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| What is Philosophy? | |
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| The Activity of Philosophy | |
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| Philosophy of Everyday Life | |
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| Reading: Stewart, Philosophy and Popular Culture | |
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| Philosophy's History | |
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| Philosophy and the Examined Life | |
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| Reading: Socrates, In Defense of Philosophy | |
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| Thinking about Thinking (Logic) | |
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| The Life of Reason | |
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| Argument Forms | |
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| Induction and the Philosophy of Science | |
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| Strategies for Philosophical Argument | |
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| Reading: Thomas A. Shipka, Are You a Critical Thinker? | |
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| What is Real. (Metaphysics) | |
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| Introduction to Metaphysics | |
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| Materialism | |
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| Reading: Epicurus, First Principle of Materialism | |
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| Idealism | |
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| Reading: George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous | |
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| The Mind-Body Problem | |
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| Reading: Richard Taylor, Materialism and Personal Identity | |
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| Metaphysics and Language | |
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| Reading: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations | |
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| How Do We Know? (Epistemology) | |
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| Introduction to Epistemology | |
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| Appearance and Reality | |
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| Reading: Plato, The Visible and the Invisible | |
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| The Quest for Certainty | |
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| Reading: Reneacute; Descartes, Mediations | |
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| Trust Your Senses | |
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| Reading: David Hume, Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding | |
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| A Compromise | |
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| Reading: Immanuel Kant, Two Sources of Knowledge | |
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| What Ought we to do? (Ethics) | |
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| Introduction to Ethical Reasoning | |
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| The Need for Morality | |
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| Reading: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan | |
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| The Morality of Self-Realization | |
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| Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics | |
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| Morality Depends on the Consequences | |
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| Reading: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism | |
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| Morality Depends on Motives | |
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| Reading: Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Introduction to Philosophy and Religion | |
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| Religion and Life's Meaning | |