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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy. A study of major philosophical issues of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries through an examination of such philosophers as Descartes, Newton, Hume, and Kant.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy. A study of authors such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sarte, and Camus on issues of human morality, freedom, and suffering.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credit hours of philosophy. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Problems, issues, and points of view in the history of philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three courses in philosophy or permission of department. Philosophical theories, historical and contemporary, of beauty, sublimity, and other aesthetic qualities, of aesthetic experience, and of aesthetic judgment.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credit hours in philosophy. Junior standing. A critical examination of classical and contemporary systems of ethics, such as those of Aristotle, Kant, Mill, and Rawls.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL100, PHIL140, or permission of department. A critical examination of the moral dimensions of decision-making in health related contexts. Readings are drawn from philosophical, medical, and other sources.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three credit hours in philosophy. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: PHIL347 or PHIL447. Formerly PHIL447. Examination of fundamental concepts related to law, e.g. legal systems, law and morality, justice, legal reasoning, responsibility.
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3.00 Credits
Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisite: PHYS260 or MATH220 or equivalent; or permission of department. Recommended: PHYS270, PHYS401. Not open to students who have completed PHIL452. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: PHIL354 or PHIL452. An introduction to current issues at the interface of physics and philosophy, associated with our current picture of the physical world as fundamentally quantum mechanical. Topics include the debate between Einstein and Bohr on the objectivity and completeness of the quantum description, nonlocality and Bell's theorem, realism and the measurement problem, irreversibility and the arrow of time.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Two courses in philosophy, one of which must be PHIL170, PHIL173, or PHIL370; or permission of department. An inquiry into the nature and function of language and other forms of symbolism.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL170 and 3 additional credits in Philosophy. Not open to students who have completed PHIL462. Formerly PHIL462. Some central topics in the theory of knowledge, such as perception, memory, knowledge, and belief, skepticism, other minds, truth, and the problems of induction.
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