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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. Examines fundamental issues and methods in political philosophy in their historical and cultural contexts. While the course will emphasize western moral and political philosophy, nonwestern perspectives will also be included. Issues in moral philosophy include justifications of social and political hierarchies, justice, reason, individual freedom vs. collective identity, rights, notions of value: moral, economic, aesthetic, virtue; relativism vs. moral absolutism, utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, equality vs. merit, justice, and political categories - conservative, liberal, libertarianism, socialism, communitarianism, normalization, eco-feminism.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. An introduction to the major philosophers in the Western tradition from the pre- Socratics through Plato and Aristotle. Focus will be on these philosophers' ideas about the nature of knowledge, what it means to be a human being, and the roots of the idea of philosophy as it is understood in the Western tradition. (CAN PHIL 8)
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. An introduction to the major philosophers of the Western tradition from the Renaissance through the early modern period, with a focus on thinkers such as Descartes, Hume, and Kant. An engagement with these thinkers' ideas about the nature of science, the relationship between reason and religion, and the relationship between mind and body.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. An introduction to the major philosophers of the Western tradition from 1900 to the present with an emphasis major philosophers such as Hegel, Russell, Nietzsche, Sartre, DeBeauvoir, and Wittgenstein. An examination of questions about the relationship between language and thought, the nature of human existence, and the limits of Philosophy.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 211 and Reading 211 (or Language Arts 211), or English as a Second Language 272 and 273. Four hours lecture. An introduction to Philosophy of Religion investigating the dimensions of religious experience and life under the scope of philosophy. Examines types of religions and the religious dimensions of life expressed in many cultures from many different historical periods throughout the world. Analyzes the emergence of modern philosophy of religion and its major issues, as well as current issues in contemporary philosophy of religion, including such issues as: the cognitive component in religious experience, religion and feminism, religious fundamentalism, pre-axial and axial religions, the religious attitude in religious secularity, and attitudes toward both philosophy and religion in a variety of cultural contexts.
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5.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Prerequisite: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Five hours lecture, one additional hour to be arranged. The function and use of formal and informal logic, argument, critical evaluation, and language in written composition. PHIL 4 Critical Thinking 4 Units ( See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. The function of formal and informal logic, argument, critical evaluation, and use of language in interpretation of diverse forms of discourse.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. Examination of the problems of knowledge, reality, truth, and value in existential and phenomenological thinkers and their application to social, aesthetic, cultural, gender, historical, and religious issues.
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4.00 Credits
(Formerly Philosophy 55.) (See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Women's Studies 49. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Four hours lecture. Examination of feminist theory and philosophy produced by a diverse range of women and investigation of the ways that understandings of the relations between the sexes have influenced the work of philosophers from different cultures.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. An introduction to the study of inductive reasoning. The emphasis will be on philosophical efforts to characterize good inductive reasoning, especially the reasoning used to support scientific theories and hypotheses. Closely related topics covered will include probability theory, and the problem of justifying induction.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. Study of the concepts and methods of deductive logic, developing and using logical symbols, formal proof techniques, and focusing on sentential and predicate logic. (CAN PHIL 6)
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