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All courses include:
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Multiple chances to improve your grade
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Student support 7 days a week
Introduction to Philosophy
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3 Credits
About This Course
ACE Approved 2023
The Introduction to Philosophy online course is critical in helping you step into the field of philosophical inquiry. After defining philosophy and identifying the major fields of philosophical study, our Intro to Philosophy course examines the history of Western thought, from the famous Greek philosophers up to the cutting-edge intellectuals of today.
What You'll Learn
Identify the major philosophical controversies.
Evaluate the Socratic method and the basic principles of logic.
Evaluate the Socratic method and the basic principles of logic.
Analyze the concepts of empiricism with reference to the theories of Locke, Hume, and Berkeley.
Analyze Kant's theory that experience is the result of sense data processed by the mind and relate it to modern cognitivism and constructivism.
Explore the concepts of structuralism and deconstruction.
Understand the main ideas of existentialism as a counter to Hegelian Absolute Idealism.
Examine some modern approaches to the debate on the mental-physical divide.
Compare the approaches of Kant, Nietzsche, and the pragmatists to the concept of knowledge.
Analyze the theories that see mental states as functional states and examine their implications.
Critically evaluate the concepts of free will and determinism.
Examine the cosmological arguments for the existence of God.
Compare theories that insist on universal values with those that argue that values are culture-specific.
Critically examine theories that see the self as a self-generating process rather than as a static entity.
Compare Mill's and Marx's views on the relation between the individual and the state.
Examine the teachings of Taoism, Confucianism, Zen Buddhism and other Eastern influences on philosophy.
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During this Introduction to Philosophy course, you will dive into various thematic topics, including metaphysics, epistemology, free will and determinism, evil and the existence of God, personal identity, ethical values, and political philosophy.
There are no prerequisites to take Introduction to Philosophy.
| Topic | Subtopics |
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| Introduction to Philosophy and Philosophical Reasoning |
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| History of Western Thought: The Greeks to the Middle Ages |
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| Epistemology: The Search for Knowledge |
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| History of Western Thought: The Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century |
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| Metaphysics: The Mind-Body Problem |
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| History of Western Thought: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century |
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| Personal Identity |
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| The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Continental Tradition |
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| History of Western Thought: The Twentieth Century |
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| Ethical Values |
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| Political Philosophy |
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| Evil and Existence of God |
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| Free Will and Determinism |
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| Eastern Influences |
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Your score provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
Assignments for this course include:
- 4 Graded Exams
- 1 Graded Final
The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost.
Moore, Brooke Noel and Kenneth Bruder. Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 10th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2019. ISBN: 9781259320521
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