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3.00 Credits
The development of formal systems of propositional and predicate logic for the evaluation of reasoning. Truth table techniques to distinguish valid from fallacious inferences, symbolizing English in logical notation, proofs in propositional logic, predicate logic with quantifiers.
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0.00 - 99.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
The course explores ethical, legal, aesthetic and epistemological issues underlying athletic competition. How high a value is victory? Are the current bans on performance-enhancing drugs justified? What is sex equality in sports? Has Title IX properly promoted equality for women? How are sports distinguished from play and games? What role, if any, should beauty play in sports? Is admiration for sports heroes politically regressive? Can sports be a means of moral education?
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3.00 Credits
Ethics is the study of morality. It is central to issues relating to what a person should believe and how they should act. The investigation of morality occurs via an analysis of metaethics (the fundamental status of moral judgments), normative ethics (the nature of a right action and the nature of a virtuous person), and applied ethics (the application of normative ethics to particular moral issues). The areas are explored through the discussion of such issues as: Is morality relative to culture? Is morality independent of religion? Do the ends of one's action justify the means? What does it mean to be a virtuous person?
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to classical Greek philosophy in the context of the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions of ancient Greece. Part of the course is devoted to a careful examination of the social context of ancient Greece and to the sources and manifestations of Greek values: mythological, religious, literary, educational, and aesthetic.
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3.00 Credits
This course chronicles philosophy in action -- in historical and political contexts. We examine the crucial role Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, and Epicureanism played during major social upheaval as Caesar, Pompey, Cicero, Cato, Brutus, and Cassius struggle with the often conflicting demands of seeking personal salvation, honoring philosophical conviction, and fulfilling patriotic duty in the final days of the Roman Republic. Later, during the building of the Roman empire, Seneca, Musonius Rufus, and Marcus Aurelius confronted the same conflicts but in different political settings.
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3.00 Credits
Islamic, Judaic, and Latin-Christian thought of the Middle Ages, particularly the 11th to 13th centuries. The course examines the significance of the Greco-Roman tradition to medieval hopes and fears and addresses problems prevalent in all three cultures: the relationship between faith and reason; the nature of the Supreme Being; the connection between theology and art, politics, and metaphysics; and the origin and cause of the world.
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3.00 Credits
The nature of reality, knowledge, and experience as portrayed by thinkers such as the Rationalists (Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza), the Empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, and Hume), Kant, and Reid. The legacy of these thinkers as reflected in standard notions of causality, truth, proof, and argument will be explored in relation to contemporary thinkers.
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3.00 Credits
The political philosophy, epistemology, scientific method, and criteria of truth, argument, and reason which distinctively characterize the Founding Fathers, the Transcendentalists, the Pragmatists, and contemporary inheritors of the Pragmatist tradition. Includes consideration of the question: What is distinctively American about American philosophy?
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3.00 Credits
Careful examination of classical and contemporary issues such as the nature of religious experience, the relationship of faith and reason, arguments for and against the existence of God, the significance of the problem of evil, knowing God without arguments, religious language, life after death, miracles, religious ethics, and the differences between Eastern and Western theisms.
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