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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

Programs:

Ethics Minor

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

Programs:

International Relations (BA) | International Relations Minor

Philosophers and philosophies of the 19th century.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Ethics Minor | International Relations (BA) | International Relations Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

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

Programs:

Ethics Minor | International Relations (BA) | International Relations Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Structure and logic of religious belief. Problems such as the existence of God, evil, immortality, miracles, and religious language.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Ethics Minor | International Relations (BA) | International Relations Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

This course will undertake a close reading and study of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and other texts.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

A study of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

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

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Linguistics Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

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

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

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

Programs:

Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Major philosophers and philosophies of the late 20th Century.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

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

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Critical Thinking (CERT) | Critical Thinking Minor | Ethics Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Intensive study of a single philosopher or topic.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

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

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Ethics Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Aesthetic principles, theories, and the creative process. Theories of visual arts, music, literature, dance, etc.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Ethics Minor | Museum Studies (CERT) | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

This course investigates some of the central philosophical issues in our thinking about film, including questions about narrative, ontology, ethical criticism of film, the role of artistic intentions in interpretation, artistic medium, and the art/entertainment distinction.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Film Studies Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

The nature of consciousness, mind and body relations, freedom of action.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

This course examines the conceptual and philosophical complexities of efforts to understand the mind in science. Topics include the difference and similarities between humans and other animals, the nature of psychological explanation, and reductive strategies for explaining consciousness, intentionality and language. Fall

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Cognitive and epistemic issues surrounding sensory perception, including the nature of perception, its immediate objects, and its ability to deliver knowledge of the world.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Philosophical issues concerning the mental lives of non-human animals, with emphasis on consciousness, rationality, language, and implications for non-human animal ethics.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Human-Animal Studies Minor | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Nature of explanations, causality, theoretical entities, and selected problems.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

This course examines conceptual and philosophical issues in biology, the nature and scope of biological explanation and conflicts between evolutionary and religious explanations for the origin of life.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Cognitive Science (BS) Philosophy | Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Examines the nature and methods of alternative strategies of theory construction in the social sciences and the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions and implications of such strategies. For example can people, their behavior and norms of rationality be understood in naturalistic terms or must they be understood only in culturally local terms.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Programs:

Philosophy (BA) | Philosophy Minor

Special event of less than semester duration.

Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies

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Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary Studies