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4.00 Credits
Offers students involved in all aspects of information technology an opportunity to reflect on the unique responsibilities of information technology professionals, the benefits and the costs of various aspects of the technology, and the implications for the future of currently evolving technologies. Stafford.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the theoretical approaches to ethics in the classical western tradition (Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill) and in multicultural and contemporary perspectives. Topics include theories of the good, moral relativism, concepts of moral obligation, definitions of virtue, and utilitarian philosophy. Torres Gregory.
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Discusses classic and contemporary theories of political justice. Topics include the relationship of personal ethics to political justice, the extent of our obligations to the state, the nature and proper scope of liberty and equality, and the relationship of justice to various economic and social systems. Walsh, Welch.
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Preq.: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor. Examines the nature of language and its relation to meaning, reference, truth, and power. Provides a survey of philosophical reflections on language from various historical periods and different traditions, including classics in twentieth-century analytic philosophy as well as recent multicultural and feminist perspectives. Torres Gregory.
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Prereq.: One course in either PHIL or PSYC or instructor consent. Explores the nature of human consciousness and the self. Focuses on the views of contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and Eastern religious thinkers; readings include classical authors such as Descartes as well as contemporary philosophers such as Daniel Dennett. Stafford.
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Prereq.: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor. Examines the nature and varieties of human knowing.Considers classical approaches as well as more contemporary approaches. Topics include tacit knowing, mystical knowing, the possibility of objective and subjective knowledge, and the role of knowledge in contemporary society. Torres Gregory.
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Prereq.: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor. Explores the origins of western philosophy in the Greek tradition, offering an opportunity to get in at the start of the conversation when western philosophy was first shaping the concepts and questions that still concern us today. Plato and his precursors and Aristotle and his followers are conversation partners for the semester. Staff.
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Prereq.: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor. Considers the modern period in philosophy, which, beginning with Descartes and ending with Kant, reflects the radical changes occurring in society at that time resulting, in particular, from the scientific revolution. Analyzes some of those changes, focusing on the major philosophical views of the period. Examines issues of personal identity, knowledge, the existence of God, and the nature of the external world. Staff.
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Prereq.: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor. Discusses philosophy in the 19th century as it struggles with its disenchantment with modern optimism and raises new questions about political revolution, utopian visions of society, personal despair and human freedom, economic turmoil, control and wealth, and subjectivity and truth. Examines the views of thinkers including Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky. Torres Gregory.
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Prereq.: One course in philosophy or consent of the instructor. Discusses contemporary philosophy as it reflects on its own methodology and turns that reflection into self-criticism. Explores some of the directions that philosophy has taken since the 20th century, including phenomenology, existentialism, philosophy of language, and postmodernism, and raises questions about the future of philosophy. Studies authors such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Quine, and Derrida. Torres Gregory.
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