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What kind of life should a person live What can we know about the world Do we have souls that are separate from our bodies The aim of the course is to learn something about the ways that thinkers throughout the globe have discussed important philosophical questions. We read some European philosophers (such as Plato, Descartes, and Kant) alongside philosophers from other traditions, such as the Chinese and Indian traditions (e.g., Chung-Tzu or Santideva), and we also read some contemporary writers from other cultural traditions (such as James Baldwin and Gloria Anzaldúa). This course is equivalent to Philosophy 101. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement J. Harold 4 credits
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An introduction to ancient Greek philosophy, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the works and ideas of three Athenian philosophers who worked and taught in the period between the PersianWars and the rule of Alexander the Great, more than 2,300 years ago: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Topics to be discussed include:What is the nature of the world What is truth, and how can it be known What kind of life should we live We will work to understand each philosopher's responses to these questions, but we will also learn to develop our own answers.We will take care to place these figures and their works in proper historical and cultural context. Meets Humanities I-B requirement J. Harold 4 credits
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Investigates the development ofWestern philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the writings of Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. Focuses on the impact of modern scientific thought on the philosophical tradition's understanding of the place of the human being in the world. Topics include the nature and extent of human knowledge, the nature of the mind, and the possibility of human freedom. Meets Humanities I-B requirement T.Wartenberg 4 credits
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An introduction to some of the main philosophical approaches to ethics and ideas about human nature through a study of works by major philosophers including Plato, Kant, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche. Among the issues cov- ered with be the justification of morality, pleasure and happiness, human nature, and the human good. Meets Humanities I-B requirement The department 4 credits
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What is knowledge Does the world exist independently of our minds What makes me a single, unified person who exists continuously over time In this course, we will explore these and other central questions in epistemology (theory of knowledge) and metaphysics (theory of reality) concerning predictions about the future, universal generalizations, the categories/concepts we employ in making such predictions and generalizations, and the nature of cause and effect. This course aims to be both historical and contemporary. Meets Humanities I-B requirement S. Mitchell 4 credits
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This course cultivates sound reasoning. Students will learn to see the structure of claims and arguments and to use those structures in developing strong arguments and exposing shoddy ones.We will learn to evaluate arguments on the strength of the reasoning rather than on the force of their associations and buzzwords. Meets Humanities I-B requirement S. Mitchell 4 credits
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(Same as Asian Studies 214) An introduction to Chinese thought in the classical period roughly between 500 and 221 BCE, a time of social and political furor. We will survey different philosophical responses to this upheaval, with an eye to the contemporary relevance of ancient Chinese wisdom. The course format consists of lecture and discussion preceded by extensive reading of primary texts (in translation). No familiarity with Chinese history, philosophy, or language is assumed. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement The department 4 credits
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This course covers the central philosophical positions and topics in philosophy of science from mid-twentieth century until the present day. It begins with the positivist view current at mid-century, covers the move to pragmatism of the 1960s and 1970s and looks at sociological and historical attitudes since then. It asks to what degree it is possible for science to investigate a value-independent reality in the light of these developments. Meets Humanities I-B requirement S. Mitchell Prereq. 4 credits in D; 4 credits
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This course develops a symbolic system that can be used as the basis for inference in all fields. It will provide syntax and semantics for the language of this system and investigate its adequacy. It provides the basis for all further work in logic or in the philosophical foundations of mathematics. Much of the course has a mathematical flavor, but no knowledge of mathematics is necessary. Does not meet a distribution requirement S. Mitchell 4 credits
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(Same as Religion 226-01) This course begins its survey of the discipline of the philosophy of religion with the work of Augustine.We then proceed to an examination of the classical theistic arguments for knowledge of God's existence (those of Anselm, Aquinas, and Maimonides) that dominated Scholastic thought and consider the criticisms of these approaches by Enlightenment philosophers such as Kant.We trace the rise of experience as the central category of pietism and romanticism in the texts of Schleiermacher and Coleridge and in the poetry of Novalis. Finally, we focus on the pragmatic tradition in American philosophy of religion, especially in the work ofWilliam James, Josiah Royce, and CornelWest. Meets Humanities I-B requirement 4 credits
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