Shannon Spaulding

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

What is the 'Mind'? How can a human brain create thoughts, sensations, emotions, and abstract ideas? This class examines the nature of the brain, mind, soul, and self with the tools of philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. Is mental content completely 'in the head' and private? or is it irreducibly tied to external input and publicly accessible? Are inner feelings and consciousness incompatible with physical explanations?

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

Selected philosophical topics or works.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 10 credit hours.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

Individual research on topics related to the student's interests and/or thesis topic(s).Offered for variable credit, X=1-3 credit hours, maximum of 10 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of graduate adviser or department head.

A philosophical investigation of diverse cultural attitudes, values, and experiences. Representative topics include social media, entertainment, music, film, art, tradition, ritual, gender, race, class, and religion.

Contemporary and classical views on the nature of moral judgments, moral value, relativity and objectivity, freedom and responsibility.

Selected philosophical problems: the nature of reality, knowledge, value, social ideals and religion. Previously offered as PHIL 2113.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

Basic works by great thinkers, including Plato, Descartes and Hume. Previously offered as PHIL 1013.

Nature of aesthetic objects and experiences; form, meaning and value in the arts; the function of art in society; criteria of criticism of the arts.

Individual or group research on specific philosophical problems.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 10 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor and department head.

Selected philosophical topics or works.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 10 credit hours.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

A survey of problems in philosophy of psychology, including the nature of psychology and its relation to natural sciences, the cognitive architecture of our minds, which cognitive capacities are innate and which are developed, the relationship between the brain, body, and external world, how we understand other minds, how language affects thought.

Individual or group research on specific philosophical problems.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 10 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor and department head.

Three courses in philosophy. Selected topics in one field of philosophy.Offered for fixed credit, 3 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours.

Selected philosophical problems: the nature of reality, knowledge, value, social ideals and religion. Previously offered as PHIL 2113.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

Selected philosophical problems: the nature of reality, knowledge, value, social ideals and religion. Previously offered as PHIL 2113.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

Selected philosophical topics or works.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 10 credit hours.