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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Spring Close readings of four or five major philosophers from the modern period (e.g., Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant). Issues and supplementary readings may vary each semester.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Every year Systematic analyses of ordinary arguments, followed by a study of formal languages that are used to represent arguments symbolically.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years Topics include philosophic conceptions of experience, nature, self, and truth in classical Buddhist schools of India, Tibet, China, and Japan.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every year What is gender What is power What tools do we have for understanding and addressing gender injustice This course employs philosophical, feminist, and queer theory to address these and related questions. Also offered as WOM 2500.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly) An examination of recent views of the relations among art, philosophy, politics, and cultural history. Questions include: What are the reasons for the contemporary preoccupation with the interrelations between the arts and cultural history as a whole Can we sustain the view that art history unfolds according to its own laws Is postmodernism a theory of autonomous development in art and culture
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3.00 Credits
See the Philosophy section (School of Humanities) for description.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years A study of the role of law in society, focusing on its relationship to community moralities, individual freedom, and political conflict.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years An examination of the nature of religious experience. Topics include: arguments for the existence of God, faith, and reason; the “problem of evil”; and therelationship between religion and ethics.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly) After tracing the historical developments of key concepts in science (space, time, mass, gravity, inertia, probability, and chance), students examine the status of these concepts in modern science. Contemporary views concerning the nature of scientific knowledge are then considered.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly) An introduction to leading figures and themes of 20th-century philosophical pragmatism. Topics include: pragmatic critiques of traditional (e.g., Cartesian and Kantian) epistemology; the practical sources of philosophy, science, and art; and the requirements of metaphysical naturalism.
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