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3.00 Credits
A study of the thermal, electrical, magnetic and optical properties of solids. Prerequisite: PH 211. Offered alternate years. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
May be repeated. Variable credit.
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3.00 Credits
The subject and content will be specified when offered.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced course in the mathematical analysis of physical systems. Methods using linear algebra, complex variables, Fourier analysis, Laplace transforms and other special functions will be studied. Software such as Mathematica will be used. Prerequisites: PH 111, PH 112, PH 213, MA 114. Offered alternate years. Three credits.
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1.00 Credits
Investigation and experimentation or an approved internship leading to the completion of the required senior thesis. One credit.
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3.00 Credits
Plato and Aristotle have exercised such unequaled influence on the course of Western ideas that the whole subsequent history of philosophy could be considered an extended footnote to their writings. This course, using the thought of Plato and Aristotle as a nucleus, explores the great metaphysical themes of the “One and the Many” as they unfold in both knowledge and the real. It treats of the problems of participation and analogy. The contributions of Plotinus, Augustine, and Aquinas, to the development of these themes are explored. Some considerations, though necessarily less, are given to what these thinkers maintained to be the purpose of human life and the means of achieving it. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to introduce philosophy to students unfamiliar with the field. Its intent is to provide a coherent sense of the important issues and approaches embraced by philosophy and to do so by setting these in a vital, historical context. Important ideas from the ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary periods will be explored both in their abstract setting as well as in terms of the ways in which they have affected the development of our cultural, scientific and spiritual lives. Three credits.
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This introductory course seeks to formalize the everyday use of logic to distinguish correct and incorrect forms of reasoning. After setting general terms for argument analysis, the distinguishing features of deductive and inductive arguments are noted. Language as the vehicle of logic is considered, including the purposes and types of definition and recognition of common informal fallacies. The balance of the course is devoted to deduction, with special consideration given to Venn diagrams as a mechanical test of the validity of categorical syllogisms. Three credits.
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This is the period of intellectual history, stretching roughly from the late Renaissance to the latter half of the nineteenth century, that witnessed the birth and development of modern science. The outstanding feature of this history is its persistent preoccupation with the epistemological problems of certitude, verifiability, methods and limits of reliable knowledge. Using these themes as the organizing principles of the course, the views of such thinkers as the following will be considered: F. Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. Three credits.
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This course examines the philosophical thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. It takes as its starting point the rebellion against the Kantian world view, and focuses on the increasingly important roles played by history and human individuality in philosophical reflection. In pursuing this theme the approaches of positivism, existential phenomenology, and the Anglo-American analytic movement will be examined. The course considers, among others, such thinkers as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Russell, and Heidegger. Three credits.
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