Philosophy Major: Research
As a philosophy major, you will consider the central questions of human life. If you plan to pursue graduate studies, it is recommended that you follow the philosophy research specialization. It will give you a broad background in philosophy, which is a competitive advantage when applying to graduate programs in the field.
sample courses:
This course serves as an introduction to philosophy in the western analytic tradition. The course will place a strong emphasis on learning how to read philosophical texts and how to assess and produce compelling philosophical arguments. We shall discuss questions in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion, such as: What is knowledge? What can we know? What is a mind, and is it distinct from a brain? Can we prove whether or not God exists? Is it rational to be religious?
This course surveys some important issues in the philosophy of logic. We begin with basic foundational issues in classical logic, including the relation of logic to psychological reasoning and Tarski's definition of logical consequence, and gradually go on to consider the motivations and status of well-known extensions (sometimes regarded as 'neo-classical' logics) such as modal logics and second-order logic. In the last weeks of the course, we'll examine some outright challengers, including intuitionistic and paraconsistent logics. After evaluating the arguments for and against these challenges, we'll examine one recent, controversial view-logical pluralism-which suggests that we might not need to choose among the rival systems.
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