116 courses in the 1980–81 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
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A broad selection of the main problems in ‘philosophy will be considered. For example: How can we know whether anything is right or wrong? Can we know whether there is a God? Is mind in any sense distinct from matter? Original texts of both classical and contemporary thinkers are employed.
This is a year long examination of some of the greatest writings in Western philosophy. Students will be encouraged to come to a critical appreciation of such masterworks as Plato's Republic, Descartes’ Discourse on Method, Hobbes’ Leviathan, Hume's Enquiry, Kant’s Prolegomena, Nietzsche's Zarathustra, and an outstanding work in contemporary philosophy.
“Who am 1?” “What can | hope for after death?” “How can | tell what to do?” “What can | know?” are questions that have led people to philosophize. Approaches, such as those of the mystic, the scientist, the existentialist, the pleasure seeker, and the practical man, will be discussed.
Course Descriptions Philosophy
Alternative philosophical perspectives on problems raised by scientific and technological developments including moral issues (e.g. privacy and datagathering, ‘clean’ vs. ‘dirty’ energy.) Also an examination of the nature and scope of scientific and technical knowledge as it bears on the responsibilities of scientists and engineers.
An introduction to basic concepts and principles in classican and contemporary social and political philosophy. Differing views on basic questions are examined, with applications to such issues as capital punishment, welfare provisions, taxation, natural resource ownership, and terrorism.
Beginning with a consideration of such contemporary religious and anti-religious options as secularism, mysticism, occultism, and charismatic renewal, this course moves to a critical discussion of such topics as religious experience, faith, God, and miracles.
Elementary sentence and predicate logic. Translation from English into the formalism, decision methods and deductions. Application of Graphic Methods to Logic. This course is a preparation for courses in the foundations of mathematics, scientific methods, and more advanced logic courses.
An analysis of basic types of reasoning, structure of arguments, critical assessment of information, common fallacies, problems of clarity and meaning.
Discussion of the nature of reality. Rival theories concerning mind, matter, freedom, the existence of God, and the place of experience and reason in human knowledge are considered.
A philosophical analysis of different forms and functions of love. Among the topics to be considered: love and sexuality, religious love, love and knowledge. Classical and contemporary sources will be treated.
A study of some of the issues raised by the Women’s Liberation movement. Philosophical writings of the past and present will be used on such subjects as: the two sexes, physiological femininity, personal and social relations between the sexes, the position of women in public life, marriage and its alternatives, the importance of childbearing.
This course critically examines how philosophers from the Pre-Socratics to Wittgenstein have analysed the concept of death. The course is also converned with topics like the concept of a person, personal identity, and survival after death.
Each term philosophical themes (such as alienation, freedom, and responsibility) will be explored through appropriate literary works (e.g. works by Camus, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Sartre).
Study of ethical and moral issues that typically arise in professional activity. What responsibilities to society at large do peopie in such professions as teaching, engineering, planning, architecture, and accounting have? How far should professional autonomy extend?
An elementary introduction to the subject of ‘rational’ behaviour and decision-making for individuals and groups. Emphasis is on the definition and measurement of utility functions and various criteria employed in models of decision-making. This course is intended to help those whose work will involve them in making decisions in either the public or private sectors.
The aim of this course is to improve the student’s understanding of ethical ideas and principles by careful discussion of selected concrete moral issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, and violence. Choice of issues is partly determined by student interest.
Course Descriptions 411 Philosophy
This course is intended to be both a history of and an introduction to moral philosophy. Views on the foundations of ethics of the great philosophers from classical antiquity to about 1900 are systematically examined. Writers studied include: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Mill and Nietzsche.
Continues the history and discussion of ethics begun in Phil 221 with writings from 1900 to the present. Theories such as intuitionism, emotivism, utilitarianism, and relativism are examined via the writings of such people as Moore, Hare and. Warnock.
Prereq: 221 recommended
An examination of some of the issues raised by recent discussions on ecology. Various theories of nature, the human being, and relations between the two will be explored. Possible foundations for duties of mankind toward nature will be examined.
