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THE DEPARTMENT.
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Spring 2007. THE DEPARTMENT. All senior majors must take this course, which involves either a single semester of independent work or the second semester of an honors thesis. Students meet regularly with the members of the department to discuss their work or readings relevant to all senior majors. Must be taken in the spring semester of the senior year. Prerequisite: Open only to senior music majors.
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Every fall. Fall 2006. DOUGLAS YOUNG. The sources and prototypes of Western thought. Emphasis on the pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, and Aristotle.
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Every spring. Spring 2007. DENIS CORISH. A survey of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European philosophy, focusing on discussions of the ultimate nature of reality and our knowledge of it. Topics include the nature of the mind and its relation to the body, the existence of God, and the free will problem. Readings from Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, and others.
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Spring 2008. SARAH O'BRIEN CONLY. Our society is riven by deep and troubling moral controversies. Examines some of these controversies in the context of current arguments and leading theoretical positions. Possible topics include abortion, physician-assisted suicide, capital punishment, sexuality, the justifiability of terrorism, and the justice of war.
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Fall 2006. SCOTT R. SEHON. Does God exist Can the existence of God be proven Can it be disproven Is it rational to believe in God What does it mean to say that God exists (or does not exist) What distinguishes religious beliefs from non-religious beliefs What is the relation between religion and science Approaches these and related questions through a variety of historical and contemporary sources, including philosophers, scientists, and theologians. (Same as Religion 142.)
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Spring 2008. DENIS CORISH.
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Fall 2007. MATTHEW STUART. Considers distinctively philosophical questions about death: Do we have immortal souls Is immortality even desirable Is death a bad thing Is suicide morally permissible Does the inevitability of death rob life of its meaning Readings from historical and contemporary sources.
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Spring 2007. LAWRENCE H. SIMON. A study of the political philosophy and philosophy of history of Kant, Hegel, and Marx.
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Spring 2008. SCOTT R. SEHON. We see ourselves as rational agents: we have beliefs, desires, intentions, wishes, hopes, etc.; we also have the ability to perform actions, and we are responsible for the actions we freely choose. Is our conception of ourselves as rational agents consistent with our scientific conception of human beings as biological organisms Can there be a science of the mind, and, if so, what is its status relative to other sciences What is the relationship between mind and body Can we have free will, or moral responsibility, if determinism is true Readings primarily from contemporary sources.
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