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A selective investigation of one or two advanced topics in the philosophical understanding of society, government, and culture. Readings may include both historical and contemporary materials. Possible topics include: liberalism, socialism, communitarianism, citizenship, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, social contract theory, anarchism, and the rights of cultural minorities. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy at the 300 level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.
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Selected concepts and problems in the philosophy of law. Special attention to their explication and resolution in terms of classical and contemporary theories of the nature of law. Prerequisite: senior standing or permission of instructor.
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This course considers such topics as: the nature of law and its relationship to systems of norms; the legal enforcement of morals; and the nature of harm and its role in punishment. We consider such theorists as: John Stuart Mill, Patrick Devlin, H.L.A. Hart, Joel Feinberg, Michael Moore, and Ronald Dworkin. Prerequisite: senior standing or permission of instructor.
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Persons, Time and Consciousness.The course surveys a number of related issues about personal identity. What are persons? Do persons really exist? Are persons metaphysically different from tables and chairs? How do persons persist over time, if at all? Does consciousness have a special role to play in determining personal identity? Does consciousness have a certain unity?
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An examination of some of Plato's most important dialogues, typically including the Gorgias, Phaedo, and Republic, with the aim of grasping the development of Plato's most influential thoughts in ethics and in metaphysics and epistemology. In order to provide both historical understanding and philosophical evaluation, attention is paid to the context and structure of the dialogues and to the best of recent secondary literature. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy at the 300 level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.
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This course offers a maximally full and detailed introduction to the works of Aristotle. His logic, natural philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy are discussed, and stress is laid on the interpretive problems facing contemporary philosophers seeking to understand Aristotle's achievement. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy at the 300 level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.
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The Hellenistic Age, traditionally dated from the death of Alexander and his (Macedonian) Empire at 323 bce to the birth of Augustus' (Roman) Empire in 31 bce, gave the West three of its most innovative and influential schools of philosophy: Epicureanism, Skepticism, and Stoicism. This course investigates the central features of their thought. Special attention is paid to the still-relevant debates between the Stoics and Skeptics about the possibility of knowledge, to the disagreements among all three schools about the issues of freedom, responsibility, and determinism, and to their ethical theories. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy at the 300 level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.
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A rationalist is a philosopher for whom at least one certain truth is inborn or comes from reason rather than from empirical or sensory experience. The major systemic writings of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz are examined with a focus on the question: does the epistemology determine the ontology of these philosophical systems or vice versa? The lines of development connecting these philosophers are traced, and such enduring problems as the relation of mind to body are examined. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy at the 300 level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.
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