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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3100. Aesthetics. 3 hours. An examination of the theories of the beauty of nature and art in the history of philosophy as represented by or found in painting, sculpture, music, literature, film, and television to understand the nature of aesthetic experience, artistic expression, and the relation of art to nature, truth, ethics, culture, technology, and gender.
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3110. Epistemology. 3 hours. Examines the nature of knowledge and justification. Issues include the relationship between knowledge and opinion, skepticism and the possibility of knowledge, the nature of truth and meaning, the roles of perception, social construction, and gender and ethnicity in knowing and behaving.
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3120. Social and Political Philosophy. 3 hours. Examines how people should live together in communities and what legitimate governing institutions best promote the ideals of freedom, justice, rights, democracy, equality, and happiness. Topics include civil and human rights, social contract theory, economic justice, group identity, race and gender.
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3200. Philosophy in Literature. 3 hours. Examination of how philosophical themes arise in works of literary ficiton and the differences between a philosophical and literary approach. Topics include presonal identity, consciousness, Stoicism, skepticism, mysticism, free will, ethics and justice, life and death, and God.
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3250. Philosophy of Science. 3 hours. Examination of what science is and how it works. Topics include the nature of scientific explanation, the distinction between science and pseudo-science, scientific progress, the aims of science, and the role of social and economic values in scientific theories and practices.
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3260. Philosophy of Social Science. 3 hours. Examination of the methodologies and criteria of knowledge, truth, and values in the social sciences. Topics include an analysis of the nature of action, rationality, agency, social meaning, and interpretation.
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3300. Symbolic Logic. 3 hours. Symbolic analysis applied to logical problems propositional logic, and modal logic.
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3310. 3 hours. Ancient Philosophy. Advanced examination of selected philosophical thought from the pre-Socratics through Plotinus including Plato and Aristotle.
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3320. 3 hours. Medieval Philosophy. Advanced examination of selected philosophical thought from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance. Philosophers might include Boethius, Anselm, Avicenna, Averroes, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Grosseteste, and William of Ockham.
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3330. Modern Philosophy. 3 hours. Advanced examination of selected philosophical thought from the Renaissance to the 19th century including Continental rationalism, British Empiricism, and Kant.
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