WR A study of Greek and Medieval philosophies, concentrating on pre-Socratic cosmologies, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, among the Greeks, and in the Medieval period, focusing on Augustine, Anselm, Avicenna, Maimonides, Aquinas, and William of Ockham. Texts include primary sources in translation. This is not an introductory course, but may be taken without previous study in philosophy by those with special interest in the topic. Mr. Grimm 135. A study of philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries, concentrating on Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.
Emphasis is on theory of knowledge and metaphysics.
Texts include primary sources, with translations as required. This course is not an introductory course, but may be taken by students without previous study in philosophy with a special interest in the topic. Mr. MacKay Advanced Courses 200. A study of symbolic logic, understood primarily as a formal tool for exploring the structure of valid reasoning in a natural language such as English. The course will cover both sentential and predicate logic, and will include a brush with metatheory.