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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Problems ofphilosophy through major writings from various periods. Problems are drawn from political, aesthetic, religious, metaphysical, and epistemological concerns of philosophy. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.-I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:one course in philosophy recommended. Theories of being. Such topics as reality, substance, universals, space, time, causality, becoming, body, experience, persons, freedom, and determinism. Views of the nature and method of metaphysics. Anti-metaphysical arguments. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.-Gilmore
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; extensive writing or discussion. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy. Analysis of the concept of knowledge. The relation between knowledge, belief and truth. Development of founda tionalist, coherentist and externalist theories of justified belief. Examination of skepticism. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.-Mattey
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. The relation between mind and body, our knowledge of other minds, and the explanation of mental acts. Discussion of such concepts as action, intention, and causation. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.-Molyneux
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: one previous Philosophy course or instructor permission. The interpretation of human thought and behavior through the lens of evolutionary theory. Topics include the nature/nurture debate concerning cognitive and other mental capacities and traits, and the interaction between evolution, learning and development. GE Credit: SocSci.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:one course in philosophy recommended. Logical, metaphysical, epistemological, and existential aspects of selected religious concepts and problems. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.-Gilmore, Szaif
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:one philosophy course or a science background recommended. Nature of testability and confirmation of scientific hypotheses; nature of scientific laws, theories, explanations, and models. Problems of causality, determininism, induction, and probability; the structure of scientific revolutions. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:one course in biology or one course in philosophy. Scientific method in biology. Nature of biological theories, explanations, and models. Problems of evolutionary theory, ecology, genetics, and sociobiology. Science and human values. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng, Wrt.-Griesemer, Millstein
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:one course in philosophy or a social science recommended. The nature of the social sciences, their subject matter and methods. Similarities to and differences from natural and life sciences. Predicting and explaining human behavior. Behaviorism. Reduction, holism, and individualism. Related moral issues. The social sciences and philosophy. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Comparativetreatment of select theories in Eastern and Western philosophy, e.g., of self, God, being, knowledge, enlightenment. Topics selected from the following philosophies: Eastern-Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, Taoist; and Western-Platonist, Aristotelian, Medieval Christian, Modern Rationalist/Empiricist, Kantian, Hegelian, Existentialist. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.
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