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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Required of all philosophy majors during their senior year. Under the direction of a faculty member, the student prepares a senior qualifying paper which will be evaluated by the department as a whole. Successful completion of this course satisfies the general degree requirement for oral competency.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: three hours of philosophy and consent of department. This course may be repeated once for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three hours of philosophy or consent of department. The course may be repeated once for credit. Topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL 2102 or consent of department. A study of the semantics of formal languages, including proofs of the consistency and completeness of the propositional and first-order predicate logics. The course may also include discussion of such non-standard logics as multi-valued, modal, and deontic.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL 1200, 2201, 2205, or 2207, or consent of department. A systematic study of major positions, problems, and concepts in ethical theory, as represented in classical and contemporary works.
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3.00 Credits
A critical exploration of basic moral issues in medical practice and research, such as: genetic engineering, abortion, euthanasia, paternalism, truth-telling, confidentiality, informed consent, distribution of resources, and experimentation on human and nonhuman subjects.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three hours of philosophy or consent of department. A critical inquiry into the nature of artistic production, performance, enjoyment, and evaluation. What is art? How does the concept apply to music, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, dance, theatre? What is the "aesthetic" experience? These and other questionswill be explored through discussion of relevant readings and examples.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three hours of philosophy or consent of department. A close reading of the most famous and influential dialogues of the fourth-century B.C. Athenian Plato, the first great systematic thinker of Western philosophy and the creator of some of the basic concepts of Western culture.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three hours of philosophy or consent of department. Aristotle's ideas are examined through careful analysis of his main works with emphasis on his criticisms of the basic theories of his teacher, Plato, and Aristotle's influence on subsequent Western philosophy, literature, and science.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three hours of philosophy or consent of department. Readings in Seventeenth Century thinkers such as Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, whose speculations about the structure of existence helped form the theoretical framework of modern science. Their fundamental ideas about the nature and limits of human knowledge will be examined.
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