English, Modern Languages, Phi

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Includes a historical overview of theories of mind and consciousness, as well as an introduction to contemporary views. The course will focus on the nature of consciousness and the mind body problem. In particular, the topic of artificial intelligence – whether machines can think – will be discussed. […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: (Same as ENVR-316) This course discusses ethics with specific reference to environmental issues. Specific issues include, among others: obligations to non-human animals, equitable distribution of scarce resources, development, and issues in environmental aesthetics. Credit cannot be received for both PRS-316 and ENVR-316.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: A study of the philosophical traditions that developed in the West between the ancient Greco-Roman world and the world of modern Europe. In addition to the central figures of the Christian medieval tradition, primarily Augustine and Aquinas, the course will cover important philosophers from the Judaic and Islamic […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Study of ethical philosophy in both theoretical and practical dimensions. The course includes topics from the history of philosophy, as well as contemporary philosophical problems.

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Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: A survey of Asian philosophy, with a primary focus on the Indian and Chinese traditions. Includes orthodox and heterodox Hindu philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, Confucianism & Neo-Confucianism, Taoism, and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist philosophy.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Discusses the past, present, and future of Islam across nations and continents. Focuses on the Islamic demand for social justice, its encounters with other religions of the Bible (Judaism and Christianity), and its encounters with other cultures.

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Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Study of the rise and development of existentialism as a critical response to traditional philosophy and the character of the modern world. Existentialism will be explored through philosophy, literature, and film. Writers covered will include Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, et al.

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Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: This course is a study in two contrasting traditions of philosophy that arose in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries: continental rationalism and British empiricism. Philosophers covered include Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Of central concern will be these philosophers’ views on the nature of […]