Basic ideological perspectives - conservative, socialist, and liberal - on Canadian problems - such as native rights, nationalism, separatism, and regionalism - are philosophically presented and assessed.
Prereq: Philosophy 125 or consent of the instructor.
An investigation of some critical ethical issues in human research and therapy. Includes discussions of the right to live and right to die, behavior control (e.g. psychosurgery, behavior modification and psychotherapy), human experimentation (including “informed consent” and fetal research) and human engineering.
Prereq: One of Phil 125, 221, 222, or consent of instructor
A critical examination of mystical writings, with regard to the nature of the experience reported, their typology, and their implications for epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of religion.
A critical philosophical discussion of reports of several kinds of extraordinary experiences, such as magic, extra-sensory perception, mysticism, and divination will lead us to discussions of such concepts as insanity, irrationality, the supernatural, and the miraculous.
A systematic development of the propositional calculus and of the first-order functional calculus. Some attention will be devoted to extensions and interpretations of such formal systems.
Prereq: None for second-year students and above; consent of instructor for others.
Axiom systems of logic are developed and compared with natural deduction procedures. Then certain properties of these logical systems, such as consistency, completeness, and compactness, will be investigated.
Prereq: Phil 140 or consent of the instructor.
The classical logic introduced in Phil 140 will be extended to form systems of modal logic, including logics of obligation, belief and knowledge, necessity, and temporal order. Essentialism, future contingencies, proofs for the existence of God will be discussed.
Prereq: Phil 140 or consent of the instructor.
Fundamentals of probability and game theory. Problems of decisionmaking under conditions of certainty, risk and uncertainty. The definition and measurement of utility functions. Translation of decisions and preferences of members of a group into collective preference. Some applications to the Social Sciences.
Prereq: Phil 140, 145 or consent of instructor
A discussion of the fundamental concepts on which science is based. Consideration is given to such topics as scientific explanation, the structure of scientific theories, the nature of law-likeness, the grounds for scientific confirmation, and the debate between rationalism and empiricism in science.
I Course Descriptions Philosophy
An introduction to the existentialist view of man using both literary and philosophical texts from such authors as Kierkegaard, Unamuno, Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset, Camus, Sartre, Heidegger and others.
Philosophic examination of areas of current or traditional social or conceptual interest. No special preparation in Philosophy. Topics dealt with may include Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy and linguistic theory, Minds and Machines, The Concept of Deviance.
From the beginnings to Plato.
Prereq: Second year standing or above, or consent of instructor
From Aristotle to the close of classical antiquity. Prereq: Phil 280
Earlier period beginning with Descartes.
Prereq: Second year standing or above, or consent of instructor
Later period including Hume and Kant.
Prereq: Second year standing or above, or consent of instructor. Phil 282 recommended.
The 19th century. Philosophers covered may include Hegel, Mill, Schopenhauer, James, and Kierkegaard.
A course intended to introduce the student to the dominent themes of 20th century philosophy, centering on the major figures of this century, such as Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. Moore, Edmund Husserl, and Jean-Paul! Sartre.
An introduction to philosophical issues relating to sports and other games. Among the issues examined will be the nature of games, games and sports, and the relevance of games and sports to other philosophical interests: e.g., ethics and aesthetics.
A philosophical analysis of classical and contemporary theories of education, with a view to formulating a clear workable concept of education, its aims and methods.
Prereq: At lease second year standing or consent of instructor
An introduction to current work in the field, particularly that of Peters, Hirst, and Dearden. Special attention will be paid to the question of the desirability of a core curriculum and its proposed content.
Prereq: Phil 377 or consent of instructor
Various half courses dealing with special topics; one or more of these will be offered each year as announced by the Department.
Prereq: Phil 221/222. See Note 1
Philosophical analysis of centra} concepts in political theory and its relation to moral and metaphysical problems of various periods. Prereq: Phil 125 or consent of the instructor
A detailed discussion of contemporary theories. Prereq: Phil 125 or consent of the instructor
An investigation of alternative views of law and legal reasoning forms the core of this course. Law’s relations to morality, social practice, and politics are considered. Authors to be studies include Aquinas, Kant, Austin, and Hart.
Prereq: Phil 221 or another approved values course, or consent of the instructor.
