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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An examination of philosophical problems concerning the nature of language, meaning, and communication, as dealt with by such contemporary philosophers as Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell, Russell, Merleau-Ponty, and others. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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3.00 Credits
Contemporary approaches to the problems of ethics: universality, moral vs. non-moral judgments, facts and values, etc. Readings in such thinkers as Hare, Rawls, Gilligan, Williams, MacIntyre, Nussbaum, and Rorty. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of feminist philosophy primarily as it occurs in the U.S. from the late 18th century to the present. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220 or permission of the instructor.
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1.00 Credits
A course in Peace Studies that will investigate the arguments and spirit of Pacifism and nonviolent philosophies.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of some philosophical problems and contemporary views concerning mathematical concepts and methods: the nature of mathematical truths and mathematical proof; the concept of infinity; ontological status of numbers and classes; metamathematical results. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220 or permission of the instructor.
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1.00 Credits
Examination of some central philosophical issues relating to law, including law's relation to economics, literature, democracy, rules, integrity, and interpretation.
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3.00 Credits
Presents major modern figures and concepts with examples from painting, music, literature, philosophy, and science. Prerequisites: PHIL 98 and PHIL 150. Crosslisted as ENGL 230, HUMN 250.
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1.00 Credits
The development of philosophical ideas in the 19th-century Europe, considered as a background for the understanding of ideas influential today. Philosophers to be studied may include: Hegel, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Comte, Mill, Bradley, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of selected texts of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Camus, or Sartre. Special attention given to the relation of existentialism to problems of post-Cartesian thought. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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3.00 Credits
A critical and historical survey of distinctive American philosophies: pragmatism, realism, scientific philosophies. Readings include: Peirce, James, Dewey, Lewis, Whitehead, Quine. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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