AUB - Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Department of Philosophy

PHIL 101 - Applied Philosophy

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Annually. This course deals with philosophical questions which have practical import; it aims to introduce students to the philosophical mode of analysis.

PHIL 102 - Philosophical Classics

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Annually. An introduction to the thought of some major figures in the history of philosophy.

PHIL 201 - Introduction to Philosophy

Credits: 3.00

3.0;. 3 cr. Each semester. An introduction to philosophy and its methods through an analysis of traditional issues in ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.

PHIL 205 - Bio-Medical Ethics

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Annually. A philosophical examination of a number of ethical topics in the fields of biology and medicine, such as abortion, physician-assisted suicide, infanticide, eugenics, genetic engineering, allocation of medical resources, experimentation on animals and humans, and so on.

PHIL 206 - Business Ethics

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Annually. A philosophical examination of a number of ethical topics arising in the areas of business and management, such as fraud and corruption, product safety, inside trading, honesty in advertising, discriminatory hiring practices, and so on.

PHIL 209 - Environmental Ethics

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Annually. An attempt to identify and discuss the major ethical and philosophical aspects of issues related to the environment and to determine the environment- related responsibilities and obligations incurred by people at the individual and collective levels.

PHIL 210 - Ethics

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Annually. An introduction to some of the major normative ethical theories based on the study of the original writings of selected philsophers, and including a part on applied ethics.

PHIL 211 - Introduction to Logic

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Each semester. A first introduction to formal and informal logic, including argument analysis, informal fallacies, natural deduction methods in propositional and first-order predicate logic.

PHIL 213 - History of Ancient & Medieval Philosophy

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Annually. A survey of ancient and medieval philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Aquinas.

PHIL 214 - History of Modern Philosophy

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Annually. A survey of early modern philosophy, from Descartes to Kant.

PHIL 215 - Nineteenth Century Philosophy

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. An introductory survey of post- Kantian philosophy, with emphasis on Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.

PHIL 216 - Political Philosophy

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. Students cannot receive credit for both PHIL 216 and PSPA 210. An examination of various theories of political obligation from the time of Plato to the present.

PHIL 217 - Aesthetics

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. An examination of the central problems and issues which arise in the interpretation, analysis and evaluation of works of art.

PHIL 218 - Metaphysics & Epistemology

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Annually. An investigation of the most fundamental concepts involved in our thought about the world, including the nature of truth, knowledge, causality, substance, space and time.

PHIL 219 - Existentialism

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. An introduction to existentialist philosophy, within the context of nineteenth- century and early twentieth-century philosophy.

PHIL 220 - Symbolic Logic

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. Prerequisite: PHIL 211. A study of the axiomatization and the meta-theory of classical propositional and predicate logic, first-order theories, as well as related philosophical issues.

Pre-requisites: PHIL 211 Minimum Grade: 60

PHIL 221 - Philosophy of Mind

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. An introductory examination of contemporary acounts of the nature of the mental, and of psychological explanation.

PHIL 222 - Philosophy of Science

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr.; alternate years. An introduction to the philosophical problems and issues wich arise in trying to understand the nature of science.

PHIL 223 - Philosophy of Language

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. An introductory examination of various contemporary accounts of the nature of language and meaning.

PHIL 224 - Philosophy of Religion

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. An in-depth survey of the main philosophical questions connected to religion, including questions about religion as a feature of human experience, as well as questions connected to the nature of God, evil, free will, and so on.

PHIL 230 - Philosophy of Plato

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. An introduction to some of Plato's major dialogues.

PHIL 231 - Philosophy of Aristotle

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. An introductory examination of the physics, metaphysics, logic, ethics and politics of Aristotle.

PHIL 232 - Islamic Philosophy

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. Offered either in Arabic or in English. An examination of the philosophical and religious thought of the major philosophers of Islam.

PHIL 249 - Philosophy of Feminism

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Alternate years. An examination of philosophical issues relating to gender relations and the foundations of feminist theory; issues addressed will primarily involve the ethical or epistemological content of feminist theory.

PHIL 250 - Selected Topics in Logic

Credits: 3.00

3.0; 3 cr. Offered occasionally.