Course Descriptions : 413 Philosophy
An examination of areas within the law in which philosophical problems and methods are featured prominently. Topics such as liberty, responsibility and liability, punishment, rights and possession are considered.
Prereq: Phil 327A or consent of the instructor.
A systematic, critical study of the main philosophical ideas of Marx and Engels. Considerable reading from their original writings, early and late, with discussion and analysis, is the main work of the course; some recent interpretative and critical work is used.
Prereq: One full or two half Philosophy courses, or consent of instructor
An intensive study of the moral issues involved in war and armed revolution. Critical evaluation of ‘just war” theories, and international rules of warfare is pursued as well as the moral arguments for and against pacifism and conscientious objection. Prereq: Phil 125, or 221/222, or consent of instructor
Philosophical consideration of works of art and the problems of beauty using selected readings to enable the student to recognize and formulate his own views in a philosophic manner.
Prereq: One full or two half Philosophy courses, or consent of instructor.
A critical examination of the methods and substantive arguments found in selected major works of religious philosophy. The writings chosen for consideration will be announced in advance each year.
Prereq: One full or two half Philosophy courses, or consent of instructor.
See Note 7.
A rigorous and general development of the propositional and predicate calculus within which alternative calculi are examined. Study of such concepts as completeness, consistency, extensionality, and modality from both formal and philosophical points of view. Intended primarily for those interested in philosophica! issues connected with logic.
Prereq: Phil 140, or (preferably) Phil 240, 241 or 242, or consent of instructor
An analysis of human knowledge, its conditions and types. The first part concentrates on criteria of meaningfulness, the possibility of a priori knowledge, and the concept of knowledge. The second part deals with our knowledge of the physical world and other minds.
Prereq: One full or two half courses in Philosophy.
The first part of Phil 350.
The second part of Phil 350.
Note Either 350A or 350B may be taken separately.
A study of philosophical problems concerning mathematics. Topics discussed include formalism, intuitionism, logicism, the mathematical paradoxes, and other topics in foundations and metamathematics.
Prereq: At least second year standing or consent of instructor
Problems about the fundamental methods and aims of the social sciences generally, and problems specific to Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, etc., and their relations to one another will be considered.
(Cross-numbered as Soc 371)
Course Descriptions Philosophy
The first part examines issues in the philosophy of language, such as synonymy, propositions, meaning, semantics, reference. The second part will consider ordinary language analysis as a method for solving philosophical problems as compared with structural linguistics.
Prereq: At lease second year standing or consent of instructor
The first part of Phil 363.
The second part of Phil 363.
Note Either Phil 363A or Phil 363B may be taken separately.
Studies of a selected area of non-western Philosophy (e.g. Indian or Chinese). Parallels will be drawn between modes of Eastern thinking and European conceptions with emphasis on essential differences as well as similarities.
Prereq: Consent of instructor
One or more half courses will be offered at different times as announced by the Department.
Prereq: Consent of instructor. See Note 7
Various half courses dealing with a particular
philosopher, a selected work or period; one or more of these will be offered each year as announced by the Department.
Prereq: Appropriate course(s) from Phil 280-285 or Phil 390/391, or consent of instructor.
See Note 1
The early period of the 13th century. Among those considered will be: Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, and Abailard.
Prereq: one full or two half courses in Philosophy
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The later period from the 13th century. Among those considered will be: Bonaventure, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.
Prereq: Phil 390
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Students wishing to enrol in 399 should consult the Department.
Analysis and evaluation of the philosophical points of view that underlie current criticism of urban life and prevalent schemes for its reconstruction. Prereq: One half Philosophy course
A study of a particular philosopher or problem. The topic will be announced in advance each year. Prereq: Consent of instructor. See Note 1
Various half courses dealing with specific topics; one or more of these will be offered each year as announced by the Department.
Prereq: Phil 240, 241, 242 or 340 or Math 346.
See Note 7
Consideration of various possible views about ultimate nature of history and historical knowledge. Offered in sequence with Hist 466.
Prereq: One full course equivalent in Philosophy, or consent of instructor
Theories of reality, historical and contemporary, with emphasis on metaphysical problems in the light of recent studies.
