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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of major issues and figures in 17th and 18th century philosophy, focusing on Continental rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, and/or Leibniz), British empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, and/or Hume), and the critical philosophy of Kant. Prerequisite: PL 1100 or PL 1150. (PLII)
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3.00 Credits
A study of selected issues and figures in 19th century philosophy. Topics are selected from the works of influential philosophers such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Marx, Mill, Peirce, and James. Prerequisite: PL 1100 or PL 1150. (PL II)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the work of some of the most influential philosophers in the analytic tradition of 20th century philosophy. Topics are selected from the work of Frege, Russell, Ayer, Wittgenstein, the logical positivists, and ordinary language philosophers, and from recent work in analytic metaphysics and epistemology. Prerequisite: PL 1100 or PL 1150. (PLII)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the work of some of the most influential philosophers in the Continental tradition of 20th century philosophy, including representative texts from the phenomenological, existentialist, and postmodernist movements. Topics are selected from the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Marcel, Gadamer, Habermas, Derrida, Foucault, and/or other significant philosophers. Prerequisite: PL 1100 or PL 1150. (PLII)
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3.00 Credits
The Pre-Socratics and Plato
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3.00 Credits
Study of a particular period or movement, such as pre-Socratic philosophy, Neoplatonism, Renaissance philosophy, etc. Prerequisite: PL 1100 or PL 1150. (PLII)
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3.00 Credits
The Pre-Socratics
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major issues, movements, and figures in American philosophy, including the ways in which American philosophy reflects America's cultural identity. Prerequisite: PL 1100 or PL 1150. (PLII)
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3.00 Credits
A systematic introduction to the work of major figures of 19th and 20th century existentialism. The main themes covered include the different views of the self which emerge in existentialist thought; the relationship of the self to the world, other people, and God; the nature of human freedom, choice, anxiety, commitment, and responsibility. These themes are explored through the work of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty, Dostoevski, and Kafka. Prerequisite: PL 1100 or PL 1150. (PLII)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to phenomenological philosophy, beginning with the thought of Husserl and including the development of phenomenology by philosophers such as Heidegger, Scheler, and Merleau-Ponty. Themes include the critique of naturalism and empiricism; intentionality and the description of experience; static (structural) and genetic (temporal) analysis; applications of phenomenological method; and the differences between transcendental and existential phenomenology. Prerequisite: PL 1100 or PL 1150. (PLII)
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