A student must earn a grade better than D in each of the required courses in the major as well as in each of the electives counted toward the minimum credit hours for the major. To minor in philosophy, the student must complete 16 credit hours in philosophy to include PHI 201. A student must earn a grade better than D in each of the required courses in the minor as well as in each of the electives counted toward the minimum credit hours for the minor. It is suggested that the student consider a major or minor in a second field. The aim of this course is to give the student a general knowledge of the fundamental laws of correct deductive and inductive reasoning.
Emphasis is placed on practical exercise and the detection of formal and informal fallacies.
This course is an introduction to thinking about the ethical life from the perspective of philosophy. Ethical principles, virtues, and rights are linked to concrete situations of everyday moral decision-making. This course explores traditional and recent, philosophical and theological thinking in such areas as arguments for the existence of God, the nature of religious knowledge, the problem of evil, the question of human destiny, and the nature of religious language, etc. Same as REL 325. Alternate years, Spring 2001.