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4.00 Credits
A study of the central concepts of existential philosophy as found in the writings of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, and Marcel. Concepts such as freedom, facticity, dread, nothingness, the absurd, being-for-itself, being-in-itself will be examined. Prerequisite: PH204 or RE241 or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. J. Smith
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3.00 Credits
Analysis and discussion of various topics and approaches to the philosophy of law or jurisprudence. Readings may be chosen from classic philosophers as well as from modern legal positivists and realists. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. The Department
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4.00 Credits
A course in depth in the philosophy of a single great philosopher: A. Plato N. Sartre B. Aristotle O. William James C. Aquinas P. Wittgenstein D. Descartes Q. Merleau-Ponty E. Locke R. Nietzsche F. Hume S. Spinoza H. Hegel T. Leibniz I. Marx U. Shankara J. Kierkegaard V. Nargarjuna K. Whitehead W. Nishitani L. Heidegger X. Levinas M. Dewey Y. Husserl Course may be repeated with a different philosopher. Prerequisite: PH203 or permission of instructor. The Department
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4.00 Credits
A study of the most fundamental concepts of being as developed in several major philosophers from the Greeks to the present. Discussion will focus on such topics as God, time, space, substance, essence, existence, process, causality, and value. Prerequisite: PH204 or permission of instructor. R. Lilly, F. Gonzalez
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4.00 Credits
A study of Immanuael Kant, the pivotal thinker of modern Western philosophy. Kant offers a critique and synthesis of the preceding rationalist (Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza) and empiricist (Locke, Berkeley, Hume)traditions and sets the agenda for nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophers, all of whom respond to his critique of theoretical and practical reason in one way or another. Prerequisite: PH204 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
The study of a selected topic in philosophy. Course may be repeated with a different topic. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor. The Department
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4.00 Credits
This seminar examines philosophies of literature and literary criticism. Various schools of thought, including phenomenology, hermeneutics, structuralism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, may be examined particularly closely, as well as some of the founding philosophical texts in literary theory. There may also be a study of selected literary texts. (The Philosophy and Religion Department will accept EN361 as the equivalent of PH341.) Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor. R. Lilly
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3.00 Credits
A reading course in an area or a philosopher not available in this depth in other courses. Prerequisite: permission of department. The Department
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4.00 Credits
A close study of comparative overviews of the severally different modes, methods, and systems of philosophy possible. Offered each spring. The Department
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3.00 Credits
Individual conferences with senior majors in the areas of their research projects. The Department
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