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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Faculty The course will concentrate on special issues, movements, and leading figures in philosophy. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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Dr. Sorensen A close examination of one or more controversial issues and theories in metaethics. Among the possible topics are: the nature of moral theory, the foundations of normative judgment, the "internalism" or "externalismof practical reasoning, realism vs. anti-realism in ethical theory, the roles of reason and emotion in morality, moral skepticism, virtue theory, utilitarianism, and Aristotelian or Kantian moral views. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Sorensen An intensive investigation of one or more topics in ethics-such as well-being, autonomy, rights, consequentialism, Kantian ethics, virtue ethics, and other topics. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Florka, Dr. Stern An examination of one or more philosophers of the classical and medieval periods (for example, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Ockham), or a study in a single area such as metaphysics, ethics, or the theory of knowledge in several of the philosophers. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Florka, Dr. Stern, Dr. Sorensen An examination of one or more philosophers of the period from 1600 to 1900 (for example, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche), or a study in a single area such as metaphysics, ethics, or the theory of knowledge in several of the philosophers. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Florka A close study of the philosophy of René Descartes through reading his major works and some responses to and criticisms of his ideas. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Florka A continuation of PHIL/MATH-260. Includes: further study of the logic of quantifiers and appropriate methods of proof, and working through the proofs of the Completeness and Soundness Theorems for propositional logic and first-order logic. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Florka, Dr. Goetz An examination of the notions of truth, meaning, reference, and language use, including the distinctions between sense and denotation, synonymy and analyticity, direct and indirect discourse, and natural and nonnatural meaning. Prerequisite: PHIL/MATH-260 (Logic) or permission of instructor. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Florka, Dr. Goetz, Dr. Stern An intensive investigation of a few topics in metaphysics-such as personal identity, possibility and necessity, universals and particulars, causality-or in epistemology-such as skepticism, a priori knowledge, the problemof induction, knowledge as justified true belief. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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4.00 Credits
Dr. Florka An exploration of past and present philosophical studies of the nature of conscious awareness and the relation of the mind to the world. May include consideration of problems about perception, intentionality, representation, and rationality. Four semester hours. (H.)
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