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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered Fall 2009) An exploration of topics in the philosophy of religion. Possible topics include arguments for and against the existence of God, the nature and attributes of a divine being, and the nature of faith and religious experience. 1 Course Credit
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Prerequisite: Completion or waiver of MAT 012 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered Spring 2010) A study of deductive systems, including sentential and predicate logic. Attention to syntax, semantics, and derivations in formal languages. Practical Reasoning (PR). 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered Short Term 2010) An introduction to fundamental issues about the nature of human choice, the conditions of moral responsibility, and relationships between the two, including philosophic investigations of causation and determinism, whether only humans are able to act other than they do, and the scope of moral responsibility. Attention to classic texts and contemporary philosophic research, writing, and rigorous thinking about the metaphysics of free will and responsibility. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GSTR 210 or sophomore standing Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered term yet to be determined) A course on philosophically informed thinking about the environment. Course explores ways of thinking about the environment, humanity, and other species, focusing on a few environmental problems illustrating fundamental puzzles about the biological sciences, about our responsibilities for nature and for future generations, and about the basis for valuing things human and non-human, living and inanimate. Practical Reasoning (PR). 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GSTR 210 or sophomore standing Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered term yet to be determined) An exploration of selected topics in applied and professional ethics, which may include issues in medicine, law, and business, as well as privacy, confidentiality, and other aspects of being a professional. May be repeated for credit, provided topics differ. Practical Reasoning (PR). 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) An introduction to the philosophy of mind, examining such questions as whether there could be consciousness after bodily death, whether the mind is anything "over and above" the brain and central nervous system, whether a human-built machine could ever think or be conscious. Attention to classic texts and contemporary philosophic research, writing, and rigorous thinking about the nature of mind and thought. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Determined by instructor Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow A course designed to meet the particular interests of student and faculty. Topics vary from year to year. See course description in the "Schedule of Classes." 1/2 to 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One PHI course Offered: Typically annually (next offered Fall 2009) An examination of philosophy in ancient Greece and the Roman world--texts, ideas, and figures. Emphasis will be placed on the works of Plato and Aristotle. Western History Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One PHI course Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) An examination of European philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Emphasis on the epistemological and metaphysical views of Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Locke. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One PHI course Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered Spring 2010) An examination of selected philosophic topics, themes, or movements in 19th- and 20th-century European and American philosophy, such as German idealism, American pragmatism, philosophy as analysis, phenomenology and existentialism, and post-modernism. May be repeated for credit, provided topics differ. 1 Course Credit
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