PHIL 250 - Philosophical Methods

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Lewis & Clark College

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Copenhaver, Fritzman, Martinez, Odenbaugh, Smith Content: Examination of some of the main methods, concepts, distinctions, and areas of systematic philosophical inquiry. Including basic tools for argument, such as validity, soundness, probability and thought experiments, basic tools for assessment, such as the rule of excluded middle, category mistakes and conceivability, and basic tools for conceptual distinctions, such as a priori versus a posteriori and analytic versus synthetic. Includes methods, such as the history of philosophy, naturalized philosophy, conceptual analysis, and phenomenology, as well as areas of systemic philosophical approach, such as empiricism, rationalism, naturalism, realism, idealism, internalism, externalism, and nominalism. Prerequisite: Philosophy 101. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.lclark.edu/

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(503) 768-7000

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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