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| 2024-2025 | NURS 750 | Advanced Public Policy & Knowledge TranslationDoctoral students will learn how to affect health system and educational change through public policy and knowledge translation. The philosophical, theoretical foundations and multi-faceted strategies of public policy (including health policy and educational policy) and knowledge translation are examined during a residency at the world-class Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa. The student will apply knowledge translation concepts to their dissertation research plans. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): A graduate level course in knowledge translation, health policy or leadership.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 750 | Advanced Public Policy & Knowledge TranslationDoctoral students will learn how to affect health system and educational change through public policy and knowledge translation. The philosophical, theoretical foundations and multi-faceted strategies of public policy (including health policy and educational policy) and knowledge translation are examined during a residency at the world-class Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa. The student will apply knowledge translation concepts to their dissertation research plans. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 760 | Advanced Educational LeadershipDoctoral students will learn how to provide leadership to nursing education, drawing on higher education and leadership theories to analyze the sociopolitical context of nursing education. Particular attention is given to understanding the trifold role of the nursing professoriate of teaching, research, and service; and the management of learning environments. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): A graduate level course in nursing education or nursing leadership or Advanced Nursing Practice
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 760 | Advanced Educational LeadershipDoctoral students will learn how to provide leadership to nursing education, drawing on higher education and leadership theories to analyze the sociopolitical context of nursing education. Particular attention is given to understanding the trifold role of the nursing professoriate of teaching, research, and service; and the management of learning environments. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 800 | Dissertation SeminarThis seminar deals with theoretical and practical aspects of designing dissertation research through to the successful completion of the dissertation. Topics pertaining to access and recruitment of study participants, data collection, data analysis, and knowledge translation will be addressed. Doctoral students will engage with classmates and faculty on this online seminar once they have completed their comprehensive exams. (Year 3 and 4) Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NURS 700
NB: Over 6 semesters.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 800 | Dissertation SeminarThis seminar deals with theoretical and practical aspects of designing dissertation research through to the successful completion of the dissertation. Topics pertaining to access and recruitment of study participants, data collection, data analysis, and knowledge translation will be addressed. Doctoral students will engage with classmates and faculty on this online seminar once they have completed their comprehensive exams (Year 3 and 4). Course Credits: 3
NB: Over 6 semesters
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 833 | InternshipDoctoral students will complete an internship (approximately 100 hours) in mentorship with an expert nurse scholar-educator, researcher, policy analyst or leader. In conjunction with a faculty mentor, students will design and complete a project that is individualized to their learning needs and builds the professional skills of a nurse academician. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): First year of PhD Nursing courses
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 833 | InternshipDoctoral students will complete an internship (approximately 100 hours) in mentorship with an expert nurse scholar-educator, researcher, policy analyst or leader. In conjunction with a faculty mentor, students will design and complete a project that is individualized to their learning needs and builds the professional skills of a nurse academician. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 900 | Dissertation ProposalDoctoral students will design independent research, with the supervision of a committee with relevant substantive and methodological expertise. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Comphrensive exam and all core courses
NB: 3 sem hrs. per term. 9 semester hours total.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 900 | Dissertation ProposalDoctoral students will design independent research, with the supervision of a committee with relevant substantive and methodological expertise. Course Credits: 3
NB: 3 sem. hrs. per term. 9 semester hours total.
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 910 | Disseration ContinuationDoctoral students will conduct independent research, with the supervision of a committee with relevant substantive and methodological expertise. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NURS 900
NB: 3 sem hrs. per term. 12 semester hours total.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 910 | Dissertation ContinuationDoctoral students will conduct independent research, with the supervision of a committee with relevant substantive and methodological expertise. Course Credits: 3
NB: 3 sem. hrs. per term. 12 semester hours total.
