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3.00 Credits
Faculty An off-campus academic/work experience under the supervision of an internship adviser and an on-site supervisor. Contact the chair of the department for further details. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and approval of a faculty internship adviser. Eleven to 14 hours per week. Four semester hours. (I.)
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Faculty The aim of this capstone course is to explore in great depth an area of philosophical concern using all the tools students have developed as philosophy majors. There will be several papers and oral presentations. Open only to senior philosophy majors or by departmental permission. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. Four semester hours. (H.)
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4.00 Credits
Faculty This course is open to candidates for departmental honors and to other students with the permission of the departmental chair. Four semester hours. (I.)
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3.00 Credits
Faculty A continuation of PHIL-491. Prerequisite: PHIL-491. Four semester hours. (I.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Sorensen The central issue in environmental ethics concerns what things in nature have moral standing and how conflicts of interest among them are to be resolved. After an introduction to ethical theory, topics to be covered include anthropocentrism, the moral status of non-human sentient beings, preservation of endangered species and the wilderness, holism versus individualism, and the land ethic. (Formerly PHIL 315.) Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Florka, Dr. Goetz An introduction to the concepts and techniques used in symbolic reasoning, primarily through the study of first-order logic, the translation of sentences of ordinary English into a formal language, and the construction of derivations. Topics include: formalization, proofs, mathematical induction, propositional and predicate logic, quantifiers, and sets. (Formerly PHIL-202.) Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (M.) Note: Students who have received credit for MATH-236W or the former PHIL-202 may not enroll in PHIL-260.
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Marks, Dr. Stern This course examines the nature of justice through a careful reading of major works in the history of political philosophy. Specifically, we will consider selected political writings of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Marx. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (SS.) NOTE: Every year, one section of this class will be offered as POL-237W. Students in this section will be required to do extensive writing and revision of papers. Enrollment is limited to freshman or sophomore Politics majors, or by permission of instructor. Majors are encouraged to enroll in POL-237W if they intend to take the senior seminar in Political Philosophy, POL-437W.
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Stern This course examines the classical understanding of politics through a careful reading of selected works of Plato and Aristotle. We will consider such issues as the nature of justice, the meaning of moral and intellectual virtue, and the relation between philosophy and politics. Prerequisite: POL-237. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (SS.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Stern This course examines and evaluates the world-revolutionary challenge to classical and medieval political philosophy posed by such writers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau and Hegel. Prerequisite: POL-237. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (SS.)
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3.00 Credits
Dr. Stern This course examines selected authors and issues in contemporary political philosophy. We will read the works of such authors as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kojeve, Rawls and Foucault. We will consider such issues as historicism, contemporary liberalism, feminism, and Marxism. Prerequisite: POL-237. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (SS.)
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