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Dept Course No., Title   Instructor
PHILOS (F09)1  INTRO TO PHILOSOPHYGREENBERG, S.

This course introduces students to philosophy by considering four classic texts:
Plato's Republic, Descartes's Meditations, Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, and Sartre's Being and Nothingness.

PHILOS (F09)4  INTRO TO ETHICSFIOCCO, M.

In this course, we will first consider the nature of value and then examine three major types of ethical theory: consequentialist, deontological, and virtue-based theories. We will also consider the relationship between morality and self-interest and the question of whether ethical values are objective or in some sense relative.

PHILOS (F09)5  CONTEMP MORAL PRBLMKIDD, C

In this course we will conduct a reflective philosophical examination of a handful of moral problems that we as members of the contemporary Western world face. The list of moral issues we will consider includes those that stem from the practice of abortion, sex and sexuality, the existence and use of reproductive technologies such as cloning and surrogate motherhood, the family and familial relationships, and torture. We will consider these problems in depth from a variety of philosophical and personal perspectives.

PHILOS (F09)10  HIST ANCIENT PHILOSHARTENBURG, G

An examination of the central philosophical themes developed by the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the stoics, the Epicureans, and the Skeptics.

PHILOS (F09)29  CRITICAL REASONINGHEIS, J.

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PHILOS (F09)103  INTR TO MORAL PHILFIOCCO, M.

In this course, we will examine two fundamental notions of ethical theory, the right and the good, and the relation between the two. We will consider whether an act is right in virtue of its motive or its consequences or something else entirely. We will also consider the notion of duty. Throughout, we will be concerned with the nature, basis and justification of moral judgments, in particular whether some moral truths are known intuitively (i.e. directly or non-inferetially).

PHILOS (F09)104  INTRO TO LOGICWRIGHT, W.

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PHILOS (F09)105A  ELEMENTARY SET THRYWEHMEIER, K.

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PHILOS (F09)113  CONT RATIONALISMGREENBERG, S.

This course examines the work of three Rationalists--Rene Descartes, Nicolas Malebranche, and Gottfried Leibniz--focusing on their contributions to metaphysics and epistemology, with special attention to the relation between their views on these topics and their conceptions of philosophical theology.

PHILOS (F09)130  PHILOS OF RIGHTSGILBERT, M.

This course will discuss topics in moral philosophy, with an emphasis on the theory of rights, which considers such questions as: What are rights? What forms do rights take? What is the relationship between rights and obligations? How is it that agreements and promises are sources of rights? Can there be rights that do not depend on such human artifacts as laws and agreements? It is desirable that those taking this course have taken at least one prior course in philosophy.

PHILOS (F09)141B  GEOMETRY&SPACETIMEMALAMENT, D.

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