Philosophy (PHIL)
PHIL 1101 Introduction to Philosophy. (Formerly 101) An introduction to the philosophical enterprise by way of a condensed survey of its various branches. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
MESA (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
MESA (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
PHIL 1120 Greek Philosophy. (Formerly 120) Introduces ancient Greek philosophical thought through the study of writings by Plato, Aristotle, and select Presocratic thinkers on a range of subjects (e.g., cosmology, physics, metaphysics, epistemology, rhetoric, and ethics). IAI H4901. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term)
MESA
MESA
PHIL 2200 Introduction to Logic. (Formerly 200) What is the difference between a sound and an unsound argument? How can one tell the difference between good reasoning and bad? What sorts of evidence should one accept for certain claims? As we pursue these questions, we will discuss and practice the fundamentals of both informal and formal logic. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Terms)
MESA
MESA
PHIL 2205 Philosophy of Human Nature. (Formerly 205) Investigation of the classic questions regarding the human person: unity, freedom, death and immortality, mind-body relation, and community. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term)
MESA
MESA
PHIL 2207 Feminist Philosophy. (Formerly 207) PHIL 2207/PHIL 3307 is a study of the contemporary philosophical theories on sex, gender, and sexuality. We will focus on determining the nature of the core concepts of feminism, whether traditional gendered categories are real or socially constructed, how cultural norms concerning these notions shape personal identity, and the moral implications of these reflections for public policy. Students will also assess recent trends of misogyny and patriarchy in American culture stemming from philosophical and scientific misconceptions. The intellectual debates and key arguments of feminist thought are among the most important and urgent of contemporary philosophy. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2207 and PHIL 3307. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Even Years)
MESA
MESA
PHIL 2210 Philosophy of Being. (Formerly 210) Examination of the basic principles of reality which affect all thought: change and permanence, unity in diversity, the meaning of existence, goodness, truth and beauty, the categories of being, and the analogy of being. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Even Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Even Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Even Years)
PHIL 2215 Theory of Knowledge. (Formerly 215) Analysis of the nature, possibility, foundations, and extent of human knowledge. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2215 and PHIL 3315. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Even Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Even Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Even Years)
PHIL 2225 Medieval Philosophy. (Formerly 225) Survey of philosophy from Augustine to the 14th Century. Philosophical Mode of Inquiry (QPL). Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2225 and PHIL 3325. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Odd Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Odd Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Odd Years)
PHIL 2230 Analytic Philosophy. (Formerly 230) Surveys 19th- and 20th-century philosophical movements in America and Britain. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2230 and PHIL 3330. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophy Core Elective
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Odd Years)
PHIL 2235 Modern Philosophy. (Formerly 235) Survey of philosophy from the 15th-century to the early 19th-century. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2235 and PHIL 3335. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Even Years)
PHIL 2245 General Ethics. (Formerly 245) Investigation of ethical concepts and theories and an analysis of the norms of ethical decision. Philosophical Mode of Inquiry (QPL). IAI H4904. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Terms)
MESA
MESA
PHIL 2246 Biomedical Ethics. (Formerly 246) Course covers major schools of thought on ethics within the biomedical arena. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2246 and PHIL 3346. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term)
MESA
MESA
PHIL 2247 Business Ethics. (Formerly 247) Course covers major schools of thought on ethics within the business arena. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2247 and PHIL 3347. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Odd Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Odd Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Odd Years)
PHIL 2248 Environmental Ethics. (Formerly 248) Surveys recent philosophical discourse on the rights and responsibilities of human beings in respect of animals, plants, ecosystems, and natural resources, devoting special attention to subjects such as climate change, species extinction, wilderness preservation, sustainability, consumerism, pollution, human population, and poverty. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2248 and PHIL 3348. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Sustainability; Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Even Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Periodically)
MESA (Typically Offered: Periodically)
PHIL 2255 Existentialism. (Formerly 255) Studies the views of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers from continental Europe (e.g., Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre) regarding topics such as individual existence, death, freedom, authenticity, time, language, understanding, and the relation of the individual to the community. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Odd Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Odd Years)
MESA (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Odd Years)
PHIL 2260 Social & Political Philosophy. (Formerly 260) Which forms of political organization are best? What makes a state or government legitimate? How are political goods such as peace, prosperity and liberty best understood and promoted? Course approaches these questions through the study of classic and contemporary works of political philosophy (e.g., by Plato, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, etc.). Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2260 and PHIL 3360. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Odd Years)
MESA
MESA
PHIL 2285 Philosophy of Religion. (Formerly 285) This course is an investigative exploration of some of the fundamental philosophical questions and relationships pertaining to the nature, practice, and understanding of religion or Theology. Cross-listed with PHIL 3385. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Periodically)
