Philosophy and Religion

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Survey of Old Testament literature and thought. Discussion of the text in terms of the significance of the creation stories, the Exodus, the law, the prophets, etc.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Comprehensive study and comparison of the fundamental concepts, practices, institutions, and writings of the major world religions.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: A study of the emergence of philosophy in the ancient Greek world. The course focuses primarily on the metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of Plato and Aristotle, but will include a discussion of the Pre-Socratic, Hellenistic, and Roman philosophers as time permits.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: In-depth seminar in a topic in philosophy and/or religious studies. May be taken twice for academic credit.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: An introduction to the discipline of philosophy. Topics covered include the nature of reality, problems about knowledge, the existence of God and nature of religious thinking, personal identity and immortality, consciousness and the mind/body problem, morality and ethics, and the nature and value of art.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Examination of religion from the perspective of its project of maintaining predictable order, derived from a sacred source, and contending against forces of dissolution. Specific references to religious traditions (one familiar and one unfamiliar) will be made. Theoretical and practical issues explored.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: This course is an introduction to formal symbolic logic. Includes a study of truth tables and natural deduction, in both propositional as well as predicate logic. Topics in the philosophy of logic covered as time permits.