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 945 | Dissertation ExtensionDoctoral students will design and conduct independent research, with the supervision of a committee with relevant substantive and methodological expertise. (dissertation extension) Course Credits: 0
Prerequisite(s): NURS 910
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 945 | Dissertation ExtensionDoctoral students will design and conduct independent research, with the supervision of a committee with relevant substantive and methodological expertise (dissertation extension). Course Credits: 0
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 100 | Philosophy for LifeExplores philosophy as a way of life accessible to all, in order to think more truthfully, act more justly, and live more faithfully. This course focuses on critical thinking as an invaluable ethical tool for interpreting current events. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the claims of contemporary culture and religious faith. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): None. (3,0)
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 100 | Philosophy for LifeExplores philosophy as a way of life accessible to all, in order to think more truthfully, act more justly, and live more faithfully. This course focuses on critical thinking as an invaluable ethical tool for interpreting current events. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the claims of contemporary culture and religious faith. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 103 | Introduction to LogicAn analysis of the use of reasoning in ordinary language. Students are introduced to deductive logic by learning how to recognize arguments by identifying some common fallacies and by learning several methods of assessing the quality of arguments. Both traditional and modern methods of determining deductive validity, including a formal theory of inference, are studied. In the process, students will apply logical reasoning to their own ideas and assumptions. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 103 | Introduction to LogicAn analysis of the use of reasoning in ordinary language. Students are introduced to deductive logic by learning how to recognize arguments by identifying some common fallacies and by learning several methods of assessing the quality of arguments. Both traditional and modern methods of determining deductive validity, including a formal theory of inference, are studied. In the process, students will apply logical reasoning to their own ideas and assumptions. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 105 | Introduction to PhilosophyThis course introduces some of the major questions about existence and what it is to be human while providing some of the foundational philosophical responses to these questions. Topics to be discussed include: the relation between perception and knowledge (appearance and reality); the existence and nature of God; human freedom and determinism; the meaning of human existence; the nature of moral judgments; the mind-body problem; artificial intelligence; feminist philosophy; the problem of suffering; and whether humans are capable of selfless motivation. Students will be encouraged to interpret and reflect upon the meaning of the relation between reason and faith as the joint foundation for addressing these questions in a logical and ethical manner. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 105 | Introduction to PhilosophyThis course introduces some of the major questions about existence and what it is to be human while providing some of the foundational philosophical responses to these questions. Topics to be discussed include: the relation between perception and knowledge (appearance and reality); the existence and nature of God; human freedom and determinism; the meaning of human existence; the nature of moral judgments; the mind-body problem; artificial intelligence; feminist philosophy; the problem of suffering; and whether humans are capable of selfless motivation. Students will be encouraged to interpret and reflect upon the meaning of the relation between reason and faith as the joint foundation for addressing these questions in a logical and ethical manner. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 106 | Introduction to Philosophy IIAn historical overview of the western philosophical tradition from Socrates to the present day. Considerable discussion will be devoted to the distinct approaches of ancient, medieval, and modern thinkers to the relation between reason and faith. Additionally, there will be extensive attention devoted to the history of logical and ethical reasoning as we evaluate the impact of these ideas on the present day. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged not only to analyze but also interpret these ideas in a respectful yet critical manner. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 106 | Introduction to Philosophy IIAn historical overview of the western philosophical tradition from Socrates to the present day. Considerable discussion will be devoted to the distinct approaches of ancient, medieval, and modern thinkers to the relation between reason and faith. Additionally, there will be extensive attention devoted to the history of logical and ethical reasoning as we evaluate the impact of these ideas on the present day. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged not only to analyze but also interpret these ideas in a respectful yet critical manner. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 109 | Critical Thinking: Informal LogicAn introduction to critical thinking/writing and informal logic in practical settings. This course examines the value of rational thinking in the face of everyday challenges, e.g., problem solving, making informed decisions, and evaluating whether a statement is true. Students dissect examples of good and poor reasoning, analyze informal fallacies, detect hidden assumptions and irrelevant premises in arguments, determine where an argument's burden of proof lies, and practice transferring critical thinking skills to their writing skills. Socratic method and Socratic dialogue is employed as a tool to assist students with their inquiry-based learning. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 109 | Critical Thinking: Informal LogicAn introduction to critical thinking/writing and informal logic in practical settings. This course examines the value of rational thinking in the face of everyday challenges, e.g., problem solving, making informed decisions, and evaluating whether a statement is true. Students dissect examples of good and poor reasoning, analyze informal fallacies, detect hidden assumptions and irrelevant premises in arguments, determine where an argument's burden of proof lies, and practice transferring critical thinking skills to their writing skills. Socratic method and Socratic dialogue is employed as a tool to assist students with their inquiry-based learning. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 111 | History of Western Philosophy: Ancient & Medieval PeriodA survey of the teachings of the great philosophers of the West, from the discovery of physics by the Pre-Socratics, to the culmination of medieval Scholasticism (i.e. in John of St. Thomas), with a special emphasis upon developments in the philosophy of religion. Course Credits: 3
NB: Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre.
