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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the problems of philosophy through the critical examination of the earliest developments of philosophic thought: the Pre- Socratics, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory course which examines the problems of philosophy as presented by the major philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries. Representative readings will be selected from among the works of Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and Hegel.
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3.00 Credits
Primarily concerned with the Post-Kantian trends in the Philosophy of 19th Century Europe. Emphasis will be placed on the most conspicuous figures of this period including Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, Mill, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.
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3.00 Credits
The student will be introduced to the two major philosophical movements of the 20th Century, Analytic Philosophy and Existentialism, through selected writings of such philosophers as Moore, Russell, Austin, Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to modern symbolic logic. The course covers topics from among Aristotelian and modern class logic, informal fallacies, truth tables, proofs of invalidity, propositional logic, and the beginnings of predicate logic. Emphasis will be placed on acquiring the skills of logical technique.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to basic problems about the application of the concepts of right, wrong, good and bad to persons and their actions. Topics covered may include: relativism and absolutism, determinism and freedom, and the foundations of moral obligation.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory course examining issues in the traditions of western religious thought, e.g., proofs of the existence of God, the problem of evil, the relationship between religious belief and moral belief, religious experience and knowledge, immortality.
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3.00 Credits
Devoted to the search for characteristically American contributions to philosophical investigations. The course will examine how the issues of the great tradition of philosophy, developed in Europe, in the theories of existence, knowledge, ethics, and politics, have all been addressed by writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Pierce, James, Dewey, Margaret Fuller, and also by Native American thinkers.
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3.00 Credits
( 3) This course is an investigation of fundamental ethical issues relating to the fields of engineering and technology, focusing on organizing principles and ethical theory to frame problems that are typically encountered in the engineering industry. Topics to be discussed include: professional responsibility and accountability; honesty and integrity in the workplace; intellectual property; conflicts of interest; environmental issues; risk, safety and product reliability; legal liability; and diversity in the workplace. Contemporary case studies will be examined and debated in the context of such traditional philosophical schools of thought as utilitarianism and Kantian ethics. Prerequisite: ENG 103 or Permission of Instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course concerns the fundamental nature of law, and the relations between law and morality. It covers natural law, imperative, and rule-based theories of the nature of law, and alternative statements of the justice of law. The philosophers covered in the course will include Aristotle, Aquinas, Austen, Hart and Rawls. Prerequisite: one prior course in PHI or Permission of Instructor.
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