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Traditional syllogistic logic and an introduction to the elements of modern symbolic logic.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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This course explores what makes reasoning scientific as distinguished from non-scientific. Issues are inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, fallacies, hypothetico-deductive reasoning, falsifiability, and scientific knowledge.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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To what extent do the differences among races and between genders represent biological differences, and to what extent are they constructed by society? Is racism best conceptualized as an additional burden to sexism or as one different in kind?

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Discussion of theories of value and obligation.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Survey of Asian philosophical traditions of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Diverse Cultures - Purple | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Discussion of the ways that a culture both creates human community and shapes self-identity. Exploration of similarities and differences between and interdependence among cultural traditions, and of vocabularies for assessing traditions.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Ethical perspectives relevant to issues such as euthanasia, genetic engineering, organ transplant, patients' rights, abortion, etc.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Introduction to ethical theories and concepts and their application to specific cases in the world of business.

Graduation Requirements:: Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility
Areas of Interest:: Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

Introduction to ethical theories and concepts and their application to specific cases in the world of business.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Questions about human responsibilities to other animals and the environment gain urgency as environmental crises become more prevalent, and animal species continue to be eliminated. Learn about, critique, and apply the principles underlying evaluations of human environmental conduct.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Goal Area 10 - People and the Environment | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Consideration of the basic philosophical approaches to the idea of justice and how this idea relates to other fundamental ideas in political philosophy, ethics, and law.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Study of the elements of first order symbolic logic, i.e., the propositional calculus and the predicate calculus, and its applications to ordinary language and mathematics.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Human rights and responsibilities in relation to the organization of society and government.

Graduation Requirements:

Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Topics in normative, meta-ethical and applied ethical theory.

Prerequisites:

Select one course: PHIL 120W, PHIL 222W, PHIL 224W, or PHIL 226W

Graduation Requirements:

Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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This course will introduce students to important texts in moral and social philosophy that provide the foundation for modern economics. In addition, we will discuss philosophical accounts of rationality, well being, and freedom and their relevance to economic analysis.

Graduation Requirements:

Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Philosophers of Ancient Greece, Rome and the early middle ages: The presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic and Roman philosophers, St. Augustine.

Graduation Requirements:

Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Late Medieval Philosophy and its influence on the Renaissance, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz and Continental Rationalism, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and British Empiricism, and Kant.

Graduation Requirements:

Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Philosophers and philosophies of the 19th century.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Critical discussion of the topics chosen from the Asian philosophical traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism.

Graduation Requirements:

Diverse Cultures - Purple | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Theories of meaning, speech acts and semantics, relation of language to the world.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Theories of knowledge and justification, skeptical attacks on the possibility of knowledge, and anti-skeptical defenses.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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An investigation of the most fundamental concepts of reality, including the nature of things, identity over time, modality, causation, free will, space and time, and universals and particulars.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Discussion of philosophical issues in law by way of connecting legal problems to well-developed and traditional problems in philosophy, e.g., in ethics, political philosophy, and epistemology, and investigates the philosophical underpinnings of the development of law. The course takes an analytical approach to law (as opposed to historical sociological, political, or legalistic approaches) and devotes a substantial part of the semester to a major work on law written by a philosopher.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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Intensive study of a single philosopher or topic.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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In-depth analysis of major European existentialists such as Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures

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