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Course Criteria
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An introduction to a broad range of philosophical subjects and methodologies through an examination and analysis of contemporary moral problems-- e.g., abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, sexual morality, gender and racial discrimination, corporate crime, pornography and censorship, the death penalty, ecology, world hunger, etc.
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A survey of the beginnings of western philosophical thought focusing on the writings of the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle and others.
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Philosophical thought in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on the writings of such philosophers as Descartes, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
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Major movements in and methods of contemporary philosophical thinking with special attention to the analytic and existential thinkers. Offered in alternate years.
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An examination of issues in modern and contemporary art of interest to artists, the art public and philosophers of art. The object of the course is to provide representative tools of analysis and evaluation sufficient to enable a person to avoid both closemindedness and unreflective acceptance in encounters with difficult aspects of art in the twenty-first century. Covers topics such as: the creative, social, economic and gender dimensions of art; the responsibilities and integrigy of the art audience; aesthetics and art critism; kitsch and "bad art"; art and language; divine madness, the creative process; mythsticism and the unconscious.
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A study of the conceptual foundations of modern science. Focuses on the philosophical analysis of scientific method, its basic concepts and assumptions, as it has developed from classical Greek science. Includes a 3 hour laboratory in which students engage both in scientific testing and a logical analysis of the tests.
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Same as RS 234.
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Philosophical examination of a contemporary problem. Examples of possible topics: "The philosophical novel," "Philosophies of mysticism, magic and the occult," "Humanistic psychology and humanistic ethics," "Philosophy and the search for meaning in life," "Relativism, truth and morality." Designed for the general student who is interested in studying philosophical approaches to some contemporary issue.
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Examines theoretical and practical perspectives on ethical issues in relation to the environment. The theoretical issues range from whether we should assign moral value to species other than the human (and if so, on the basis of what criteria) to whether we have moral obligations to pre- serve the environment for future generations (and if so, what this would imply for the present generations). The practical issues range from creating incentives for restricting population growth without abdicating responsibilities toward the world's hungry, to the issue of what short- and long- term policies and practices need to be adopted to deal effectively with reducing pollution and hazardous waste while working toward a recycling, sustain- able global society.
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In-depth discussion of foremost leadership theories and their applications to different contexts; criticially examines morally distinct aspects of leadership such as re- lation tween power, self-interest and morality; analyzes leadership from within the ethical frameworks of virtue, duty and utility along with diversity.
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