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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3. An introduction to moral philosophy through selected contemporary issues, e.g. abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering and the treatment of animals. (H) (WR)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3, can be repeated with a change in content up to 6 credits. Check the department web site for a course description for the term in which it is given.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3. A systematic study of forms of deduction; techniques and topics include truth-functional analysis and quantification. (M) (MR)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3. A study of the central topics and concepts of the theory of knowledge, including the analysis of the concepts of knowledge, truth, justification, and related concepts, the nature of empirical knowledge, the problem of skepticism, the nature of a priori knowledge, and the structure of the justification of our beliefs. (H)
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Credits: 3. This course surveys the central issues in the philosophy of perception. It examines the nature of perceptual experiences, their relations to our environment, and to the perceptual beliefs we form on their bases.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3. A study of central contemporary issues in the philosophy of natural science, e.g., the nature of laws, the logic of discovery, and the relationships between different sciences. The sciences most used for illustration vary with the instructor. (H)
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Credits: 3. A study of such issues as the possibility of social laws, the nature of social explanation and rationality, and the role of value judgments in social-scientific research. (H)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3. A study of one or more of the problems of first philosophy: the concepts of existence, essence, object, property and event; universals and particulars; the nature of change, possibility, causation, space and time. Traditional philosophical issues such as free will, the mind/body problem, personal identity, and the existence of abstract entities (e.g., numbers), will be discussed as will views of realism, idealism, materialism and relativism. Topics can vary with the instructor. (H)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3. This course systematically addresses the ethical issues that arise in medicine and biotechnology.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3. Analysis and criticism of various normative ethical theories, such as egoism, utilitarianism, Kantianism, deontology and virtue ethics. (H)
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