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  • 80 241: Ethical Judgments in Professional Life

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This is a multimedia, hybrid course that examines the numerous ethical issues, problems and dilemmas that confront professionals in such areas as medicine, law, engineering, the media, government and the natural and social sciences. As a hybrid course, it includes educational materials in video streaming format, an audio CD, an electronic discussion board and web-based ?guided inquiries? that students navigate and complete. Topics discussed include: Responsibility in the professions, obligations to clients, conflicts of interest, Whistleblowing, codes of ethics and ethics in engineering, medicine, law, media, computer science and business among others. This course meets one day a week and employs a case study discussion format during class.
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  • 80 242: Conflict and Dispute Resolution

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Conflict just is. Understanding how and why people have different preferences for engaging in conflict will be a central theme of this course. Gender, culture, communication and conflict style preferences are a few of the influences that will be examined. Concepts or models for understanding or engaging in conflict will provide our theoretical foundation. Participating in this course will enable you to reflect on your own preferences along with how to competently engage in conflict. Your learning process will be supplemented with a variety of self-assessment tools. These and other self-assessments are essential to recognizing and developing a personal conflict style. In addition to lectures and discussions, in-class activities will include role-plays, negotiation games, and analysis of real-life conflicts. As the semester progresses, areas of interest to students will be incorporated into the learning experience. The course is restricted to juniors and seniors. Since each student brings a wealth of knowledge and experience regarding conflict, there are no prerequisites. Are you ready to challenge your pre-conceived notions about conflict?
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  • 80 244: Environmental Ethics

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The aim of the course is to provide students with an introduction to environmental ethics. The course will cover topics that should help us assess what the best relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world should be. Issues that the course may consider include animal rights, consumption, overpopulation, global warming, trade-offs between saving some parts of nature and others, and how we should think about environmental protection in developing countries.
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  • 80 245: Medical Ethics

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course provides an introduction to core ethical issues in health care, medical research, and public policy. Topics include: the moral responsibilities of health care providers to patients and various third parties such as the government or insurance companies, the status of health as a social good, and questions of individual liberty and social responsibility at the ends of life including issues such as abortion, physician assisted suicide, and the definition of death. We will also examine specific ethical issues in the conduct of medical research and look at the impact of technological innovation on our notions of health, disease, life, death, and the family. If time permits, we may also discuss issues related to genetics and cloning. While the course engages such substantive ethical issues it also attempts to sharpen students' skills in practical reasoning through argument analysis, analogical reasoning, and the application of theory and principles to particular cases.
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  • 80 247: Ethics and Global Economics

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The course considers the secret lives of every day things -- like food, water, and oil. It suggests that it is by understanding these things that we can best address some of the greatest challenges facing our generation including world poverty and environmental problems. After a short introduction to arguments and ethical theory, the course considers how basic commodities like oil, water, and bananas have shaped and will continue to shape human and natural history. The course then outlines some of the environmental and social implications of the ways we create, use, and trade basic commodities. Finally, it considers prospects for dealing with some of the challenges posed by our past, present, and future use of these commodities. Global Economics and Ethics lays the groundwork for dealing with some of the most important issues facing our generation.
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  • 80 250: Ancient Philosophy

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will cover Ancient Greek philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the later Hellenistic writers. We will prepare the background for Socrates and Plato by tracing the various historical and intellectual movements that led up to and through the flourishing and downfall of Periclean Athens. A study of Socrates (as represented in Aristophanes' comedy and Plato's early dialogues) will lead to an in-depth reading of Plato's Gorgias, Symposium and sections of the Republic. We will approach Aristotle through his 'practical philosophy' as presented in the Nicomachean Ethics. The final sections will discuss the Epicurean, Skeptic, and Stoic movements as well as the work of Cicero. Excerpts from other works of Plato and Aristotle as well as Martha Nussbaum's recent work on Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy will accompany selected parts of the course.
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  • 80 253: Continental Philosophy

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course provides students with an overview of key historical and philosophical movements in European Philosophy. The cultural and historical background for 20th Century Continental Philosophy covers Descartes, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche (Hegel and Marx are also options). Early to mid-20th Century Continental Philosophy covers the central tenets of phenomenology and existentialism (e.g., intentionality, Being-in-the-World, Bad Faith). This part will involve selections from the works of, for example, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. Finally, cultural and philosophical trends such as Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-modernism (e.g., Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Habermas) will be addressed.
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  • 80 256: Modern Moral Philosophy

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will address some of the central aesthetic theories concerning the nature of our judgments of the beautiful and of the sublime that were developed around the 18th century. The famous divide between the British empiricist philosophers and the rationalist philosophers of the Continent regarding the sources of human knowledge, was paralleled in a dispute regarding the nature of aesthetic judgments. In this course we will study the aesthetic theories of some of the most important figures of this period, with an emphasis on the work of Immanuel Kant.
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  • 80 257: Nietzsche

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    During his life in the late 19th-century, Friedrich Nietzsche was a relatively obscure German philosopher. Since his death, however, he has become deeply influential and well-known, and was a source of inspiration for many important 20th-century thinkers. Despite this popularity, Nietzsche's philosophy remains relatively mysterious, and often misunderstood. Much of his writing consisted of aphorisms, rather than more traditional prose and arguments, and many of his positions seem to contradict one another. This course will cover a broad range of Nietzsche's writings, focusing on such central concepts as the will to power, eternal recurrence, and the oft-misunderstood Ubermensch (?overman?). Throughout, we will focus on developing a consistent interpretation of an enigmatic philosopher whose views have been mischaracterized and misappropriated throughout the past century.
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  • 80 264: William James and Philosophical Psychology

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will be devoted to the reading and discussion of William James' "Principles of Psychology", including its relevance to foundational questions about current research. Though first published in 1891, the foundational issues addressed in this landmark work have not lost their relevance; it is often said that this work set the agendas for much of the research subsequently carried out in psychology. This course should appeal to anyone interested in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of science.
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