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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHL 120 and two 200-level or higher philosophy courses or permission of instructor A seminar promoting deeper understanding of core issues in contemporary metaphysics in the analytic tradition. Topics covered may include: necessity, analyticity, existence, identity, possible worlds, realism/anti-realism, and causation.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHL 120 and two 200-level or higher philosophy courses or permission of instructor A seminar promoting deeper understanding of core issues in contemporary theories of meaning and truth in the analytic tradition. Issues and problems are considered both historically and conceptually, through the work of (among others) Frege, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Quine, Putnam and Kripke, and may include: theories of meaning, theories of truth, theories of judgment, the nature of a proposition, the logic of descriptions, the logic of identity, necessity and contingency and analyticity.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHL 120 and two 200-level or higher philosophy courses or permission of instructor A seminar promoting deeper understanding of core issues in contemporary theories of consciousness in the analytic tradition. Topics covered may include: dualist theories, typeidentity theories, token-identity theories, the logic of identity, the nature of causation and scientific explanation, models of explanation, causation, theories of mental representation, artificial intelligence and zombies.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Two 200-level or higher philosophy courses and PHL 350 or PHL 375 or permission of the instructor A seminar on contemporary issues in ethical theory, applied ethics or the philosophy of law. Topics treated will vary depending on the instructor, but will always involve concentrated study at the advanced level.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Two 200-level courses in philosophy or permission of instructor A seminar on a problem, text, philosopher, historical period or other philosophical topic not covered in depth in regular courses. Topics will vary depending on the instructor but will always involve concentrated study at the advanced level.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Independent research and completion of substantial paper under the guidance of a full-time faculty member on a mutually agreed-on topic. Students are expected to define their topic, conduct a review of the appropriate literature and complete a substantial paper. Students should initiate discussion regarding their proposed topic with an appropriate faculty member and begin their review of related materials during the term prior to the term for which they register for this course.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Independent research under the guidance of a full-time faculty member on a mutually agreed-on topic suitable for a Senior Thesis. Students are expected to define their topic, conduct a review of the appropriate literature, prepare a bibliography and outline and develop a writing plan. Students should initiate discussion regarding their proposed topic with an appropriate faculty member and begin their review of related materials during the term prior to the term for which they register for this course.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHL 495 and permission of instructor Writing of a substantial paper suitable for a senior thesis in close consultation with a full-time faculty member on a mutually agreed-on topic
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4.00 Credits
Examines the strengths and weaknesses, problems and promise of representative democracy in the United States. Surveys the relationships of citizens to Congress, the president and the courts through political parties, elections, interest groups, and the media. Considers the constitutional framework of government and the rights of the individual against governmental intrusion.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to some of the most important concepts, themes and approaches in the comparative study of politics. Comparative Politics is the study of the domestic or internal politics of particular countries. By comparing the processes, institutions and other political phenomena of one country in relation to others, those engaged in the study of comparative politics isolate the primary causes and consequences of these political phenomena and are thus able to create and test theories of politics around the world.
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