Relationship between ethics and morality; virtue; norms of ethical judgments.

Justice; equity and equality; right and liberty; private and public spheres.

Various philosophical approaches; critical reading of philosophical works; philosophical writing practice.

Critical survey of major works and figures in the history of western philosophy.

Major works in eastern philosophy in Indian and Chinese civilizations.

Philosophy of the pre-Socratics, sophists, and Socrates; philosophical systems of Plato and Aristotle; post-Aristotelian philosophy.

Mind-body problems; nature of mental states; mental causation; consciousness; mental content; intentionality; thought and perception.

Meaning; reference; theory of descriptions; truth-conditional semantics; possible worlds semantics; pragmatics; translation; meaning and thought; meaning and truth; language and the world.

Science and philosophy; characteristics of scientific laws and theories; structure of scientific explanation; scientific inference; assessment of scientific knowledge; theory change in science; science and society.

Thoughts of important philosophers on technology; concepts of technology; social and ethical problems arising from technology.

Definition of the beautiful and the sublime; problems of defining art; metaphysical status of works of art; aesthetic attitude; aesthetic experience; evaluation and interpretation of works of art.

The relationship between philosophy and politics; political theology; conservativism; liberalism; democracy; deliberative democracy; the distinction between state and civil society; raison d’état, responsibilities of the state; citizenship and political community.

Challenges to mainstream philosophy and reconstruction of philosophy from the standpoint of women in the western world and the third world.

Transition from the pre-modern to the modern; natural law and scientific knowledge; naturalism and the objectification of nature; humanism and the rise of humanities.

Hermeneutical concept development from the early modern to the present; textual interpretation; the relationship between interpretation and understanding; meaning; subject matter and truth.

French philosophy concepts from the twentieth century to the present.

Interpretation of literature; literary text as philosophical text; philosophical text as literary text.

Basic concepts and teachings of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy as developed in Indian and Chinese civilizations.

Concepts in Theravada Buddhist philosophy of the world and human beings, the Three Characteristics of Nature, the Four Noble Truths, the Dependent Origination, Karma, Samsara and Nibbana.

Key concepts in classical Confucianism in the Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi.

Nature and scope of logic; meaning and truth; logical truth; validity; logical consequence; necessity; quantifiers; paradoxes; semantics of modal logic; non-classical logics.

Testimony; trust; disagreement; group rationality and group knowledge; technology and social knowing.

Problems of existence; space and time; causality; substance; properties; identity; personal identity; the mind-body problem.

Skepticism; rationalism; empiricism; problems of induction; epistemology of science; critiques of science; theories of justification; naturalistic epistemology; social epistemology.

Relationship between philosophy and religion; theism; religious truth; religious narratives; ethics in religion.

The scientific revolution; Descartes and other rationalists; empiricists before Hume; Hume and Kant’s theory of knowledge.

Special topics according to each student’s interest.