1611 SOCIETY AND FREEDOM
This course will examine the possibility of according value to human-beings and showing the connection this value has to our existence as social creatures. The theme to be explored will revolve around the issue of whether freedom (fundamentally a modern conception) is anything more than an illusion formulated to control the population.

1651 THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC EUROPE
The chief features of the development of European science will be studied within a comparative framework. Scientific developments in different countries and at different times will be compared and contrasted to discern the effects of varying social and political conditions, as well as religious and philosophical expectations. The new conceptual tools forged in this context - in the era of Copernicus and Galileo, Newton and Lavoisier - will exemplify the emergence of modern science in Europe, especially Western Europe, in the period 1500 - 1800.

2500 COSMOLOGIES OF WESTERN THOUGHT
Traditionally, developments in western philosophic thought affirmed cosmological views of the nature and order of the universe. This course will consider those cosmologies that have formed the basis of our thinking, and the ways each came on stage, played its part, and yielded to others. The result is a selective study of Western attempts to understand the world and our place in it.

2611 INTRODUCTORY LOGIC I
A study of and exercise in the elementary forms of focussed thinking. Specific topics include the nature of categorical formulation, the techniques for distinguishing valid from invalid reasoning (deductive inference), and the principles violated in typical varieties of fallacious reasoning. Recommended as a first course for students in their second or third years, or as a second course in philosophy.

2621 INTRODUCTORY LOGIC II
A study of and exercise in more advanced forms of focussed thinking. Specific topics include the Greek understanding of the basis and goal of learning (inductive inference) and the modern logical reinterpretation of deductive, inductive, and fallacious reasoning.
Prereq: Philosophy 2611; or permission of the Department.

2701 ETHICS
An introduction to the history and problems of ethical Philosophy in the western tradition. This will acquaint the student with a number of received traditions based on metaphysical, religious, rational, and pragmatic grounds, as well as introduce certain fundamental perennial problems of moral decision-making.

2801 INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS
An examination of the concepts used to articulate our understanding of substance, personhood, and divinity.
Note: Courses at the 3000-4000 level should be selected in consultation with the Department.

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