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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
One unit. Examines the major Medieval and Renaissance philosophers, their issues, worldviews, and current philosophic interest. Issues may include: free will, the nature of the soul, God, and immortality; skepticism, belief, knowledge, and universals; intuition, rationality, and faith; and morality, justice, grace, and love. Offered as required.
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One unit. This course examines the major fi gures and movements in philosophy in Europe from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Philosophers studied include: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. Offered as required.
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One unit. This course examines the development of German philosophical thought from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century around the themes of idealism and materialism. Authors may include: Hegel, Fichte, Marx, and Nietzsche. Offered as required.
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One unit. This course examines the important texts and central ideas of the major existentialist thinkers, Heidegger and Sartre, as well as those of important precursors such as Kierkegaard and Nietzche. Topics include the analysis of human reality ("the self ", intentionality, consciousness, etc.), the relation of the individual to society, thebasis of moral belief and decision, freedom, authenticity, self-deception, anxiety, and the signifi cance of death. Offered as required.
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One unit. This course examines the characteristic methods, positions and themes (e.g., free will, mind, the relation of mind and body, God, knowledge, belief, truth, morality) of the pragmatists and their philosophical, sociological, and cultural impact. Among the thinkers included are Peirce, James, Dewey, C. I. Lewis, E. Nagel, Russell, and Wittgenstein. Offered as required.
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One unit. This course examines some of the characteristic trends (phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism) and themes of late twentieth century continental philosophy. Authors may include: Bergson, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Heidegger (later work), Lévinas, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre. Offered as required.
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One unit. This is a course for discussion of one or more areas of current interest in philosophy not emphasized in regular courses offered by the department. Content varies with the interests of students and department faculty. Offered periodically.
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1.00 Credits
One unit. A philosophical analysis of the nature of human action and of the philosophical problems which arise concerning the ascription of moral responsibility and the description of human agency. Offered as required.
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One unit. Psychoanalysis remains one of a very few perspectives on human reality which continues to exert a major theoretical and practical infl uence around the world. The course examines a variety of topics and controversies introduced by Freud, his followers, and his critics such as: the doctrine of unconscious mind; the object of desire (sexuality, aggression, love); the meaning of relationship; the extent of freedom; dreams and fantasy; narcissism; and madness, as well as issues pertaining to the nature of science and the foundations of psychology. Cross-listed w/PS 382. Offered as required.
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One unit. This course is an advanced research and writing course that examines a major philosopher or issue from one of the three groups in philosophy (the groups as set forth in the major): ethics, values, and society; history of philosophy; metaphysics, epistemology, mind, and logic. As the culminating experience in the tutorial, students will engage either in self-directed library research that will result in a senior thesis or in fi eldwork in a community that will result in a written senior project. Offered fall semester.
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