Prereq: Two full courses (or equivalent) in Philosophy.
Course Descriptions 415 Philosophy
An in depth study of the thought of a major existentialist figure such as Kierkegaard, Unamuno, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Marcel, Jaspers, Ortega y Gasset.
Prereq: Consent of instructor
A critical examination of the issues and methods of phenomenology, including the attempt to understand the uses and ramifications of phenomenological methods through the working out of particular analyses. The basic writings of phenomenologists such as Husser! and Merleau-Ponty will be used. Prereq: One full or two half courses in Philosophy, or consent of instructor
One or more half courses wil! be offered at different times, as announced by the Department.
Prereq: Consent of instructor. See Note 1
Various half courses dealing with a particular philosopher, a selected work or period; one or more of these will be offered each year as announced by the Department.
Prereq: Consent of instructor. See Note 1
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Students wishing to enrol in 499 should consult the Department.
The following courses are administered by St. Jerome’s College
A broad selection of the main problems in philosophy will be considered. For example: how can we know whether anything is right or wrong? How can we know about things we cannot directly observe? Can we know whether there is a God? Is mind in any sense distinct from matter?
A study of what some of the great philosophers have said about the meaning of life and death and the transition from life to death. Students are urged to raise questions and help direct discussion.
Offered in the evening fall term.
A study of what some of the great philosophers have said about the causes of discontent. Social disobedience and the extent to which ethical principles can be altered to accommodate changing conditions are possible topics for discussion. Offered in the evening winter term.
An introduction to the understanding of how words are used, the formation of propositions, the construction of arguments and the examination of fallacies to help the student to argue with order, with facility and without error.
An examination of ancient and modern accounts of the natural world. Problems include whether matter alone can account for change, whether there is more than one cause, whether nature operates by purpose or chance.
What is man? What is man’s place among other creatures? is man an accident of evolution? What are the major views on man as a species? How are love and sex aspects of man’s life?
A normative approach, employing several of the classic Western traditions of rational thought, to general ethics. The various schools of ethical thought will be discussed. : Offered in the evening.
Course Descriptions Philosophy
This course will discuss the applications of general ethics to more specific areas of human endeavour. Among the topics discussed will be abortion, contraception, sex, obscenity, violence, drugs, egoism, dishonesty, and various forms of human exploitation.
Offered in the evening winter term.
An investigation of several aspects concerning the meaning and existence of God. Is God-talk possible? Can faith and reason be reconciled? Is religious experience a meaningful argument? A wide range of different views will be considered.
Offered in the evening.
This course examines the nature and purpose of community living as well as such traditionally controversial issues as private and public morality, the individual good and the common good, personal freedom and group responsibility.
Offered in the evening.
Why go to university? What are the present realities in Canada? What is the role of the liberal arts? The primary interest will be upon what can be done in practice rather than upon ideal schemes.
An intensive overview of the major recurring themes in Western intellectual history from both an historical and a philosophical viewpoint.
Prereq: Second year standing.
A continuation of 300J. Descartes to Existentialism. Prereq: Second year standing.
A philosophical examination of the family: its foundation, its purpose, its importance in personal growth and its relation to political community. Prereq: One course in moral philosophy, or consent of instructor
Phil 333) Contemporary Philosophical Problems in Art Not offered in 1980-81.
An examination of the work of Thomas Aquinas, his philosophical relation to his time, the revivial of Thomism in the modern era.
Prereq: One full course in philosophy, and third year Standing or consent of instructor.
A series of readings and/or seminars on one or two topics or thinkers, with periodic reports and discussion.
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Students wishing to enroll in 399J should consult the College Department.
An advanced course for the serious student, delving into the notions of reality, being, essence, existence, analogy, etc. The techniques of linguistic analysis will be employed. Also, the very possibility of any kind of metaphysics will be discussed.
Prereq: Third year standing or consent of instructor.
A series of readings and/or seminars on one or two topics or thinkers, with periodic reports and discussions.
Prereq: Consent of instructor.
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Students wishing to enrol in 499J should consult the College Department.
Course Descriptions 417
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