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3.00 Credits
Fritzman Content: Examination of such key movements as psychoanalysis, phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, structuralism, Marxism, poststructuralism and deconstruction, critical theory. Prerequisite: Any 100- or 200-level philosophy course or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Copenhaver, Odenbaugh Content: Examination of some of the following issues: reductionism, emergence and supervenience, personal identity, freedom and determinism, causality, the ontological status of moral properties, realism and antirealism, the nature of mind and representations. Prerequisites: Philosophy 101 and 250. Philosophy 102 or one course in the history of philosophy sequence (301-307) recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Smith Content: Examination of some of the following issues: naturalistic, evolutionary, and social epistemology; moral epistemology; religious epistemology; theories of truth, of explanation, of experience and perception; relationships between theory and observation. Prerequisites: Philosophy 101 and 250. Philosophy 102 or one course in the history of philosophy sequence (301-307) recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Copenhaver Content: Beginning with Frege and Russell at the turn of the 20th century, a look at philosophical issues concerning truth, meaning, and language in the writings of thinkers such as Grice, Putnam, Quine, Searle, Kripke. Prerequisites: Philosophy 101 and 250. Philosophy 102 or one course in the history of philosophy sequence (301-307) recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Copenhaver Content: Examination of the mind-body problem, mental causation, consciousness, intentionality, the content of experience, internalism and externalism about content, perception. Prerequisites: Philosophy 101 and 250. Philosophy 102 or one course in the history of philosophy sequence (301-307) recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Martinez Content: Examination of some of the main systematic approaches to issues in moral philosophy. Meta-ethics: meaning of moral terms, relativism, subjectivism, ethics and science, social contract theory. Normative Ethics: deontological duties, utilitarianism, virtue and character, egoism, rights, natural law, justice, blameworthiness, excuses. Prerequisite: Philosophy 102 or 103, 250; or consent of the instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Odenbaugh Content: Issues concerning scientific knowledge and its epistemological and ontological implications from the perspective of history and practice of the natural sciences, such as explanation, testing, observation and theory, scientific change and progress, scientific realism, instrumentalism. Prerequisites: Philosophy 101 and 250. Philosophy 102 or one course in the history of philosophy sequence (301-307) recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Copenhaver, Fritzman, Martinez, Smith Content: Advanced study of movements and philosophers discussed in 300-level history of philosophy courses. Prerequisites: Philosophy 101, 250, and one 300-level course, or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits. May be taken more than once for credit if on different topics.
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Martinez, Odenbaugh, Smith Content: Advanced study of classical and current philosophical issues and problems in value theory, including the philosophy of art and beauty, ethics and morality, philosophy of religion, social and political thought, and the philosophy of law. Prerequisites: Philosophy 101, 250, and one 300-level course, or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits. May be taken more than once for credit if on different topics.
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Copenhaver, Fritzman, Martinez, Odenbaugh, Smith Content: Advanced study of topics covered in 300-level themes in philosophy courses, in areas other than value theory. Prerequisites: Philosophy 101, 250, and one 300-level course, or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits. May be taken more than once for credit if on different topics.
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