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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
A general category used only in the evaluation of transfer credit. (1-4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Metaphysics is often regarded as the foundation of philosophy. To think metaphysically is to think rigorously about the ultimate nature of reality. This course is an examination of a variety of metaphysical problems, including personal identity, mind, causation, space, time and human freedom. Readings will include a mixture of contemporary and classical sources including Plato, Hume, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Ayer, Ryle, Moore and others. Prerequisite: PHIL 200.(4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
An inquiry into the meaning, possibility, conditions, criteria, and types of truth and/or knowledge, and a discussion of representative theories of knowledge. The class will aim to achieve clarity in respect to both classical and contemporary approaches to the problem of knowledge. The adequacy of those approaches will be assessed. Prerequisite: PHIL 200. (Fall) (4 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
We spend much of our time trying to answer such questions as: How ought we to act? What should we value? and What type of person should we be? But, it seems right that we can evaluate our answers to these questions and decide among them only if we correctly answer another set of questions first. For instance, how can we know what we should value unless we understand what values are, whether they exist and whether we can know them if they do? How can we know how we ought to act if we do not know what it means for an act to be morally good or why we are even obligated to do what is morally good in the first place? This course will pursue answers to this other set of questions. It will inquire into the nature of ethical statements, properties, judgments and attitudes. As such, it will draw on many other areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of language. Prerequisite: PHIL 200 or consent. (Spring) (4 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on contemporary work in political philosophy concerned with the concept of justice. Philosophers such as John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Robert Nozick, Iris Young, Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Sandel, Martha Nussbaum, Jurgen Habermas will be among those whose work in the class could include. The course will examine questions such as: What is justice? Can and should justice be defined independently of consideration or what the "good" is for human beings? Is justice possible in a society marked by significant religious, ethnic, cultural or other sorts of pluralisms? What is the relation between justice and nationhood, and what can be said about justice between nations? How is justice connected to social equality, and to liberty? What is meant by economic justice? What is the relation between justice and democracy? The course will examine contemporary plhilosophical debates about these questions, in order to help students think critically about the issue of justice in the context of the pressing domestic and international issues in which such questions play a crucial role. Prerequisite: PHIL 200 or consent.(4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines some of the most important developments in European philosophy during the nineteenth century. Figures to be read may include Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Mill, Frege, and others. Prerequisite: PHIL 200.(4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
The course will trace the roots of Analytic Philosophy from its beginnings in the work of Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore (and their rejection of 19th Century British Idealism), through its development by the members of the Vienna Circle (the Logical Positivists), and later by Ryle, Wittgenstein, Strawson, Quine, Sellars, and others. The aim will always be to understand the substantive concerns of the movement along with its methodology. Thus, the class will confront some of the central issues in Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Science as they have been treated by analytic philosophers. Prerequisite: PHIL 200.(4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the development of Continental Philosophy from 1900 to the present, including the phenomenological movement of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and others; the neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt School and Habermas; the hermeneutics of Gadamer and Ricoeur; and the post-structuralism of Foucault, Derrida, and others. Prerequisite: PHIL 200.(4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
The nature of language and meaning has been a pivotal concern of twentieth-century philosophers. This course will consider questions such as: What is a language? What is it for a word to have meaning? How is communication possible? Are meanings "in the head"? What is the relation between language and thought? This course will address topics such as reference, the role of speaker intentions, and the indeterminacy of translation. Students will be introduced to several strands of philosophy of language such as formal semantics and ordinary language philosophy, and will become familiar with the writings of philosophers ranging from Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein to Quine, Austin, Putnam, Searle, Chomsky, Davidson, and others. Prerequisite: PHIL 200.(4 credits)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
(1-4 credits)
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