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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or linguistics. Philosophical issues and positions concerning the meaning and use of language. Topics include the distinction between meaning and implication, the roles of context and convention in language use, speaker meaning versus linguistic meaning and speech act theory. Only two units of credit for students who have completed course 137.-Sennet
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Philosophicalissues and positions involved in contemporary moral and social problems. Possible topics include civil disobedience and revolution, racial and sex discrimination, environment, population control, technology and human values, sexual morality, freedom in society. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: course 21. Greek philosophy after Aristotle, including Epicureanism, Stoicism, Skepticism and Neo-Platonism. GE: ArtHum, Wrt.-Szaif
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; written reports. Prerequisite: course 21. Study of major philosophers in the medieval period. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.-Szaif
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Critical analysisof normative issues raised by contemporary medicine and biology. Possible topics include euthanasia, abortion, reproductive technologies, genetic engineering, practitioner/patient relationships, allocation of medical resources, experimentation on human subjects. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.- Dworkin
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: course 22N. Survey of the main movements in nineteenth century philosophy on the European continent. Idealism in Schopenhauer and Hegel, dialectical materialism in Marx, irrationalism in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. Not offered every year. GE credit; ArtHum.-Mattey
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy. Consideration of central issues such as meaning/reference, analytic/ synthetic, reductionism, formal and ordinary language, essential properties, ontological commitment, possible world semantics; influential works by philosophers such as Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Austin, Carnap, Quine, Putnam, Kripke, van Fraassen.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Philosophy. Survey of the main movements in twentieth century philosophy on the European continent, including phenomenology, existentialism, post-structuralism and post-modernism. Philosophers covered are Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida. GE credit: ArtHum.-Mattey
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 21. Study of the metaphysical views of such pre-Socratic figures as the Milesians, the Pythagoreans, Heracleitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and the atomists.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 21. Examines Plato's most important contributions in metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, cosmology, ethics and political philosophy. Dialogues will be selected from Plato's middle and later writings. Offered in alternate years.
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