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3.00 Credits
Explores the ancient roots of western intellectual history, including contributions of non-European societies, in the context of the politics, economics, language, religion, and technology of their times. Students will apply philosophical and historical tools to investigate the development of important ideas and schools of thought in the ancient world and the consequences of those ideas in the present. Prereq: PHIL 100 or PHIL 101, or department approval
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Explores the roots of western intellectual history since the European Renaissance, including the politics, economics, language, religion, and technology in which they arose. Students will apply philosophical and historical tools to investigate the development of imporant ideas and schools of thought in the modern world and their consequences in the present. Prereq: PHIL 100 or PHIL 101, or department approval
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Addresses recent and historical perspective on the nature and scope of human moral obligations to the natural environment. Discusses the content and merits of competing ethical theories and their implications both for intra-human affairs and our place in nautre as one of its creatures.
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Challenges students at the sophomore level to understand, construct and criticize both informal (natural language) and formal (categorical and propositional) arguments. The course considers in detail the very notion of argument, argument structure, and the criteria for constructing cogent arguments, and distinguishes arguments supported by evidence and reason from mere opinion and belief. Students will learn to apply these logical concepts in their writing, conversing, and reading. Prereq: PHIL 100, sophomore status, or depaartment approval
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Assists students to make progress toward identifying elements of the philosophy of education. Toward this end, basic philosophical questions and educational values are discussed within the context of examining different philosophical perspectives. Prereq: PHIL 100 or PHIL 101 or department approval
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Considers the origins, nature, and presuppositions of knowledge and its relation to such concepts as belief, fact, truth, justification, and reality. Examines various accounts of the most general features of reality using categories such as being/becoming, real/apparent, identity/difference, existence, change, time, space, and causality. Prereq: A 100-level and a 200-level philosophy course or instructor approval
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Analyzes the nature of religion: religious knowledge (reason and justification), religious experience (the affective, inner impulse of sacred life), and religious tradition (the social construction of religion practices and beliefs). Prereq: A 100-level and a 200-level philosophy course or department approval
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Examines the values of a business society and the ethical dimensions of decision-making in business, with the aim of enabling the student to develop a meaningful set of values by which to live and contribute creatively in a business society. Prereq: A 100-level and a 200-level philosophy course or department approval
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Explores systematically issues surrounding the critical appreciation of perceptual experience. Questions the nature and value of the objects of such appreciation, whether they are human creations (music, art, theatre, dance, literature) or natural objects. Prereq: A 100-level and a 200-level philosophy course or department approval
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Views such issues as war and peace, world poverty, sexual morality, and spirituality from the perspectives of traditional and contemporary ethical theories. Prereq: A 100-level and a 200-level philosophy course or department approval
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