of moral thought in the area of bioethics -- e.g., ethical/political theory, mid-level principles, casuistry or case-driven analysis, common morality, narrative, feminism, pragmatism, human rights, etc. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisites: instructor Permission.
PHIL 5780Reproductive Ethics (3.00)
The focus of the course will be the exploration of various moral, legal and policy issues posed by efforts to curtail or enhance fertility through contraception, abortion, and recent advances in reproductive technology--e.g., in vitro fertilization, cloning, stem cell research, genetic screening and enhancement, etc.. Emphasis on philosophical questions bearing on concepts of harm, coercion, commodification, and responsibility. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisites: One prior course in ethics or political philosophy, instructor permission.
PHIL 5790Research Ethics (3.00)
Studies the history of research scandals (e.g., Nuremberg, Tuskegee) resulting in federal regulation of human subjects research; examines and critically assesses the randomized clinical trial (including informed consent, risk/benefit ratio, randomization, placebos); and considers the ethics of research with special populations, such as the cognitively impaired, prisoners, children, embryos and fetuses, and animals. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
PHIL 7110Plato (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7120Aristotle (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7150Continental Rationalism (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7160British Empiricism (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7250Logical Positivism (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7310Epistemology (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7320Topics in Epistemology (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7330Metaphysics (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7340Philosophy of Mind (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7350Self-Knowledge (3.00)
We will examine some leading controversies about self-knowledge, and consider how those controversies bear on questions about knowledge, the mind, personal identity, and action. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7430Inductive Logic (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7440Philosophical Logic (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7450Topics in the Philosophy of Language (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7500First Year Seminar (3.00)
Seminar for First Yr graduate students. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7510Tutorial Instruction (3.00)
Tutorial Instruction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7520Seminar on a Philosophical Topic (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		Seminar on a Philosophical Topic. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7530Readings in Philosophy (3.00)
With the permission of the instructor, a student may arrange to take an undergraduate course for graduate credit under this designation. The student will attend lectures and cover the subjects of the undergraduate course, but will do additional reading and/or written work; the student¿s work in the course will be graded on a scale appropriate for graduate course work.
PHIL 7610Aesthetics (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7630Legal Philosophy (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7631Rights (3.00)
This seminar will examine the nature of and possible justifications for claims of right. Readings will be from both classical and contemporary sources. The works we read will be authored principally by philosophers, with a few pieces by political and legal theorists.
PHIL 7640Philosophy of History (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7710Ethics (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7720Contemporary Ethics (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7750Well-Being (3.00)
In this class we will explore the related questions of: what makes a life go well; what contributes to flourishing; and, what counts as welfare. We will spend the majority of the semester studying the dominant accounts of the nature and sources of well-being, and then examine efforts to define and measure well-being in economic theory and social psychology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7770Political Philosophy (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 7995Supervised Research (1.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8110Topics in Ancient Philosophy (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8140Medieval Philosophy: Augustine and Thomas Aquinas (3.00)
Medieval Philosophy: Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8160Hume's Ethics (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8170Kant: The First Critique (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8180Kant's Ethics (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8190Nineteenth-Century German Philosophy (3.00)
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PHIL 8230Development of Analytical Philosophy (3.00)
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PHIL 8270The Philosophy of Wittgenstein (3.00)
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PHIL 8290Topics in Contemporary Philosophy (3.00)
Topics in Contemporary Philosophy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8310Metaphysics (3.00)
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PHIL 8320Contemporary Epistemology (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8330Philosophy of Mind (3.00)
Philosophy of Mind. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8340Philosophy of Mind (3.00)
Philosophy of Mind. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8350Seminar on Free Will (3.00)
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PHIL 8360Experience (3.00)
The course addresses recent literature on the following questions: (1) what is the ontological nature of experience? (sense-data theories vs. state theories vs. disjunctivism); (2) is the phenomenal character of experience exhausted by its representational content? (representationalism vs. qualia realism); (3) does experience contain any nonconceptual representational content? (4) are the intrinsic features of experience introspectible?
PHIL 8420Advanced Logic and Foundations of Mathematics (3.00)
Advanced Logic and Foundations of Mathematics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8460Philosophy of Science (3.00)
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PHIL 8510Seminar on a Philosophical Topic (3.00)
Seminar on a Philosophical Topic. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8630Legal and Philosophical Concepts (3.00)
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PHIL 8640Law and Morality (3.00)
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PHIL 8650Freedom and Responsibility (3.00)
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PHIL 8710Problems in Ethics and Metaethics (3.00)
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PHIL 8770Problems in Political Philosophy (3.00)
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PHIL 8780Theories of Justice (3.00)
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PHIL 8995Supervised Research (3.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8998Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (3.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
PHIL 8999Non-Topical Research (3.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For master's thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 9998Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research (3.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 9999Non-Topical Research (3.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Spring 2012		For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.