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Upon completion of a major in Philosophy, students will be able to:

   Logical Reasoning

1. Understand the notions of ‘truth’, ‘soundness’, and ‘validity.’
2. Identify and understand various forms of logical fallacy.
3. Identify, understand, and construct logically well-formed arguments.

   Philosophical Argumentation

1. Understand what constitutes a philosophical (e.g., metaphysical, epistemic, ethical) position or argument.
2. Distinguishes pre-philosophical from philosophical positions or arguments.
3. Describe and evaluate, orally and in writing, philosophical positions and arguments.
4. Express and develop, orally and in writing, philosophical positions and arguments.
5. Exhibit dialectical complexity in their reasoning in support of or in countering philosophical positions or arguments.

   Key Philosophers and Key Positions

1. Identify, understand, and express, orally and in writing, key philosophical positions in a variety of philosophical genres and traditions.
2. Identify, attribute, understand, and express, orally and in writing, salient arguments of key philosophers (such as: Aquinas, Aristotle, Avicenna, Confucius, Darwin, Hume, Hypatia, Kant, Lao Tzu, Marx, Mill, Plato, Sartre, Socrates, Taylor-Mill, Wollstonecraft).
3. Reflect critically and empathetically on matters such as their own and others’ personal, racial, gender, ethnic, and cultural identity.
4. Reflect critically and empathetically on matters such as their own and others’ moral, political, and epistemic agency.

   Critical Thinking

1. Reflect critically and empathetically on matters such as their own and others’ personal, racial, gender, ethnic, and cultural identity.
2. Reflect critically and empathetically on matters such as their own and others’ moral, political, and epistemic agency.
   
   

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