Topics include the problem of justice, the nature of the state and its relationship to other social institutions, and the individual. The primary focus will be on normative rather than descriptive theory. PHI 244 Philosophy of Law Topics include the nature of law, the limits of law, and legal responsibility. An introductory course in modern symbolic logic. Techniques of deductive inference, including decision procedures and axiomatization, are studied in developing the propositional and predicative logics.
Some attention is given to metalogic and the philosophy of logic.
A critical study of philosophical significance of individual choices and actions involving questions of personal identity, responsibility and authenticity as these themes are developed in existentialist literature. Special attention will be given to existentialist literary techniques. An investigation of the nature and importance of aesthetic experience and its objects, the possibility of standards of art and taste, and the relation of art to other areas of experience. Topics include art and morality, art and science, art and the environment. Readings from Tolstoy, Hume, Dewey, Langer, Bell, Danto, Dickie and Beardsley, among others.