DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Office of the Chair | Palma Hall (Pavilion 1, 3rd flr.) Rm. 1313 | Telephone: 9818500 loc. 2129 Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Philosophy 1: PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS. Application of basic concepts, skills and principles drawn from the Philosophy of Language, Symbolic Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and Ethics. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 10: APPROACHES TO PHILOSOPHY. Overview of major philosophical traditions. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 11: LOGIC. Techniques of formal deduction within the scope of sentential and predicate logic. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 12: INTERMEDIATE LOGIC. Basic formal techniques in analytical philosophy.
3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 100: MATHEMATICAL LOGIC I. A formalization of propositional and first order predicate logic; extension of first order predicate logic and proofs of some properties of these systems. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 102: MATHEMATICAL LOGIC II. First order recursive arithmetic;
arithmetization of syntax and Godel's incompleteness theorem. 3 hours a week (class); credit:
3 units.
Philosophy 104: MODAL LOGIC. Concepts of possibility and necessity within formal and axiomatized language in modal propositional calculi. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 108: READINGS IN SPECULATIVE THOUGHT. Major philosophical ideas in writings of great philosophers. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Office of the Chair | Palma Hall (Pavilion 1, 3rd flr.) Rm. 1313 | Telephone: 9818500 loc. 2129 Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Philosophy 109: PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH. Reading and writing philosophical papers. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 110: ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY. Major philosophical ideas from the pre- Socratics to the neo-Platonists. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 111: MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY. Major philosophical ideas from Augustine to William of Ockham. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 112: MODERN PHILOSOPHY. Major philosophical ideas from the rationalists to the German and British idealists. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 113: CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY. Major philosophical ideas from the logical positivists to the present. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 114: PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIALISM. The phenomenological movement in contemporary German and French-philosophies with emphasis on the writing of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 120: PHILOSOPHICAL REASONING. Methods and techniques of reasoning as applied to philosophical problems. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 125: INDIAN PHILOSOPHY. Indian Philosophy from the Verdic samhitas to the Hindu darsinas. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 126: CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. Philosophies of China from Confucius to Hu Shih. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Office of the Chair | Palma Hall (Pavilion 1, 3rd flr.) Rm. 1313 | Telephone: 9818500 loc. 2129 Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Philosophy 130: METAPHYSICS. Nature of metaphysical inquiry, various categories of reality and world views. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 150: EPISTEMOLOGY. Problems regarding the sources, nature and validation of knowledge. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 160: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Nature of scientific inquiry, problems of demarcation, explanation, prediction, concept of formation and validation. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 171: ETHICS. Problems and theories of moral values. 3 hours a week (class);
credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 172: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. Nature of religious experience, language and knowledge. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 173: PRACTICAL ETHICS. Moral issues in practical situations and the application of ethical theories. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 174: BIOMEDICAL ETHICS. Moral issues in medicine and the biological sciences. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 175: PHILOSOPHY OF LAW. Theories about the nature of law and legal reasoning, as well as issues on the relationship between law, morality and society. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Office of the Chair | Palma Hall (Pavilion 1, 3rd flr.) Rm. 1313 | Telephone: 9818500 loc. 2129 Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Philosophy 176: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Problems and theories concerning man, society and the state. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 181: AESTHETICS. Theories of aesthetics experience and values. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 195: PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE. A survey of the major controversies in philosophy of language. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 196: MGA PAKSA SA PILOSOPIYANG PILIPINO. 3 hours a week (class);
credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 197: PHILOSOPHIC PROBLEMS. An in-depth study of the basic problems in the various areas of Philosophy. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
Philosophy 198: SPECIAL PROBLEMS. Prerequisite: Senior standing. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units. May be repeated for additional three (3) units.
Philosophy 199: SENIOR RESEARCH. This course is designed to train students to do research in any major areas in philosophy. Prerequisite: Senior standing. 3 hours a week (class); credit: 3 units.
