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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the mind-body problem. Are the body and mind distinct substances (dualism); or is there only body (materialism); or only mind (idealism) Other views to be considered include behaviorism (the view that behavior can be explained without recourse to mental states), and the view that the mind is a complex computer. (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of the nature of the correspondence between the words we use and the world in which we live. Our unifying theme is the quest for an understanding of truth, conceived as a peculiar relation between language and reality. We examine such central notions as meaning and reference, as understood in historically influential philosophical theories of language. (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Survey of metaphysical and epistemological issues from the philosophy of mathematics, with emphasis on the arguments on behalf of mathematical platonism, conventionalism, and psychologism. It is highly recommended that students take PHIL 114 and a year of calculus, or otherwise acquire comparable formal background, prior to this course. (HU)
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2.00 Credits
An internship devoted to the construction and maintenance of Ariadne, an on-line, web-based, undergraduate journal of philosophy. Responsibilities will include research; publicizing the project nationally and locally; reviewing, selecting, and formatting manuscripts for publication; and various other administrative and editorial activities. Some students may also be involved in the initial states of constructing Dionysos, an externally refereed, on-line, web-based professional journal of the history of philosophy. Prerequisite: Department permission required: previous coursework in philosophy expected. May be repeated more than once for credit. (ND)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Individual philosophical investigation of an author, book, or topic designed in collaboration with a faculty sponsor. Tutorial meetings; substantial written work. May be repeated more than once for credit. Consent of faculty sponsor required. (ND)
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to philosophical and religious modes of moral thinking, with attention given to ethical issues as they arise cross-culturally in and through religious traditions. The course will reference the United Nations Millennium Goals to consider family life and the role of women, social justice, the environment, and ethical ideals. Particular focus varies but may include one or more of the following: abortion and reproductive health, the death penalty, religiously motivated violence, and problems of personal disorder (heavy drinking, anorexia, vengeance). A Global Citizenship course. Steffen (HU)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Detailed proofs for the basic mathematical results relating the syntax and semantics of first-order logic (predicate logic): the Soundness and Completeness (and Compactness) Theorems, followed by a brief exposition of the celebrated limitative results of G del, Turing, and Church on incompleteness and undecidability. The material is conceptually rigorous and mathematically mature; the necessary background is a certain degree of mathematical sophistication or a basic knowledge of symbolic logic. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. (MA)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A development of set theory from axioms; relations and functions; ordinal and cardinal arithmetic; recursion the orem; axiom of choice; independence questions. Prerequisite: MATH 301 or consent of the department chair. (MA)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Course development of classical computability theory; enumeration, index and recursion theorems, various models of computation and Church's Thesis, uncomputability results, introduction to reducibilities and their degrees (in particular, Turning degrees, or degrees of uncomputability), computable operators and their fixed points. (MA)
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the writings of key figures in the history of American religious thought (such as Edwards, Emerson, Bushnell, Peirce, James, Royce, Dewey and the Niebuhrs). Attention will be directed both to the historical reception of these writings and to their contemporary significance. Raposa (HU)
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