ECE/PHIL 316, Engineering Ethics, is a campus humanities course, which meets the Comp II requirement. Comparative examination of important historical and contemporary conceptions of human nature.This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for:Humanities - Hist & Phil. Throughout the seminar, we will investigate how the models in question can help us understand phenomena such as bias, perceptual categorization, or slurs. PHIL 380   Current Controversies   credit: 3 Hours. Is abortion morally permissible? PHIL 199   Undergraduate Open Seminar   credit: 1 to 5 Hours. See Class Schedule for current topics. 3 or 4 graduate hours. All members of the course will also give a five-minute presentation on their research project at the end of the semester, followed by questions from the class. PHIL 307 - Elements Semantics & Pragmatics ~ Del Pinal (Spring 2021). We will consider several topics of ethical and public policy concern, such as abortion, experimentation on animals, drug and medical device trials, vaccination, and the provision of healthcare. Course is identical to PHIL 105 except for the additional writing component. Same as PHYS 419. Students will explore in depth a specific topic either in the history of philosophy or in contemporary practical or theoretical philosophy and will write a substantial original essay appropriate for a senior thesis. Approved for letter and S/U grading. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. This course provides an introduction to central themes in several major philosophical figures of the 17th and 18th centuries. Yet it is notoriously difficult to say just what Wittgenstein believes. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor for non-philosophy graduate students. 3 undergraduate hours. Athens was a direct democracy, which meant that having the ability to win over your fellow citizens was tantamount to political success. Plato, however, was famously wary of the sophists and their teachings. We will study the nature of rational decision-making and means-ends rationality. He never offers much by way of explicit argument or definite conclusions; his notoriously laconic and elusive style is one of personal confession and inner dialogue, relying on metaphors, parables, and jokes. This course is concerned with two strongly contrasting ways of thinking about enlightenment and a genuinely civilized society. Approved for letter and S/U grading. The first half of the course will cover some basic results and techniques from model theory, including the completeness theorem, compactness theorem, and Löwenheim-Skolem theorems. In this course, we will examine central themes in Friedrich Nietzsche’s and Sigmund Freud’s psychology and philosophy and their importance for contemporary philosophical debates. We will also consider what we should do if none of the arguments either for or against the existence of God succeed. Study and critical assessment will attend to the larger historical context. Study of selected topics on an individually arranged basis. This course will examine (i) the nature of human minds and brains in light of what we know about machine `minds' and `hardware', and vice versa, and (ii) how the rise of intelligent machines is affecting and reshaping our own society. We will also examine the elaborate philosophical systems developed by Plato and Aristotle, which address the nature of reality, knowledge, and happiness. We will examine how natural philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, and Heraclitus distinguished their inquiries from the teachings of poets such as Homer and Hesiod; how ancient atomism had its origins in a response to Parmenides’ challenge to the assumption that things change; how Socrates reoriented the focus of philosophy away from the natural world and toward the fundamental ethical question: how shall I live? We will concentrate on epistemological and metaphysical issues having to do with the underlying nature of the natural world and how we know it, including the scientific turn to explanation as mechanistic explanation and relatedly of the nature of causation. The key task which distinguishes political philosophy from cognate fields is the appraisal of what is politically possible in any concrete historical setting. Intensive study of selected problems or topics in contemporary philosophy. Prerequisite: LING 407 or consent of the instructor. See Schedule for current topics. Approved for letter and S/U grading. PHIL 414   Major Recent Philosophers   credit: 3 or 4 Hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Seminar participants will be responsible for writing initial drafts of sections of the paper and helping to refine it as we move along. Official University of Illinois textbooks Add courses to list. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Current orthodoxy, especially in Anglophone social philosophy, invites us to think of the ideal society and the freedom of its individual citizens in liberal terms inherited from the early-modern works of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Mandeville. Readings in selected philosophical topics. Approved for S/U grading only. How should I live?) PHIL 223   Minds & Machines   credit: 3 Hours. PHIL 453   Formal Logic and Philosophy   credit: 3 or 4 Hours. We conclude by assessing the relative merits of thinking about social improvement in these rival ways. PHIL 231   Religion and Philosophy   credit: 3 Hours. Course Information: Same as REL 110. Intensive study of problems in ethical theory. PHIL 105   Introduction to Ethics   credit: 3 Hours. Perhaps belief in God doesn’t need any evidence or justification at all. What things exist, what things don't? See PSYC 514. 3 undergraduate hours. Investigation of various metaphysical issues concerning, for example, existence, particulars and universals, causation, laws of nature, time, personal identity, material objects, and modality. Schopenhauer similarly construes reality ultimately in terms of Will asserting itself through nature. Prerequisite: Two courses in philosophy or two courses in psychology or consent of instructor. Space, Time, and Matter is an advanced and intensive history and philosophy of physics course that aims to: (a) introduce students to the history of both theoretical and experimental physics (more specifically we will travel from scientific thought before Aristotle all the way to the development of the standard model of particle physics), (b) briefly introduce students to the basic formulae and accompanying (sometimes competing interpretations) of classical Newtonian mechanics, classical electrodynamics (both three-vector and four-vector versions), early kinetic theory, thermodynamics, (classical) Boltzmannian statistical mechanics, special relativity, general relativity, the standard L-CDM cosmological model, and both non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics, (c) introduce students to debates in the foundations of physics, and (d) give special attention to philosophical debates concerning scientific realism and anti-realism, the relationship between the manifest and scientific images, and the nature of space and time. Posted by 3 years ago. PHIL 110   World Religions   credit: 3 Hours. This class will be on theories of concepts and their application to topics such as conceptual engineering or different phenomena in the philosophy of language and mind. PHIL 250 - Conceptions of Human Nature ~ Del Pinal (Fall 2020). PHIL 458 - Advances in Brain and Cognitive Science ~. Letter grading applies when offered for 4 hours of credit. This course begins with Thomas More's, This course provides an introduction to central themes in several major philosophical figures of the 17, Philosophical Foundations of Computer Science, Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, This course will consider the rationality of belief (and disbelief) in God (however best understood). • Evaluating sentential logic arguments through natural deduction. No graduate credit. It does not count as an ECE elective. No professional credit. Can we hope to create it? May be repeated. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. REL 110/PHIL 110 World Religions Article Activity Due Friday October 2nd The third checkpoint toward completion For a list of course offerings generated by the university registrar, listing rooms, times, CRNs, and generic course descriptions, please visit the Course Explorer. Same as PSYC 477. These sections will not count as ECE electives. PHIL 521 - Seminar Contemporary Problems ~ Livengood (Spring 2020). This subreddit is not sponsored or endorsed by the University of Illinois or any other on-campus group. The first goal in this class is the class-specific goal of becoming proficient at the translational, semantic, and proof-theoretic aspects of sentential and predicate logic. 4 graduate hours. Am I my brain?). Students will get an overview of the core questions that have occupied both classic and contemporary philosophers: What does it take to know something as opposed to, say, believe it? Many, if not most, of the historical views have been ignored throughout the history of philosophy, mostly due to the dominance of men in virtually all aspects of intellectual and academic life. Select a Course. By examining democracy at its threshold (and the power wielded by sophists within that democracy). An in-depth, integrative overview of the major themes in the study of Cognitive Science, including cognition as computation, the relation between mind and brain, computability and the role of heuristics in "solving" unsolvable problems, and the logical/mathematical foundations of these themes. The course will be divided into four units: Zeroth-Order (Sentential) Logic, First-Order (Predicate) Logic, Set Theory and Probability Theory, and Causal and Statistical Reasoning. In this class, we will read selections from Plato’s dialogues in which many prominent sophists are engaged in discussion with Socrates about the nature of their skill and the content of their teaching. