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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the major topics and trends in classical and contemporary American philosophy. Representative selections from the writings of America's greatest philosophers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Peirce, James, Dewey, Royce, Santayana, Whitehead, Mead and Quine are read. The emphasis is on the pragmatic movement in America including its major critics and its resurgence in recent years both at home and abroad. Some attention is given to the relationship between American philosophy and American culture and the similarities and differences between the American and other modern and contemporary philosophical traditions.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the major topics in the history and philosophy of science. Topics include: the logic and ethics of scientific method and discovery; scientific revolutions and their creators (e.g., Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein); the relationship between theory and observation, theoretical laws and definitions; the status of thought experiments and theoretical entities; the role of paradigms and models of science; experimental design and theory testing; the relationship between the natural and social sciences, science, ethics, and politics; the relationship between science and the arts. Representative works by traditional and contemporary philosophers of science are read. Prerequisite of 6 units of PHI (Philosophy) or permission of chair are required.
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3.00 Credits
What is involved in knowing, believing, perceiving, meaning and truth, according to the great philosophers? Their theories are investigated along with contemporary perspectives on these issues. Such topics provide the core for a study of not only philosophy, but also psychology and theories of learning. Claims made for nonscientific ways of knowing specifically in connection with the arts, religion and morality are also considered. Prerequisite of 6 units of PHI (Philosophy) or permission of chair are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the most fundamental questions of philosophy. Why is there something rather than nothing? Is there a God? What is the self? What is the relationship of human life to the surrounding universe? Are human actions free or determined? Prerequisite of 6 units of PHI or RPHL are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the major topics in traditional and contemporary moral philosophy. Topics include: the logic of moral reasoning, the idea of the good life, vices and virtues, the objectivity of moral judgments, the nature of moral obligation, rights, and duties, the legal enforcement of morality, the relations between science, religion and ethics, the role of morals in society and history. Representative selections from the major works in traditional and contemporary moral philosophy are read. Prerequisite of 6 units of PHI (Philosophy) or permission of chair are required.
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3.00 Credits
A detailed development of both the sentential and predicate logic provides the basis for an examination of the philosophical issues raised by symbolic logic such as meaning and reference, logic and ontology, modal logic and theory of types. Prerequisite of PHI 14 or permission of chair is required.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophy asks fundamental questions about the meaning and purpose of life, truth, morality, social justice, the existence of God, the nature of beauty, etc. This course introduces students to such questions through an encounter with the ideas of some of the greatest philosophers in history.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an in-depth study of the major works of one or more of the great Western philosophers. May be taken for credit more than once if topics are different. Prerequisite of 6 units of PHI or RPHL are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an in-depth study of the major works of one or more of the great Western philosophers. May be taken for credit more than once if topics are different. Prerequisite of 6 units of PHI or RPHL are required.
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3.00 Credits
Same as PHI 8. For students in the Program for Academic Success. Four hours lecture/recitation. Must be in Program for Academic Success.
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