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The course investigates philosophical questions regarding the nature of sex and love, including questions such as: What is sex? What is sexuality? What is love? What kinds of love are possible? What is the proper morality of sexual behavior? Does gender, race, or class influence how we approach these questions? The course will consider these questions from an historical perspective, including philosophical, theological, and psychological approaches, and then follow the history of ideas from ancient times into contemporary debates. A focus on the diversity theories and perspectives will be emphasized. Topics to be covered may include marriage, reproduction, casual sex, prostitution, pornography, and homosexuality. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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A study of the development of an important philosophical movement of the twentieth century, tracing its development from Bertrand Russell through the logical positivists, Ayer and Carnap, G.E. Moore, Gilbert Ryle, to ordinary language analysis, exemplified by Wittgenstein and Austin. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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Examines such existential themes as death, freedom, responsibility, subjectivity, anguish, time, and the self as they appear in both literary and philosophical works. Phenomenology as one philosophical method that can be applied to such themes is considered. Includes the works of Sartre, Kierkegaard, Camus, Kafka, Heidegger, and others. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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Several traditional and recent views of the problem of existence and associated problems are discussed. Included are the relation between appearance and reality, mind and matter, mind and body, the nature of substance, and personal identity. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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The philosophical problems associated with the relation of mind and body, mind and matter, willing and acting. Also, a consideration of some representative solutions ranging from monism, dualism, epiphenomenalism, psychophysical parallelism, and behaviorism. Recent research in psychology, neurophysiology, and robot and computer automata studies is considered. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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An examination of the philosophical issues surrounding the notions of necessary truth, empirical knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic statements and related topics. Views of traditional and contemporary philosophers are discussed. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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An introduction to American philosophy through reading and examining selected writings of such classical American philosophers as Pierce, James, Royce, Dewey, and Santayana. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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Deals both with the basic mathematical techniques used by contemporary philosophers and with the philosophy of mathematics generally. Students are introduced to basic mathematical tools such as sets, relations, functions, and graphs. Several traditional and recent philosophical views of mathematics are discussed (e.g. intuitionism, formalism, logicism, structuralism). The existence of mathematical objects and our knowledge of those objects are discussed. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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An overview of some of the issues and work done in feminist philosophy. Students read philosophy specifically by, for, and about women, and consider how this theory informs ethics, politics, and metaphysics, as well as our views of the world and the classroom. Prerequisite: PHIL 110 Philosophy 225
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A modern thinker said that all of philosophy has been a series of footnotes to Plato. This ancient Greek thinker developed in his Dialogues a method of analysis and expression that is still fresh and vital. The course examines such questions as the nature of human excellence, how to succeed in life, how to tell a lie (and how to recognize one), what is the best form of government, and whom you should love. Typical readings include the Republic, Symposium, Meno, Protagoras, and Phaedrus. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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