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: HUMN 125 or PHIL 100. Should people receive high rewards for outstanding performances if these performances depend on their natural advantages? Ongoing dissertation seminar required for all students who have passed the prelim requirement. Instead, we need to come up with a justification for our answer. Same as ANTH 108, JS 108, and REL 108. PHIL 513   Seminar Philosophy of Logic   credit: 2 or 4 Hours. 1. PHIL 511   Seminar Ethical Theory   credit: 2 or 4 Hours. Same as IB 436, NEUR 433 and PSYC 433. However, we will also discuss the influence of Aristotle and Plato on these thinkers, as well as other Islamic philosophers during this time period, such as Al-Kindi and Al-Ghazali. Prerequisite: Freshman James Scholar. What aspects of the human mind separate us from non-human animals? This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: 3 undergraduate hours. PHIL 430   Theory of Knowledge   credit: 3 or 4 Hours. PHIL 412   Classical Modern Philosophers   credit: 3 or 4 Hours. PHIL 454 - Advanced Symbolic Logic ~ Kishida (Spring 2021). Does enlightenment entail, not a progressive movement in a forward direction, but rather a return to such neglected riches of our intellectual heritage as "liberty, equality, fraternity"? Students will then assume the role of citizens charged with speaking before the Athenian Assembly and in the lawcourts. The primary subject of this course is modal logic. PHIL 472   Kierkegaard and the Self   credit: 3 or 4 Hours. PHIL 590   Directed Research   credit: 0 to 12 Hours. And how do we describe the experiences and the ways in which human beings resist and deal with having been subjected to such violence? When machines are trained on human generated data such as news corpora, what kinds of human-like social biases---including race and gender---might they re-create/incorporate into their `decisions'? We will then turn to Kant’s accounts of human nature and ethics in Religion within the Boundaries of mere Reason and The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals before finishing up by exploring these themes with the help of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex. Completeness, compactness, and Lowenheim-Skolem theorems for first-order logic; incompleteness and undecidability of formal systems; and additional material on proof theory, model theory, or axiomatic set theory as time permits. May be repeated. Richard Tuck (Cambridge); Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. May be repeated. PHIL 514   Seminar in Cognitive Science   credit: 2 or 4 Hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Credit is not given for both PHIL 100 and PHIL 101. Is there a practical alternative to our existing civilization? The class will start with variations of decision theories that require maximizing expected utility (such as Evidential, Causal, and Functional Decision Theories). This course introduces students to this exciting junction of computer science and philosophy. Select a Department. PHIL 230   Philosophy of Religion Intro   credit: 3 Hours. Illini. Lorentz, Albert Einstein, and Hermann Minkowski. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign REL 110 - Fall 2020 Register Now NEW EXAMPLE_Fall2020_IMHA Soccer Ball Co.xlsx. Go through the PowerPoints online and skim through the book before Friday and you’ll definitely do good on the “quizzes” (they’re only 2 questions just to make sure you read) 4 HW (1 which is EC) assignments which are an easy 10/10 if you turn them in on time and cite your sources. Introduces students to philosophical and theological perspectives and methodologies by focusing on one or two key thinkers, books, or topics. Approved for letter and S/U grading. This course introduces students to the discipline of philosophy. The first way has become hegemonic. By the end of the course, students should be able to distinguish valid and invalid deductive arguments, construct truth tables for well-formed formulas in propositional logic, construct simple proofs in a natural deduction framework, apply Bayes’ Theorem to simple probability problems, distinguish between conditioning and intervening, and much more! PHIL 270   Philosophy of Science   credit: 3 Hours. And what are distinctive features of institutional uses of unjustifiable violence? In the first part of the course, we will focus on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, Jean-Jacque Rousseau’s The Social Contract and Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men, Immanuel Kant’s Doctrine of Right in The Metaphysics of Morals. and trans. Practical study of logical reasoning; techniques for analyzing and criticizing arguments, with emphasis