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PHL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy

Theories of knowledge, values, and reality. Topics such as objectivity, relativism and cultural diversity, moral responsibility, aesthetic values, the self, existence of God, free will, minds and machines.

Average Grade - 3.013
Median Grade - 3.5
275 total students

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PHL 130 - Reasoning and Argumentation

Deductive, inductive, and practical reasoning. Topics such as rational argumentation, fallacies, definition, meaning, truth, and evidence. Techniques for critical reading and thinking.

Average Grade - 3.112
Median Grade - 3.5
1771 total students

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PHL 211 - Modern Philosophy

Philosophy from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, including selections from Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, and other prominent figures.

Average Grade - 3.292
Median Grade - 3.5
359 total students

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PHL 225 - Paradoxes

Central philosophical paradoxes and possible solutions. Topics vary and may include paradoxes about existence, infinity, space and time, knowledge, rationality, and truth. Students develop solutions to paradoxes, and work out the consequences and costs of those solutions.

Average Grade - 3.317
Median Grade - 3.5
200 total students

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PHL 361 - Knowledge and Reality

Introduction to the main problems in epistemology and metaphysics. Topics vary and may include: defining knowledge, sources of knowledge, skepticism, disagreement, space and time, universals and particulars, causation, and free will.

Average Grade - 3.080
Median Grade - 3.5
109 total students

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PHL 413 - Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Topics selected from among the works of 17th and 18th century philosophers, e.g., Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume. Variable by term in content.

Average Grade - 3.333
Median Grade - 3.5
27 total students

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PHL 442 - Ethics and Animals

Moral standing for non-human animals, basis for human moral obligations to animals, animal's cognitive abilities. Ethics of using animals in specific ways: medical research, for food, in zoos, in the wild and in biotechnology.

Average Grade - 3.375
Median Grade - 4.0
12 total students

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PHL 461 - Metaphysics

Basic concepts employed in trying to understand the nature of things. Concepts include universals, particulars, things, kinds, properties, events, persons, change, causality, chance, existence, possibility, necessity, space, and time.

Average Grade - 3.262
Median Grade - 3.5
151 total students

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