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 111 | History of Western Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval PeriodA survey of the teachings of the great philosophers of the West, from the discovery of physics by the Pre-Socratics, to the culmination of medieval Scholasticism (i.e. in John of St. Thomas), with a special emphasis upon developments in the philosophy of religion. Course Credits: 3
NB: Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 203 | Ancient Greek WisdomAn examination of key contributions to Greek philosophy, especially the writings of Plato and Aristotle. In the process of dialoguing about these ideas, we shall also study the importance of ancient Greek philosophy in the history of thought as well as the original intent of the philosophers in question with attention to their historic context. We shall also assess the enduring relevance of ancient Greek philosophy to the modern age. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 203 | Ancient Greek WisdomAn examination of key contributions to Greek philosophy, especially the writings of Plato and Aristotle. In the process of dialoguing about these ideas, we shall also study the importance of ancient Greek philosophy in the history of thought as well as the original intent of the philosophers in question with attention to their historic context. We shall also assess the enduring relevance of ancient Greek philosophy to the modern age. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 204 | Asian PhilosophyA critical study of some of the most influential philosophies originating from South and East Asia, including but not limited to Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Students will analyze selected writings of significant Asian philosophers from these philosophical traditions, including both primary texts and commentaries, with a particular focus on metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and ethics for the purpose of exploring and evaluating these authors’ approaches to philosophical questions about reality, happiness, wisdom, the soul, morality, and the Divine. Understanding the historical importance of these Asian philosophies will help students to evaluate their ongoing contributions to the contemporary world. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 204 | Asian PhilosophyA critical study of some of the most influential philosophies originating from South and East Asia, including but not limited to Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Students will analyze selected writings of significant Asian philosophers from these philosophical traditions, including both primary texts and commentaries, with a particular focus on metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and ethics for the purpose of exploring and evaluating these authors’ approaches to philosophical questions about reality, happiness, wisdom, the soul, morality, and the Divine. Understanding the historical importance of these Asian philosophies will help students to evaluate their ongoing contributions to the contemporary world. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 208 | Philosophy of Society & LawAn introduction to the philosophy of society and law in Canada and around the world. In this exploration of the relation between society and the law, the first half of the course begins with an historic survey of the debates over the meaning of the law from antiquity to the present. The second half of the course reviews legal cases which have provoked, or are still provoking, debates over the meaning of law and society. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 208 | Philosophy of Society and LawAn introduction to the philosophy of society and law in Canada and around the world. In this exploration of the relation between society and the law, the first half of the course begins with an historic survey of the debates over the meaning of the law from antiquity to the present. The second half of the course reviews legal cases which have provoked, or are still provoking, debates over the meaning of law and society. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 210 | Contemporary Ethical IssuesThrough readings and class-discussion, this course introduces students to the foundational moral frameworks of western civilization and requires them to bring these frameworks to bear on some of the most important ethical issues arising in contemporary society: consumerism, technoculture, environmental ethics, responsibility to distant peoples, genetic engineering and cloning, and the promise and peril of nanotechnology. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 210 | Contemporary Ethical IssuesThrough readings and class-discussion, this course introduces students to the foundational moral frameworks of western civilization and requires them to bring these frameworks to bear on some of the most important ethical issues arising in contemporary society: consumerism, technoculture, environmental ethics, responsibility to distant peoples, genetic engineering and cloning, and the promise and peril of nanotechnology. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 220 | Philosophy of Sex & GenderThis course explores questions such as: What is feminism? What are the main schools of feminist thought? What is patriarchy? What is gender and does it differ from sex? Are there only two sexes? Are there only two genders? What is homosexuality? What are the different views on how same-sex attraction arises? Do feminism and Christianity have convergent trajectories? Is there a place in the church for those from the LGBTQ community? What are the cultural forces that format the thinking about these questions? Course Credits: 3
NB: Not offered every year. See department chair.
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 220 | Philosophy of Sex and GenderThis course explores questions such as: What is feminism? What are the main schools of feminist thought? What is patriarchy? What is gender and does it differ from sex? Are there only two sexes? Are there only two genders? What is homosexuality? What are the different views on how same-sex attraction arises? Do feminism and Christianity have convergent trajectories? Is there a place in the church for those from the LGBTQ community? What are the cultural forces that format the thinking about these questions? Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Second year standing.
NB: Not offered every year. See department chair
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 303 | Medieval PhilosophyThis course explores philosophical issues in the West from the second to the 14th century, in particular the impact of Greek philosophy on the development of Christian thought. There are three natural stages of this interaction: 1) Defensive philosophy (apologetics): responses to rational objections brought to bear against Christianity; 2) Methodology: reflection on the interaction between faith and reason, and, in particular, the nature of theology as a science; and 3) Constructive philosophy: struggles from within over a systematic metaphysics and ethics. A central theme of the course is the role of the doctrine of creation in the image of God. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 3 sem, hrs. of philosophy.
NB: May not be offered every year. Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre.
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 303 | Medieval PhilosophyThis course explores philosophical issues in the West from the second to the 14th century, in particular the impact of Greek philosophy on the development of Christian thought. There are three natural stages of this interaction: 1) Defensive philosophy (apologetics): responses to rational objections brought to bear against Christianity; 2) Methodology: reflection on the interaction between faith and reason, and, in particular, the nature of theology as a science; and 3) Constructive philosophy: struggles from within over a systematic metaphysics and ethics. A central theme of the course is the role of the doctrine of creation in the image of God. Course Credits: 3
NB: May not be offered every year. Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre.
