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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of selected texts of Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty. Some consideration of the interpretation of the history of philosophy offered by phenomenology. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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1.00 Credits
A survey of some major currents and figures in twentieth- century philosophy. Philosophers to be studied may include: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Benjamin, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of specific topics in aesthetics, e.g., The Beautiful and the Sublime; Philosophy and Comedy; The Aesthetics of Film. These topics may vary yearly. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Major philosophical schools of the classical age, Buddhist philosophy, Neo-Confucianism. Crosslisted as EAST 266.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of major historical figures and movements in the Islamic philosophical tradition. Philosophers to be studied may include: al-Kindi, al-Farabi, al-Razi, the Pure Brethren of Basra, Avicenna, al-Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, Averroes, Ibn Khaldun, Suhrawardi, and Mulla Sadra. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of Indian philosophical thought from its beginnings in the Vedas and Upanishads through the development of the major philosophical schools, focusing on a number of interrelated metaphysical, epistemological, hermeneutic, and ethical questions. Readings in the systems of Nyaya-Vaisesika, Samkhya-Yoga, and Mimamsa-Vedanta, as well as in Buddhism, Jainism and Carvaka. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
We will survey the central epistemological and metaphysical problems addressed in the 20th-century philosophy of biology. Prerequisite: PHIL 98 or 100 or 103 or 201 or 220 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of specific topics in Greek philosophy, e.g., Friendship and Love in Plato and Aristotle; Contemporary Interpretations of Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. Prerequisite: PHIL 205 or permission of the instructor.
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1.00 Credits
Individual Philosophers. Intensive study of the works of a single philosopher chosen from the ancient, medieval, modern, or contemporary period of the history of philosophy. In recent years: Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein.
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1.00 Credits
Historical periods. Study of a selected period in the history of ancient, medieval, modern, or contemporary philosophy. In recent years: Philosophy of Ordinary Language, Habermas and (Post) Modernity.
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