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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
An introduction to informal and formal ways of reasoning. The structures and general forms of argument as well as the standards and criteria needed to evaluate arguments, and the historical development of logical reasoning, will be studied.
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1.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary study of selected works in art, music, literature, science, and philosophy from the Renaissance through the 19th century. Crosslisted as ENGL 150, HUMN 150 and RESC 150.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the basic concepts and problems of modern logic. Areas studied will include propositional and quantificational logic, set theory, and metalogical theory (completeness and consistency). Prerequisite: PHIL 103 or permission of the instructor.
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1.00 Credits
An investigation of inductive and ordinary langauge forms of reasoning. The basic concepts and problems in inductive reasoning will be studied, and attention given to how our ordinary language influences traditional logical principles and criteria. A careful examination of fallacies and mistakes in reasoning will introduce the more formal aspects of the course.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical thought from its explicit beginnings to the Hellenistic era. Research on important aspects of the thought of Plato and Aristotle. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative examination of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions in medieval philosophy, focusing on selected problems in metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Readings in Augustine, Anselm, Avicenna, Averro?s, Saadia, Maimonides, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Ockham. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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1.00 Credits
Philosophical thought in the classical modern age, including Continental Rationalism, British Empiricism, and Kant.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of the creative process, the work of art, natural beauty, aesthetic experience, and principles of criticism. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ART 222.
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3.00 Credits
An attempt to formulate adequate criteria for the basic moral conceptions of good and bad, right and wrong, and duty, by a study of leading ethical view points from Plato to the present. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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3.00 Credits
Problems such as individual and state, freedom and organization, power and rectitude, philosophy of law, equity and differences, the sociomoral basis of rights. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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