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1.50 Credits
Staff Philosophers have challenged your most fundamental claims to knowledge: that your thoughts and utterances really have meaning (or the meanings you think they have), that your friends and neighbors have minds like yours, even that there really is a world outside your mind. Though the conclusion that you don't know these things appears ridiculous, some of the arguments are very hard to refute. Does this show philosophy is just an intellectual game Or does the tension reveal something important about human existence Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Kind An exploration of issues in the philosophy of language and, in particular, the relation between language and the world. Topics to be discussed include: the nature of meaning, the nature of thought, and the reference of proper names and definite descriptions. Readings will be drawn primarily from late 19th-century and 20th-century sources. Prerequisite: at least one previous course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Rajczi, Hurley This course will address the question "What makes an action moral or immoral " In the process or answering it, students will be introduced to the techniques that philosophers use to resolve ethical problems and to some of the greatest works of ethical philosophy in the Western canon, including works by Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill. Prerequisite: one previous course in philosophy. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This course covers special topics in value theory, including special topics in ethical theory, applied ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics. Course content changes each time the course is offered. Descriptive titles are often listed in the schedule of classes. Offered occasionally. In 2007-2008, the topic was: This course introduces students to the subject of ethics in war and peace. Specifically, it (1) familiarizes them with the major theories of warfare ethics, including just war theory, pacifism, and realism, (2) considers historical examples and applies the principles of warfare ethics to them, and (3) challenges students to rethink and make consistent their own opinions on warfare ethic. Prerequisites: one previous courser in philosophy, or permission of the instructor.
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1.50 Credits
Rajczi This course introduces students to the subject of global justice by (i) familiarizing them with the major theories of domestic justice, (ii) exploring the ways in which political theorists have extended these theories to the global arena, and then (iii) challenging the students to re-think and make consistent their own opinions on such matters as global justice, world poverty, and human rights. Specific topics may include: global democracy, world governance, business and globalization, the distribution of wealth, the conduct of war, and terrorism. Prerequisite: one previous course in philosophy. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Hurley Participants in this course will first examine prominent theories of law, including positivism and recent variations upon natural law and legal realist approaches. We then proceed to the study of alternative approaches to statutory (including constitutional) interpretation, theories of tort law, and theories of punishment. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff An interdisciplinary examination of the antecedents, realities, and implications of the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews. Also listed as Religious Studies 146. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
S. Smith An examination of views of the good life and how it may be achieved. The emphasis is upon ideal personal values and life styles. Readings from traditional and nontraditional sources. Students are asked to develop their own views as to what constitutes the good life as they see it. Seniors only. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Moss This course examines the nature of philosophy and history and their interrelations. Accounts of the past - including speculative philosophies of history - are considered critically in terms of the methodological problems they involve, the meaning of "explanation,""causal connection," "unit of interpretation," "historigeneralization," and "objectivity" as distinguishefrom "subjectivity." Also listed as Histor y 178 . Offeredoccasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Rajczi The principal question of the course is: what, if anything, makes one work of literature superior to another Readings are varied, and may include classic and modern philosophical work on aesthetics, the reflections of authors on how best to write, and specific works of fiction. Offered occasionally.
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