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3.00 Credits
A survey of major religious traditions from Asia. Includes Indian thought (Hindu, Buddhist, and Vedantan), East Asian thought (Confucian, Taoist, their roots and offshoots), and West Asian thought (Sufi thought). The historical development of Asian thought is only one emphasis. Influences of Asian thought in contemporary thought and practice (e.g., Gandhi, Kyoto School) will also be emphasized, as will similarities and interactions between Asian and Western philosophy. Prerequisite: PHI 110 or instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
Reading and discussion of philosophical texts from the traditional beginning of Western philosophy in 585 B.C. to the death of Plotinus in A.D. 270. Emphasis on selected works of Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, and Plotinus. Prerequisite: PHI 110.
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3.00 Credits
History of Western philosophy from Francis Bacon (1605) to Immanuel Kant (1804). The rise of the new science and the rationalism of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. The empirical and skeptical thought of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Kant's response to the two schools. Prerequisite: PHI 110.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the writing, life, and historical context of Moses Maimonides. After a survey of the history of Rabbinic Judaism and Islamic culture, the life and times of Maimonides will be treated. The science, metaphysics, and philosophy shared by Jews, Christians, and Muslims will be examined using Maimonides' life and his philosophical, legal, and medical works as implements of analysis. Prerequisite: HIS 101 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical examination of the phenomenon of religious experience and practices, addressing such issues as the nature of the sacred, the roles of reason, experience, and faith as modes of religious response, and the significance of religious rituals, language, and symbols as means of religious expression. Prerequisite: PHI 110.
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3.00 Credits
Consideration of the presuppositions we bring to thinking about ethics and morality, and of the ways in which culturally constructed gender differences affect ethical theory and moral practice. We examine a series of important themes and issues in contemporary discussions of feminist ethics, e.g., sexuality, motherhood, community, cultural difference, human rights, and moral responsibility as it exceeds the framework of rights. Prerequisite: GS 100 or PHI 110, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical investigation of different theories of language and meaning, addressing such issues as the conveyance of cognitive, emotive, and evaluative meaning by linguistic and nonlinguistic means, the manner of formation and means of analysis proper to each type of meaning, and the efficacy of meaning within the context of originator and interpreter. Prerequisite: One second-level PHI course other than 220, or B+ or higher earned in one first-level PHI course.
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3.00 Credits
the history of postmodernism, after a brief review of modernism and modernity. Examines distinct but overlapping varieties of postmodernism, some from fine arts; others f rom philosophy, history, or social science. Themes cutting across the diverse strands of postmodernism include the ideas of representation, image, and sign, as well as ideas of power, multiplicity, and corporeality. Questions addressed range from how we are to read John Cage's music, or Disneyland, to how we ought to situate ourselves in relation to world capitalism, identity politics, and cyberspace. Other movements severely critical of modernism are noted (e.g., pragmatism and critical theory). Readings include modern authors (Marx, Baudelaire, Le Corbusier, Nietzsche) as well as postmodern thinkers, such as Venturi, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Irigaray, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and others. Prerequisite: One secondlevel PHI course other than 220, or B+ or higher earned in one first-level PHI course; or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The European philosophical scene after Kant: romantic idealism, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and the Marxist reaction. Prerequisite: One second-level PHI course other than 220, or B+ or higher earned in one first-level PHI course, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The classic period of American philosophy from the Civil War to World War I, with emphasis on the works of C. S. Peirce, W. James, J. Royce, and J. Dewey. Discussion of the earlier American philosophers and the survival of the classic viewpoints in later 20th-century philosophy. Relation of the distinctive features of American philosophy to the American experience. Prerequisite: One second-level PHI course other than 220, or B+ or higher earned in one first-level PHI course.
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