BA in Philosophy
(43 hours*)

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1. Complete the following sources and methods courses:
   PHIL 201 : History of Philosophy 1. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 201 : History of Philosophy 1. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand; Summer On Demand
   DESCRIPTION:	Western civilization from Greek antiquity to Renaissance, primarily from perspective of philosophy; exploring fundamental questions in human experience; examining formative events in history; understanding value of important texts.
   
   
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   PHIL 202 : History of Philosophy 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 202 : History of Philosophy 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand; Summer On Demand
   DESCRIPTION:	Western civilization from Renaissance to present, primarily from perspective of philosophy; exploring fundamental questions in human experience; examining formative events in history; understanding value of important texts.
   
   
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   PHIL 205 : Deductive Logic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 205 : Deductive Logic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand
   DESCRIPTION:	History and use of syllogistic and propositional logic; evaluating arguments with Venn diagrams, truth tables, and Copi-style proofs and proof strategies.
   
   
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   PHIL 300 : Philosophical Writing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 300 : Philosophical Writing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 150 & PHIL 205; Phil 201 or 202 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Writing philosophical papers about philosophical texts or problems. Research methods in philosophy. Library research paper.
   NOTE:	Fulfills GE Advanced Written and Oral Communications requirement. No course challenges accepted.
   
   
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   PHIL 305 : Predicate Logic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 305 : Predicate Logic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 205
   DESCRIPTION:	History and use of predicate logic; evaluating arguments with counterexamples and proofs; informal mathematical proofs.
   NOTE:	Fulfills GE Languages of Learning requirement.
   
   
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2. Complete two of the following historical periods courses (should not be in the same period):
   PHIL 320R : Studies in Ancient Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 320R : Studies in Ancient Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 201; Phil 150 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics.
   
              : Topics in Greek Philosophy.
              : Pre-Socratics.
              : Socrates.
              : Plato.
              : Aristotle.
              : Neo-Platonism.
              : Plotinus.
              : Stoicism.
              : Greek Ethics.
              : Greek Science.
              : Greek Metaphysics.
              : Greek Logic.
              : Greek Political Theory.
              : Greek Epistemology.
              : Greek Philosophy of Religion.
              : Helenistic Philosophy.
              : Church Fathers.
              : Chinese Philosophy.
              : Hindu Philosophy.
              : Buddhism.
   
   
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   PHIL 330R : Studies in Medieval Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 330R : Studies in Medieval Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 201; Phil 150 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics.
   
              : Topics in Medieval Philosophy.
              : Augustine.
              : Anselm.
              : Averroes.
              : Bonaventure.
              : Maimonides.
              : Aquinas.
              : Duns Scotus.
              : William of Ockham.
              : Boethius.
              : Medieval Jewish Philosophers.
              : Medieval Arabic Philosophers.
              : Medieval Ethics.
              : Medieval Science.
              : Medieval Epistemology.
              : Medieval Metaphysics.
              : Medieval Logic.
              : Medieval Political Theory.
              : Medieval Philosophy and Religion.
              : Meister Eckhart.
   
   
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   PHIL 340R : Studies in Modern Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 340R : Studies in Modern Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 202; Phil 150 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics.
   
              : Topics in Modern Philosophy.
              : Continental Rationalism.
              : Descartes.
              : Spinoza.
              : Leibniz.
              : British Empiricism.
              : Hobbes.
              : Locke.
              : Descartes and Locke.
              : Berkeley.
              : Hume.
              : Kant.
              : Hegel.
              : Schopenhauer.
              : German Idealism.
              : Nietzsche.
              : Nietzsche and Freud.
              : Kierkegaard.
              : Utilitarianism.
              : Modern Political Theory.
              : Bentham.
              : J. S. Mill.
              : Pragmatism.
              : Peirce.
              : William James.
              : Dewey.
              : Bergson.
              : Alexander.
              : Bradley.
              : Bosanquet.
              : British Idealism.
   
   
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   PHIL 350R : Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 350R : Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 202; Phil 150 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics.
   
