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Prerequisite: PHIL 111 This course explores the ideas and techniques of inductive logic that are of use in understanding, developing and appraising inductive arguments as they occur in philosophy, education and science. Specifically, the course examines sampling and statistics, Mill’s methods, the probability calculus, the traditional problem of induction, Goodman’s paradox and the new problem of induction. (CHUM)
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Prerequisite: One 100-level, three-credit course in philosophy This course examines some of the central ideas and issues found in past and contemporary Vedanta, Yoga, and Buddhism, especially as they illuminate Asian/Western misunderstanding and relationships. Emphasis will be placed on concepts of moral value, human nature, salvation, harmony and pluralism. Offered alternate years. (CGCL; CHUM; CMCL; CWRT)
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Prerequisite: One 100-level, three-credit course in philosophy This course examines some of the central ideas and issues found in past and contemporary Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Shintoism, especially as they illuminate Asian/Western misunderstandings and relationships. Emphasis will be placed on concepts of moral value, human nature, salvation, harmony and pluralism. Offered alternate years. (CGCL; CHUM; CWRT)
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Prerequisite: Three credits in philosophy What is the basis of distinctions between human and animal, culture and nature, domestic and wild, civilized and primitive, the ethical and the natural? This course will examine these issues by pursuing questions such as: Does the value of nature consist entirely in how it can be used by humans? Do animals exert a moral claim on humans? Does wilderness have value in itself? Is there an obligation to use natural resources for human welfare? Are famine, population growth and pollution merely economic issues of resource distribution? Offered alternate years. (CHUM)
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Prerequisite: One 100-level, three-credit course in philosophy The development and application of modern technology have influenced human choices, self-understanding, and social organization. This course will examine the value implications of controversies such as reproductive technologies and choice, censorship and privacy on the Internet, DNA research and its applications, advertising in the classroom, and monopoly control of communication technologies. Offered alternate years. (CHUM)
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Prerequisite: One 100-level, three-credit course in philosophy This course examines law and justice, the structure of legal reasoning, the nature and justification of the adversary system, lawyers’ roles and ethics and questions such as: Should confidentiality, zealous advocacy, plea bargaining or the insanity defense be abolished? Is punishment morally defensible? What is the basis for legal interference with individual liberty? Do lawyers have an obligation to defend clients they find repulsive? Offered alternate years. (Formerly PHIL 322) (CHUM; CWRT)
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Prerequisite: One 100-level, three-credit course in philosophy This course examines philosophical questions arising in connection with the identification, interpretation and evaluation of art and its creation and questions such as: What is art? Is there a valid way to distinguish art from non-art and good art from bad art? Are there ways to establish the meaning of a work of art, or is all interpretation subjective? Do artists have moral responsibilities as artists? Should the government subsidize art? Offered alternate years. (Formerly PHIL 325) (CHUM; CWRT)
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Prerequisite: One 100-level, three-credit course in philosophy This course critically examines the nature and justification of religious claims, including discussion of: What are the grounds for belief or disbelief in God’s existence? Is religious discourse meaningful? Do faith and reason conflict? Is belief in immortality intelligible and/or defensible? Is religious knowledge possible? Are revelation and religious experience reliable sources of truth? Is it rational to believe in miracles? Is atheism a religion? Offered alternate years. (Formerly PHIL 328) (CHUM; CWRT)
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Prerequisite: One 100-level, three-credit course in philosophy An application of ideas about personal experience, problem solving, evidence, observation, testimony, theory-acceptance, and proof to claims about paranormal phenomena including ESP, near-death experiences, UFO abductions, psychic forecasting, miracle cures, and reincarnation. The course considers the extent and limits of our ability to explain such phenomena as well as the arguments of those who are skeptical about the paranormal. Offered alternate years. (CHUM)
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Prerequisite: One 100-level, three-credit course in philosophy This course discusses amoralism, egoism, and altruism as alternative life plans, raising such questions as: What is self-interest? Is being an egoist compatible with bonds of trust, friendship and love? Can we ever be true altruists? Is morality more rational than immorality? Are our ultimate life plans and commitments defensible? Why be moral? Offered alternate years. (Formerly PHIL 330) (CHUM; CWRT)
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