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Survey of Asian philosophical traditions of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Diverse Cultures - Purple | Writing Intensive
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Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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Ethical perspectives relevant to issues such as euthanasia, genetic engineering, organ transplant, patients' rights, abortion, etc.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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Introduction to ethical theories and concepts and their application to specific cases in the world of business.V

Questions about human responsibilities to other animals and the environment gain urgency as environmental crises become more prevalent, and animal species continue to be eliminated. Learn about, critique, and apply the principles underlying evaluations of human environmental conduct.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Goal Area 10 - People and the Environment | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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Study of the elements of first order symbolic logic, i.e., the propositional calculus and the predicate calculus, and its applications to ordinary language and mathematics.

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Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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Topics in normative, meta-ethical and applied ethical theory.

Prerequisites:
Select one course: PHIL 120W, PHIL 222W, PHIL 224W, or PHIL 226W
Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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This course will introduce students to important texts in moral and social philosophy that provide the foundation for modern economics. In addition, we will discuss philosophical accounts of rationality, well being, and freedom and their relevance to economic analysis.

Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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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 | People and Cultures
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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 | People and Cultures
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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 | People and Cultures
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Theories of meaning, speech acts and semantics, relation of language to the world.

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Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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Theories of knowledge and justification, skeptical attacks on the possibility of knowledge, and anti-skeptical defenses.

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Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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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.

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Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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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 | People and Cultures
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Aesthetic principles, theories, and the creative process. Theories of visual arts, music, literature, dance, etc.

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Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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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.

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Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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