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4.00 Credits
Introduces the central questions and major thinkers of philosophy: Does God exist? What is real? Why be moral? What can we know? What matters? Staff, Stafford.
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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. Edelglass.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces critical thinking and writing. Topics include the nature of argumentboth inductive and deductive, deductive argument patterns, informal logical fallacies, non-argumentative persuasion, and the critical evaluation of claims. Walsh.
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4.00 Credits
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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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.
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4.00 Credits
Studies Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Analyzes Asian views on ethics, poli- tics, 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. Staff.
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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. Walsh, Stafford.
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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
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.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq.: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor. Investigates the impact of racism and sexism on self-awareness and self-understanding. If I am a person of color, or a woman, or both, how is the meaning of my identity constituted? Are race and gender natural categories? Does it matter? How does the way others see me affect the ways I see myself? What ought to be the relationship between social policy and identity? Walsh.
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