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Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate content from the course readings and in-class discussions to produce a portfolio of written work that reveals an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the history of moral philosophy that approximately tracks the progression of the course in real time.
2. Communicate their assimilation of a reasonable subset of the course readings and in-class discussions via organized, cogent prose.
3. Support and enhance the learning of their peers via oral contributions to discussions, active listening, or other means provided or required by the syllabus.
4. Reconstruct arguments from the philosophical texts being studied and raise interpretive questions about or accurately targeted objections to those arguments, in written or oral forms as required by the syllabus, at an intermediate level.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate content from the course readings and in-class discussions to produce a portfolio of written work that reveals an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the history of political philosophy (and the construction of its canon) that approximately tracks the progression of the course in real time.
2. Communicate their assimilation of a reasonable subset of the course readings and in-class discussions via organized, cogent prose.
3. Support and enhance the learning of their peers via oral contributions to discussions, active listening, or other means provided or required by the syllabus.
4. Reconstruct arguments from the philosophical texts being studied and raise interpretive questions about or accurately targeted objections to those arguments, in written or oral forms as required by the syllabus, at an intermediate level.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate content from the course readings and in-class discussions to produce a portfolio of written work that reveals an increasingly sophisticated understanding of normative ethics (in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition) that approximately tracks the progression of the course in real time.
2. Communicate their assimilation of a reasonable subset of the course readings and in-class discussions via organized, cogent prose.
3. Support and enhance the learning of their peers via oral contributions to discussions, active listening, or other means provided or required by the syllabus.
4. Reconstruct arguments from the philosophical texts being studied and raise interpretive questions about or accurately targeted objections to those arguments, in written or oral forms as required by the syllabus, at a lower-intermediate level.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate content from the course readings and in-class discussions to produce a portfolio of work that reveals an increasingly sophisticated understanding of metaphysics that approximately tracks the progression of the course in real time.
2. Communicate their assimilation of a reasonable subset of the course readings and in-class discussions via organized, cogent prose.
3. Support and enhance the learning of their peers via oral contributions to discussions, active listening, or other means provided or required by the syllabus.
4. Reconstruct arguments from the philosophical texts being studied and raise interpretive questions about or accurately targeted objections to those arguments, in written or oral forms as required by the syllabus, at an intermediate level.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate content from the course readings and in-class discussions to produce a portfolio of work that reveals an increasingly sophisticated understanding of epistemology that approximately tracks the progression of the course in real time.
2. Communicate their assimilation of a reasonable subset of the course readings and in-class discussions via organized, cogent prose.
3. Support and enhance the learning of their peers via oral contributions to discussions, active listening, or other means provided or required by the syllabus.
4. Reconstruct arguments from the philosophical texts being studied and raise interpretive questions about or accurately targeted objections to those arguments, in written or oral forms as required by the syllabus, at an intermediate level.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Use the axioms of logic and probability, including Boyes' Theorem, to calculate the probabilities of propositions/events given information presented in natural language.
2. Construct payoff-matrices from natural language descriptions of situations where a risky decision is necessary and explain the paradoxes of group decisions.
3. Explain the strengths and weaknesses of the four major theories of probability.
4. Demonstrate understanding of the logical structure of statistical propositions by defining and calculating confidence intervals, p-values, standard deviations, and related quantities.
5. Explain the philosophical problem of induction, its significance, and its proposed solutions.
6. Explain the logic of anthropic reasoning and its application to experience.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate content from the course readings and in-class discussions to produce a portfolio of written work that reveals an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the relevant area of political philosophy that approximately tracks the progression of the course in real time.
2. Communicate orally to their classmates (i) the arguments within the philosophical texts being studied, and (ii) interpretive questions about, and objections to, those arguments.
3. Enhance the learning of their peers via their oral contributions to discussions, class presentations, active listening, or other means.
4. Communicate their assimilation of a reasonable subset of the course readings and in-class discussions via organized, cogent prose.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate content from the course readings and in-class discussions to produce a portfolio of written work that reveals an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the relevant arc within the history of philosophy that approximately tracks the progression of the course in real time.
2. Communicate orally to their classmates (i) the arguments within the philosophical texts being studied, and (ii) interpretive questions about, and objections to, those arguments.
3. Enhance the learning of their peers via their oral contributions to discussions, class presentations, active listening, or other means.
4. Communicate their assimilation of a reasonable subset of the course readings and in-class discussions via organized, cogent prose.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate content from the course readings and in-class discussions to produce a portfolio of written work that reveals an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the relevant tradition of 20th century philosophy that approximately tracks the progression of the course in real time.
2. Communicate orally to their classmates (i) the arguments within the philosophical texts being studied, and (ii) interpretive questions about, and objections to, those arguments
3. Enhance the learning of their peers via their oral contributions to discussions, class presentations, active listening, or other means.
4. Communicate their assimilation of a reasonable subset of the course readings and in-class discussions via organized, cogent prose.