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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An examination of contemporary and historical approaches to questions about the nature, sources, and limits of human knowledge.What is the role of doubt? Can we avoid error? How can we knowwe are right? Can we prove we are right? Drawing on readings from Plato to Kant, from Wittgenstein to Foucault,seminar participants will contemplate both the possibility that knowledge is a discovery of objective truth and the possibility that knowledge is a human construction.
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4.00 Credits
Twentieth-century philosophers of science have concerned themselves primarily with asking how scientific theories change over time, whether or not explanation is a goal of science,how scientific knowledge is confirmed, and whether science reveals the underlying nature of reality. This course will help science students put their studies into thoughtful perspective, and will provide all participants with a deeper understanding of the nature of human knowledge.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to feminist theory, focusing on the social construction of both male and female gender, and on the extent to which our scientific and other intellectual pursuits display the influence of gender preconceptions. Students will discuss these issues from a variety of perspectives, including liberal feminism, radical feminism, feminist analyses by women of color, psychoanalytic feminism, and postmodern feminism.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An examination of postmodern theory in juxtaposition with philosophical and cultural modernity. Postmodern thinking, famously described by Lyotard as a "distrust of metanarratives,"problematizes prevailing concepts of objectivity, truth and the nature of reality. Students will read and discuss works by such writers as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Rorty. Of special interest not only to those studying philosophy, but also literature and religion.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Is there a distinctive tone underlying American contributions to philosophy? Pragmatism, the sole philosophical movement originated and sustained entirely by Americans, is a focus of this seminar, which will also consider American contributions to logical positivism and analytic philosophy. Students will address the work of such philosophers as Peirce, James, Dewey, Quine, Sellars,Davidson, and Putnam.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Christianity has been described as "a religion in search of a metaphysic."This course will examine several different philosophical conceptions of reality and investigate their contributions to the history of Western ideas about God, human nature, and the world. Included in this study will be classical philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus, as well as modern philosophers like Hegel and Whitehead.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This is a course in applied ethics focusing on a broad range of health care issues, including preventive health care, fair distribution of health care benefits and costs, the relationship between a patient and the health care professional, and patients' rights. In the process of discussing these and other issues in a seminar setting, students are given the opportunity to deepen their understanding of basic normative concepts related to autonomy, utility, distributive justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. Prerequisite: PHI 202 or instructor's permission.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Explores theories of the good and just society. Students will examine the origins of Liberalism in modernism, the subsequent development of liberalism, and various contemporary challenges posed by alternative visions such as Marxism and Communitarianism.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Readings in Philosophy
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The general principles of mechanics,waves, sound, heat and electricity, with discussions of some practical applications. Problems and laboratory work are emphasized. Intended for students majoring in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and pre-health majors. One laboratory period each week. Fall semester. (Will not apply toward physics major requirements.)
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