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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical examination of the major problems of religion such as the concept of human nature, the nature of religious knowledge and faith, the traditional arguments for God's existence, the problem of evil, and the nature and function of religious language.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to both traditional and modern symbolic logic with emphasis on problem solving through the applications of rules of validity and truth table tests for validity.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to philosophy via concentrated study of the works of two major philosophers, whose work has had a great cultural influence and has strong, systematic interrelations. The particular philosophers studied will vary from semester to semester, with professors' and students' interests. Emphasis is upon philosophy as involving a continuous and perennial dialogue between great minds.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of moral, legal, and conceptual problems in biomedical research, health care, and health policy. Topics include experimentation on human subjects, the physician-patient relationship, defining death, foregoing life- sustaining treatment, euthanasia, abortion, new reproductive technologies, human genetics, and the allocation of health care resources.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines alternative concepts of persons and personal identity and their application to the definition of life and death and debates over abortion, the use of embryonic stem cells for research, genetic enhancement, and euthanasia.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates philosophical issues in symbolic logic and other formal systems. Topics include: the metatheory of predicate logic and the structure of formal axiomatic systems; extended systems of logic including the modal and the temporal; set theories; abstraction; issues in the philosophy of mathematics.
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3.00 Credits
A detailed examination of selected moral theories: These may include the Aristotelian, Kantian, utilitarian, intuitionist, feminist and naturalist.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to and the use of the scientific methods and techniques as they are applied to the social sciences. Relations between the social sciences, the natural sciences and philosophy. Philosophic analysis of the various social sciences in terms of strengths, weaknesses, methods, models and goals.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophy of Mind is a major area of both historical and contemporary philosophy. This course surveys that area. It examines critically fundamental questions of mind and consciousness, such as the mind-body problem, free will, immortality, and artificial intelligence.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the perennial philosophical questions of what love is and means, and how we should behave sexually. It surveys classical, modern and contemporary philosophical writings on these metaphysical and ethical issues. It has two complementary themes: the historical development of major philosophical traditions concerning love and sexuality, and the pressing contemporary ethical issues concerning sexual behavior.
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