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3.00 Credits
Explicit criteria for recognizing valid and fallacious arguments,together with various methods for schematizing discourse for the purpose of logical analysis. Illustrative material taken from science and everyday life. General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA). 3 points
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An introductory course in the philosophy of art. What is art Should we try to define art Should photographs count as art What does it mean to have an aesthetic experience Can one person's judgment be better than another's Why do we enjoy watching tragedies or horror movies 3 points
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Drawing on classical and contemporary sources, discussion will focus on the conditions necessary to produce free and responsible citizens of a just and democratic society. Readings from Plato, Rousseau, Dewey, and others. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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Exposition and analysis of the positions of the major philosophers from pre-Socratics through Augustine. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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Is there an essential difference between women and men How do questions about race relate to questions about gender Is there a "normal" way of being "queer" An introduction to philosophy and feminism using historical and contemporary texts, art, and public lectures. Focus includes essentialism, difference, identity, knowledge, objectivity, and queerness. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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Exposition and analysis of the positions of the major philosophers from Aquinas through Kant. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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Exposition and analysis of texts by Kant and major 19th-century European Philosophers. Prerequisites: None. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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Study of one or more of the major philosophers from the Renaissance through the 18th century. Sample topics: substance and matter; bodies, minds, and spirits; identity and individuation; ideas of God; causation; liberty and necessity; skepticism; philosophy and science; ethical and political issues. Sample philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Conway, Locke, Berkely, Hume, Kant. Prerequisites: One philosophy course or permission of the instructor. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 3 points
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Survey of selected works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Topics include intentionality, consciousness and self-consciousness, phenomenological and hermeneutical method, the question of being, authenticity and inauthenticiy, bad faith, death, and the role of the body in perception. - T. Carman Prerequisites: Two prior philosophy courses. Enrollment limited to 30. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Reading and discussion of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Foucault. Topics include the crisis in metaphysics, the question of being, the structure of human existence, subjectivity, motivated irrationality, perception, the body, sociality, art, science, technology, and the disciplinary organization of modern society. 3 points
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