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4.00 Credits
An examination of ethical problems in health care and public policy, including problems that arise in connection with abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, gene therapy, human and animal experimentation, resource allocation, and advance directives. Our purpose will be to understand and appreciate the ethical questions raised by these issues and to consider and critically evaluate some prominent positions and arguments concerning them. Some key concepts of ethical theory will be discussed, including utilitarianism, individual rights, welfare, and autonomy. Part of Integrated Studies Program; requires concurrent enrollment in English 139. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
A calculus-based survey of mechanics of solids, momentum, work and energy, gravitation, and waves. May not be taken for credit if the student has earned credit for Physics 143. Lecture, laboratory, and discussion. Prerequisite: A working knowledge of high school or college calculus, or concurrent enrollment in Mathematics 121 or 161. Four credit hours. N. TATE
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4.00 Credits
Motion, forces, conservation laws, waves, gravity, Einstein's special relativity, and nuclear physics. For students who have had substantial physics and calculus courses in high school. May not be taken for credit if the student has earned credit for Physics 141. Lecture and laboratory. Four credit hours. N. BLUHM
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3.00 Credits
A calculus-based survey of electrostatics, magnetism, Faraday's law, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, and optics. Lecture, laboratory, and discussion. Formerly listed as Physics 142. Prerequisite: Physics 141 or 143. Four credit hours. N. LONG
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the theory and practice of rational argumentation. Diagramming, fallacy identification, and propositional logic--the formal and critical tools needed for argument analysis--are developed in order to enhance the ability to understand, construct, and critically evaluate arguments. Not open to students with credit for Philosophy 158. Four credit hours. Q. COHEN
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the techniques of formal reasoning, and the nature of logic systems, with applications in ordinary language. Propositional logic, predicate logic, and Boolean systems. Not open to students with credit for Philosophy 151 or 152. Four credit hours. Q.
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4.00 Credits
What does it mean to be human Varied answers, from the ancient Greeks to the present, define humanity as related to but distinct from animals, as a conjunction of animal life and something else--language, reason, or soul. What is the relationship between humanity and the animal kingdom How essential are the divisions internal to human society, such as those of race, class, gender, and culture What is the place of human being in nature What sense does it make to speak of a distinctly human nature Readings from the classical, modern, and contemporary Western philosophical traditions. Four credit hours. S. PETERSON
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3.00 Credits
The scientific and philosophical contributions of ancient Greece were unprecedented and unsurpassed for centuries afterwards. Despite these great advances in knowledge, Greek philosophy produced great skeptics, philosophers who doubted the possibility that humanity could ever attain any real knowledge. How could the same society that gave birth to such landmarks as Aristotelian physics, Ptolemaic astronomy, and Euclidean geometry also produce the skeptical writings of Sextus Empiricus Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Anthropology 175. Four credit hours. S. COHEN
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4.00 Credits
An investigation of the continuities and discontinuities between the philosophical life of Plato's Socrates and the lives of ordinary Athenians. Considers how Socratic philosophical practice drew on key elements of Athenian democratic life; what Socrates's religious ideas owe to traditional beliefs and how they seek to upend them; what familiar Greek notions of human nature have to do with Socrates's own human wisdom; how Socrates's ideas about Athenian law both depend upon and challenge normal practices of Athenian civic life; and how Socrates's ideas about Eros reproduce and revise earlier and more conventional notions. Concurrent enrollment in Anthropology 179 encouraged but not required. Four credit hours. H.
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1.00 Credits
The first semester of a year-long series of presentations from faculty and invited speakers on topics of current philosophical interest. Students are expected to attend all the colloquia, read the papers beforehand, and, with mentors, prepare questions to be asked of the presenters. One credit hour for completion of two semesters of the series. Prerequisite: Philosophy major or minor. Noncredit. GORDON
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