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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Survey or representative writings of African-American philosophy. The course aims to present the unique philosophical voice of this intellectual tradition, through the work of figures such as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, Martin Luther King, and bell hooks, or on themes such as self-determination, racial justice or identity.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the student to philosophically relevant work done in Latin America, and to philosophical topics that have occupied Latin American thinkers. Includes texts from the time of the Conquest and the Colonial Period (Las Casas, Sepúlveda, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz), all the way to 19th century independentism and positivism (BolÃvar, Sarmiento), as well as 20th century philosophically-oriented writers (Paz, Borges), and recent work concerning Latin-American identity.
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3.00 Credits
Development of Greek philosophy from its beginning to late antiquity; emphasis on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; includes also Stoicism, Skepticism, and Epicureanism.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the rich and varied ground between the classical Greek philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, and the philosophy of so-called Modern or Enlightenment thinkers. Examples of possible philosophers to be examined include (among others) Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, and Ockham. Examples of possible philosophical topics include (among others) the nature of perception, knowledge, the mind, reality, universals, free will, and God. Students might also examine philosophers from non-Western traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Medieval background to Bacon and Descartes; empiricists and rationalists; Kant.
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3.00 Credits
Kant to Bradley.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a basic introduction to Chinese philosophy, which influenced philosophical discourse in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam as well. Thus, understanding the Chinese tradition is an important stepping-stone for understanding East Asian thought generally. Readings will consist mainly of primary texts in translation, with some secondary literature. No previous knowledge of Chinese language or history is necessary.
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3.00 Credits
Elementary techniques of symbolic logic and their application to arguments in natural languages, truth functions, first-order quantification.
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3.00 Credits
Basic concepts of probability and statistics. Rival interpretations and applications.
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3.00 Credits
Examines common-sense knowledge, its sources and problems, as well as scientific knowledge and mathematical and logical knowledge.
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