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This course explores various philosophies and applies them along with knowledge from the social and/or natural sciences to issues in today’s world. We study and/or develop skills, abilities, theories, or methodologies from philosophy sub-disciplines such as ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics and connect them with skills, abilities, theories, or methodologies of the social and/or natural sciences. Students present original philosophical research via an in-class academic conference. Intended for students who have completed or are currently taking at least one other 300/400-level PHL course and who have completed all components of the Spartan Studies Core other than the Culminating Experience.

A project designed in consultation with a full-time professor in philosophy in which the student researches a philosophical topic or problem. May be repeated if content varies. Students will write at least one philosophical research paper that undergoes review and revision, and they will do other kinds of writing while engaging with philosophical issues.

Capstone course in which a student, in consultation with a full-time philosophy professor, writes a major research thesis on a philosophical topic.