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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 21. An overview of Aristotle's most central and influential writings. Topics selected from fields such as metaphysics, physics, ethics, logic, and psychology. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: course 22N. The philosophical writings of Renè Descartes. Topics include the refutation of skepticism, the nature and existence of mind and body, the existence of God, and the foundations of science. Not offered every year.-Mattey
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Puzzles in thephilosophy of language, such as what language is, how language conveys thoughts, whether we each speak our own private language, and what we can learn about the world by studying language. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.-Jackson
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: course 22N. Survey of the philosophical writings of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Topics include Leibniz's logic, the existence of God, human freedom, substance, and the relation between science and metaphysics. Not offered every year.-Mattey
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: course 22N. Principal metaphysical works of John Locke and George Berkeley. Topics include abstract ideas, existence of matter, primary and secondary qualities, essence, substance, the existence of God, and the nature of scientific knowledge. May be repeated for credit. Not offered every year.-Mattey
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: course 22N. David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature and related writings. Topics include empiricism, space, causality, belief, skepticism, the passions, and morality. Not offered every year.-Mattey
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: course 22N. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and related writings. Topics include the nature of human cognition, space and time, a priori concepts, substance, causality, human freedom, and the existence of God. Not offered every year.-Mattey
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: one course in the area of the special topic. Special topics in (A) History of Philosophy, (B) Metaphysics, (C) Theory of Knowledge, (D) Ethics, (E) Political Philosophy, (F) Philosophy of Law, (G) Aesthetics, (H) Philosophy of Mind, (I) Philosophy of Science, (J) Philosophy of Language, (K) Logic. May be repeated up to eight units of credit. Not offered every year.
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4.00 Credits
Tutoring-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: consent of instructor; open to students who are members of the honors program in Philosophy. Completion of honors research project under direction of an instructor. Consult departmental major adviser for list of instructors available in a given quarter.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
(P/NP grading only.)
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