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4.00 Credits
Study of the British philosophers, Locke, Berkeley and Hume, who hold that all of the ingredients of thought enter the mind by way of experience and that only what has a definite relation to experience can be thought. Among the particular topics considered will be material substance, spirit, abstract ideas, causation, induction, and skepticism.
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4.00 Credits
Consideration of some of the major works of Wittgenstein with emphasis on the later work, especially the Philosophical Investigations. Attention will be given to Wittgenstein’s contributions to philosophical method, as well as to his treatment of issues concerning language, meaning, intention, understanding, necessity, and the nature of human persons as language users.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the analytic philosophical tradition from Frege and Russell through early Wittgenstein and the Positivists to the present.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the nature of mental states. Main topics are dualism and various forms of materialism, behaviorism, mind-body identity theories, and functionalism; and the nature and content of propositional attitudes (e.g., belief, desire, meaning).
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4.00 Credits
Considers an array of important issues in contemporary moral philosophy, including (but not limited to) the relation between applied and theoretical ethics, the foundations of moral responsibility and blaming, the role of virtues in the moral life and the role of outcomes in moral evaluation. Topics vary per course which will allow students to take course more than once, with departmental approval, to apply toward major requirements.
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4.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to examine moral principles and judgments relevant for appraising the key tools of foreign policy. Included are issues of military, humanitarian, and covert intervention, economic sanctions, development assistance, human rights, democracy, and transitional justice among others.
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4.00 Credits
A three-term sequence that provides a practical bioethics education in clinical health care, biomedical and behavioral research, and public policy. Phl 481/581: introduction to the concepts, methods, and literature of health care and biomedical research ethics, designed to familiarize participants with the basic definitions and arguments in the major topics of clinical and research ethics. Courses must be taken in sequence.
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4.00 Credits
Study of the British philosophers, Locke, Berkeley and Hume, who hold that all of the ingredients of thought enter the mind by way of experience and that only what has a definite relation to experience can be thought. Among the particular topics considered will be material substance, spirit, abstract ideas, causation, induction, and skepticism.
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4.00 Credits
Consideration of some of the major works of Wittgenstein with emphasis on the later work, especially the Philosophical Investigations. Attention will be given to Wittgenstein’s contributions to philosophical method, as well as to his treatment of issues concerning language, meaning, intention, understanding, necessity, and the nature of human persons as language users.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the analytic philosophical tradition from Frege and Russell through early Wittgenstein and the Positivists to the present.
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