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An introduction to the problems, methods, and scope of philosophical inquiry. Among the philosophical questions discussed are those associated with morality, the law, the nature of mind, and the limits of knowledge. Philosophers read include Plato, Descartes, David Hume, William James, A. J. Ayer, Sartre, C. S. Lewis, and Lon Fuller.
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An introduction to some of the perennial concerns of philosophy, through a survey of classic texts in the Western philosophical tradition. Themes include the nature of ethical life, the meaning and possibility of knowledge, the concept of the self, the justifiability of the state, the role of religious faith within philosophical inquiry, and the nature of philosophical method and style. Readings are from Plato, followed by three contrasting portraits of Socrates: by Aristophanes ( The Clouds), Soren Kierkegaard (selections from The Concept of Irony), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty ("In Praise of Philosophy");additional readings are from Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche.
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Classical Studies A critical examination of the work of some major figures in the history of philosophy, emphasizing historical continuities and developments. Authors include Plato,Aristotle,Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Nietzsche, and Russell.
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4.00 Credits
Classical Studies This short course covers half of the material of Philosophy 103. It provides close readings of Plato's Republic and Aristotle' s NicomacheanEthics, along with a good number of secondary sources on these and related works. The course considers questions of philosophical method, epistemology, metaphysics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of education, philosophy of the arts, and numerous detailed issues in ethics (e.g., responsibility, intention, consequence, character, etc.).
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SRE An introduction to such major themes in the history of philosophy as the nature of reality and our capacity to know it, issues of ethics and justice, and conceptions of how one should live. Readings include selections from diverse traditions, includingBuddhist,Chinese,Hindu,African, Latin American, Native American, Western, and feminist.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to some key issues in three of the main areas of Western philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. Readings are drawn from the classical and modern traditions: for example, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Bertrand Russell. In all cases an attempt is made to show the connections between the traditional problems of philosophy and the concerns of our own lives.
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4.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to strengthen the ability to reason well. The emphasis is on techniques of inductive reasoning, although certain basic elements of "formal" logic, such as the structure ofsyllogisms, the rules of validity, and the use of syllogisms in ordinary reasoning are touched upon. Students practice techniques of diagramming and distilling arguments; learn methods of detecting common fallacies of reasoning; study central features of inductive reasoning such as the nature of causal inference and argument by analogy; and investigate the relation between argumentation and explanation. The course proceeds through progressively more complex examples of reasoning and argument, and eventually to the evaluation of extended arguments from the domains of politics, social policy, law, and ethics.
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Western philosophers address questions that most of us find puzzling. Do we have free will? Do we know what the world around us is really like? Does God exist? How should we treat one another? This course critically examines historical and contemporary texts that address these and other central themes of the philosophical tradition.
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While quantum physics is a successful physical theory, it includes many philosophical ideas and experimental results that seem to defy common sense. Is the electron a particle or a wave? Does God roll dice? Is Schr?dinger's cat dead or alive before we look in the box? This seminar examines aspects of subatomic phenomena that scientists and others find puzzling. There are no specific math or science prerequisites, but comfort with basic algebra is assumed.
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4.00 Credits
STS This course considers the nature and limits of science and scientific reasoning. Its approach is thematic and includes the following topics: the demarcation problem (what distinguishes scientific theories from putatively nonscientific theories such as astrology and creationism?); the riddles of induction (what reason is there to think the future will resemble the past?); models of explanation (what makes an explanation scientific?); the underdetermination thesis (can evidence ever confirm or disconfirm a theory?); and the realism/antirealism debate (does science tell us what the world is really like?).
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