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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Renaissance and early modern philosophy from the Italian Renaissance to Kant, including such figures as Leonardo, Pico, Erasmus, Luther, Montaigne, Descartes, Bacon, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Vico, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. 3 credits.
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Study of the major philosophers and philosophical currents of the nineteenth century introduced first by Kant’s critical period; the movement from Kant through Hegel’s absolute idealism; other important currents, including historical materialism (Marx), positivism (Comte), utilitarianism (Bentham, Mill), and pragmatism (C.S. Peirce). Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the movements of twentieth-century thought: Vitalism, neo-Kantianism, dialectical materialism, phenomenology, existentialism, neopositivism, analysis, neo-Thomism, and American naturalism and pragmatism. Prerequisite: Upperdivision standing. 3 credits.
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Development of philosophy in America from the Transcendentalists and the St. Louis School through Royce, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Santayana. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of selected dialogues. Prerequisite: Three credits of upper-division philosophy. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of selected treatises. Prerequisite: Three credits of upper-division philosophy. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
General study of the nature of argument; how it relates to reasoning, criticism, deduction, logical form, evidence, induction, and persuasion. Emphasizes both the systematic development of logical concepts and their application to actual arguments. Prerequisite: PHI 102, or 105, or 109. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Basic course covering the first order syntax and semantics of truth functions, quantifiers, predicates, relations, and identity, stressing the application of symbolic logic to the analysis of the structure of ordinary language and arguments. Prerequisite: PHI 109. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Study of formal logic through first-order logic with identity. Soundness, completeness, compactness as well as other metatheorems. Other topics may include modal logic, epistemic logic, many-valued logic, the logic of conditionals, higher-order logics, infinitary logics or non-monotonic logics, number theory, G鰀el’s theorems, and the limits of logicism. Prerequisites: PHI102, PHI 105 or PHI 109. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Nature, acquisition and structure of language, including such philosophical issues as meaning, reference, speech acts and semantics. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. 3 credits. College of Liberal Arts 347
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