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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Ethical problems current in the law, medicine, finance, government, journalism, and business, with particular emphasis on the classics of our ethical heritage. Prerequisite PHI 102. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the meaning of law, particularly legal reasoning, positive and normative functions of the law, and the nature of justice. Such legal theorists as Plato, Aquinas, Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, Hart, and Dworkin studied. Prerequisite: PHI 102. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the methods of inductive logic. Alternative concepts of probability. Study of mathematical probability and a study of such topics as the problem of induction, confirmation, and simplicity. Relevance of inductive logic to scientific method. Prerequisite: PHI 105. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates how the computer revolution influences the understanding of people as rational and moral agents. Covers computation and symbol manipulation; artificial intelligence and the mechanization of reason; robotics; virtual realities; and informational complexity. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. 3 credits. 346 College of Liberal Arts
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3.00 Credits
Study of the phenomenological method and its application in such fields as social sciences, aesthetics, value theory and theory of science. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Decision-making about ethics in medical contexts. Addresses intensely personal issues such as pain and suffering, death, God and family relations. Topics include euthanasia, genetic screening, distribution of resources, organ transplants and reproductive technologies. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. 3 credits.
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12.00 Credits
Intensive study of one major problem in philosophy. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits. Prerequisites: Upperdivision standing. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
(Same as CST 301 and SOC 356.) Study of the nature of culture norms, with reference to art, language, communication, religion, science, etc. Examination of the theoretical underpinnings of the study of culture in the humanities, the social sciences, and in “cultural studies.” Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. 3credits.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Plotinus, including the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and early Christian writers. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophy from Augustine to Nicholas of Cusa, including Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius, John Scotus Eriugena, Anselm, Abelard, Avicenna, Moses Maimonides, Averroes, Bonaventure, Roger Bacon, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham. Prerequisite: PHI 101. 3 credits.
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