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 304 | Philosophy of St. Thomas AquinasThis course studies key texts from Thomas Aquinas. The focus is on the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, but special attention is paid to his commentaries on Aristotle and on his Christian interpretation of ancient philosophy. The challenge that modern science and modern philosophy presents to Thomistic metaphysics is also discussed, with special attention paid to the highly influential critique made by Immanuel Kant. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 3 sem. hrs. of philosophy.
NB: Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre.
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 304 | Philosophy of St. Thomas AquinasThis course studies key texts from Thomas Aquinas. The focus is on the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, but special attention is paid to his commentaries on Aristotle and on his Christian interpretation of ancient philosophy. The challenge that modern science and modern philosophy presents to Thomistic metaphysics is also discussed, with special attention paid to the highly influential critique made by Immanuel Kant. Course Credits: 3
NB: Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre.
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 305 | Philosophy of the Human PersonThis course addresses what it means to say that human beings are persons having freedom and subjectivity; examines the different powers of the human person, including the powers of understanding, willing, feeling, and loving; studies the difference between body and soul, as well as the unity of the two in humans; and explores the question of the immortality of the soul. Some classic texts from the tradition of Western philosophy are read. Course Credits: 3
NB: Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre.
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 305 | Philosopy of the Human PersonThis course addresses what it means to say that human beings are persons having freedom and subjectivity; examines the different powers of the human person, including the powers of understanding, willing, feeling, and loving; studies the difference between body and soul, as well as the unity of the two in humans; and explores the question of the immortality of the soul. Some classic texts from the tradition of Western philosophy are read. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 3 sem. hrs. of philosophy.
NB: Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre.
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 306 | Philosophy of Culture, Media & TechnologyA critical investigation of the philosophical questions and assumptions that underly the relationship among culture, media, and technology. Students will investigate the philosophical underpinning and the anthropological import of various views of culture, media, and technology, asking critical moral questions about their tendencies to change and shape our human way of being. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 306 | Philosophy of Culture, Media, and TechnologyA critical investigation of the philosophical questions and assumptions that underly the relationship among culture, media, and technology. Students will investigate the philosophical underpinning and the anthropological import of various views of culture, media, and technology, asking critical moral questions about their tendencies to change and shape our human way of being. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 3 sem. hrs. of philosophy, or instructor permission.
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 310 | Issues in Social JusticeAn examination of ethical issues that pertain to social justice, addressing such topics as the distribution of wealth, the difference between equality and equity, the effects of globalization, and the morality of war. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 3 sem. hrs. of philosophy or political studies or third year standing.
Cross-listed: POLS 310 |
| 2025-2026 | PHIL 310 | Issues in Social JusticeAn examination of ethical issues that pertain to social justice, addressing such topics as the distribution of wealth, the difference between equality and equity, the effects of globalization, and the morality of war. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 313 | British EmpiricismA study of empiricist philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Selected writings of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume are analyzed and interpreted. As we discuss each author’s ideas, we will evaluate their positions on the limits of knowledge and experience, the intelligibility of revelatory truth, the existence of God, the divisibility of reality, the role of nature, and the ethics and politics of human life. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 6 sem. hrs. of philosophy.
NB: Not offered every year. See department chair
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 313 | British EmpiricismA study of empiricist philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Selected writings of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume are analyzed and interpreted. As we discuss each author’s ideas, we will evaluate their positions on the limits of knowledge and experience, the intelligibility of revelatory truth, the existence of God, the divisibility of reality, the role of nature, and the ethics and politics of human life. Course Credits: 3
NB: Not offered every year. See department chair.
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| 2025-2026 | PHIL 314 | Reason & the EnlightenmentA study of rationalist philosophy in the European Enlightenment period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Selected writings of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz are analysed and interpreted. As we discuss each author's ideas, we will evaluate their positions on: the limits of reason, the intelligibility of revelatory truth, the existence of God, the divisibility of reality, the role of nature, and the ethics and politics of human life. In the process of dialoguing about these ideas, we shall also study the historical importance of the Enlightenment in modernity as well as the original intent of the philosophers in question with attention to their historic context. We shall also assess the enduring relevance of the Enlightenment to the modern age. Course Credits: 3
NB: Not offered every year. See department chair.
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| 2024-2025 | PHIL 314 | Reason and the EnlightenmentA study of rationalist philosophy in the European Enlightenment period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Selected writings of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz are analysed and interpreted. As we discuss each author's ideas, we will evaluate their positions on: the limits of reason, the intelligibility of revelatory truth, the existence of God, the divisibility of reality, the role of nature, and the ethics and politics of human life. In the process of dialoguing about these ideas, we shall also study the historical importance of the Enlightenment in modernity as well as the original intent of the philosophers in question with attention to their historic context. We shall also assess the enduring relevance of the Enlightenment to the modern age. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 3 sem. hrs. of philosophy.
NB: Not offered every year. See department chair
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