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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Only one freshman orientation course will count toward graduation. Graded pass/fail.
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3.00 Credits
Course provides an introduction to reasoning in everyday life. It focuses on recognizing and evaluating arguments in advertising, news, politics, and ordinary conversation. Students will learn how to recognize and avoid informal fallacies and other common errors in reasoning, including use of statistics and misuse of data or incomplete information.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to fundamental questions in philosophy about self-knowledge, moral decision-making, knowledge about the world and others, the limits of knowing, and the perennial search for meaning. Emphasis will be given to the evaluation of arguments, philosophical inquiry, and reflection on the nature of human existence.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to classic and contemporary problems of personal and social morality and to the systems and methods proposed by philosophers, past and present, in response to questions of good and evil.
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3.00 Credits
A systematic study of the fundamentals of logic, focusing on the concepts and methods of contemporary logics systems, which will include learning proofs of reasoning using mechanical decision procedures such as truth tables and truth trees.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the birth of Western philosophy in Ancient Greece from its pre-Socratic origins, through Classical and Roman thought and extenuations within Judaic, Christian, and Islamic traditions, and ending with neo-Platonic thought and the medieval period. Prerequisite: any PHI course.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines major figures and themes in the development of modern thought, focusing on the Rationalist and Empiricist traditions and the development of modern science, and ends with an examination of the emergence of Idealism and Romanticism in the 19th Century. Prerequisite: any PHI course.
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3.00 Credits
A study of issues in knowledge and justification, which will include such topics as the nature of knowledge, skepticism, perception, theories of justification, and the structure of belief. Prerequisites: any PHI course.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the fundamental nature of reality, causation, the external world, free will and determinism, God, the mind-body problem, temporality, identity, substance and theories of possible worlds. Prerequisites: any PHI course.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the philosophical traditions shaping American culture past and present that will include influences from the Puritan tradition, Slavery, and Native American narratives, and intellectual movements such as Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, and Neopragmatism. Prerequisite: any PHI course.
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