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3.00 Credits
3 hours. Issues include the following: What should count toward making an activity criminal What is it to be responsible for a crime What considerations should govern what happens when someone is found to be responsible What role should juries play in all this
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3 hours. Issues include the following: Are there limits to what a person should be able to own What makes a contract fair, and to what extent should only fair contracts be enforceable Should we be free to contract anything we wish When should one person be liable for a harm befalling another, and what limits, if any, are there to what that liability should cost him or her
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3 hours. Issues include (at one level) what we ought to have by way of particular rights and (at another) how the Supreme Court ought to reason about such matters. The rights examined vary each semester. Recent focus has been on freedom of religion and on freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. Theorists studied include Bork, Posner, and Dworkin.
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3 hours. Philosophers including Jonathan Edwards, Charles Peirce, William James, George Santayana, and John Dewey are read.
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3 hours. Basic issues in philosophy of science, including the following: What distinguishes science from pseudo-science Is there a scientific method If so, what is that method What constitutes a scientific explanation How are theory and observation related How do hypotheses get confirmed And how do values function in science
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. Topics may include proofs for the existence of God, the nature of reality, free will and determinism, personal identity, and the nature of time.
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3 hours. A history of philosophy from the 16th century to the 19th century, which may include study of Hobbes, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Bentham. Offered in the spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. Introduction to philosophical topics involving human nature, such as the relation between mind and body, the emotion, artificial intelligence, psychic phenomena, and determinism and moral responsibility.
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3 hours. Topics may include arguments for the existence of God, atheism, the problem of evil, puzzles involving the divine attributes, mysticism, faith, and the relation between religion and morality.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours. Prerequisite: PHL 101 or equivalent. Detailed study of the logic of truth functions and predicates aimed at developing facility in formal inference and at understanding the logic of natural languages. Topics include normal forms, multivariate quantification with identity, relations, and the logic of singular terms.
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