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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A course designed to acquaint students with the kinds of questions dealt with in various areas of philosophy and with the methods of philosophical reasoning. Topics include several of the following: free will and determinism, arguments for the existence of God, the justification of moral judgments, social justice, the relationship between the mental and the physical, and the grounds of human knowledge.
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A study of the basic principles of deductive and inductive logic. Common fallacies are analyzed and illustrated with examples from classical and modern sources. This is not a course in formal, mathematical logic.
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Discussion of a variety of problems central to the pursuit of individual happiness and social justice. Topics include the relation between pleasure and happiness, abortion, sexual equality, and fairness in the distribution of economic goods.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of philosophical problems arising in the description, interpretation, and evaluation of works of art. Topics include the nature of the art object and of aesthetic experience, the possibility of objective criticism in the arts, and the relation of aesthetic to moral values. Readings from classical and contemporary sources, with emphasis on case materials. Prerequisite: HUM 110 or 111.
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A critical examination of traditional and recent theories concerning such issues in the philosophy of religion as the existence of God, the nature of ultimate reality, the nature and destiny of human beings, and the validity of claims to religious knowledge. (Also listed as REL 140.)
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A survey of ancient Western philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the beginning of the Christian era. This course concentrates on the origin and development of basic concepts and problems which have become permanent ingredients of our philosophical tradition. Some of these are reality and appearance, permanence and change, form and matter, causality, knowledge and belief, and the good.
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A survey and critical examination of philosophers from Descartes to Kant. Of special importance in this period is the impact of the scientific revolution on accounts of the origin and limits of human knowledge, the mind-body relation, and the role of God in the universe.
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An examination of a variety of issues in the philosophy of science, such as the nature of scientific facts, the relation of theories to reality, the criteria for the evaluation of theories, the role of the imagination in theory formation, the logic of verification, and the importance of the scientific community. Some attention is also given to the history of science. Prerequisite: PHI 210 or 220 or 310, or a sophomore-level science course.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to modern formal deductive logic. A system of first-order logic is presented and proved to be complete. Nonclassical logics and other subjects are studied as the interests of the instructor and students warrant.
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This course explores a brand of moral philosophy known as virtue ethics. Virtue ethics has its roots in ancient philosophy, most notably in the works of Aristotle, but it is also at the center of some of the liveliest contemporary debates regarding ethical theory. In this course, we investigate both the ancient and the contemporary accounts of virtue ethics and compare these accounts to the other two main kinds of moral philosophy, deontology and utilitarianism.
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