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3.00 Credits
This seminar course examines questions concerning the existence, nature and evidence for the primary and fundamental objects of religious belief. Topics may include the following: 1) Can we demonstrate God's existence? 2) Is faith irrational? 3) Can we know anything about God? 4) Is the existence of evil evidence against the existence of God? 5) Is religion necessary for morality?
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the central issues and debates in philosophy of mind from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics covered may include theories of the mind's relation to the body (dualism, monism, functionalism, behaviorism, identity theory, eliminative materialism), theories of mental content, free will, personal identity and first-person experience, among others.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will investigate the work of Hannah Arendt on politics, society and political action. Our primary questions will be what does political action require and what can it accomplish? But we will also pay careful attention to how Arendt thinks politics, because she moves with ease between theoretical abstraction and concrete political practice. Our readings will include texts on civil disobedience, the relationship between history and political theory, the meanings of power and violence, colonialism, totalitarian rule during the Third Reich and the Soviet era, and on racial prejudice as political tool.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on language use and begins with theoretical challenges from both the analytic (Wittgenstein) and continental (Derrida) traditions in philosophy to idealized theories of language, particularly the reference theory of language as well as the idea that language is a pure and formal unity. We will explore strategies of using language to construct consensus through both syntax and semantics, generating commitment to particular and tacit understandings. We will also work on theories of metaphor and performatives to become skilled in articulating practical complexities of language use.
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3.00 Credits
Michel Foucault is and will remain one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His work is influential not only in philosophy, but in history, sociology, gender studies, justice studies, art, and literary theory. We will focus on the shorter works and interviews found in Dits et Écrits both because they are often easier to read than the books, and because Foucault presents his philosophical conclusions most succinctly there.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will study ancient political thought to gain a critical perspective on the politics and ethical practices of our own time. But to do so is not to bow to the present. This approach guided the Medieval Era's study of classical philosophy and the Modern Age's study of classical history. And thus, to ask what the ancients teach us about ourselves is to ask a question that is both contemporary and traditional. It is also to ask a question that requires respect for antiquite's distinctiveness. All political philosophy is an inquiry into how we should live and how we should live together and this is especially ture for the ancients. Throughout the semester, we will be attentive to how their understandings of these dimensions of human existence are sometimes quite different from our own. This course will introduce you to some of the dominant texts and concepts of "Western" political thought drawn from the Mediterranean region and originally written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. Some of our readings will challenge the centrality of these texts--they will force us out of the frame-- and we will take the fact of this centrality in this liberal arts and sciences as a problem for thought and discussion.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the dilemmas of political order that compel the development of modern political philosophy and practice. The course will address the emergence of modern humanism and Machiavelli's republican vision, analyze obligation and the rule of law in the contract tradition represented by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, and examine ongoing conflicts between authority and freedom and power and equality that plague the 19th, 20th and now 21st centuries. Additional readings will include works by Marx, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill Nietzche and others.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory-level Astronomy/Astrophysics course for non-science majors requiring no previous college-level science background. The evolution of the universe: Big Bang creation, expansion of the universe, formation, development and properties of stars, endings of the universe; as well as the history of our understanding of the universe from the perspectives of culture, philosophy science. Knoledge of basic algebra skills is assumed.
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3.00 Credits
A course for non-science majors requiring no previous college-level mathematics or science background. Physics and its application to the problems of energy consumption and production are discussed. Topics include the need for nuclear reactors and the implications thereof, the dumping of nuclear waste at sea and alternatives, better energy sources and energy depletion, the motion of pollutants through the environment, and other related topics.
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4.00 Credits
A laboratory oriented course that integrates concepts from geometry, algebra and trigonometry. Central concepts of physics (the laws of mechanics and electricity, the properties of light, atoms and nuclei) and how they are applied in the modern world (rockets, electric motors, optical instruments, automobiles, fuel cells, alternative fuels, stationary i.e. power plant and non-stationary i.e. aricraft, grenn technology etc.) are investigated. Issues of smart materials, celestial mining, nanotechnology, quantum computing and other contemporary ctritical technologies may be investigated. Discussion may include topics and concepts related to kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies and electrostatics, electric fields, electric potentials, currents, magnetic fields, wave motion. Basic concepts of geology, meteorology, oceonography and the solar system may be threaded throughout. Course content is aligned to the National Science Teachers Association Teaching Standards and the Illinois Content Standards for Educators of Science. PHYS-108 is linked to MATH-280.
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