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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three credit hours in philosophy or political theory or permission of department. Sophomore standing. Major trends in contemporary political philosophy: liberal, libertarian, communitarian, socialist, feminist.
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Prerequisite: GVPT300, GVPT401, PHIL341, or permission of department. Also offered as GVPT403. An exploration of fundamental moral and legal issues concerning war.
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Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy. Senior standing. A non-technical investigation of philosophical issues in the foundations of physics. Topics may include traditional philosophical problems of space and time, metaphysical issues about the nature of particles and fields, and philosophical problems associated with the introduction of probability into physics, such as the problem of irreversibility in thermodynamics and the problem of objectivity in quantum theory.
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Prerequisite: PHIL250 or PHIL256 or a Life Science major or permission of department. Questions about concepts, reasoning, explanation, etc., in biology, and their relations to those of other areas of science. Case studies of selected aspects of the history of biology, especially in the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL250 or permission of department; when the topic for a given semester demands, additional philosophical or scientific prerequisites may be required by the instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. A detailed examination of a particular topic or problem in philosophy of science.
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Prerequisite: PHIL370 or permission of instructor. This course will treat a selection of the most important topics in modern logic: alternative proof-theoretic presentations of logical systems, completeness proofs for classical propositional and first-order logic, some basic computability theory, basic limitative results (such as Godel's incompleteness theorems), and some results concerning second-order logic. The primary focus of the course is a study of these fundamental topics, but we will also discuss some of the philosophical issues they raise.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL370 or permission of instructor. Recommended: PHIL470. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Methods and results of philosophical logic, the application of logical techniques to the study of concepts or problems of philosophical interest. Content will vary, either treating a particular logical area in detail--such as modal logic, conditional logic, deontic logic, intuitionistic or relevance logic, theories of truth and paradox--or surveying a number of these different areas.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy, at least one 300-level or above; or permission of department. Philosophic contributions to the debate about the nature of emotions and their role in rational and moral motivation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy; one of which must be PHIL280 or PHIL366. Semantics and representations within computational framework: intentionality, explicit vs. implicit representation, syntax vs. semantics of thought, connectionist approaches, images, classical vs. prototype theories of concepts.
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Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy; one of which must be PHIL280 or PHIL366. The nature of subjectivity: problems of "point of view," the "qualities" or "feel" of things, emotions, consciousness - whether these phenomena can be captured by a computational theory of mind.
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