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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the central role of ethics in the conduct of business organizations and the people who administer them. Students will learn to identify ethical issues in business and to analyze them from the perspective of several philosophical moral traditions. We will consider ethical issues concerning both the overall economic system and the specific business areas of management, accounting, finance, and marketing. Students will be required to perform analyses of both philosophical readings and recent case-studies from the business world. Credits: 3(3-0)
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This course will examine the nature of science. What makes the difference between scientific theories and nonscientific ones? Is there a special kind of reasoning for science, or just a special subject matter? Does science have a greater claim to knowledge? What are the limits of science? Can religion and morality be turned into sciences, or is there a fundamental gap of some sort between these different realms? We will consider these questions both naively and in terms of a set of philosophical theories of science that have been developed over the past century. We will also examine a variety of longstanding conceptual problems in particular sciences, including mathematics. Finally, we will look at the important consequences of science in today's society, in particular the pressing issue of "junk science." Credits: 3(3-0) Offered every other spring
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3.00 Credits
This course will familiarize students with past and present theories and issues in the philosophy of education. Students will consider why humans educate themselves and their children; what they think constitutes reality; what knowledge is worth having and how humans beings acquire it; what constitutes the good life and how human beings organize society to promote it; and how education can encourage people to reflect on what it means to live ethically. The course will allow philosophy students to apply their knowledge of the discipline to an important realm of practical problems and provide education students an opportunity to think both critically and creatively about educational practice. (Cross listed with EDUC 305.) Prerequisites: PHIL 100 or INTD 203 or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered spring, even years
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3.00 Credits
A rigorous treatment of the propositional and predicate calculi. Topics considered are truth, validity, consequence, consistency, tautologousness, and derivability. A system of natural deduction is developed. The course also includes an introduction to set theory and proofs of the consistency and completeness of the predicate calculus. Prerequisites: PHIL 111 or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered once every 2 semesters
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3.00 Credits
An examination of schema for viewing human nature. Topics include the mind-body controversy, minds as machines, behavior- ism, materialist explanations of mind, personal identity, perception, dreaming, and the problem of choice. Prerequisites: One philosophy course or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered every three semesters
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3.00 Credits
An examination of classical and contemporary philosophical works addressed to the problems of intrinsic value, right conduct, good character, free will and responsibility, and moral knowledge. Prerequisites: One philosophy course or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered every spring
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3.00 Credits
An examination of fundamental epistemological concepts, including those of knowledge, necessary truth, universals, rational belief, and perception. Prerequisites: Two courses in philosophy or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered every spring
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of major metaphysical concepts, including those of infinite extent, continuity and infinite divisibility, space, time, substance, property, relation, universals, identity and individuation, change, necessity, and independence. Prerequisites: PHIL 111 and one other course in philosophy, or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered every fall
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3.00 Credits
An examination of some of the leading motifs of phenomenology and existentialism. The writings of representative thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre are considered. Prerequisites: PHIL 207 or permission from the instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered every three semesters
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3.00 Credits
An examination of contemporary and recent views concerning the nature of language and the ways in which language is conceived as bearing on philosophical problems. Topics covered include theories of reference and meaning, truth, analyticity, opacity, proper names, definite descriptions, demonstratives, the possibility of translation, semantic representation, the nature of propositions. Prerequisites: PHIL 111 and one other course in philosophy. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered every three semesters
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