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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to a study of a wide variety of alternative theories of the nature of time. The focus is on the effect of a concept of time on the nature of the truth and also on increasing the students' skill at evaluating beliefs relative to different concepts of time. ( Fall)
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This course will focus on the development of Pragmatism in America, a new philosophy for a new land. Beginning with the Puritan heritage and the Transcendental movement, readings from Jonathan Edwards, R. W. Emerson, C.S. Pierce, Wm. James, O.W. Holmes, Josiah Royce, John Dewey, George Santayana and A.N. Whitehead will be examined. In addition, essays by contemporary American philosophers will be read. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
Antagonistic philosophic systems developed throughout the 19th- century in response to economic and historical revolutions: Post Kantian idealism, romanticism, pessimism, political and social philosophy, positivism and existentialism. Readings from Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Spencer, Marx, Mill.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine critical theories concerning philosophic anthropology, psychology, linguistics and ontology, as well as the controversies between the modernism of the first half of the century and postmodern movements of structuralism and deconstruction. Selections from Bergson, Saussere, Husserl, Levi-Strauss, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Lacan and Rorty will be analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
The most important philosophical problems for medievals concerned matters of faith, and the relation between faith and human reason. Can we rationally prove that God exists? Just what does it mean for God to be transcendent? Can the human mind know God? What is the relation between man and God? Are human beings free? This course is an introduction to these problems, and to the great medieval systems of thought that were constructed in order to answer them.
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3.00 Credits
Plato is the greatest literary talent in the history of philosophy. Both through perception and misperception of his writings, Plato's influence on subsequent philosophy remains unsurpassed. The primary aim of this course is to introduce students to Plato's dialogues and to provide a foundation for a lifetime of independent study of Plato. There is perhaps no better way to begin one's personal study of philosophy than with Plato's writings.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the post-Kantian development of German idealism in Fichte and Schelling and makes a detailed analysis and critique of Hegel's Absolute Idealism as expressed and dramatized in Phenomenology of Mind and selections from other works. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
Why do we get bored? What is it about human beings that makes boredom possible? Is boredom avoidable? Or is it just something that we have to live with? That we are condemned to? Is boredom boring? These are some of the questions with which philosophers and human beings generally have been concerned for over two thousand years. They are the crucial questions that this course will raise. It will also address some of the answers philosophers have given to these questions. It will include readings from thinkers as diverse as Augustine and Sartre, Russell and Epicurus, Aquinas and Heidegger.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an extensive analysis and criticism of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Emphasis will be on arguments in the aesthetic and transcendental analytic, with selections from the transcendental dialectic. Students will outline text prior to class discussion and prepare a class presentation of a scholarly interpretation of Kant's doctrine. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This class will analyze Freud's and Marx's claims to offer a scientific and philosophical interpretation of human culture and behavior. Contemporary critiques and modifications of psychoanalysis and Marxism will be examined. ( Spring)
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