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Introduction to Philosophy II. Explores foundational philosophical issues including idealism, skepticism, realism, naturalism, and ethical theories like utilitarianism.

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Epistemology. Explores the nature, possibility, and extent of knowledge, skepticism, a priori reasoning, and self-knowledge.

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Ethics. Examines major ethical theories and moral problems through classical and contemporary readings, including deontology, utilitarianism, and justice.

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Social and Political Philosophy I. Examines human nature, justice, and the ideal city through classical texts from Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

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Social and Political Philosophy II (English Component). Focuses on texts from early modern period to 20th century, emphasizing analytical writing and oral communication.

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Kant. Dedicated to a close reading of the 'Critique of Pure Reason', examining transcendental idealism, space, time, and the categories of understanding.

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Philosophy of Science. Examines the origins of modern empiricism, conventionalism, induction, scientific revolutions, and the philosophical foundations of evolutionary biology.

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Philosophy of Language. Explores sense, reference, rigid designation, and indeterminacy of meaning through Frege, Kripke, Quine, and Davidson.

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Metaphysics. Investigates fundamental questions of existence, including God, fine-tuning, skepticism, externalism, and the nature of counterfactuals.

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Moral Psychology. Investigates the nature of moral judgment, the role of disgust, hypocrisy, egoism versus altruism, and the evolution of normativity.

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