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Philosophy 1 Philosophy 1 PHILOSOPHY Courses According to Plato's Socrates, the love of wisdom (philosophia) begins LETH 3980 Leadership Ethics Internship 3 Credits in wonder. In the nearly 2,500 years since Plato made this observation, Prerequisite: Junior standing. philosophy has evolved into a vocation of incessant questioning in This course provides CAS majors and minors with an opportunity to which nothing is taken for granted. Today, philosophers from a variety of foster professional and intellectual development through relevant traditions and spheres of inquiry continue to grapple with the field's most internships. Students will engage in and reflect critically upon a enduring questions, questions like: Who am I? Why am I here? What is work experience with businesses, industry, government, non-profits, the nature of reality? How do I know? What should I do? The Department or education. The experience is designed to integrate the student's of Philosophy invites students to take up this vocation by introducing academic pursuits, personal and intellectual development, and career them to its history and aiding them in cultivating the critical and creative preparedness through an ongoing reflective process that includes weekly thinking necessary for its study. journaling, group meetings, and assigned readings. Its aim, broadly, is to give students the tools to apply ethical theory to their work experiences, The Department of Philosophy has adopted the following Student and to gain experience in developing the skills of ethical leadership. Learning Goals: Previously LE 0256. 1. The ability to identify arguments and provide counter-arguments PHIL 1101 Introduction to Philosophy 3 Credits 2. The critical engagement with and the questioning of one's This course is a topical introduction to philosophy. The aim of the course assumptions is to introduce students to the vocation of wonder and questioning by engaging students in discussions about some of the basic questions of 3. The thoughtful integration of action with values philosophy.Students will read texts from historical and contemporary 4. The existential risking of crisis and transformation through self- writers, and will be asked to develop their own skills of thinking, reading, reflection and writing critically. Previously PH 0101. 5. The acceptance of the invitation of philosophy to wonder at the big PHIL 2200 Ancient Philosophy 3 Credits questions Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. The Department of Philosophy has also adopted the following Student In this course we will investigate how the earliest practitioners of Western Learning Objectives: philosophy conceived of their own activity. The word philosophy' stems from two ancient Greek words and means, literally, 'love of wisdom.' A 1. Thinking Skills: Students should be able to construct (or re-construct) lover of wisdom is one who pursues wisdom rather than possesses it; a philosophical argument, both verbally and in writing. They should be consequently, we can think of ancient philosophers as founding a history able to anticipate and clearly articulate counter-arguments. Students of inquiry into questions whose relevance for human beings ensures should be able to recognize and question their own assumptions/ their persistence, questions like: What is the nature of the universe? What prejudices. Students should be able to frame questions aware that can be known? and What in any given situation is the right thing to do? what is asked often determines the response. Previously PH 0200. 2. Reading Skills: Students should be able to interpret texts and to PHIL 2201 Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy 3 Credits recognize and reflect on textual ambiguities. Students should be Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. able to discern the steps of a philosophical argument, as well as This course will examine texts from representative thinkers from the stated and (more importantly) unstated presuppositions of the Augustine of Hippo in the period of the post-Constantinian Empire argument. to Thomas More in the Renaissance, all sharing the new conception 3. Writing Skills: Students should be able to write logically compelling of philosophy. For Christians, as well as for Muslims and Jews, the arguments in a clear, concise, and well-ordered manner. enterprise of philosophy took on new motivation: the understanding of 4. Familiarity with some of the central philosophical questions in the one's faith, and addressed new problems, not considered by the ancient history of philosophy (broadly construed): Students should have a Greeks and Romans. Previously PH 0201. rudimentary knowledge of the history of philosophical questions PHIL 2202 Modern Philosophy 3 Credits and their attendant concepts and arguments, and be able to Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. recognize versions of these questions in contemporary philosophical In light of the development and success of the new mechanistic science discussions. Students should be able to recognize and articulate in the 17th and 18th centuries philosophers began to reexamine such alternative perspectives to the problems and claims with which they fundamental philosophical topics as the nature of the human mind, are confronted in contemporary life. the relationship between the mind and body, the source and scope 5. Students should be able to reflect critically on philosophical of human knowledge, the existence of a divine being, and the source questions in the context of their own lives. and nature of morality. In this course we will trace the development of philosophical thought in the writings of modern philosophers such as Programs Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley Hume, Reid, and Kant. Previously PH 0202. • Leadership Ethics Minor • Philosophy Major • Philosophy Minor 2 Philosophy PHIL 2204 20th Century Philosophy 3 Credits PHIL 2215 Philosophy of Science 3 Credits Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. This course presents a coherent picture of the main currents of Science and philosophy have always proceeded hand in hand, with contemporary philosophy in the Western and the non-Western tradition: the major figures in Western science being heavily influenced by the phenomenology and existentialism, pragmatism and analytic philosophy, philosophy of their times and the major figures in Western philosophy Marxism and dialectic materialism, and philosophy of history and culture. heavily influenced by the science of their times. In this course we Previously PH 0204. will explore the interconnections between philosophy and science. In PHIL 2205 Ancient Medicine & Philosophy 3 Credits doing so we will find some of the most deep, difficult, and fundamental Attributes: HSTE Health Studies: Traditions, Delivery, and Ethics questions there are, but with the "lens of science," so to speak, focusing Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. these questions more sharply than they are often otherwise focused. The various methods for investigating the human body have been Previously PH 0215. subject to foundational questions of scientific investigation, religious PHIL 2216 Philosophy and Biology of Evolutionary Theory 3 Credits sanction, social condemnation and philosophical impasse. In this class, Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. we will look at the way in which Ancient Greek medical practitioners This course explores the question of evolutionary theory from the and philosophers took up these investigations, negotiated problems of perspectives of philosophy and biology. From the biological perspective, method, and profoundly influenced the ways we talk about, think about the course focuses on genetics, adaptive evolution, neutral evolution, the and treat the body today. Previously PH 0205. genetic impact of selection on populations, the origin and maintenance PHIL 2206 Philosophical Perspectives on Women in Classical of genetic variation, the importance of development in evolution, Literature 3 Credits the expression of variation, and coevolution. From the philosophical Attributes: WSGF Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Gender Focused perspective, the course focuses on evolution as theory and ideology, Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. the critique of the adaptationist program, evolution and contingency, Ancient Greek and Latin literature presented its audience with a cast of typological versus population thinking, and the developmental systems characters who continue to enjoy social, political and cultural currency. critique. Crosslisted with BIOL 1095. Previously PH 0216. Antigone and Oedipus, Helen and Paris, Cassandra and Prometheus have PHIL 2217 Logic 3 Credits all had a hand in shaping western thought about the natures of beauty Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. and freedom, the limits of human knowledge, and the role of law.In this This course provides a basic acquaintance with prevailing systems and course we will focus specifically upon the literary characterizations of methods of logic, notably traditional (Aristotelian) and modern (standard women found throughout the ancient Greek and Latin worlds. Previously mathematical) logics. Previously PH 0217. PH 0206. PHIL 2218 Philosophy and Biochemistry of Food and Eating PHIL 2209 Existentialism 3 Credits Practices 3 Credits Attributes: FREN French Course Taught in English Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. Prerequisite: PHIL 1101. An essential and necessary component of our daily lives, food offers The word existentialism describes a particular attitude toward the itself as one of the most interesting topics of cultural and scientific creation of meaning out of an inherently meaningless existence. discussion. This
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