              : Topics in Contemporary Philosophy.
              : Philosophy of Social Science.
              : Philosophy of Mind.
              : Philosophy of History.
              : Philosophy of Psychology.
              : Philosophy of Theology.
              : Philosophy and Film.
              : Philosophy and Literature.
              : Philosophy of Architecture.
              : Contemporary Analytical Philosophy.
              : Contemporary Political Theory.
              : Russell.
              : Moore.
              : Frege.
              : Truth.
              : Wittgenstein.
              : Whitehead.
              : Ordinary Language of Philosophy.
              : Logical Positivism.
              : Continental Philosophy.
              : Existentialism.
              : Hermeneutics.
              : Phenomenology.
              : Philosophy of Cognitive Science.
              : Ricoeur.
              : Husserl.
              : Heidegger.
              : Sartre.
              : Levinas.
              : Merleau-Ponty.
              : Gadamer.
              : Dufrenne.
              : Derrida.
              : Leotard.
              : Foucault.
              : Marion.
              : Contemporary French Philosophy.
              : Oakeshott.
              : Philosophy of Logic.
   
   
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3. Complete one of the following values and conduct courses:
   PHIL 213 : Introduction to Ethics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 213 : Introduction to Ethics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer On Demand
   DESCRIPTION:	Nature and justification of moral standards, beliefs, and decisions.
   NOTE:	This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information.
   
   
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   PHIL 214 : Introduction to the Philosophy of Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 214 : Introduction to the Philosophy of Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   DESCRIPTION:	The experience of beauty in nature, in literature, and in the arts.
   NOTE:	This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information.
   
   
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   PHIL 215 : Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 215 : Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   DESCRIPTION:	Existence and nature of God, God's foreknowledge and man's free will, faith, immortality, and religious experience and language.
   
   
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   PHIL 218 : Science and Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 218 : Science and Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	One philosophy course.
   DESCRIPTION:	Epistemological and metaphysical similarities and differences undergirding historical problems in science and religion. Nature and effects of past reconciliations; possibility and desirability of current reconciliations.
   
   
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   PHIL 413R : Topics in Ethics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 413R : Topics in Ethics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 300
   RECOMMENDED:	Phil 213.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected topics, figures, problems, and theories in ethics, including foundations of ethics, relativism, subjectivism, objectivity, skepticism, deontology, consequentialism, virtue theory, and application of ethical theory.
   
              : Issues in Reproductive Ethics.
              : Noncognitivism and Ethical Subjectivism.
              : Contemporary Kantianism and The Possibility of Altruism.
              : Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Relativism.
              : Happiness.
   
   
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   PHIL 414R : Philosophy of Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 414R : Philosophy of Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
   PREREQUISITE:	Phil 300 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or topics in aesthetics.
   
   
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   PHIL 416 : Philosophy of Law. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 416 : Philosophy of Law. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 300
   DESCRIPTION:	The relation between natural and enacted law; theories of punishment; utilitarian and nonutilitarian theories of law; liberty.
   
   
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4. Complete two of the following knowledge and reality courses:
   PHIL 405 : Metalogic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 405 : Metalogic. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 305
   DESCRIPTION:	Completeness and undecidability of predicate logic; incompleteness of arithmetic and set theory; treatment of related philosophical topics and of nonclassical topics as time permits.
   
   
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   PHIL 415 : Philosophy of Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 415 : Philosophy of Religion. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 300
   DESCRIPTION:	Selected figures or problems.
   
   
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   PHIL 420 : Philosophy of Language. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 420 : Philosophy of Language. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 205; Phil 300 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Meaning and reference, synonymy, metaphor, exemplification, translation; linguistic, artistic, and perceptual symbol systems.
   
   
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   PHIL 421 : Metaphysics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 421 : Metaphysics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Spring On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 300 & PHIL 305
   DESCRIPTION:	Basic categories of being: appearance and reality, law, causality, space, time, eternity, deity.
   
   
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   PHIL 422 : Epistemology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 422 : Epistemology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter; Summer On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 300
   DESCRIPTION:	Meaning, limits, and justification of knowledge.
   
   
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   PHIL 423 : History and Philosophy of Science. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 423 : History and Philosophy of Science. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	PHIL 300; Phy S 100 or instructor's consent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Scientific explanation, concepts, and models. Philosophical assumptions and criteria for theory selection, as exemplified by historical development of basic ideas in science.
   
   
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5. Complete 12 additional hours (excluding 499R) (with no more than three hours of 449R). Students must have a total of 27 credit hours of upper-division course work (300-level or above) in the major.
6. Complete the following seminar:
   PHIL 490 : Senior Seminar. (1:1.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PHIL 490 : Senior Seminar. (1:1.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	Senior status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Review of philosophical principles and advanced writing experiences culminating in a publishable paper.
   
   
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