on assessing the logical coherence of what we read and write. May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 24 hours. Survey of the leading living religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; examination of basic texts and of philosophic theological elaborations of each religion. ---Acquire elementary familiarity with the formal tools used in modern semantic and pragmatic theories, including predicate logic, generalized quantifier theory, lambda calculus, and tense logic. It does not count as an ECE elective. Same as PHIL 110. We will also critically examine concepts such as genetic determinism/diversity, as they are used in the scientific study of human nature and applied to current debates about race, gender and health. Examination of issues in the philosophy of law, such as the nature of law, law and morality, justice, liberty and authority, punishment, and legal responsibility. Same as PHIL 231. There would be nothing objectively wrong with murder. This seminar will consider recent “constitutivist” attempts to ground morality in the metaphysics of agency. In this course, we will consider philosophical views in metaphysics, epistemology, education, oppression, and bias by women philosophers from the 17th-21st centuries. This will include a recreation of the trial of Socrates, who was himself accused of using sophistry to make the weaker argument the stronger. For Stage 3 Philosophy PhD students this course is approved for S/U grading when offered for 2 hours of credit. PHIL 438   Philosophy of Language   credit: 3 or 4 Hours. Approved for letter and S/U grading. See Class Schedule for current topics. Start studying RLST 110 Midterm UIUC. Survey of the leading living religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; examination of basic texts and of philosophic theological elaborations of each religion. Perhaps belief in God doesn’t need any evidence or justification at all. We will also consider the nature of what exists and whether it is material, immaterial, or both, and the problems with each view, with particular emphasis on how to explain the interaction of the mind and the body. Is there a practical alternative to our existing civilization? E.J. Topics will differ by section and semester. No graduate credit. PHIL 404   Medieval Philosophy   credit: 3 or 4 Hours. Prerequisite: Completion of campus Composition I general education requirement.This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for:Advanced CompositionHumanities - Hist & Phil. Introduction to some of the main philosophical problems and contemporary viewpoints concerning mathematical concepts, mathematical methods, and the nature of mathematical truth. And why should we do what is moral, anyways? Same as JS 108, ANTH 108, and PHIL 108. Do we have a moral obligation to help the famine stricken in poor countries? 3 undergraduate hours. Prerequisite: Open to juniors and seniors with a grade-point average of 3.0 only by prior arrangement with a member of the faculty and with consent of the department director of undergraduate studies or the chair. Prerequisite: Open to seniors with a grade-point average of 3.5 in all philosophy courses only by prior arrangement with a member of the faculty and with consent of the department director of undergraduate studies or the chair. In this course we will pose some of the simplest questions we can ask, which also turn out to be some of the most difficult to answer. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor for non-philosophy graduate students. Prerequisite: Junior standing. PHIL 471   Contemporary Phil of Science   credit: 3 or 4 Hours. Yet for Schopenhauer such willing is necessarily beyond reason, expressed in nothing but endless, pointless strife in the world. This course will survey Islamic philosophy from the 9th century to the 12th century CE. PHIL 426 - Metaphysics ~ Saenz (Fall 2020). Students will then assume the role of citizens charged with speaking before the Athenian Assembly and in the lawcourts. Letter grading applies when offered for 4 hours of credit. Topics and plan of study must be approved by the candidate's adviser and by the staff member who directs the work. This class surveys a number of central topics in metaphysics – composition, abstract objects, modality, properties, time, persistence, and social ontology. