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PHIL 1000 (UGA)
Introduction to Philosophical Issues (3 semester hours)

Web Course Format: ALISSA

This course can be taken
    -> as a web course
    -> as a print course

Lessons for this course can be submitted and/or be returned
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    -> via fax return from IDL

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Not open to students with credit in UGA PHIL 1000H.

A critical exploration of such topics as knowledge and belief, God and the problem of evil, freedom and determinism, the right and the good, language and meaning, mind and body, appearance and reality, and man and the world.

Requirements: Eleven lessons (including three periodic assessments) and one examination.

Instructor: Ashley Sherman, Ph.D., University of Georgia.

Text: Velasquez, Manuel. Philosophy: A Text with Readings, (9th ed.), Thomson/Wadsworth Publishing, 2008.

Supplemental Readings available on e-Reserves (access supplied by IDL.)