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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of philosophical and foundational issues and basic concepts of cognitive science, including information processing, computation, representation, and the mind-body problem. Cognitive science is the scientific study of cognition, integrating contributions from the study of minds, brains, and computers. The idea that binds these different studies together is that the mind is a computational device run by the brain. The course will examine and evaluate this research program.
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A study of love and friendship in western philosophy and literature. The course will examine some basic questions about the nature of love and friendship that have been raised in the history of Western thought. Prerequisite: PHI 105 or 345.
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A study of the fundamental problems of philosophy. Readings in Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, and contemporary Philosophy. This personal development of a unified con- is designed as an introduction to philosophy for students in the Innovative Degree Programs (Plus Two, Mid-Degree, Degree Completion). Other students must have permission of the instructor.
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A study of the history of philosophy from Thales to Plotinus. Readings include selected works of the Pre-Socratics, Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans, and Neo-Platonic philosophers.
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A study of the history of philosophy from Boethius to William of Oakham. Readings include selected works of Boethius, Augustine, Abelard, Maimonides, Avicenna, Averroes, Aquinas, Bonaventure, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the history of Western philosophy from the renaissance to the 19th century. Readings from thinkers such as Descartes, Pascal, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, and Nietzsche. Pre-requisite: Phi 105
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Study of selected developments and controversies in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century philosophy. Topics could include German idealism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of language, analytic philosophy, philosophy of the subject, American pragmatism, postmodernism, post-structuralism, critical theory, feminist philosophy. Course may be repeated for credit. Pre-requisite: PHI 105
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An inquiry into the place of reason, faith, and experience in religion. Readings include classics in eastern and western thought.
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