Overview
Description
Detailed study of one or more figures in the American philosophical tradition with an emphasis on classical pragmatists (Peirce, James, Dewey) and their neopragmatist successors.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- 6 credits in philosophy.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
6 credits in philosophy.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a key text in the tradition of American philosophy, explain the thesis, and provide evidence, textual and philosophical, in its defense.
- explain and interpret some central ideas associated with one or more philosophers in the American tradition.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning,and recognize conceptual relationships, in a philosophical text in the American tradition and/or a secondary source that comments critically on it.
- show what is at stake, for current philosophical debates, in a philosophical text in the American tradition.