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3.00 Credits
(Perspectives II course) An introduction to classical American philosophy and those thinkers who between 1870 and 1940 developed a philosophy that is unique to the United States. The defining movement in classical American philosophy is called pragmatism. Course will evaluate the pragmatic conception of truth and how it relates to the notion of pure experience, the individual and the community, science, morality, loyalty, the transcendental, and education. Readings from Emerson, Peirce, James, Royce, and Dewey. Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR Prereq: PHL 101 Normal Offering Cycle: Spring semester of every other year Credits: 3
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3.00 Credits
(Perspectives II course) An examination of the foundations and workings of scientific theory and practice. Topics may include the internal and external virtues of scientific theories, explanation, the role of observation in science, replication in experiments, scientific discovery, theory change and the social construction of science. Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR Prereq: PHL 101 Normal Offering Cycle: Every other year Credits: 3
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(Perspectives II course) Explores the views and theories of selected feminists of both the past and the present. Topics of discussions may include theories of knowledge, critiques of science, of history, and of philosophy. Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR Women's Studies Minor Course Prereq: PHL 101 Normal Offering Cycle: Selected terms Credits: 3
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(Perspectives II Course) An introduction to the important and noteworthy contributions of three twentieth century women philosophers, Simone Weil, Edith Stein and Hannah Arendt, all of Jewish descent, who tried to come to terms with issues of modern oppression, faith, knowledge, the concept of the person, liberty, totalitarian tactics of dehumanization and the human condition itself. Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR Prereq: PHL 101 Women's Studies Minor Course Normal Offering Cycle: Every other year Credits: 3
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(Perspectives II course) Often conceived less as a philosophy and more as a revolt against the traditional philosophy, existentialism, while all but impossible to define, is pre-occupied with such themes as the relation between the individual and society, the significance of human choice, the significance of suffering in human life, the reality of death and the relation between existence and absurdity. Readings from such authors as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Kafka, Camus, and Dostoyevsky. Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: BR Prereq: PHL 101 Normal Offering Cycle: Every other year Credits: 3
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(Perspectives II) Theme of course is the nature of citizenship and whether or not the individuals have a responsibility to their community. Course will also introduce students to the major problems and questions which belong to the history of political philosophy. As such it will provide political science students with an important historical and philosophical background for contemporary political discourse. Topics include the structure of political communities and civil societies, the state of nature, social contract theory, law, and leadership. Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR Prereq: PHL 101 and any PI in Social Science Cross-listed with PSC 303 Normal Offering Cycle: Fall Credits: 3
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(Perspectives II) There were two famous inscriptions at the Oracle of Delphi: 'know yourself' and 'nothing in excess'. In this course, we investigate the significance of these sayings by exploring connections between them and other Greek ideas: e.g., the idea of hubris (or excessive pride), catharsis (purification or purgation), and sophrosune (one translation: moderation). Readings from Hesiod, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and otherPrerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR Prereq: PHL 101 Normal Offering Cycle: Once a year Credits: 3
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3.00 Credits
Major figures such as Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas and Ockham on such problems as free will, human knowledge, the existence of God, virtue and vice. Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR Prereq: PHL 101, PHL 201 Normal Offering Cycle: Once every two years Credits: 3
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3.00 Credits
Major figures in modern philosophy addressing such issues as the nature and limits of human knowledge, the nature of truth and the reality of God. Readings from Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR Prereq: PHL 101 and one additional philosophy course Normal Offering Cycle: Once every two years Credits: 3
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3.00 Credits
(Perspectives II course) Themes of course are self, world, and language. Investigation of the nature of self-identity, the structure of the life-world, and the function of language as the relation between self and world. Course will introduce students to the basic problems of contemporary philosophy. Issues in phenomenology, existentialism, fundamental ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language, and hermeneutics will be addressed. Readings from Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR Prereq: PHL 101 Normal Offering Cycle: Once a year Credits: 3
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