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4.00 Credits
This is a Topics Course with no prerequisites, offered primarily for sophomores, juniors and seniors. It may not be appropriate for freshmen.
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Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or sophomore standing or permission of instructor This course presents leading theories of the nature of law and the relation between human law and moral law, including classical natural law theory, positivism, formalism, legal realism, the new naturalism and legal skepticism. A focus of the course is the problem of indeterminacy in the law: how should judges go about deciding cases when the law itself is indeterminate as to meaning and application?
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One 200 level course in philosophy or permission of instructor A seminar providing both conceptual and historical consideration of issues and problems characteristic of 20th -century analytic philosophy, with an emphasis on the evolution from its 19th century roots in psychology and neo-Hegelianism through the work of Frege, Russell Moore and Wittgenstein in the early part of the century. The course may include tracing the consequences of those early views through the work of, among others, Fodor, Quine, Putnam and Kripke. Topics include anti-psychologism in logic and psychology, sense and reference, logicism, theories of the nature of the proposition, theories of description, Wittgensteinian theories, causal theories of content, analyticity, and necessity.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: One 200-level course in philosophy and a science course, or permission of instructor A seminar examining the epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues raised by science. Issues addressed may include: scientific realism vs. anti-realism, scientific explanation, the historical development of science, induction, scientific observation, confirmation theory, and the ethical responsibility of scientists. Students will be encouraged to learn from great thinkers of the past and of the present, to reflect on their own values and beliefs concerning science and to take reasoned and informed stands on the issues treated.
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4.00 Credits
(same as HON 346) Prerequisites: One 200-level course in philosophy and one course in literature or literary theory, or permission of instructor A seminar studying literary works and the nature of literature from the vantage point of philosophy. Using a variety of literary, critical, and philosophical texts, this course examines similarities and differences between belletristic literary works and other forms of verbal expression.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One 200-level course in philosophy or permission of instructor A seminar examining major theories in ethics and metaethics such as: utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, relativism, intuitionism, emotivism, natural law, and theories of justice, rights and duties. Concentrated study of works of major historical and contemporary thinkers.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One 200-level course in philosophy or permission of instructor An advanced course examining a problem, text, philosopher, historical period, or other philosophical topic not covered in depth in regular courses. Topics will vary. May be repeated for credit with permission of the department.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Two courses in philosophy or permission of instructor A seminar on the moral foundations of the law and the relation between law and ethics. In that connection, we explore utilitarianism and objections to that theory grounded in considerations of equality and in privacy. Readings for the course will come from both traditional and contemporary sources in moral philosophy and from Supreme Court and other court opinions.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses in philosophy and permission of instructor Independent study of a particular philosophical topic, in close consultation with a member of the department.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses in philosophy or permission of instructor A seminar examining the central topics of epistemology including truth, belief, epistemic justification, knowledge, perception, skepticism and the responses thereto. Students will be encouraged to learn from great thinkers of the past and of the present, to reflect on their own epistemic values and beliefs, and to take reasoned and informed stands on the issues treated.
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