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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical problems concerning the nature of language and such concepts as meaning and truth.
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3.00 Credits
A critical examination of theories about objects and their qualities, causality, space, and time. Both traditional and contemporary sources may be used, but emphasis will be placed on the latter.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical issues relating to human knowledge. Issues selected from: the difference between knowledge and belief, whether knowledge is really attainable, whether we have epistemic duties and what they might be, what counts as justification for belief. Special topics may include self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, inductive knowledge, and naturalism.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical problems concerning science, its methods. Topics selected from: qualitative and quantitative confirmation theories and the nature of scientific theories, laws, and explanation in the physical and biological sciences.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an explotation of the conceptual foundations of modern physics, including topics from relativistic space-time theories, quantum mechanics and gauge theories, and related topics in the philosophy of science, inlcuding the nature of physical laws, reduction, the measurement problem and non-locality.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce a range of topics in the philosophy of biology, including: the conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory, interpretations of fitness and selection, group selection, definitions of species, epistemological problems in phylogenetic inference, design arguments, explanation in biological sciences and reliable modeling in ecology and evolutionary biology.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the development of ancient science, with special attention paid to the interrelationship in antiquity of philosophical and scientific accounts of the world. Topics will include developments in mathematics, optics, astronomy, mechanics, and medicine, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the development of modern science from roughly the 16th century, with special attention paid to the interrelationship in early modern philosophical and scientific accounts of the world. Topics will include developments in physics, astronomy, biology, mathematics, and medicine, as well as related areas of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical issues connected with human action and reasons for action, such as the existence of objective reasons to act one way rather than another, the existence of reasons to act that do not stem from desires, the difference between reasoning about how to act and reasoning about what is true, the nature of intention and desire and their specific roles in action.
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical examination of major theories about the nature of the mind, mental causation, consciousness, intentionality, cognition and psychological explanation.
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