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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course studies main figures in Renaissance thought-Petrarch, Pico, Vives, Bacon, et al. It addresses such topics as: the revival of Greek and Roman culture; the Florentine academy; tensions between humanism and theology; the Copernican revolution in science; and the legacies of Bruno, Leonardo, More, Machiavelli, and Montaigne.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of selected ancient philosophers, that is, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, or topics such as the nature of good, knowledge and skepticism, the problem of Being and change.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of selected medieval philosophers, that is, St. Augustine, St. Anselm, Abelard, St. Thomas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, or topics such as the problem of universals, the existence of God, the soul and immortality, and the problem of evil.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive examination of one or more major figures in 17th-19th century European thought, for example, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Rousseau, and Marx; or, alternately, a discussion of one or more central problems in this era, such as the relation between science and religion, the justification of causal inference, the respective roles of reason and experience in obtaining reliable knowledge of the world, the concept of selfhood, etc.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive examination of either major figures (such as Chisholm, Kripke, Quine), movements (logical positivism, ordinary language analysis, logical analysis) or selected problems (epistemic foundationalism, modality and essentialism, identity and individuation) in contemporary analytic philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive examination of major formative or current figures (such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Habermas, Foucault, Derrida), movements (phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, deconstructionism) or problems (the nature of representation, the relation of emotion and thought, the problem of technology) in contemporary continental philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
Process Philosophy is a generic term designating the group of philosophers who view reality as a changing and developing process. Included in this group are Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Henri Bergson, and Alfred North Whitehead. The course will focus, in successive years, on one of these thinkers.
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3.00 Credits
A detailed examination of one or more classic works from the Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist traditions, such as the Bhagavad-Gita or the Analects; pitfalls of interpretation; relations between text and ure. Parallels and contrasts with Western thought and institutions. May be repeated for credit with different course content.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of some major theories of art and beauty, with special attention to such issues as: the definition of beauty; the criteria for excellence in artistic productions; the differences between art and science; and the relation between art and culture. Readings may include Artistotle's Poetics, Kant's Critique of Judgement, Dewey's Art as Experience, or more recent philosophers, that is, Beardsley, Dickie, Goodman, Weitz, etc.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of some major theories of the meaning and function of education and of its role in reshaping society. Readings may include Plato's Meno and Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Rousseau's Emile, Dewey's The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum, and various works by Piaget.
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