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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of issues and areas of overlapping concern to Eastern and Western philosophical traditions (e.g., ontology, ethics) with emphasis on both contrasts and convergences in philosophical approaches. Topics may vary.
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3.00 Credits
Origins and development of rationality as found in the thought of selected philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
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Development of the modern view as seen in major Western philosophers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Thought of Berkeley, Descartes, Hume, Leibniz, Locke, and Spinoza may be considered to illustrate the development of rationalism and empiricism.
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3.00 Credits
Development of 19th-century philosophy emphasizing selected works of philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard.
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Historical overview of selected significant movements in 20th-century Western philosophy such as Continental and/or analytic philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
Critical consideration of the views of some major philosophers on the nature of the individual's relation to society and the state in the context of their wider philosophical (logical, epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical) doctrines. Philosophers may include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx, Hegel, Rawls, and Nozick.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates what sorts of conduct should be criminalized and what society should do with those who engage in criminal activity. Specific topics may include the enforcement of morals, euthanasia, hate crimes, deterrence, retribution, and restitution.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of concepts, criteria, and decision procedures underlying rational belief and the justification of knowledge claims. Representative answers to the problem of skepticism are considered, with special attention to some leading theories of knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
Examines technology and representative philosophical assessments of it with a focus on understanding its impact on the human condition.
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Philosophical study of problems generated by science, but that are not themselves scientific, such as what comprises a scientific theory; how scientists formulate theories and acquire knowledge; what, if anything, differentiates science from other ways of knowing; what role concepts play in scientific knowledge; whether scientific progress is rational.
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