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4.00 Credits
Recent movements within the Continental tradition, including French and German existentialism, phenomenology, and post-metaphysical philosophy. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, and PHIL 230 or PHIL 231. Philosophy majors will not receive GE C4 credit.
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4.00 Credits
Major developments within 20th century British and American philosophy, with focus chiefly around Analytic philosophy. Other schools, such as Pragmatism, may be included, as may some philosophers outside of Britain and America whose work was influential in those countries. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, and PHIL 230 or PHIL 231. Philosophy majors will not receive GE C4 credit.
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4.00 Credits
Philosophies developed in India, South Asia, China and Japan, including the logical and epistemological presuppositions of the Six Schools of Hindu metaphysics, Buddhist philosophy, Confucian moral philosophy, Taoist metaphysics and social ecology. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, and PHIL 230 or PHIL 231. Philosophy majors will not receive GE C4 credit.
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4.00 Credits
The rational foundations of inquiry and explanation in the physical, biological and social sciences. Justification of scientific claims, the difference between science and pseudoscience, the relationship between science and other fields of investigation. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, and PHIL 230 or PHIL 231. Philosophy majors will not receive GE C4 credit.
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4.00 Credits
Analyses of the philosophical foundations and implications of technology. Technology and the human condition, technology and philosophical ethics, technology and political philosophy, technology and the metaphysics of human nature, and the relationship between science and technology. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, and PHIL 230 or PHIL 231.
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4.00 Credits
Analyses of various traditional and contemporary positions on the difference between right and wrong, if there is one. Theories of metaethics and normative ethics including the divine command theory, relativism, intuitionism, noncognitivism, virtue ethics, egoism, utilitarianism and duty-based ethics. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, and PHIL 230 or PHIL 231. Philosophy majors will not receive GE C4 credit.
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4.00 Credits
The history of moral thought from Homer and the Pre-Socratics to the 20th century, and focus on theories of moral goodness and rightness of action. Related issues and areas of thought, e.g. metaphysics, theology, science, politics, psychology freedom/determinism to be considered, where they shed light on moral thought. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, and PHIL 230 or PHIL 231. Philosophy majors will not receive GE C4 credit.
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4.00 Credits
Analyses of the philosophical foundations of political ideologies, including theories of political authority, legitimacy, obligation, and rights, and of the proper function of the state, and the relation of these theories to issues in metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and ethics. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, and PHIL 230 or PHIL 231. Philosophy majors will not receive GE C4 credit.
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4.00 Credits
Normative and analytic questions about law. Nature of law and legal systems. Justification of law. Moral obligation to obey the law. Nature and justification of punishment. Guilt and legal responsibility. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, PHIL 230 or PHIL 231, and POLS 112. Philosophy majors will not receive GE C4 credit. 2007-2009 Cal Poly Catalog
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4.00 Credits
Examination of contemporary moral problems, solutions to these problems, and the arguments for these solutions, with emphasis on two or more of the following sample problem areas: abortion, suicide and euthanasia, capital punishment, family ethics, race relations, social justice, war, women's issues. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A, and PHIL 230 or PHIL 231. Philosophy majors will not receive GE C4 credit.
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