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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the Western philosophical tradition from its origins in Ancient Greece through the medieval period. Unifying themes and important contrasts between the two eras will be stressed. Readings from the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas. (B)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the views concerning knowledge and reality of the major European philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant. (B)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Only Honors students may register for four credits. An introduction to some classical and modern views concerning such questions as: What determines the rightness and wrongness of actions What is the nature of moral reasoning What constitutes a moral life (T)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the basic issues of political philosophy, such as the nature of the state, the ways of justifying its power and authority over its citizens; a philosophical analysis of central concepts like those of freedom, justice, and equality. Selected readings from some of the following: Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Marx, and Rawls. (I)
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3.00 Credits
Religious beliefs provide subject matter for philosophical study: Are the traditional arguments for the existence of God credible Does the existence of evil conflict with a belief in God's omnipotence and omnibenevolence What is the value of religious experience Discussion of these questions will assist in evaluating a pervasive element within religious experience. (I)
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3.00 Credits
Distinguishing science from non-science; how scientific knowledge is established; what constitutes scientific progress; whether science is cumulative; the place of science in the enterprise of knowledge and rational belief. (B)
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: One philiosphy course at 2000-level or above, or pre-law or law student standing, or consent of instructor. No credit after PHI 5270. The legal system we live under commands, forbids, punishes, and defines responsibilities and harm. Common-sense morality: what is it, and what is its relation to law Statutory interpretation: do judges create new law Punishment: why do we have it, and what rights do the accused have What is the legal concept of harm and responsibility (B)
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3.00 Credits
The distinction between knowledge and belief is germane to every field of inquiry. What is the difference between knowledge and belief Do we know anything at all If so, how Are we ever in a position of being certain about beliefs pertaining to an objective world Is our belief in an objective world based on our subjective experiences (T)
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3.00 Credits
Survey and examination of some of the enduring questions of metaphysics concerning the nature of reality. Topics include: the nature of physical objects, abstract entities, the concepts of time and change, the relation between mind and body, causation, the nature of metaphysics. (Y)
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: one course in philosophy or in a physical science or consent of instructor. Survey of some principal problems concerning the concepts of space and time and their relation to physical theories. Topics include: our knowledge of the geometric features of the world, the existence of space and time, time without change, the passage of time, the philosophical foundations and implications of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, and the explanation of motion and the General Theory of Relativity. No prior knowledge of modern physics will be presupposed. (B)
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