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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. A study of the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Domotor. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 005. Semi-formal examination of basic modalities and conditionals, including the varieties of necessity, possibility, counterfactuals, and causality. Special emphasis on applications to ontological proofs, deontic paradoxes, beliefs, and laws. Critical analysis of possible world and belief state semantics.
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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Horstmann. After an orientation to Kant's philosophy, we will examine Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche.
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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Hatfield, Detlefsen. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 004 or permission of instructor. A study of metaphysics and epistemology in the writing of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.
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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Guyer. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 004 or permission of instructor. A study of epistemology and metaphysics in classical British philosophy. Authors studied included Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, and Mill.
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Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Guyer. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 002 or PHIL 004 or permission of instructor. A study of moral philosophy, political philosophy, and aesthetics in classical British philosophy. Authors studied include Hobbes, Locke, Hutcheson, Hume, Kames, Adam Smith, and Reid.
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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Guyer, Hatfield. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 004, one advanced Philosophy course, or permission of instructor. A study of Kant's epistemology, criticism of metaphysics, and theory of science. A close reading of the CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON and associated texts.
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Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Guyer. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 002, PHIL 004, or permission of instructor. This course is a study of Kant's moral and political philosophy. The central theme of the course is Kant's conviction that freedom or "Autonomy" is our most basic value, and that the fundamental law of morality as well as the more particular principles of both justice and personal virtue are the means that are necessary in order to preserve and promote the existence and exercise of human freedom. Central questions will be how Kant attempts to motivate or prove the fundamental value of freedom and the connection between this normative issue and his metaphysics of free will. Texts will include Kant's Lectures on Ethics, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, and Metaphysics of Morals. Written work for the course will include one short paper and one term paper.
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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Hatfield, Detlefsen. Prerequisite(s): Previous course in Philosophy or History and Sociology of Science. An examination of the interplay between the rise of modern natural science and the genesis of a new philosophy in the seventeenth century. Readings will be drawn from the works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Bacon, Boyle, Locke, and Newton. Philosophical issues include the justification for a mathematical approach to nature, differing grounds for drawing a distinction between primary and secondary qualities, and contrasting conceptions of scientific method and of the role of sensory experience in attaining knowledge of nature.
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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Hegel and Analytic Philosophy: For many years, Hegel was persona non grata to most analytic philosophers. However, during the last decades, this estimation has been shattered revised. Indeed, some speak of a new school called "Pittsburgh Hegelianism" that combines analytic origins with Hegelian motifs. In this course, we will read selected writings of John McDowell, Robert Brandom, and the sources that influenced them, in order to understand the new marriage of Hegelianism and philosophical analysis.
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