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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An examination of reasoning skills in ordinary language and argument as distinct from the formal techniques of logic.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the principles of good reasoning through a study of deductive logic, inductive logic, and informal fallacies. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to ethical problems in business. Included is a survey of theories of economic justice and the ethical implications of socialism and capitalism. Central moral problems include problems regarding hiring, firing, reverse discrimination, employer and employee rights and responsibilities, truth in advertising, responsibilities to the environment, and the responsibilities of multi-national conglomerates. Periodically.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course allows faculty and students to pursue subjects in philosophy that are treated briefly, or not at all, in the regular philosophy courses. The specific subject of the course will be announced at registration, as well as whether credits from this course will count toward the philosophy minor. Students may take this course more than once. Periodically.
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3.00 Credits
An historical survey of western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the sixteenth century. Problems and theories in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy are studied through the writings of the Pre-Socratics, followed by Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicureans, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Bacon, and Hobbes. Prerequisite: Previous course in Philosophy or consent of the instructor. Periodically, Fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of PHI 3011 from the seventeenth-century to the present. Philosophers studied include Spinoza, Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Marx, Russell, and Wittgenstein, Quine, and Rorty. Prerequisite: Previous course in Philosophy or consent of the instructor. Periodically, Spring 2009.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of current ethical problems in medicine and health care. Topics include ethical problems about the doctor-patient relationship, problems at the end of life, the beginning of life, and problems concerning the health care system. Specific issues to be discussed may include abortion, euthanasia, new reproductive technologies, the rights and responsibilities of patients, doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals, and justice and the health care system. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
A study of philosophical problems concerning the nature of the mind, including the mind-body problem. Prerequisite: previous course in philosophy or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of philosophical problems in science including the nature of scientific method, scientific law, prediction, and explanation. Periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Aesthetics, or Philosophy of Art, is an examination of problems and theories of the nature of art and aesthetic value. Problems concern the definition of art, the nature of beauty and aesthetic value, the nature of aesthetic judgments, the relationship between art and morality, and the nature of artistic creativity. Prerequisite: Previous course in Philosophy or consent of the instructor. Periodically.
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