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

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

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
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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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