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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Examines the moral basis for condemning killing while allowing, or even applauding, letting die.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of central issues in metaphysics. Sample topics: universals and particulars, possibility and necessity, identity over time, free will, causality, and the philosophy of time. PREREQ: One philosophy course
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3.00 Credits
Through philosophy applied to physics and science fiction, explores the connections of time travel to traditional philosophic issues concerning the nature of time, God, free will and personal identity.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of some central issues in epistemology: classical and contemporary analyses of empirical knowledge; the nature of justification and rationality; implications for science, religion and metaphysics.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the origins and development of existential philosophy. Emphasis on the fundamental insight into the nature of man that separates the existentialists from the rest of the Western philosophical tradition. Sources include Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre.
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3.00 Credits
Critically examines a number of metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues related to science of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Topics may include (a)evolution of sex and gender, (b) gender and cognition, (c) biological basis, or lack thereof, of sexual orientation/preference (d) evolutionary, cognitive, historical, and political origins of race thinking, (d) relationship between everyday conceptions of race and gender as compared with scientific conceptions of race and gender, (e)ethical issues raised by human kind classification schemes.
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3.00 Credits
Analyze the role of women and the idea of the Feminine in a variety of Asian traditions, including Buddhist traditions in India, China, and Tibet; Hinduism, Daoism, and Confucianism.
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3.00 Credits
Coverage of central issues in the philosophy of mind including such topics as the relation between mind and body, the nature of thought, consciousness, perception, personal identity and the relation of cognitive psychology, neuroscience and computer science to the philosophy of mind.
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3.00 Credits
Examine the variety of philosophical positions and methodologies to be found among the Buddhist traditions in India, China, Japan, and Tibet. Explore mostly primary materials, and articulate the complexity and diversity of these rich traditions of philosophical and psychological analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Examine seminal primary and secondary works representative of the various Daoist traditions in Chinese culture. This includes philosophical Daoism, but also religious and yogic Daoisms as well. Emphasis placed on recent discoveries which have called into question many of the prevailing understandings of classical Daoist thought, such as the discovery of early manuscripts buried in tombs, and the connections between early Chinese yogic traditions and mature Daoist philosophies.
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