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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Copenhaver, Fritzman, Martinez, Odenbaugh, Smith Content: Introduction to problems and fields of philosophy through the study of major philosophers' works and other philosophical texts. Specific content varies with instructor. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.
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Copenhaver, Fritzman, Martinez, Odenbaugh Content: Study of some fundamental issues in moral philosophy and their application to contemporary life. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Martinez, Odenbaugh, Smith Content: Issues in classical and contemporary philosophical examinations of religion such as arguments for the existence of God, religious experience, religious faith, the problem of evil. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Fritzman Content: Theorizing about art. Puzzles in art that suggest the need to theorize; traditional discussions of art in Plato and Aristotle and critiques of them (Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Collingwood); critical perspectives on these discussions (Danto). Specific discussions of individual arts: literature, drama, film, music, dance, the plastic arts. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Fritzman Content: An inquiry into major theories of law and jurisprudence, with emphasis on implications for the relationship between law and morality, principles of criminal and tort law, civil disobedience, punishment and excuses, and freedom of expression. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Odenbaugh Content: Investigation of philosophical questions about our relationship to the environment. Topics include the value of individual organisms, species, ecosystems; the concepts of wildness and wilderness; and the relationship between ecological science and environmental policy. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Copenhaver, Fritzman, Martinez, Odenbaugh, Smith Content: Examination of some of the main methods, concepts, distinctions, and areas of systematic philosophical inquiry. Including basic tools for argument, such as validity, soundness, probability and thought experiments, basic tools for assessment, such as the rule of excluded middle, category mistakes and conceivability, and basic tools for conceptual distinctions, such as a priori versus a posteriori and analytic versus synthetic. Includes methods, such as the history of philosophy, naturalized philosophy, conceptual analysis, and phenomenology, as well as areas of systemic philosophical approach, such as empiricism, rationalism, naturalism, realism, idealism, internalism, externalism, and nominalism. Prerequisite: Philosophy 101. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Martinez, Smith Content: The birth of philosophy against the background of mythic thought; its development from Socrates to the mature systems of Plato and Aristotle; their continuation and transformation in examples of Hellenistic thought. Prerequisite: Any 100- or 200-level philosophy course or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Copenhaver Content: Development of modern ideas in the historical context of 17th- and 18th-century Europe: reason, mind, perception, nature, the individual, scientific knowledge. Reading, discussing, and writing about the works of Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Kant. Prerequisite: Any 100- or 200-level philosophy course or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Fritzman Content: German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, as well as the reactions of philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche. Prerequisite: Any 100- or 200-level philosophy course or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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