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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3600. Philosophy of Religion. 3 hours. Examines the concepts, belief systems, and practices of religions. Topics include religious experience, faith and reason, arguments for God's existence, the problem of evil, religious language, life after death, miracles, religion and science, and the conflicting claims of different religions.
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3650. Religion and Science. 3 hours. An examination of the complex historical and contemporary relationship between sciences and religions. Historical elements focus on the rise of modern science and the Galileo Affair. Theories of the relationship between the disciplines will also be studied. Contemporary issus may include cosmology, religion and ecology, intelligent design and evolution, stem cell research, and artificial intelligence.
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3700. Science, Technology, and Society. 3 hours. An examination of the interconnections among science, technology, and society and the ways they mutually shape one another to the benefit and detriment of social life and the environment. Topics include the social values of science and technology; technology and social progress; expertise and democracy; colonialism; and environmental justice.
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3800. Philosophy of Mind. 3 hours. Examination of the nature of perception and consciousness, the nature of mental events and mental states, and the relationship of the mind to the brain and body. Topics include free will versus determinism, scientific reductivism, holism, the unconscious, behaviorism, artificial intelligence, free will, and the self.
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3900. Philosophy of Food. 3 hours. An examination of the philosophical dimensions of food, agriculture, animals, eating, and taste to explore the nature and meaning of food, how we experience it, the social role it plays, its moral and political dimensions, and how we judge it to be delicious or awful.
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4400. Metaphysics. 3 hours. Examination of the ultimate nature of reality and the terms used to understand it such as experience, substance, causality, space, time, and identity. Themes include idealism, realism, naturalism, and process metaphysics. Figures might include Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Leibnitz, Kant, Hagel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Whitehead, and Derrida.
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4450. Philosophy of Ecology. 3 hours. Traces the development of ecology from its roots in 19th century natural history through general ecology, restoration, ecology, deep ecology, and social ecology. The course exaines the central philosophical concepts of biological and cultural diversity; the relations between societies and their environments; environmental and social problems determined by losses in biocultural diversity; agriculture, land ethics, and conservation; non-Western conceptions of nature and society.
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4500. Existentialism. 3 hours. Examination of humanity's place in the natural and social worlds. Emphasis on problems on freedom, authenticity, alienation, anxiety, affirmation, morality, religion, and atheism. Figures typically include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre.
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4550. Philosophy of Science and Technology. 3 hours. Examines the relationship between science and technology; the role of experiment and instrumentation in scientific practice; the social construction of scientific knowledge and technical artifacts; the nature of technology in human perception and experience; the role of technology in the broader social impacts of science and technology; the relationship of biotechnology, information technology, imaging technology, and nanotechnology to society.
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4600. Phenomenology. 3 hours. The study of human experience and the ways things present themselves to us in and through such experience. Examines phenomenology as a method of inquiry, a philosophical movement, and a study of the structures and conditions of experience. Figures typically include Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur.
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