Overview
Description
Intensive analysis of major topic or issue in philosophy.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 9 credits
Learning Outcomes
- summarize current research and critically review the secondary literature for a set of contemporary problems in philosophy.
- explain and interpret the ideas associated with the seminar topic in a research paper, with reference to historical texts or the contemporary philosophical literature.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in contemporary texts dealing with the seminar topic.
- show how the seminar topic is connected to broader philosophical concerns, and show what is at stake in its investigation.