PHIL 2290 History and Philosophy of Science. (Formerly 290) Course covers the historical, philosophical and ethical questions of the scientific revolution through the present. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2290 and PHIL 3390. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
MESA (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
MESA (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
PHIL 2291 Selected Topics. (Formerly 291) Special philosophical issues offered at the intermediate level according to the interest of faculty and students. 3 semester credit hour/s. Course Repeatable. Maximum number of units allowed: 12.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
MESA (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
MESA (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
PHIL 3307 Feminist Philosophy. (Formerly 307) PHIL 2207/PHIL 3307 is a study of the contemporary philosophical theories on sex, gender, and sexuality. We will focus on determining the nature of the core concepts of feminism, whether traditional gendered categories are real or socially constructed, how cultural norms concerning these notions shape personal identity, and the moral implications of these reflections for public policy. Students will also assess recent trends of misogyny and patriarchy in American culture stemming from philosophical and scientific misconceptions. The intellectual debates and key arguments of feminist thought are among the most important and urgent of contemporary philosophy. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2207 and PHIL 3307. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Even Years)
PHIL 3315 Theory of Knowledge. (Formerly 315) Analysis of the nature, possibility, foundations, and extent of human knowledge. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2215 and PHIL 3315. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Even Years)
PHIL 3325 Medieval Philosophy. (Formerly 325) This course introduces medieval Latin philosophy. It studies philosophical arguments by several thinkers (e.g., Boethius, Anselm, Aquinas, etc.) on a range of subjects (e.g., “the problem of evil,” divine foreknowledge and human freedom, proofs for the existence of God, the attributes of God, natural law, etc.). Survey of philosophy from Augustine to the 14th century. Philosophical Mode of Inquiry (QPL). Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2225 and PHIL 3325 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Odd Years)
PHIL 3330 Analytic Philosophy. (Formerly 330) Surveys 19th- and 20th-century philosophical movements in America and Britain. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2230 and PHIL 3330. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophy Core Elective
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Odd Years)
PHIL 3335 Modern Philosophy. (Formerly 335) Survey of philosophy from Descartes to Kant. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2235 and PHIL 3335. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Writing Intensive; Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term, Even Years)
PHIL 3346 Biomedical Ethics. (Formerly 346) In this class, students will investigate fundamental ethical questions pertaining to health, medicine, and the life sciences. It is a course in applied ethics - where the application of general ethical theory is to the contemporary moral issues of medicine and biology. Prerequisite: A Philosophy course. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2246 and PHIL 3346. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Spring Term)
PHIL 3347 Business Ethics. (Formerly 347) Course covers major schools of thought on ethics within the business arena. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2247 and PHIL 3347. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Odd Years)
PHIL 3348 Environmental Ethics. (Formerly 348) Surveys recent philosophical discourse on the rights and responsibilities of human beings in respect of animals, plants, ecosystems, and natural resources, devoting special attention to subjects such as climate change, species extinction, wilderness preservation, sustainability, consumerism, pollution, human population, and poverty Course covers major schools of thought on ethics within the environmental/ecology arena. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2248 and PHIL 3348. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Sustainability; Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Even Years)
PHIL 3355 Existentialism. (Formerly 355) Studies the views of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers from continental Europe (e.g., Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre) regarding topics such as individual existence, death, freedom, authenticity, time, language, understanding, and the relation of the individual to the community. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Periodically)
PHIL 3360 Social and Political Philosophy. (Formerly 360) Course covers the philosophy of societal change, the forces that being about change and the revolutionary potential of change. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2260 and PHIL 3360. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term, Odd Years)
PHIL 3385 Philosophy of Religion. (Formerly 385) This course is an investigative exploration of some of the fundamental philosophical questions and relationships pertaining to the nature, practice, and understanding of religion or Theology. Cross-listed with PHIL 2285. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Periodically)
PHIL 3390 History and Philosophy of Science. (Formerly 390) Course covers the historical, philosophical and ethical questions of the scientific revolution through the present. Students may not earn credit in both PHIL 2290 and PHIL 3390. 3 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Philosophical (QPL)
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Fall Term)
PHIL 3391 Selected Topics. (Formerly 391) Special philosophical issues offered at the advanced level according to the interest of faculty and students. 3 semester credit hour/s. Course Repeatable. Maximum number of units allowed: 12.
Designation: Writing Intensive
Campus: LISLE
PHIL 4399 Thesis. (Formerly 399) Capstone experience 1-6 semester credit hour/s.
Designation: Writing Intensive; Engaged Learning
Campus: LISLE
PHIL 4491 Selected Topics (Advanced). Special philosophical issues offered at the advanced level for majors and minors, according to the interest of faculty and students. Pre-Req: Passing grade in at least 6 semester credit hours of Philosophy (PHIL) coursework. 3 semester credit hour/s. Course Repeatable. Maximum number of units allowed: 12.
Designation: Writing Intensive; Engaged Learning
Campus: LISLE (Typically Offered: Periodically)