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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. An examination of the relations between various philosophical systems and historical religions; theories of faith and knowledge, including a discussion of proofs for the existence of God.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHL 131 or permission of instructor. A continuation of the study of symbolic logic, with an emphasis on predicate logic.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. The meaning and role of law in human life and contemporary society, with reference to social and political problems.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Two courses in philosophy or permission of instructor. An examination of the assumptions and methodology of scientific explanation and its philosophic implications.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. A philosophical examination of the nature of justice, equality, liberty, rights and political obligation. Philosophers studied may include Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Marx and Mill, as well as contemporary theorists such as Rawls, Dworkin and Feinberg.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. An examination of some of the key movements in recent continental thought. Typical readings may include selections from the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Gadamer, Levinas.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. An examination of the thought of American philosophers, including Peirce, James, and Dewey.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. This course is a survey of competing 19th-century world views and methodologies. Excerpts from the works of philosophers such as Mill, Comte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche will be examined, and the relevance of their views to 20th-century philosophy will be explored.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy. An examination of the philosophical origins of traditional grammar and of transformational grammar; pertinent insights by thinkers, including Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, and Katz; special attention to the tenability of claims made by transformational grammarians from the viewpoint of philosophical consistency.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Two courses in philosophy, at least one of which must be numbered higher than 260. Concentrated study of the writings of outstanding philosophers (normally no more than one or two philosophers in any one offering). Usually offered every semester. May be repeated with change of topic.
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