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Catalog : PHIL.3130 American Philosophy (Formerly 45.313)

PHIL.3130 — Undergraduate

Id: 005521 Offering: 1 Credits: 3-3

Description

American philosophy provides a historical approach to American intellectual history from 1830 to the present. American Transcendentalism and Pragmatism will be the two focal points in the course and students will be acquainted with authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, C.S. Peirce, William James, Jane Addams and John Dewey. The ideas of freedom, self-reliance, community, and moral life are the abiding threads in this tradition and will be explored in the course of the term.

Prerequisites

Pre-Req: ENGL.1020 College Writing II.

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PHIL.3130 — Online and Continuing Education

Id: 005521 Offering: 2 Credits: 3-3

Description

American philosophy provides a historical approach to American intellectual history from 1830 to the present. American Transcendentalism and Pragmatism will be the two focal points in the course and students will be acquainted with authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, C.S. Peirce, William James, Jane Addams and John Dewey. The ideas of freedom, self-reliance, community, and moral life are the abiding threads in this tradition and will be explored in the course of the term.

Prerequisites

Pre-Req: ENGL.1020 College Writing II.

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