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3.00 Credits
3 credits The course will begin with a thorough examination of the foundations of natural law ethics and consequentialist ethics. The instructor will then link those theories of morality with explicit assumptions regarding human nature. Central texts in the course will be Saint Thomas Aquinas' Prima Secundae and John Stewart Mill's Utilitarianism.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will provide a survey of some of the specific issues in health care ethics that are faced today by patients, provides, insurance companies and other constituencies in the health care arena. Such issues will include: access - how are limited resources to be allocated? Informed consent - whatinformation must patients possess in order to make reasonable and informed decisions about their heath care? What compensatory obligations do providers have in the realm of informed consent? Funding - should the quality of health care vary by the means of the payer? Death - what is death?Also, should a patient have the right to choose the time and means of his or her death? Procedures and technologies - are all possible procedures and technical interventions moral defensible?
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The course will examine critically the foundations of ethical or moral judgments on vital issues such as abortion, birth control, capital punishment, civil disobedience, divorce, drug-use, ecology, euthanasia, homosexuality, marriage, pre-marital sex, suicide, segregation, stealing, truth: acquiring-revealing- concealing, technology, war, and work.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course critically examines some of the most influential conceptions of the human person (e.g., the Platonic, the Aristotelian-Thomistic, the Judeo-Christian, the Hobbesian and that of other modern thinkers). It considers such fundamental issues as the existence and nature of the human soul; whether human beings are innately good, innately evil, both or neither; in what sense, if any, human beings are rational; and the nature and basis of human freedom.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course provides non-science as well as science majors the opportunity to examine key issues in the sciences in the light of major ethical theories. Among the issues to be examined are: abuses and uses of nuclear energy, behavior control and psychosurgery, chemical wastes and the environment, computerized files of personal information, computerization and depersonalization, experimentation with human subjects and animals, genetic engineering and screening, reproductive techniques, organ transplants, physician-patient relationships, and euthanasia.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits In this course, the third of four history of philosophy courses (prerequisite: PH253 History of Ancient Philosophy, and PH254 History of Medieval Philosophy), we study the major philosophical movements of the early modern period beginning with the rise of inductive natural science. We then examine rationalism, empiricism and conclude with Kant's critical philosophy. The central epistemological theme of the course reflects the modern conviction that before other sciences may be studied with profit, the possibility and modes of human knowledge must be determined.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course, the fourth of four history of philosophy courses, is an examination of the post-Kantian philosophy focusing on selected major movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as idealism, phenomenology, existentialism, and British analytic and ordinary language philosophy. Readings may include Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, James, Foucault, Wittgenstein, Ryle, and John Paul II, among others.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Epistemology is the study of how it is that humans come to know themselves and the world we inhabit. This course is a survey of theories of knowledge that span the western tradition from the Greeks to the present day. Issues raised will include the definitions of certainty and truth, the reliability of sense knowledge, the way in which we know ourselves and others, as well as other related issues raised by our authors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This interdisciplinary course explores the relationship between philosophy of art or aesthetics and developments in art history. The course involves a study of traditional and contemporary theories of art, an examination of selected figures and movements in art history, and an analysis of the vital interrelationship between the two disciplines of philosophy and art. Also offered as AR370.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits These courses will satisfy general education requirements and will give non-majors an opportunity to explore philosophical movements, figures, and issues. Specific topics are determined by the department and student interest, and have included American Philosophy, the rise of modern science, 20th century women philosophers, and philosophy of law.
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