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A Total of Eighteen (18) Credits is Required for a minor in Philosophy.  Courses are linked to the course description for Fall 2009.  Selected Topics (Phil 494) and Selected Figures (Phil 495) courses are shown in the groups where they fulfill the requirement.  All courses listed are 3 credits each unless otherwise noted.
18 credits

REQUIRED COURSES:

6 credits

Group A  (6 credits required)

6 credits

  • PHIL 313--19th Century Philosophy 
  • PHIL 314--Survey of 20th Century Continental European Philosophy
  • PHIL 315--Survey of 20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy
  • PHIL 316--American Pragmatism
  • PHIL 407--British Empiricists
  • PHIL 408--Continental Rationalists
  • PHIL 409--Recent French Philosophy 
  • PHIL 410--Plato
  • PHIL 411--Aristotle
  • PHIL 415--Kant
  • PHIL 416--Hegel
  • PHIL 417--Nietzsche
  • PHIL 418--Heidegger
  • PHIL 419--Wittgenstein
  • PHIL 425--Philosophy of Language
  • PHIL 435--Philosophy of Mind
  • PHIL 438--Problems in History/Philosophy of Science
  • PHIL 440--Theory of Knowledge
  • PHIL 441--Metaphysics
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Nativism and the Mind (Fall 1996)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Philosophy of Psychology (Spring 1997)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Theory of Action (Fall 1999)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Sartre (Fall 2000, Spring 2003, Spring 2005)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Merleau Ponty
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:   Levinas (Fall 2003, Spring 2006)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Derrida (Spring 2004)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Dewey and Rorty
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Levels of Reality (Spring 2008)
  • PHIL 495--Selected Figures:  Jacques Derrida (Spring 1999)
  • PHIL 495--Selected Figures:  John Stuart Mill (Fall 1999)

GROUP B (3 credits required)

3 credits

  • PHIL 320--Philosophy of Law
  • PHIL 323--Problems in the Philosophy of Religion
  • PHIL 325--Problems in the Philosophy of History
  • PHIL 327--History of Political Thought I
  • PHIL 328--History of Political Thought II
  • PHIL 409--Recent French Philosophy
  • PHIL 450--Ethical Theory
  • PHIL 451--Happiness
  • PHIL 452--Aesthetics
  • PHIL 457--Political Philosophy TOPIC: PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Contemporary Virtue Ethics (Fall 1997)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Theories of Rights (Fall 1998)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Feminist Theory (Spring 1999, Spring 2000 )
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Philosophy of Children (Spring 1999)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Modern Jewish Thought (Spring 1999)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Feminist Philosophy (Spring 2003)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Problems in Ethics (Spring 2005, Spring 2007)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Ethics After Auschwitz (Spring 2005)
  • PHIL 494--Sel Top:  Global Justice (Spring 2008)
  • PHIL 495--Selected Figures:  John Stuart Mill (Fall 1999)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS IN PHILOSOPHY (Any philosophy course will fulfill this requirement) (3 credits required)

3 credits

  10/28/2009

                          

University of Nevada, Reno                                                                             

Department of Philosophy

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Reno, NV  89557-0102   

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