PHIL 1000 - Introduction to Philosophy
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2023
Discusses fundamental questions concerning human existence and the nature of reality. Questions may include: Does God exist? Am I the same person I was when I was born? Will I survive the death of my body? Do I have free will? How do I know whether the world around me really exists? What is knowledge? What is truth? What is morality, and how do I know what�s right to do?
PHIL 1020 - Introduction to Western Philosophy: Modern
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2024
Introduces philosophy through core ideas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, examining Enlightenment-era controversies such as: What are the foundations of scientific thinking? How does sense perception contribute to knowledge? How do we explain the movement of bodies in the natural world? What, if anything, is God�s role in nature? How do societies form, and how should they be governed? Are human beings free? If so, how is human freedom compatible with political authority?
PHIL 1200 - Contemporary Social Problems
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020
Examines competing positions in debates over a wide variety of controversial moral, social and political issues. Topics may include: abortion, world poverty, animal rights, immigration, physician-assisted suicide, freedom of religion, hate speech, cloning, income inequality, pornography, gun rights, racial profiling, capital punishment, overpopulation, prostitution, drug legalization, torture. Formerly titled 'Philosophy and Society.'
PHIL 3010 - History of Modern Philosophy
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
Introduces modern philosophy, focusing on the period from Descartes through Kant. In addition to careful analysis of philosophical arguments, attention is paid to the ways in which philosophers responded to and participated in major developments in the 17th and 18th century, such as the scientific revolution. Recommended prerequisite: 6 hours of philosophy coursework.
PHIL 3600 - Philosophy of Religion
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Fall 2023
Explores fundamental questions concerning major world religions, especially the Abrahamic religions. Possible topics include: the divine�attributes (Is perfect goodness compatible with the existence of hell? Can God be truly omnipotent?), the problem of evil, divine�hiddenness and evidence of the existence of God, religious experience, the legitimacy of faith, the dilemma of freedom and divine�foreknowledge, God and morality, tensions between religion and science, conceptions of the self in Abrahamic religions and in�Buddhism. Recommended prerequisite: 6 hours of philosophy coursework.
PHIL 4020 - Topics in the History of Philosophy
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Fall 2019
Examines a specific philosophical problem over an extended historical period. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as PHIL 5020. Recommended prerequisites: 12 hours of philosophy course work including PHIL 3000 and PHIL 3010.
PHIL 5020 - Topics in the History of Philosophy
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Fall 2019
Examines a specific philosophical problem over an extended historical period. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
PHIL 6000 - Seminar in the History of Philosophy
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2023
Studies advanced topics in the history of philosophy. Content varies by semester, but may extend to any period in the history of philosophy, from the Presocratics into the modern era. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