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Investigates the relationships that these disciplines bear to one another and of their overall potential to resolve age-old philosophical questions about the mind. PHIL 102 – Logic and Reasoning (Online Course) ~ Fitts (Fall 2020 and Spring 2021). Investigation of issues concerning, for example, the nature and possibility of knowledge; its forms and limits; its relation to belief, truth, and justification; and the nature of truth. But what exactly do moral reasons track? There may also be some early Marx, before he turned from philosophy to social science. How is human psychology structured, and how does it operate? What types of contents are we allowed to share on social media? Prerequisites: Junior standing and Rhetoric 105. PHIL 230 - Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion ~ Sussman (Fall 2020). A philosophical inquiry into traditional and contemporary views about love and sex. The popular vote was a "beauty contest". Description: Course Information: Same as RLST 110. Study of the development of phenomenology from Husserl to the present. Philosophical examination of positions taken on some issue of current concern, for example, human sexuality, death and dying, feminism, race, intelligence, war, sociobiology, and environmental ethics. 3 undergraduate hours. Prerequisite: PHIL 202 or consent of instructor.This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for:Quantitative Reasoning II. Yet our histories and societies are rife with phenomena such as racism, sexism, and heterosexism—and it seems very hard for us, human beings of all walks of life, including philosophers, to overcome these problems of patterned hatred, oppression, and violence. Students will get an overview of the core questions that have occupied both classic and contemporary philosophers: What does it take to, Consider the following dialogue: Anton: “Murder is wrong because I don’t like it.” Bert: “That’s false, for I like it.” If the disagreement between Anton and Bert brings out what moral disagreement essentially comes down to, murder would be at best like sweet red wine; disliked by most people but liked by others. The honors variant of the course includes more discussion of philosophical issues and some essay writing. I will provide a framing for the paper and direct the main line of our collective investigation. See SCAN 472. PHIL 419   Space, Time, and Matter-ACP   credit: 3 or 4 Hours. Yet it would be inappropriate to simply flip a coin. Prerequisite: Restricted to students satisfying requirements for the Ph.D. degree. Selected topics and writings of major importance in the contemporary philosophy of knowledge. We will discuss the normative principle of luck egalitarianism in light of three main criticisms: relational egalitarianism, libertarianism, and sufficientarianism (ad 2). This course begins with a survey of the classical arguments of Aristotle and Cicero. PHIL 110 (UIUC) Popular Course Packets . Your Course List. We will also explore more recent advances in the study of category representation, such as psychological essentialism and causal model theory, and examine whether they can circumvent problems faced by other models. PHIL 114 Philosophical Issues in the Law (5) I&S R. MOORE Analysis and critical assessment of various philosophical issues in law and legal reasoning. See RLST 110. This course begins with a survey of the classical arguments of Aristotle and Cicero. Philosophy of psychology covers a large range of issues having to do with the study of cognition, mental representation, perception, consciousness, and the methods used to investigate psychological phenomena. From a normative perspective, how can traditional philosophical theories of fairness and justice help us think about machine biases, and understand the relevant trade-offs? PHIL 110 (UIUC) Religion in America . Supposedly, some ethical commitments are an essential aspect of the first-person point-of-view, and so of my being able to make up my mind about what to do (and so immediately know what I’m doing). Philosophical problems arising in connection with mental phenomena; the relation of mind and body; free will and determinism; our knowledge of other minds; and the self and personal identity. Intensive treatment of issues in contemporary ethical theory. Logic and Reasoning is an introductory logic course. No graduate credit. What is philosophy? The course takes a more formal, mathematical approach than PHIL 102, and so, it satisfies a level-two quantitative reasoning requirement (QRII). After briefly touching on game theory, we'll turn to rivals to EU-maximizing theories and explore issues surrounding the nature of risk. aims to provide both the context and perspective to consider its later evolution. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor for non-philosophy graduate students. PHIL 477 - Philosophy of Psychology ~ Livengood (Fall 2020). In this course we will explore a series of early, pathbreaking writings on these topics, such as those of Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Stuart and Harriet Taylor Mill, Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), Simone de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Finally, we will examine the ways in which later thinkers such as the Epicureans and Stoics transformed and extended the earlier tradition. PHIL 433   Evolutionary Neuroscience   credit: 3 or 4 Hours.
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