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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course looks at answering the question "What is time?" This is done by looking at ancient and modern arguments surrounding the structure, experience and models of time.
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3.00 Credits
Survey and analysis of influential accounts of love and friendship, including treatments of erotic/romantic love, friendship, and charity, within a framework provided by C.S. Lewis classic study The Four Loves. Special attention will be given to the relation between views of love and the nature of happiness, proper treatment of others, human desire and psychology, character, self-love, and religious devotion.
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3.00 Credits
The course is divided into three parts: 1) the Metaphysics of Nature which studies the principles of created being and the necessity of divine being as its source 2) the Metaphysics of Being which studies being in its most generic characteristics, and 3) the Metaphysics of God which studies the nature of divine being as far as it can be understood by human beings. Among the topics to be considered are: act and potency, causality and chance, the cosmological argument, substance and accident, necessity and contingency, ontological participation, transcendentals, the analogy of being, divine simplicity, and the incarnation.
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3.00 Credits
Problems, positions, and synthesis of the modes of human knowing.
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3.00 Credits
The study of modern symbolic logic (propositional and predicate). Metalogical issues (the syntax and semantics of formal systems) are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of recent developments in the philosophy of science and its treatment of the nature and methods of the physical, biological, and social sciences.
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3.00 Credits
Readings by scientists, theologians and philosophers on issues raised by the theory of evolution. Among the questions to be discussed are: How exactly are evolution and creation related? Are they rival explanations of the same thing? What evidence is there for evolution? How does evolution work? What implications does it have for our understanding of human nature and the place of human beings in nature?
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical inquiry into the historical relationship between Christian religious doctrine and the knowledge imparted by the sciences, with focus on particular episodes such as the Galileo affair and the Darwinian revolution.
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3.00 Credits
This course in comparative philosophy studies the relationship between wisdom and contemplative practice in three major philosophical/religious traditions: Greek/Hellenic, Judeo/Christian, and Yogic/Samkhya. Students will acquire both a general understanding of the concept of wisdom in each tradition and a specific understanding of how each of these traditions connects wisdom to practice.
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3.00 Credits
Treatment of the nature and functional capacities of the mind and the philosophical problems raised by analysis of the mind, including mind and body, materialistic reductionism, other minds, freedom, and personality.
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