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Course Descriptions - Philosophy
PHI 141(3-0-3)
Survey of Major Western Philosophers

This course surveys the major trends and developments in Western philosophical thought from the ancient Greeks to the present. After a brief introduction to the divisions and persistent concerns of philosophy, development is traced through the contributions of major representative thinkers and philosophical movements.

PHI 143(3-0-3)
Introduction to Philosophical Problems

This course introduces students to the complexities of several perennial philosophical problems and concerns, with the aim of encouraging critical thinking and analysis. After a brief introduction to the nature of philosophical inquiry, students are exposed to representative arguments and positions concerning such topics as the nature of reality, knowledge, religion, morality, freedom and determinism, the role of the self, and justice and political society.

PHI 195
Philosophy Experimental

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