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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Philosophical foundations of science both natural and social. Such issues as the role of observation, laws, theories, and paradigms in science; ethical implications of science; objectivity of science are investigated. Offered infrequently.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar considers what is required of a health care system in the U.S. by considerations of justice. Such questions as the following are taken up: Do people have a right to a basic level of health care? What financing and delivery system is most fair? Should doctors (or legislators?) ration scarce medical resources, especially to the elderly, the poor, or persons with AIDS? Prerequisite: PHL 131 and either 312 or 375 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
To earn departmental honors, a student must complete two semesters of independent reading courses.
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4.00 Credits
Theoretical study of method in phenomenology as exemplified in the works of the major figures of the movement.
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4.00 Credits
Selected topics or authors, historical or contemporary. Topics include such problems as personal identity and individuation, the self, mind/body problems, the will, thought and cognition, perception, philosophy and psychology. Prior completion of PHL 221 is recommended. Offered infrequently.
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4.00 Credits
Selected topics or authors in metaphysics, historical or contemporary. Topics include such problems as universals and particulars, causality, space and time, freedom and determinism, God, existence. Prerequisite: PHL 221 is recommended. Offered alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of such concepts as knowledge, belief, certainty, evidence, truth, perception. Prior completion of PHL 221 recommended. Offered alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of a group of problems in a limited field or of particular philosophers or of particular schools of philosophy.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Each student will take one paper written for a philosophy course and develop it into a length and quality suitable for publication in a scholarly journal. Members of the seminar will read each of these papers and suitable parts of its bibliography in order to critique the paper and assist its progress toward publication.
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4.00 Credits
Intensive inquiry into values, principles, essence, and varieties of government; exploration of relation between justice and law; nature of freedom, power, rights, responsibilities, coercion, and revolution; contract, parliamentarianism, and their alternatives. Offered infrequently.
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