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Oct 15, 2024
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PHI 101 - Introduction to Philosophy Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Core Exploration of basic questions in epistemology, metaphysics and ethics. Emphasis on western philosophy tradition. Competencies
- Analyze what philosophy is
- Define what “philosophy” is in the western tradition
- Contrast various definitions of philosophy, such as self-understanding, love and pursuit of wisdom, meaning of foundational concepts, rational justification, etc.
- Distinguish philosophy from non-philosophy
- Describe the topical divisions of contemporary western philosophy
- Describe metaphysics
- Describe value fields
- Describe epistemology
- Describe philosophy of religion
- Evaluate claims about truth
- Define propositional truth
- Discuss various meanings of truth
- Define objective and subjective claims
- Distinguish between objective and subjective claims
- Evaluate whether and why a given claim is objective or subjective
- Evaluate claims according to contemporary processes and standards of justification
- Recall the distinction between warranted and unwarranted claims
- Distinguish between warranted and unwarranted claims
- Evaluate why a given claim is warranted or not
- Justify philosophical positions using evidence and reasoning
- Discuss coherence, non-contradiction, and consistency as standards of justification
- Assess counter-arguments and rebuttals per contemporary standards of justification
- Articulate the standard of justification to which a criticism or rebuttal appeals
- Formulate counter-arguments and rebuttals to a given position
- Evaluate counter-arguments and rebuttals to a given position
- Evaluate central problems in metaphysics and philosophy of mind
- Define metaphysical dualism and monism
- Compare and contrast metaphysical dualism and monism
- Define mind-body dualism and physicalism
- Summarize the implications and contrasts of mind-body dualism, physicalism, etc.
- Outline what consciousness might be for physicalism, dualism, etc.
- Describe libertarian, determinist, and compatibilist notions of free will
- Discuss how each of libertarianism, determinism, and compatibilism inform differing conceptions of consciousness
- Outline central concepts in epistemology
- Define knowledge as “Justified True Belief” and as correspondence
- Describe knowledge of the external world and of the inner world, i.e., Cartesian skepticism vs. self-knowledge
- Generalize some differences between knowledge of the external and inner worlds
- Explain how reason, intuition, and sensation are sources of knowledge
- Describe structures of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, and scientific logic (inference to the best explanation or abduction)
- Distinguish how differing structures of knowledge might yield differing and possibly contradictory knowledge claims
- Outline the basic vocabulary of ethics
- Define ethics/morality, person/moral agent, and moral value
- Contrast normative vs. descriptive ethics
- Identify and distinguish different moral frameworks, i.e., consequentialism, deontology, virtue
- Outline the basic concepts in philosophy of religion
- Define religion
- Distinguish philosophy from religion
- Describe arguments for the existence of God, such as the cosmological, ontological, and by design
- Describe atheist arguments
- Describe the problem of evil and problem of natural evil
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