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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Historical survey of selected texts and issues in 17th and 18th century European philosophy with particular emphasis on developments in epistemology and metaphysics. Attention will be given to the relation of the "modern period" to developments in late medieval philosophyand the rise of the experimental sciences. Figures may include Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, and Kant. (HU)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
A variable content course focusing on ethical issues arising in a particular profession, such as law health, business, engineering, military. Variable credit. May be taken more than once. Steffen (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Philosophical thought from the late-19th century to the present; pragmatism, linguistic analysis, existentialism, and Marxism. Truth and knowledge, values and moral judgment, meaning, the place of the individual in the physical world and society, and the impact of the scientific method upon all of these. (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Survey of selected texts and issues in the eastern philosophical traditions. Attention will be given to the development and interrelations of these traditions as well as a comparison of western and eastern treatments of selected issues. Areas of focus may include Confucianism, Taoism, and Zen Buddhism. (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Examination of significant questions addressed by contemporary moral philosophers. Topics vary, but might include: What is a good person Can a woman be good in the same way as a man Is morality relative or absolute Is morality all that important Prerequisite: PHIL 105 or consent of the instructor. (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Topics may include the many systems of non-classical logic, truth theory, the impact of incompleteness and undecidability results on philosophy, and the foundational projects of various philosopher/mathematicians. Alternatively, the topic might be the work of an important figure in the history of philosophical logic. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. (MA)
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4.00 Credits
An investigation of a significant figure in the philosophy of race (e.g. David Walker, W.E.B. DuBois, Alain Locke, Marcus Garvey, Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Fanon, AimE9 CE9saire, Cornel West) and/or an investigation of a significant theme in the philosophy of race (Racial Exploitation, Colonialism, Negritude, Afrocentrism, Black Nationalism, African Philosophy, Black Athena). Content Varies. May be taken more than once for credit. (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Recent work in epistemology. Questions addressed include: If you can't know whether you are dreaming, how can you know you have two hands Does knowledge require answers to all possible doubts or only all reasonable doubts How should we determine the horizon of the reasonable-psychologically or philosophically (HU)
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4.00 Credits
A survey of contemporary literature in metaphysics. Topics may include: the nature of existence, universals and properties, identity and individuation, causation, necessity and possibility, reduction and emergence, and realism and anti-realism. (HU)
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4.00 Credits
An investigation of a significant figure in aesthetics (e.g., Burke, Kant, Hegel, Benjamin, Adorno, Goodman, Kivy, Derrida, Deleuze) and/or an investigation of a significant theme in aesthetics (e.g., sensuality, representation, politics, expressionism, cinematic gore, minimalism, architecture, post-modernism). Content varies. May be taken more than once for credit. (HU)
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