Enrollment is limited to freshmen and transfers. Enrollment is limited to freshmen and transfers. The post-Enlightenment existentialist philosophers do. Their revolutionary views of selfhood, time, moral responsibility and authentic living, profoundly influence thought in the twentieth century. In this class you will read important existential philosophers and trace their influence in twentieth-century literature and film.
Enrollment is limited to sophomores and transfers.
This course focuses on the historical development of logic, including syllogistic logic, propositional logic and first order quantification theory. Some attention is paid to scientific method, specifically Mill's methods of agreement and disagreement. At the conclusion of the course the class constructs and evaluates arguments in order to apply the analytical tools of formal logic to concrete examples of reasoning. An important feature of the course is the evaluation not only of the philosophical positions considered by also the epistemological strengths of a representative sampling of one's own beliefs. In addition students are asked in an extended paper to consider the epistemological foundations of another discipline.