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  • PHIL 4160G: History of Chinese Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): PHIL 2050 and University Advanced Standing. Explores the philosophies of China. Interprets major Chinese philosophical texts and figures, tracing the development of Chinese philosophy's key themes and questions across the centuries. Examines the "classical era" of Chinese thought, the Warring States Period, in which the foundations of all subsequent tradition emerged: Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism; the introduction of Buddhism to China throughout the medieval period, culminating in the Neo-Confucian movements of the late imperial era; and modern Chinese political theory.
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  • PHIL 4200: Symbolic Logic

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): PHIL 3000 and University Advanced Standing. Discusses the philosophical motivation for the formalization of logic. Introduces the metatheory for propositional and quantificational logic. Includes proofs of the soundness and completeness of quantificational logic. Discusses the philosophical issues surrounding the results proved. May also include some discussion of important results in computability.
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  • PHIL 4300: Environmental Aesthetics

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (PHIL 1000, PHIL 1000H, PHIL 2050, PHIL 2050H, PHIL 2050G, HUM 1010, HUM 1010H, HUM 1010G, or HUM 3500) and University Advanced Standing. Introduces students to emerging themes in environmental aesthetics. Evaluates concepts and attitudes toward nature including, but not limited to, the concept of beauty in natural and human-made environments from a cross-cultural perspective. Studies environmental formalism, cognitivism and non-cognitivism, as well as divergent spiritual, ecological, religious, and moral approaches to the appreciation of nature.
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  • PHIL 4300R: Topics in Epistemology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (PHIL 1000 or PHIL 1000H or PHIL 2050 or PHIL 2050H or PHIL 2050G or PHIL 2110 or PHIL 2150 or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing. Provides an opportunity for students to conduct an in-depth study of specific topics in epistemology. Topics may include the foundations of knowledge; the nature of justification; the problem of skepticism, and the nature of scientific, religious, and/or moral knowledge. Emphasizes the rigorous analysis of arguments and offers the opportunity for students to develop their own original critical analysis and argument. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credits toward graduation.
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  • PHIL 4460: Philosophy of Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (PHIL 2050, PHIL 2050G, PHIL 2050H, PSY 1010, or PSY 1010H) and University Advanced Standing. Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of questions that arise when psychologists explore cognition and behavior concerning philosophical issues and when philosophers explore questions that rely on empirical claims about cognition and behavior. Surveys topics such as situationism and virtue ethics, moral intuitions, well-being, emotions, moods, positive illusions and free will, automaticity, confabulation, mental illness and psychopathy.
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  • PHIL 4461: Moral Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (PHIL 2050 or PHIL 2050G or PHIL 2050H or PSY 1010 or PSY 1010H) and University Advanced Standing. Analyzes questions about how people engage in moral thinking and in moral behavior from the perspectives of the philosophy of mind, ethics and psychology. Explores topics such as virtue and character, reason and passion, altruism and egoism, agency and responsibility, and moral intuitions.
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  • PHIL 4470: Philosophy of Mind

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (PHIL 1000 or PHIL 1000H or PHIL 2050 or PHIL 2050H or PHIL 2050G or PHIL 2110 or PHIL 2150 or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing. Explores central questions concerning the nature of the mind. Includes such topics as personal identity, the mind-body problem, other minds, mental causation, and externalism.
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  • PHIL 4480: Philosophy of Language

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (PHIL 1000 or PHIL 1000H or PHIL 2050 or PHIL 2050H or PHIL 2050G or PHIL 2110 or PHIL 2150 or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing. Explores the central issues in the philosophy of language. Includes the study of such issues as truth, meaning, reference and descriptions, names and demonstratives, speech acts, metaphor and private language. Includes the study of such philosophers as W.V.O. Quine, A Tarski, D. Davidson, J. Searle, J. Derrida, C. Levi-Strauss, F. Saussure, L. Wittgenstein, K. Donnellan, S. Kripke, D. Kaplan, H.P. Grice, B. Russell, and P.F. Strawson.
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  • PHIL 4500R: Interdisciplinary Senior Ethics Seminar

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval and University Advanced Standing. For integrated studies majors and other interested students. Addresses ethical issues dealing with discipline specific subject matter, i.e., nursing, behavioral, physical, social sciences, etc. Subject matter will vary each semester. Taught by Philosophy faculty in cooperation with faculty of appropriate departments. Repeatable three times for credit with different subjects. See Philosophy Department office for specific topics.
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  • PHIL 4510R: Ethical Theory Seminar

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (PHIL 2050 or PHIL 2050H or PHIL 2050G or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing. Offers detailed investigation of selected ethical theories central to the Western philosophical tradition. Repeatable up to 12 credit hours with different topics.
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