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3.00 Credits
Conceptual problems regarding law and legal systems are examined. Topics may include the nature of law, law and morality, civil disobedience, positivism, naturalism, personhood under the law, rights, punishment, criminal responsibility, and judicial decision making. 3 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course or consent of department chair. Offered spring.
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Theories and reality, ideology and action, and values and facts are examined. Focus is on rational policy decision making. 3 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course or consent of department chair. Offered as needed.
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The status and the role of mind in relation to body is studied. Diverse theories, such as mind/body dualism, identity theory, behaviorism, functionalism, and emergence, are discussed. Other topics may include the contents of mental states, consciousness, and artificial intelligence. 3 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course or consent of department chair. Offered fall (odd years).
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3.00 Credits
This is a problem-oriented introduction to some of the central issues of contemporary metaphysics. Topics may include ontology (what exists), necessity, causation, free will/determinism, space and time, and identity-over-time. 3 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course or consent of department chair. Offered fall (even years).
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4.00 Credits
The origins of philosophy in Greek thought are explored. Works of philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle are read. (Formerly Plato, Aristotle, and Greek Thought.) 4 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course. Offered fall.
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3.00 Credits
The development of philosophy in Greece and Rome, from the death of Aristotle to the medieval period, is studied. Emphasis is on Epicurean, Stoic, and Neoplatonic ethics, epistemology, and ontology. (Formerly Hellenistic Philosophy.) 3 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course. Offered spring (odd years).
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4.00 Credits
The origins of medieval thought are traced. The institutionalization of philosophic thought is analyzed. The works of Aquinas and Augustine are studied. (Formerly Aquinas, Bonaventure, and Medieval Thought.) 4 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course. Offered fall.
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4.00 Credits
Works from European philosophers from Descartes to Kant are read. (Formerly Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Philosophers.) 4 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course. Offered spring.
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4.00 Credits
Selections from the works of Hegel and Nietzsche are analyzed and critiqued along with other nineteenth-century philosophers, such as Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Marx, and Freud. 4 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course. Offered spring (even years).
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4.00 Credits
In addition to the analysis of current existentialist, positivist, analytic, and religious philosophers, some of the germinal thinkers and forces of nineteenth-century life are studied. (Formerly Philosophy 357.) 4 credit hours. Prerequisite: any 200-level philosophy course. Offered spring (odd years).
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