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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for students with an interest in Islam and the Muslim world. It will survey the basic belief system, key historical developments and contemporary manifestations of Islam, addressing specific topics such as Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism, politics and diverse socio-cultural manifestations in the contemporary Muslim world.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of Jewish philosophy, religioning, and culture. Students will be introduced to basic ideas in Jewish philosophy, beginning with the Torah and continuing to modern Jewish thought. Students will learn about the differences between Orthodox, Conservative and Reform practices of Judaism, as well as the cultural differences between the Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Beta Israel Jewish tradition.
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3.00 Credits
Am I a material brain, an immaterial consciousness, or both? This course begins with modern criticisms of Descartes classic dualism and examines contemporary efforts to understand how purely physical objects such as human brains (and perhaps computers) may nevertheless be said to have mental traits, e.g., thoughts and beliefs. Explored are behaviorist, functionalist, and information-representation approaches. Despite the progress made by these, we will articulate what aspects of consciousness still elude our efforts to understand the mind in naturalistic, scientific terms.
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3.00 Credits
This course begins with a discussion of the three main theories of justice in time of war - realism, pacifism, and just war theory - and then examines historical and contemporary views concerning justice in entering a war, waging a war, and dealing with a war's aftermath.
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3.00 Credits
These courses are designed to meet specific needs of groups of students or are offered on a trial basis in order to determine the demand for and value of introducing them as a part of the university curriculum.
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3.00 Credits
Comparative philosophers approach an issue by looking at how it is treated in diverse philosophical traditions such as those found in Africa, China, India, or the Middle East. This course will begin with discussion of the methodological problems involved in doing comparative philosophy, and then proceed to the examination of a general issue treated in Western and non-Western philosophies.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study the three major 19th century continental philosophers who rebelled against the exaltation of reason. Their thinking led to existentialism and to radical reappraisals of ethics, religion, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course on quantificational predicate logic. This twentieth century advancement unifies the methods presented in Logic I into a single system of greater power. The course focuses on techniques of symbolization and derivation and includes proving some meta-theoretical facts about logical systems in general.
Prerequisite:
PHIL221
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3.00 Credits
This course is an in-depth study of contemporary theories of ethics - emotivism, prescriptivism, existentialism, pragmatism, etc. - as expressed by philosophers such as Ayer, Stevenson, Hare, DeBeauvoir, and Dewey.
Prerequisite:
PHIL110 AND PHIL231
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3.00 Credits
This course will concentrate, from various philosophical perspectives, on current social issues such as society and the relation of the individual to it, social justice, social equality and affirmative action, health care, moral standards and the law, children and society, drugs, and problems in engineering a good society.
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