Schedule of Classes

Major value issues addressed by the world's most influential philosophers.

Introduction to the three great intellectual and spiritual traditions of China: Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. Examination of values, ethical reflection, modes of moral and spiritual cultivation, and metaphysical reasoning presented in the foundational sources of these traditions.

An overview of the history of philosophy from Thales to William of Ockham. An introduction to doing philosophical research and writing.

Develop skills in analysis and evaluation of reasoning in everyday situations; improves insights into argument construction and exact methods of proof.

Development of ideas having a significant influence on Western thought during the Renaissance and modern periods, terminating with the philosophy of Hegel.

Logical systems: propositional and predicate calculi. Truth tables, proofs, tautologies, principles of inference, Boolean algebra, DeMorgan's Laws, quantifiers, representations, and set theory. Cross-listed as CS 320.

Nature of religion; function and validity of religious concepts in the modern world. Cross listed as RLS 344.

Major ethical theories as they provide insights into our existence as moral beings; how we exhibit this in moral decision and behavior.

Directed individual study.