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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Introduces the central questions and major thinkers of philosophy: Does God exist? What is real? Why be moral? What can we know? What matters? Stafford.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Explores a cluster of problems and competing perspectives: the nature of religious language, the evidence for and against the existence of God, the problem of evil, the relationship of faith to reason, and the meaning of death in light of differing analyses. Luo.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Introduces critical thinking and writing. Topics include the nature of argument - both inductive and deductive, deductive argument patterns, informal logical fallacies, nonargumentative persuasion, and the critical evaluation of claims. Torres Gregory.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Explores argument forms and the nature of validity and deductive reasoning, including proof procedures, truth tables, syllogisms, quantification, and predicate logic. Torres Gregory.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines moral questions concerning rights and responsibilities in professional biomedical relationships. Includes issues such as truth-telling, informed consent, privacy, confidentiality, patient self-determination, reproductive technologies, euthanasia, eugenics, and broader questions of justice in health care. Trigilio.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Not offered in 2008-2010.] Explores basic philosophical issues that cut broadly across the various arts, using historical and recent writings. Explores issues including the definition of art, artistic intentions and interpretation, expression, representation, emotion and the arts, the value of art, and the role of art in society. Luo.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Studies Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Analyzes Asian views on ethics, politics, the nature of ultimate reality, and the understanding of human life through ancient and modern texts. Discusses concepts such as reincarnation, karma, yoga, dharma nirvana, enlightenment, jen, ji, tao, and yin and yang. Luo.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Explores human nature, including the views of sociobiologists and their critics, the mind/body dualism of Descartes, physicalism, the nature of the self, and the possibility and relevance of machine intelligence. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Explores philosophical issues underlying environmental and ecological controversies. Issues include whether the value of a human being is fundamentally different from the value of other living species or of the environment itself, what role consumer goods and services play in a good life, and whether environmental consciousness conflicts with a good life. Stafford.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines philosophical themes and issues found in major works of literature and film. Based on a realization that meaning and truth arise through reflection upon everyday lived reality, we explore how one lives, struggles, and creates meaning in one's search for identity, wholeness, and truth by examining works of literature and film through various lenses of critical analysis. Staff.
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