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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to give the student a general knowledge of the fundamental laws of correct deductive and inductive reasoning. Emphasis is placed on practical exercise and the detection of formal and informal fallacies. Annually, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to thinking about the ethical life from the perspective of philosophy. Ethical principles, virtues, and rights are linked to concrete situations of everyday moral decisionmaking. Each semester.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Studies in topical or specialized areas of Philosophy not included in the regular curriculum. As needed.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores traditional and recent, philosophical and theological thinking in such areas as arguments for the existence of God, the nature of religious knowledge, the problem of evil, the question of human destiny, and the nature of religious language, etc. Same as REL 325. Alternate years, Spring '11.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a number of critical issues at the intersection of ethical theory, political thought and social life. Among the subjects of special concern are the concepts of political freedom, the grounds of coercion, the acceptability of the "harm principle," the notion of legal rights, the concept of humanrights and theories of social justice. Same as PSI 331. Alternate years, Fall '09.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores major questions in the area of ethical theory including ethical relativism and moral objectivism, what is intrinsically good, consequentialist and deontological thinking about right actions, virtue ethics, the relation of religion and ethics and other issues. Alternate years, Spring '10.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses upon some recent answers to the question 'What is a human being?' noting questionsabout such concepts as 'person,' 'body,' 'freedom,' 'determinism,' 'causation' and mattersthe relation of mind and body, as these issues are raised in the thinking of prominent natural and social scientists.' Alternate years, Fall '09.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an occasion for reflection on what it is one does when one 'does art.' It will focus on suchissues as the nature of art, the relations of the various 'arts,' the relevance of such notions as 'expression,'creativity,' 'truth,' 'form,' to the doing of art and problems in interpreting and criticizing art. Alteryears, Spring '10.
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3.00 Credits
This course centers upon representative members of that group of modern philosophical thinkers called 'existentialists,' and upon the themes which these thinkers have made central to their work. As needed.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores major philosophical problems raised by modern science including such issues as the distinction between science and non-science, the nature of scientific explanation, the confirmation and acceptance of hypotheses and the relevance of values to scientific inquiry. As needed.
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