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46 courses with the subject PHIL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

PHIL 101Introduction to Philosophy

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PHIL 120Contemporary Moral Issues

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PHIL 239Existentialism

embodiment and historical situation, and knowledge in the absence of transcendence. Students will read works by such thinkers... Selected Topics: Selected topics in philosophy arranged historically. Recent topics: Kant, critical theory, Freud, Bertrand Russell's Radical Essays. PHIL250 Historical May be repeated for credit when topic differs. Elementary Introduction to modern logic beginning with truth-functions and covering formal proofs (propositional and predicate) to the level of PHIL251 Symbolic Logic multiply-general and relational statements. No mathematical applications. Recommended for pre-law and pre-computer st...

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PHIL 250Selected Topics: Historical

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PHIL 251Elementary Symbolic Logic

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PHIL 260Problems in Law

punishment. and Society A survey of prevalent topics in recent bioethics, the study of ethical discussions surrounding the sciences of biology and medicine.

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PHIL 265Bioethics

Works to improve ability to think critically and to argue from the standpoint of a certain moral theory in the ethica... Environmental Examines various ethical approaches to environmental problems. Topics may vary from year to year but typically will include such PHIL269 Ethics issues as treatment of nonhuman animals, resource depletion, environmental justice, genetic engineering, and climate chan... Introduction to ancient Western philosophy, with emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. Discussion of both the development of

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PHIL 269Environmental Ethics

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PHIL 271Ancient Greek Philosophy

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PHIL 272Modern European Philosophy

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PHIL 280Topics Seminar: Issues

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PHIL 302UThinking About the Paranormal

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PHIL 303UBeyond Death

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PHIL 304UAsian Philosophy

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PHIL 305UThe Problem of Evil

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PHIL 314Philosophy of Science

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PHIL 344Contemporary Continental

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PHIL 351Topics Seminar Historical I

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PHIL 352Topics Seminar Historical II

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PHIL 353Philosophical Methods

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PHIL 358Examination of recent and contemporary feminist theory

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PHIL 360Ethics

questions about the object of morality and the objectivity and justification of moral evaluations. Philosophy of Is there such a thing as religious knowledge? Can a rational individual believe in God(s)? Alternative conceptions of use and PHIL362 Religion meaning of theological language (description, ritual, belief formation, moral persuasion); Transcendence; Mysticism, and log... Alternative ways of conceiving of law. Such legal concepts as right and strict liability. Such problems as nature of judicial decision-

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PHIL 362Philosophy of Religion

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PHIL 364Philosophy of Law

making process, tension between crime control and due process, rationale of legal punishment, insanity defense.

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PHIL 365Responsibility, and

contemporary philosophers. Seminar format, with multiple written and oral critiques, term paper, midterm, and final exams.

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PHIL 366Agency: Puzzles and Problems

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PHIL 367Metaphysics

nature of: existence, identity, abstract objects, ordinary material objects, properties, modality, causation, and groundin... Philosophy of An in-depth exploration of the nature and significance of emotions, divided into three parts: (i) The nature of emotions, (ii) The PHIL368 Emotion rationality of emotions (iii) A philosophical exploration of three specific emotions. The specific emotions discussed... Understanding and critical discussion of the main questions and theories of economic justice. What normative principles should

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PHIL 368Philosophy of Emotion

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PHIL 369Economic Justice

guide the design of economic institutions? What is a just system of economic institutions? Critical examination of fundamental questions in the philosophy of mind such as: How can we tell if something has a mind or is PHIL370 Philosophy of Mind capable of thinking? What is the mind? What is thought? Consciousness? Do machines or non human animals have minds? What is... Explores central issues in epistemology. These include the nature of knowledge, justification, and rationality. Historical and

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PHIL 370Philosophy of Mind

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PHIL 373Epistemology

contemporary readings will expose students to a wide variety of different approaches and answers to questions concerning th... 267 / 1032

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PHIL 375Ethics and Practical Reason

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PHIL 381Topics Seminar

intermediate logic; ethics, human and nonhuman. May be repeated for credit when topic differs. Selected topics in philosophy arranged by issues. Recent topics: the emotions; science, pseudoscience and the paranormal;

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PHIL 382Topics Seminar

intermediate logic; ethics, human and nonhuman. May be repeated for credit when topic differs. PHIL386 Honors Seminar Seminar for honors students on topic selected mutually by instructor and those enrolled. Permission of department.