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3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: One upper-division course in the humanities or social sciences, or one philosophy course; or Permission of instructor An examination of the origin of the individual and the idea of law in Greek thought and alterations of these notions in modern thought. The notion of interpretation in the law will be examined.
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3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHI 3000 and PHI 3020; or Permission of instructor This course is an interdisciplinary study of humanistic inquiry and cultural investigation, with course content drawn from the development of modern European and American culture since the Enlightenment. Special attention is given to the revolutionary transformations of ideas, institutions, structures, and forms of artistic and literary expression that characterize life in the modern world over approximately the last 250 years. Movements such as Romanticism, Realism, Decadence, Modernism, or Post-Modernism could receive special consideration. This course may be repeated for credit under different topics.
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3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHI 3020 is recommended This course is a study of at least two major 20th century phenomenologists. Different conceptions of the nature and scope of phenomenology are critically examined.
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3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHI 2440 This course is a study of mental phenomena, including traditional problems connected with the relation of mind and body, personal identity, solipsism and the knowledge of other minds, but also contemporary issues involving consciousness, perception, thought, feeling and volition in human, animal, and artificial contexts.
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3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHI 1010 and three additional hours in philosophy or Permission of instructor The study of the existentialist movement of the 19th and 20th centuries. Philosophers and writers include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Dostoevsky, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. Problems covered include: the nature of Being; freedom and responsibility; the other and the body; the moral life; applications of existentialism to political life; and psychotherapeutic theory.
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3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHI 3020 After a brief consideration of the methodological implications of intellectual and social history, this course could consider classical figures (such as Edwards or Emerson) and influential intellectual traditions in American culture (such as Puritanism or Transcendentalism); or seemingly peripheral individuals (such as Douglass or Dubois) and the more subterranean impulses stemming from traditionally marginalized groups of diverse ethnic, cultural, gender or sexual communities (for example, abolitionism and the problems connected with slavery, race, and gender in American culture). This course may be repeated for credit under different topics.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHI 1050 This course is an in-depth study of a specific thinker, such as Paul, Augustine, Mamonides, or Barth; or of a pair or group of thinkers, such as Luther and Calvin or Buber and Rosenzweig; or of a recognized movement of thought or tradition, such as Shia or Sunni Islam; or of a particular concept or problem, such as sin and redemption; or of a genealogy of sacred texts, such as the Tanakh and the New Testament; or of a conjunction of epic texts, such as Gilgamesh and Genesis, as rooted primarily in the Western or Near Eastern context. This course may be repeated for credit under different topics.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHI 3320 or PHI 3500 is recommended This course is an examination of some of the most intriguing and illuminating points of intersection between philosophy and the literary, the performing or the visual arts, including film. It may address philosophy on the arts (issues relating to ontological status, truth, interpretation, authorship, and self expression); or philosophy in the arts (literary texts, performance pieces or artistic works that explicitly invoke philosophical problems or evoke philosophical doctrines in their portrayal of social or psychological realities); or philosophy as art problems connected with meaning, representation and form in philosophical works, including across multiple media). This course may be repeated for credit under different topics.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHI 3000 or PHI 3020 This course is an in-depth study of a specific philosopher, such as Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, or Heidegger; or a group of related thinkers, such as Plato or Plotinus, Marx and the Young Hegalians, or Wittgenstein and Austin; or a movement of thought, such as German Idealism, American Pragmatism, or Logical Positivism. This course may be repeated for credit under different topics.
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3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: WMS 1001 or PHI 1010 This course will explore the philosophical basis for and nature of women's spirituality. Political, social, and cultural aspects of the women's spirituality movement will be analyzed both within and beyond traditional institutionalized religion; facets of women's individual spiritual growth and development express themselves in a variety of ways, and this course seeks to examine emotional, cognitive, somatic, and physical aspects. Students will also have opportunities to participate in the art, music, and rituals associated with various traditions and to create projects that will illuminate their personal experiences. Credit will be granted for only one prefix: PHI or WMS. (WMS 3910
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