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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy or classics. A study of the origins and development of philosophy and science in ancient Greece, focusing on the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
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Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy. A study of major philosophical issues of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries through an examination of such philosophers as Descartes, Newton, Hume, and Kant.
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Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy. A study of authors such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sarte, and Camus on issues of human morality, freedom, and suffering.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credit hours of philosophy. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Problems, issues, and points of view in the history of philosophy.
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A study of concepts central to thought about art, including the concept of the fine arts both in its historical development and in its present problematic situation.
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Prerequisite: three courses in philosophy or permission of department. Philosophical theories, historical and contemporary, of beauty, sublimity, and other aesthetic qualities, of aesthetic experience, and of aesthetic judgment.
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Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy. Junior standing. A critical examination of classical and contemporary systems of ethics, such as those of Aristotle, Kant, Mill, and Rawls.
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Prerequisite: PHIL100, PHIL140, or permission of department. A critical examination of the moral dimensions of decision-making in health related contexts. Readings are drawn from philosophical, medical, and other sources.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three credit hours in philosophy. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: PHIL347 or PHIL447. Formerly PHIL447. Examination of fundamental concepts related to law, e.g. legal systems, law and morality, justice, legal reasoning, responsibility.
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Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisite: PHYS260 or MATH220 or equivalent; or permission of department. Recommended: PHYS270, PHYS401. Not open to students who have completed PHIL452. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: PHIL354 or PHIL452. An introduction to current issues at the interface of physics and philosophy, associated with our current picture of the physical world as fundamentally quantum mechanical. Topics include the debate between Einstein and Bohr on the objectivity and completeness of the quantum description, nonlocality and Bell's theorem, realism and the measurement problem, irreversibility and the arrow of time.
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