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4.00 Credits
The diversity of the philosophy and religion of India from Rig Vedic times to the 20th century. Development of the Upanishads, Yoga systems, the great epics, the bhakti movements; emergence of Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Indian Islam. 4 lectures/problemsolving.
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3.00 Credits
A critical investigation of the moral, political, and philosophic underpinnings of education in a democratic society. Application of theoretical knowledge to particular contemporary problems facing educators today.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the nature and meaning of death in literature and philosophy. Topics include defining death, understanding what, if anything, makes death something to fear, immortatility, and the morality of issues pertaining to death; killing, abortion, and suicide. Fulfills GE Area C4. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Area A and subareas C1, C2, and C3.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the basic value and policy assumptions that structure the foundations of the law. Statutory language, judicial rulings, and constitutional controversies are examined. The writings of legal theorists from a variety of disciplinary perspectives are studied, including political scientists, legal academics, ethicists, historians, and economists. 4 lecture/discussions. Fulfills GE Area C4 or D4. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Area A and subareas C2, C3, D1, and D2.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar in current issues occasioned by new medical technology. Includes defining death, informed consent, autonomy, allocating scarce medical resources, and ethical theory. Primarily designed for philosophy, premed, and health sciences students. 4 seminars. Fulfills GE Area B4 or C4. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Area A and subareas B1, B2, C2, and C3.
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2.00 Credits
Hospitalbased internship supervised by a clinical ethicist. Exposure to moral dilemmas in patient care and to procedures for addressing them. Fieldwork. Prerequisite: PHL 433 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of central controversies in moral, political, or legal philosophy with special emphasis on contemporary texts and thinkers. 4 seminars. Prerequisite: PHL 309, PHL 420.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the traditional problems in the philosophy of mind. Topics include dualism, materialism, philosophical behaviorism, functionalism, the nature of conscious experience and the possibility of artificial intelligence. 4 hours lecture/problem solving.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary empirical study of the mind. Topics include mental representation, learning, emotion, perception, and consciousness. 4 lecture/discussions. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Area A, two courses of B1, B2, or B4, and two of C1, C2, or C3; and PSY 210 or permission of instructor. Fulfills GE Areas B5 or C4.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar in the scope and limits of human knowledge and its relationship to metaphysics: the relationship between knowledge and certainty, the conduct of inquiry in the sciences and humanities, rationalism, empiricism, the relationship of the knower to the known. 4 seminars.
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