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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Topics considered include advanced techniques of the logic of quantification, identity, and definite description, intuitive set theory, Russell's paradox, and modal logic.
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Students will be assigned a definite task relevant to their educational interests in applied ethics. Students may be placed in appropriate cooperating local social-service agencies, educational institutions, legal services offices, businesses, or medical facilities. Work will be supervised by the department and the agency. Research and written reports will be required.
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3.00 Credits
Subject matter will vary.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to both the history and the different ways of justifying, critiquing, extending, and revising the concept of universal individual human rights as it has developed since the eighteenth century out of the previous European tradition of natural law and rights.
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3.00 Credits
A detailed, critical examination of some major issue(s) in phenomenology. Attention will be given to either the historical development or contemporary relevance of phenomenological philosophy. Readings will be drawn from the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others.
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The origins of contemporary philosophical analysis. An examination of the most important philosophical writings of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, as well as the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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3.00 Credits
The development of philosophical analysis through logical positivism and the various forms of linguistic philosophy. An examination of some of the important writings of Moore, Ayer, Ryle, Wisdom, Austin, and the later Wittgenstein. Need not be preceded by PHIL 514.
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3.00 Credits
A critical review of 20th century developments in ethical and value theory, with particular reference to the dispute between utilitarianism and deontological theories and to the problem of justification.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive and critical review of one or more of the basic problems of ontology and cosmology, such as substance, existence, causality, change, time, space, teleology, freedom, and universals. Variable content.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the main currents of deconstructionist and postmodernist thought in the latter part of the 20th century. Texts to be studied will be selected from the writings of Heidegger, Derrida, Fougault, Kristeva, Irigaray, Deleuze, Guattari, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Rorty.
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