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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Compares different schools of eastern philosophy with those of western philosophy in their approaches to important epistemological, metaphysical and ethical issues. These issues include, for example, the nature of the self and its relation to the external world; personal identity; and determinism, free will and moral responsibility. Covers similarities and differences in the philosophical questions asked, arguments given and methodologies adopted by both eastern and western philosophers. Madhok.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
An introduction to philosophy through the critical examination of a particular problem or theme. Examples of possible topics: "Philosophies of life," "Literature as philosophy," "Personal values," "Philosophy for the future." Designed for the general student who desires a less technical introduction to philosophy than is given in 101. Staff.
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1.00 Credits
A study of the basic conceptual tools used to recognize, evaluate and express arguments. Designed for the student who wishes to reason more effectively and critically. Topics: inductive and deductive standards, truth, validity, fallacies, paradoxes, regresses, counterexamples, analogies, reductios, definitions, sophistries. Cline, Mittag.
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1.00 Credits
An examination and evaluation of some of the major ethical theories, both classical and contemporary, and the application of these theories to a current moral problem. Madhok.
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1.00 Credits
An issues and historically oriented introduction to a broad range of philosophical subject matter and methodologies through a clarification and analysis of argumentation used to justify selected social and political institutions and practices--e.g.,individual liberties, properties of personhood, the nature of the state, obligations and rights, etc. Cline.
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1.00 Credits
An introductory survey of the leading political philosophers of antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early modern period, from Plato to Hobbes, with a view to illuminating Western contributions to the discussion of basic political concepts such as power, right, sovereignty, consent, obligation and human nature. Staff.
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1.00 Credits
An introduction to a broad range of philosophical subjects and methodologies through an examination and analysis of contemporary moral problems--e.g., abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, sexual morality, gender and racial discrimination, corporate crime, pornography and censorship, the death penalty, ecology, world hunger, etc. Madhok.
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1.00 Credits
A survey of the beginnings of western philosophical thought focusing on the writings of the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle and others. Kirby.
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1.00 Credits
Philosophical thought in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on the writings of such philosophers as Descartes, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Kirby.
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1.00 Credits
Major movements in and methods of? contemporary philosophical thinking with special attention to the analytic and existential thinkers. Offered in alternate years. Staff.
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