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Prerequisites: PHI 1000C and three credits in the physical/biological sciences. A study of the relation between science and religion through an examination of the criteria for determining the optimal interrelation, their historical interactions and current debates concerning their interconnection. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 1000C. A general introduction to both the past hstory as well as current concerns of feminist theory. The readings for the course will cover classic feminist texts (Wollstonecraft, Mill, Engels) as well as contemporary Feminist thinkers, covering questions about the experiences of women in the treatment of methodology, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 1000C. An introductory course which attempts to articulate ultimate principles of knowing and being. Central questions to be considered are: Is there evidence of God’s existence and correspondingly, is there a solution to the problem of evil? Does human cognition permit of ultimate foundations? Is nature teleological and if so can it serve as an objective standard of value? The course also considers traditional metaphysical aspirations in the context of contemporary challenges from the physical and social sciences. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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A study of the elementary and advanced forms of deductive argumentation in both traditional logic and the modern logic of propositions. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Application of principles of logic to law, politics, arts, science, advertising, ethics and media. Special emphasis on developing skill of detecting informal fallacy. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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A survey of ancient Greek philosophy from its origin up to the 4th century A.D. Emphasis is on pre-Socratic period, Plato, Aristotle, Scepticism, Epicureanism, Stoicism and neo-Platonism. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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A survey of the development of medieval philosophy with special emphasis on the principal philosophers: St. Augustine, St. Anselm, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 3000C or permission of instructor. An examination of the central epistemological and metaphysical issues of modern philosophy. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 3000C or permission of instructor. The development of modern contemporary philosophical thought from Hegel to the present. The fundamental views of such 20th century thinkers as Heidegger, Sartre, Husserl, Russell, Moore, Ayer, Popper, Gilson, Maritain, Wittgenstein and Rorty are introduced. Various philosophic methods and models are analyzed. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 3000C. The classic expressions of the American Pragmatic movement in the writings of C.S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey are presented with reference to cultural context and subsequent developments. (e.g. Founding Fathers, Emerson, Thoreau, Henry James, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Rorty). Credit: 3 semester hours.
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