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A study of representative thinkers of the medieval period. Discussion will focus on such major issues as the existence of God, the problem of evil, the nature of universals, the relation between philosophical reason and religious faith. Attention will also be paid to the cultural, historical and religious climates which helped influence the unique scholastic doctrines under discussion. (Students enrolling in Philosophy 282 must also enroll in Philosophy 290-01L.) Enrollment limited. 1.00 units, Lecture
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The history of Western philosophy from approximately 1600 to 1750, with major attention given to Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. This course fulfills part two of the writing intensive (WI) requirement for the Philosophy major. 1.00 units, Lecture
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A history of Western philosophy from approximately 1820 to 1900, with emphasis on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx and Nietzsche. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Philosophy, said Wittgenstein, is the "bewitchment of the intelligence by means of language," and in his later work he sought to counter the thralldom of language by investigating its many uses. So have other writers from Russell, Ayer, and Ryle to the American philosophers Quine and Goodman. Their approach to philosophy, influenced by spectacular developments in logic and science, was largely "analytic," but their aims were traditional: to limn the prospect of human knowledge and release human intelligence from confusion and superstition. We will study their writings to understand their approach and to assess what it is to do philosophy in the 20th century. 1.00 units, Lecture
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"What are poets for in a destitute time " asks Heidegger's favorite poet, Holderlin. We add, "And what are philosophers for " The tradition of 20th-century Continental philosophy has responded, "Certainly not just to analyze language!" We shall follow some of the leading figures and themes of this rich tradition from its roots in Nietzsche through the transformations of phenomenology, to existentialism and beyond. Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Derrida will be studied among others. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An examination of the three thinkers whose systems are the foremost representations of rationalism, the theory of knowledge which is opposed to empiricism. The rationalists believed that a priori reason (making no recourse to sensory input or induction) was both necessary and (in the case of Spinoza and Leibniz) also sufficient for knowledge of the world. We will examine the epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical views of these three thinkers, assessing their challenge to empiricism, always bearing in mind their relation to one another and to the great conceptual revolutions of the 12th-century, most notably the emergence of modern physics in the figures of Galileo and Isaac Newton. 1.00 units, Lecture
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0.25 Credits
This laboratory is required for all students concurrently enrolled in Philosophy 281 or Philosophy 282. In it we shall work with problem solving abilities of abstract concepts developed in both ancient and medieval philosophy. Students will work together in pairs or small groups to solve problems in mathematics, biology, and physics/astronomy using concepts learned in class. 0.25 units, Laboratory
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3.00 Credits
Only during the last century have African Americans been allowed and enabled to contribute to professional philosophy (or philosophically oriented discourses) to any significant degree. This course is a broad yet intensive study and assessment of some of the theories, ideas, and arguments produced by these 20th-century writers. Not surprisingly, much of the philosophical attention of these thinkers has focused upon analysis and interpretation of the meaning(s) of being a member of a stigmatized racial group, particularly in the context of United States history. Among the thinkers to be covered are Alain Locke, W.E.B Du Bois, Derek Bell, Bernard Boxill, Anthony Appiah, Angela Davis, Cornel West, Charles Mills, Laurence Thomas, Leonard Harris, Luscious Outlaw, Lewis Gordon, Tommy Lott, Anita Allen, Michelle Moody-Adams, Naomi Zack, and Patricia Williams. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Philosophy, said Wittgenstein, is the "bewitchment of the intelligence by means of language," and in his later work he sought to counter the thralldom of language by investigating its many uses. So have other writers from Russell, Ayer, and Ryle to the American philosophers Quine and Goodman. Their approach to philosophy, influenced by spectacular developments in logic and science, was largely "analytic," but their aims were traditional: to limn the prospect of human knowledge and release human intelligence from confusion and superstition. We will study their writings to understand their approach and to assess what it is to do philosophy in the 20th century. 1.00 units, Lecture
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What are poets for in a destitute time " asks Heidegger's favorite poet, Holderlin. We add, "and what are philosophers for " The tradition of 20th-century continental philosophy has responded, "certainly not just to analyze language!" We shall follow some of the leading figures and themes of this rich tradition from its roots in Nietzsche through the transformations of phenomenology, to existentialism and beyond. Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Derrida will be studied among oth 1.00 units, Seminar
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