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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 - 2.842
Median Grade - 3.0
732 total students

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PHL 220 - Existentialism

Husserl, Jaspers, Kierkegaard, Marcel, Nietzsche, Sartre, and de Beauvoir. Topics such as hope, anxiety, bad faith, subjectivity, freedom, social being, phenomenological method.

Average Grade - 3.261
Median Grade - 4.0
23 total students

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PHL 330 - Formal Deductive Reasoning

Formal methods in deductive reasoning. Logic of connectives and quantifiers including identity, functions, and descriptions.

Average Grade - 2.475
Median Grade - 3.0
121 total students

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PHL 340 - Ethics

Inquiry through the writings of some important theorists, their critics and their contemporary followers. Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill, Sidgwick.

Average Grade - 2.856
Median Grade - 3.0
59 total students

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PHL 344 - Ethical Issues in Health Care

Termination of treatment, truth-telling, informed consent, human experimentation, reproductive issues, allocation of scarce resources, justice and the health care system.

Average Grade - 3.580
Median Grade - 4.0
123 total students

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PHL 353 - Core Themes in Peace and Justice Studies

Core themes in peace and justice studies, including concepts of violence, conflict and reconciliation as informed by problems of inequality, power, and recognition. Institutional and practical approaches to nonviolence.

Average Grade - 3.871
Median Grade - 4.0
35 total students

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PHL 356 - Philosophical Aspects of Feminism

Conceptual and normative issues in feminist theory. Topics such as sexism, oppression, coercion, control, power, equality, personhood, respect and self-respect, rape, separatism, community, intimacy, and autonomy.

Average Grade - 3.182
Median Grade - 4.0
11 total students

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PHL 380 - Nature of Science

Conflicting views about science and values. Such topics as scientific methodology; the objectivity and value neutrality of science; the presuppositions, goals, and limits of science; and science and decision making.

Average Grade - 3.875
Median Grade - 4.0
16 total students

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PHL 431 - Topics in Philosophy of Logic and Language

Investigation of logical concepts. Philosophical significance of twentieth-century results in logic. Related issues in the semantics and pragmatics of natural language.

Average Grade - 2.721
Median Grade - 3.0
34 total students

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PHL 432 - Logic and its Metatheory

Logical consequence, first-order predicate logic with identity, including functions and descriptions. Proof theory and model theory. Topics in metatheory such as completeness, compactness, and the Lowenheim-Skolem Theorems. The axiomatic method and Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.

Average Grade - 3.132
Median Grade - 4.0
42 total students

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