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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Topics to be investigated include the nature of language and communication; the distinction between natural and artificial language; the traditional division of the field into syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; and such specialized subtopics as meaning, reference, truth, and speech acts. Completion of PHIL 2311 is recommended, but not required.
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3.00 Credits
Selected ethical issues in business, such as the nature and moral status of capitalism; corporate moral agency and responsibility; issues and challenges in the workplace (e.g., civil liberties, personnel policies, unionization, privacy, and safety); moral choices facing employees (e.g., loyalty, insider trading, and whistleblowing); job discrimination (e.g., affirmative action, comparable worth, and sexual harassment); consumer protection; environmental protection; and globalization.
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of the basis (if any) of political obligation. Analysis of social and political concepts, such as equality, liberty, rights, and justice. Discussion of social and political theories, such as anarchism, contractarianism, Marxism, and conservatism.
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of a single moral issue or a cluster of issues that arise in the context of a particular profession. Examples of the former are abortion, punishment, freedom of speech, the environment, and the moral status of animals. Examples of the latter are business ethics, legal ethics, engineering ethics, nursing ethics, and computer ethics. May be repeated for credit as content changes.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary course designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates in the Honors College.
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1.00 Credits
Topics assigned on an individual basis covering research of individual students or study in designated areas. May be repeated for credit.
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2.00 Credits
Topics assigned on an individual basis covering research of individual students or study in designated areas. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
The role of ideas in literature and an analysis of the actual contacts between philosophy and the dominant world views of the great writers of literature.
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3.00 Credits
Phenomenology is a major philosophical movement based on the methodically controlled and objectively validated description of human experience, as uncovered at first introspectively. This course focuses on (1) the origin of the movement in common problems stemming from the devaluation of the subjective point of view brought on by positivistic and scientistic views in philosophy and the sciences, (2) the development of the movement's method, and (3) a close study of some influential phenomenologists.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical hermeneutics'the theory or study of interpretation'dates back at least to Aristotle and grew in the 20th century from a focus on texts to an analysis of the interpretation of every human act and idea. This course traces the history of the problems of interpretation from Aristotle to the present.
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