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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses skills and concepts needed by students wishing to develop effective reading, writing and analytical abilities required for higher levels of study in philosophy. Using primary texts from a variety of central figures in the history of philosophy, you will learn to recognize philosophical subjects and questions; identify, analyze, and evaluate persuasiveness of several types of argument; and produce philosophical writings with awareness of the standards and criteria by which such work is evaluated.
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2.00 Credits
This course explores the purpose, scope and definition of philosophy, the nature of philosophical problems and methods, and readings from great philosophical works. There is an emphasis on the critical and analytical skills used to evaluate ideas and beliefs.
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4.00 Credits
Understanding patterns of reasoning as they occur in ordinary language contexts, development of the practical skills of identifying and critically evaluating arguments. Topics include: distinguishing arguments from rhetoric and other forms of persuasion; how to construct an argument; how claims are supported by reasons; distinguishing good arguments from bad ones; how poor arguments can manage to be persuasive. Offered in alternate years in the Day Program. Also offered in Weekend College. This course can serve as the second philosophy course for students seeking the B.A. degree.
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4.00 Credits
Techniques and applications of contemporary formal logic. Topics include: the structures and forms of arguments; identifying arguments and translating them from ordinary language contexts to symbolic forms; validity, invalidity and soundness; deductive techniques for testing arguments; logical consistency; inductive logic and its applications. Offered in alternate years. This course can serve as the second philosophy course for students seeking the B.A. degree.
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4.00 Credits
Examination and evaluation of the major ethical theories of the Western philosophical tradition. Discussion of contemporary ethical issues in light of theories such as virtue ethics, natural law, deontological theory, utilitarianism and feminist ethics. Offered annually. Also offered in Weekend College and occasionally in summer session.
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4.00 Credits
Fundamental concepts and controversies in the philosophic understanding of human social and political life. Concepts such as justice, power, liberty, equality and nationalism; social contract theory and its alternatives; contemporary debates about national sovereignty, universal human rights, attempts to limit warfare. Offered annually. Also offered in Weekend College.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the portrayal of women in the Western philosophic tradition; the influence of views on the nature, status and role of women. Readings from women who contributed to the development of philosophic ideas. Representative contemporary issues: for example, the debate about pornography, violence against women and censorship. Offered in alternate years. Also offered as WOST. Also offered in Weekend College.
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4.00 Credits
Issues of knowledge and reality as they arise in film, such as what it means to know, what counts as certainty, what sort of being a human being is, and what it means to know another person. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: Open to students with no prior work in philosophy, but such students should consult with the instructor or department chair before registering.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of philosophic issues, such as the meaning of life, suffering, the relationship between language and reality, and the question of human freedom, as they arise in literary texts. Discussion of the connections between literature and philosophy, and the kinds of truth offered by each. Offered in alternate years. Also offered in Weekend College. Prerequisite: Open to students with no prior work in philosophy, but such students should consult with the instructor or department chair before registering.
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4.00 Credits
Current problems in the philosophy of science discussed with their historical background. Emphasis on the development of the scientific method and its application in the natural and social sciences. Criteria of evidence, of theory building and of theory evaluation as applied in different kinds of research. Prerequisite: Open to students with no prior work in philosophy, but such students should consult with the instructor or department chair before registering.
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