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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. An investigation of some of the traditional problems in Western philosophy that have been labeled metaphysical, such as the existence of God, the relationship between mind and body, the determinism versus free will debate, and the nature of time and space. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 133 or PHIL 233.
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Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. A study of several theories of the nature of mind and an analysis of particular issues occasioned by them: the mind-body problem, personal identity, emotions, human action, self-knowledge, knowledge of other minds, and explanations of human behavior. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 134 or PHIL 234.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. Examines philosophical issues arising in the context of empirical psychology. Topics may include moral development, artificial intelligence and the modeling of cognition, the nature of perception and memory, fallacies in human reasoning, mechanisms of self-understanding, and mental illness and personhood. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 135 or PHIL 235.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics discussed include understanding scientific objectivity in the light of history and sociology of science; realism and antirealism about scientific theories; scientific methodology and its logic; and the nature of scientific explanation. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 137 or PHIL 237.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. An investigation of problems that arise in attempts to understand human agency: the nature and explanation of action, intention, free will and moral responsibility, and weakness of will. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 138 or PHIL 238.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, written work, homework problems, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 124 or one mathematics course or consent of instructor. Discusses topics such as the abstract nature of mathematical objects, the sources of mathematical knowledge, the relation between mathematics and logic, and the infinite in mathematics. Considers the development of some selected parts of mathematics (especially arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and set theory) and of various corresponding philosophical positions (platonism, formalism, intuitionism, structuralism). Course is repeatable as content changes. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 139 or PHIL 239.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. An in-depth discussion of selected issues in contemporary metaphysics, such as abstract objects, essentialism and identity, laws of nature, free will, and determinism. Course is repeatable as content changes.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 107 or PHIL 132 or consent of instructor. An in-depth study of a particular topic in the philosophy of language. Potential topics include context-sensitivity (how the meaning of a sentence depends upon nonlinguistic facts about context); theories of meaning (e.g., the Frege-Russell account in terms of propositions, the Lewis-Stalnaker possible worlds account, and Davidson's truth theory account). Courses is repeatable as content changes to a maximum of 8 units. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 142 or PHIL 242.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 107 or PHIL 134 or consent of instructor. Examines a selected topic in philosophy of mind. Potential topics include consciousness and self-consciousness; intentionality and theories of mental content; mental causation; consciousness and free will; introspection and knowledge of other minds; perception; emotion; imagination; concepts and rationality; artificial minds; and animal minds. Course is repeatable as content changes to a maximum of 8 units. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 144 or PHIL 244.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy or consent of instructor. An examination of philosophical issues raised by selected novelists, poets, and playwrights.
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