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Philosophy Department Courses
PH390 - Philosophical Inquiry
This course provides an introduction to philosophical issues and the activity of philosophizing. Students will develop the basic conceptual, logical and argumentative skills needed to evaluate fundamental and enduring philosophical topics such as knowledge, belief, mind, meaning, freedom, rationality, God, and virtue.
PHL410/SCI480 - Philosophy of Science
This course provides a general introduction to the goals, aims and methods of philosophy, followed by a study of the philosophical problems arising out of the methods and results of the physical sciences. Emphasis will be on the nature, status and limits of science.
PHL415/SOC400 - Political Philosophy
This course provides a general introduction to the goals, aims, and methods of philosophy, followed by a study of classical, modern, and contemporary theories of politics, such of those of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill and John Rawls.
PHL420/SOC402 - Epistemology
This course provides a general introduction to the goals, aims, and methods of philosophy, followed by a study of the nature, sources, types and limits of human knowledge.
PHL430/SOC406 - Ethics
This course provides a general introduction to the goals, aims, and methods of philosophy, followed by an examination of theories and concepts of morality and the distinctive character of moral issues and judgments. Special attention will be given to the accounts of virtue in Aristotle and Aquinas. Topics include freedom, responsibility, consequentialism, deontology, intuitionism, and natural law.
PHL435/ENG 405 - Philosophical Themes in Literature
This course provides a general introduction to the goals, aims, and methods of philosophy, followed by a study of philosophical perspectives, concepts and issues encountered in classic and contemporary literature. A variety of topics in ethics, metaphysics and epistemology include relativism, realism, postmodernism, nihilism, rationality, and existentialism.
PHL450 - Philosophy and Popular Culture
This course provides a general introduction to the goals, aims, and methods of philosophy, followed by a study of the specific philosophical issues encountered when considering popular culture. Topics may include, but are not limited to, moral and global skepticism, postmodernism, Enlightenment naturalism, scientism, nihilism, rationality, moral education, and the relationship between science and religion.
PHL499 - Independent Study
Students pursue topics of their own interest under the guidance and supervision of a teacher.
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