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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Differing views on the nature of knowledge and reality, e.g., analytic, idealist, realist, materialist, existentialist, mystical, intuitionist, and emotivist; relevance of these theories to one's personal philosophy of life and actions; nature of language, perception, intellection, time, matter, mind, God, freedom, truth, reason, emotion.
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3.00 Credits
Nature and purposes of the state, grounds of political obligation, freedom and its limitations, human rights, social justice, and selected contemporary issues.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical study of main issues related to the ideas and realities of war and peace. Topics will include beliefs and theories about peace and war, the causes of violence and war, war and morality, alternatives to violence and war, peace ideas and proposals, applications to current world conditions.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of philosophical ideas in relation to people of African descent. Topics include Africana conceptions of reality, time and space; Africana epistemological and logical systems of reasoning; Africa morality. Contrast will be made with Western philosophy. Other topics may include Africana-centered social, political and cultural issues such as slavery, colonialism, racialism and Africana identity.
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3.00 Credits
Major philosophical issues in law; theories of the nature and purposes of law, legal enforcement of community standards, strict liability, human rights, civil disobedience, theories of punishment, and legal ethics.
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3.00 Credits
In-depth study of the major sources of western moral philosophy; representative selections from philosophers of classical times to the present (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Dewey, and Sartre.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between neuroscience (and possibly other social and cognitive sciences) and the philosophical study of morality. Topics could include the implications of neuroscience for understanding moral judgment, moral emotions, free will and moral responsibility, the concept of a person, and moral character. Other topics might include ethical issues surrounding the practice and application of neuroscience in social, legal and clinical contexts.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to examine issues and themes in contemporary philosophy of mind; the relationships among the mind, brain and world; problems concerning intentionality, subjectivity, consciousness, qualia, mental representation, mental causation; and the intersection of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence with philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we examine neo-Darwinian views on evolution and natural selection. We consider several attempts to use evolutionary principles to provide naturalistic explanations for important features of human existence, like the nature of thought, morality, freewill, creativity and the effects of culture.
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3.00 Credits
Issues in religious philosophy, including the relation between faith and reason, the nature of religious experience, arguments for the existence of God, the problem of evil, and immortality.
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