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An examination of philosophical approaches to contemporary debates about affirmative action, euthanasia, gay rights, environmental ethics, abortion, workfare, prostitution, speech codes, and capital punishment. Special attention to the structure of philosophical arguments on these issues and the key theoretical frameworks and concepts used by philosophers. Four credit hours. S, U.
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An examination of some principal philosophical issues in the area of religion, including the existence of God, divine attributes in relation to time, space, and the natural world, the origin and content of religious experience, issues regarding faith and its object, and the function of religious symbolism. Readings include both critics and defenders of the religious standpoint. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. Four credit hours. S.
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Faculty-student reading groups arranged for the purpose of informal, but regular and structured, discussions of philosophical texts. May be repeated for additional credit. Nongraded. Prerequisite: Philosophy major or minor. One credit hour. COHEN
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An investigation of the philosophical problem of free will and associated issues such as determinism, autonomy, and moral responsibility. Covers various compatibilist, incompatibilist, and libertarian theories of free will, and explores the nature of freedom in the context of traditional theological and modern naturalistic world views. Four credit hours. RODDY
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Newton's laws, oscillatory motion, noninertial reference systems, classical gravitation, motion of rigid bodies, and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. Lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: Physics 142 or 145 and Mathematics 122 or 162. Four credit hours. CONOVER
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Recent political theorizing as it relates to cultural and social differences and global poverty. Topics include John Rawls's conception of just institutions, Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach, utilitarian arguments regarding global poverty, and contemporary writing on recognition for minority and indigenous cultures. We will also ask whether the nation-state as we know it can be morally justified in an age of globalization, and will consider arguments regarding the ethical value of patriotism, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism. Prerequisite: Two courses in philosophy. Four credit hours. I. MOLAND
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An in-depth investigation of feminist philosophers' critiques and reconstructions of contemporary themes in ethics, political theory, and theory of knowledge. Prerequisite: Six credit hours in philosophy and/or women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Four credit hours. S, U.
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Beginning with Marx's and Engels's primary texts, the influence of Marxist philosophical thought on economic theory, revolutionary theory (Mao, Guevara, Castro, Luxembourg, Gramsci), cultural criticism (Marcuse, Adorno), feminism (Hartmann), and aesthetic theory (Jameson, Williams, Eagleton). Four credit hours. S.
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What is the nature of space and time How do things persist through change What is the relationship between cause and effect How are parts and wholes related What is the ontological status of universals How are things individuated These and similar questions are treated in this general survey of metaphysics. Prerequisite: Two philosophy courses. Four credit hours.
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A consideration of some major 20th-century conceptions of what scientists aim to do, what theoretical structures they employ in pursuing their aims, and what legitimates these structures. Science seems to be constrained by experience in distinctive ways, but it also ventures far beyond experience in pursuing its theoretical and explanatory aims. These issues are approached historically by examining the rise and fall of the project known as logical empiricism (or logical positivism). Four credit hours.
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