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3.00 Credits
A critical survey of various approaches to the mind-body or mind-brain problem, including dualism, epiphenomenalism, behaviorism, physicalism, and functionalism.
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An examination of the character of three different traditions of political philosophy in their contemporary manifestations. First, we analyze the Kantian tradition with an examination of the political thought of Rawls and Arendt. Next, we study the Hegelian tradition with a reading of the political theories of Michael Oakeshott and Charles Taylor. Finally, we evaluate the critique of modernity offered by defenders of the classical tradition like Alisdair MacIntyre and Leo Strauss. Prerequisite: GOV 301 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of leading figures and movements in the philosophy of this century, such as post-Kantian idealism, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, Utilitarianism, and Pragmatism. Prerequisite: PHI 220.
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An examination of phenomenology, the most influential movement in 20th-century Continental philosophy, and of the phenomenological method on which it is based in the writings of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others. Prerequisite: PHI 220 or permission of the instructor.
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Existentialism embraces a wide range of thinkers-from the desperately religious to the vehemently atheistic. This course reflects upon writers from both of these traditions, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre, and tries to examine the effects existentialism has had upon art and literature. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major philosophers and/or topics in the British and American analytic tradition of the 20th century. Prerequisite: PHI 220.
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A study of major philosophers and/or topics of continental Europe in the 20th century. Prerequisite: PHI 220.
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This course explores the phenomenon of the uncanny in philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and film. We start with Freud's essay The Uncanny, in which he attempts to distinguish the uncanny from the frightening. What is specific to the feeling of uncanniness that justifies the use of a special conceptual term Our investigation will consist in a further pursuit of Freud's question, focusing specifically on the philosophical issues raised in and by the text. We will discuss a variety of uncanny literary works, films, and philosophical texts, investigating the uncanny as an experience of something vastly different, a stepping outside of oneself, a confrontation with the void or the infinite, with the foreign, and a losing of one's bearings. Seen in this light, the uncanny can perhaps be the initial stage of a more promising relationship to what is other, strange, and different.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses a number of closely-related issues central to the philosophy of language and mind. Among other things, it asks: How do our thoughts and words succeed in picking out individual things such as Plato or Game Six of the 1977 World Series Do the contents of our thoughts and the meanings of our words depend on factors external to the mind What role does sense-perception play in enabling us to think and speak about the world Authors studied include Frege, Russell, Kripke, Putnam, Burge, Evans, and McDowell. Prerequisite: One PHI course numbered 200 or higher.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to college physics not requiring calculus. Topics discussed include mechanics, gravitation, planetary motion, electricity, the Bohr atom, and radioactivity. Laboratory work is required. Prerequisite: MAT 110 or basic skills in math. NOTE: Not open to students with credit for PHY 210 or higher.
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