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3.00 Credits
These courses investigate the philosophical foundations of normative ethics in an effort to clarify the status of moral values in human life. The topics considered in these courses include the study of moral concepts, the characteristics of moral reasoning and the nature of moral responsibility. (Any one of these courses satisfies the third year core requirement in ethics.)
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3.00 Credits
This course attempts to investigate the ethical dimension of the human condition by focusing on a specific set of ethical problems or by focusing on a particular perspective of special interest to those carrying on the investigation. This course might well include such issues as capital punishment, euthanasia and the quality of the environment. It might also study various questions and problems that arise when one considers issues of gender and race. Prior to registration, faculty teaching sections of this course will publish an appropriate syllabus to help guide students in their choice of courses. Prerequisites: PHL 101, 201.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims at an understanding of the activity of making moral judgments or affirming one value or set of values over another. At issue are, typically, the meaning of the words spoken when people make ethical assertions, the possibility of justifying or proving the truth of such assertions and the implications of discovering situations in which the ethical dimension is problematic. Integral to this course is a study of these questions in the light of the great traditions of ethical thinking as they have come to light in the various wisdom literatures. Prior to registration, faculty teaching sections of this course will publish an appropriate syllabus to help guide students in their choice of courses. Prerequisites: PHL 101, 201.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to critical thinking, this course focuses on developing skills in evaluating and constructing arguments. Fallacy detection and analysis will be of central concern. The influence and importance of gender and culture on argument, both as product and as process, will also be stressed.
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3.00 Credits
Students will have the opportunity of discovering and exploring the structure and interrelations of the various kinds of propositions that occur in deductive reasoning. Logic will be presented as applying to the actual world incidentally, but to possible types of order explicitly. Propositional logic, predicated logic, classes and relations will be part of its content. Quantified expressions will be studied. Some attention will also be given to the non-deductive processes of the scientific method and the analysis of probabilities. Throughout the course there will be a wide selection of problem-solving challenges.
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3.00 Credits
Building upon a foundation of an introductory course in logic, this course will examine the construction and comparison of axiomatic systems. It will study the propositional calculus that is developed in Principia Mathematica and the axioms and theorem of Boolean class calculus. Duals, paradoxes, multivalue logic and modal logic will be included in the content of this course. It will included opportunities for developing problem-solving skills. Prerequisite: PHL 217 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the development of Greek and Roman philosophy. This course aims at the formation of a sympathetic insight into the foundations of Western thought. Major items include the reflection of ancient philosophers upon the nature of the physical universe, the role of human beings in society and the nature of morality.
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3.00 Credits
A survey course in the development of the philosophic foundations of medieval humanism. The major thinkers from Augustine to William of Ockham will be examined through both primary and secondary sources with special emphasis on the themes that unify the speculative thought of this rich period.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Western philosophical thought from Descartes to Kant. The course traces the main lines of development of continental rationalism and Anglo-Saxon empiricism, culminating in the attempt at a synthesis in the transcendental philosophy of Kant.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of European thought after Kant. This course will focus on the rise and fall of idealism, the rise of positivism, and historicomaterialist as well as existential reflections on culture, society and the human sciences. Figures studied may include Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Comte, J. S. Mill, Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
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