Emphasis on physics, astronomy, and chemistry. The fundamental concepts of a criminal justice system and their philosophical bases. Rights, privacy, responsibility, and the problem of justification of state control of private behavior through punishment and therapy. An introduction to existentialist themes in contemporary philosophy, literature, psychology, and religion. The writings of existentialists such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre, Buber, May, and Binswanger will be read and discussed.
Emphasis is on the development of a philosophy of higher education.
A historical and critical survey of the British philosophers of experience. Principal concentration is on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. A critical and historical study of the 17th-century European philosophers. The works of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz are emphasized. A critical study of recent and contemporary works in philosophical analysis, and an evaluation of the purposes, methods, and results of this movement.