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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Examination of several features of the relation between science and values. Topics may include ethical and social obligations of scientists, role of value judgements in scientific practice, and influence of social and political values on science and scientists.
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Inquiry into the philosophical foundations of social science, in particular questions of objectivity, explanatory structure, causality, agency, normativism and naturalism, and social determination of knowledge.
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Examines the interrelation of human bodies and emerging technologies in light of philosophical notions of human nature, personal identity, and the ethical dignity of the human. Emphasizes the influence of social values on scientific and technological developments and the reciprocal impact of these developments on understandings of the body.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of a variety of issues of broad concern to philosophers today. Issues may vary. May be repeated once for credit with departmental consent.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of issues and problems concerning the ultimate nature of reality. Topics may include the appearance/reality distinction, the nature of existence, freedom and determinism, personal identity, idealism, and realism.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical examination of how technology contributes to significant environmental change. Considers role of science in justifying claims about (for example) global climate change, role of technology in responding to these changes, how technology affects relations between humans and the extra-human world, and ethical implications of various kinds of technology.
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3.00 Credits
Explanation of the nature of legal theory and the law through a critical examination of the basic concepts and principles of these fields.
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3.00 Credits
Study of ethical issues created by business activities, relating them to fundamental questions of ethics generally. Representative topics may include hiring, firing, promotions, business and minorities, organizational influence in private lives, consumer interests, economic justice, and reindustrialization.
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Study of ethical problems in our dealings with the rest of nature and of how they relate to ethics in general. Representative topics include the basis of ethics, nature and intrinsic value, duties to future generations, economics and the environment, rare species, animal rights, ethics and agriculture, energy doctrine.
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3.00 Credits
Examines ethical dilemmas facing modern medicine and biomedical science. Topics may include controversies surrounding death, reproductive technologies, abortion, allocation of resources, the concept of disease, the doctor-patient relationship, and medical research.
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