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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Survey ofGreek philosophy with special attention to the Pre- Socratics, Plato, and Aristotle. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Survey ofmajor figures in philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with emphasis on Descartes, Hume, and Kant. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.-II. (II.) Mattey
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Reading ofhistorical and contemporary works highlighting central problems in ethical theory and political philosophy. Why should we be moral? What is moral behavior? What is justice, both for the individual and for society? Is there a right of rebellion? GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Basic problemsin the philosophy of science, common to the physical, biological, and social sciences. Analysis of explanation, confirmation theory, observational and theoretical terms, the nature of theories, operationalism and behaviorism, realism, reduction. Not open for credit to students who have taken course 104. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng, Wrt.-Millstein
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Introduction toscientific hypotheses and the kinds of reasoning used to justify such hypotheses. Emphasis on adequate justification, criteria, and strategies for distinguishing scientific from pseudoscientific theories. Concrete historical and contemporary cases. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng.-Griesemer
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Concepts ofscientific change in historical and philosophical perspective. Survey of models of growth of knowledge, 17th century to present. Relationship between logic of theories and theory choice. Kuhn's revolution model. Examples from various sciences. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng, Wrt.-Griesemer
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Non-technicalintroduction to philosophical, social, and scientific ideas, methods and technologies in contemporary biological fields such as evolution, genetics, molecular biology, ecology, behavior. Philosophical consideration of determinism, reductionism, explanation, theory, modeling, observation, experimentation. Evaluation of scientific explanations of human nature. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.- Griesemer, Millstein
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Criteria ofgood reasoning in everyday life and in science. Topics to be covered may include basic principles of deduction and induction; fallacies in reasoning; techniques and aids to reasoning; principles of scientific investigation; aids to clarity. Not open to students who have completed course 6. GE credit: Wrt.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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