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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Investigates conceptual and moral questions posed by life in community with others. These include justificaions of democracy, political freedom, natural rights, political obligation, social justice, and the challenge of anarchism. Prereq: A 100-level and a 200-level philosophy course or department approval
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3.00 Credits
Explores the potentially morally significant relationships between humans and various kinds of non-human animals, applying moral propositions that we, as a society, subscribe to, to see whether they have unacknowledged implications for non-humans. Prereq: Junior/senior status
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3.00 Credits
Explores the potentially morally significant relationships between humans and various kinds of non-human animals. Explores moral propositions that we, as a society, subscribe to, to see whether they have unacknowledged implications for non-humans. Prereq: Junior/senior status
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3.00 Credits
Challenges students at the junior 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: A 100-level or 200-level philosophy course, junior status, or department approval
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3.00 Credits
Examines the nature of law, the logic and sociology of judicial processes, and the relationship of law to morality, including a comparison of major legal theories: natural law, legal positivism, legal realism, and Marxist legal analysis. Prereq: A 100-level and a 200-level philosophy course, or department approval
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on the increasingly popular notion that human beings, individually or corporately, actively construct, in part or in whole, the world. This notion transcends disciplinary boundaries, finding expression in such diverse fields as biology, philosophy, psychology, physics, anthropology, sociology, mathematics, theology, literary theory, cybernetics, and linguistics. Prereq: A 100 or 200 level philosophy course or department approval
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on the increatingly popular notion that human beings, individually or corporately, actively construct, in part or in whole, the world. This notion transcends disciplinary boundaries, finding expression in such diverse fields as biology, philosophy, psychology, physics, anthropology, sociology, mathematics, theology, literary theory, cybernetics, and linguistics. Prereq: A 100 or 200 level philosophy course or department approval
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical topics course tailored to changing student needs and interests, each offering focuses on a period in the history of philosophy (e.g. Greek philosophy, medieval philosophy, 20th century American philosophy, etc.), the works of an individual philosopher (e.g., Plato, Hegel, Hume, Kant, Descartes, etc.), or the critical examination of a philosophically challenging concept (e.g., freedom, value, meaning, truth, relativism, rights, justice, etc.) Prereq: A 100 level and 200 level philosophy course or department approval
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3.00 Credits
Provides assistance to philosophy majors who intend to pursue active teaching careers in the discipline. Students will be assigned to a department member to assist in the teaching of lower-level courses. Prereq: Minimum of 18 semester hours in philosophy and department approval
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Open to juniors and seniors who wish to read in a given area or to study a topic in depth. Written reports and frequent conferences with the advisor are required. Prereq: A 100-level and a 200-level philosophy course, junior/senior status, department approval
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