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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the nature of the mind and its relation to the brain, body, and the surrounding world. Analyses of these topics will draw on information from fields such as psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, or computer science. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy, or permission of instructor.
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Examination of specific problem, author, text, or movement. Prerequisite: a previous course in philosophy, major standing in a field relevant to the subject matter, or permission of the instructor.
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Hands-on work in contemporary methods and issues in philosophy through immersion in a controversy in current philosophical journals, with emphasis on close analytical reading of philosophical texts and arguments, constructing clear and precise arguments, and philosophical writing. Prerequisite: a previous course in philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
A seminar centered on a major text or texts of significant 19th century philosophers such as Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx or Nietzsche. Prerequisite: two courses in philosophy or permission of instructor.
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A seminar that focuses on the emergence and influence of major philosophical texts and themes originating in the United States. It will cover such thinkers as James, Peirce, Royce, Dewey, and Santayana and such themes as naturalism, transcendentalism, and, in particular, pragmatism. Contemporary developments in the American philosophical tradition may also be included. Prerequisites: two courses in philosophy, or permission of instructor.
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A seminar concentrating on a single major text or a series of texts representing significant movements in continental European thought since 1900, such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, or deconstruction. Typical foci: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, or Derrida. Prerequisite: 243 and at least one other course in the department, or permission of instructor.
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A seminar critically examining selected key themes in twentieth century Anglo-American philosophy; e.g., the primacy of logic and science, naturalism vs. Anti-naturalism in ethics and epistemology, the distinctions between language and fact, and facts and values, the Cartesian model of the mind, in the texts of such authors as Wittgenstein, Russell, Carnap, Quine. Prerequisite: 243 and at least one other course in the department, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Conceptions of knowledge and its limits, and of the nature and possibility of truth. Prerequisite: two previous courses in philosophy or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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3.00 Credits
Conceptions of what is ultimately real, together with discussions of the nature and limitations of such conceptions. Prerequisite: two previous courses in philosophy or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the nature and logic of values and evaluations. Sources, scope, and rationality of values. Connections between values and facts. Prerequisite: two previous courses in philosophy or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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