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3.00 Credits
Required for all incoming (first year and transfer) athletes. NCAA requirements concerning amateurism, recruiting, agents, benefits, and eligibility in terms of general ethical considerations, the history of college athletics and the NCAA, and ramifications for the university and the college athlete. Ethical support for NCAA compliance stressed. Three credit hours.
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Prerequisite: RHET 1311. Study of selected texts reflecting a variety of ethical systems from Western and non-Western literary heritages and ethical traditions. Assigned works represent several national ethical literatures, with at least one major ethical text from each of four periods (antiquity, medieval, early modern, and contemporary). Three credit hours.
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Prerequisite: instructor consent. Introduction to deductive logic including translation of sentences into formal systems, immediate inferences, syllogisms, formal fallacies, proofs of validity, and quantification. Three credit hours.
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Prerequisite: PHIL 1310, PHIL 2320, or instructor consent. Introduction to the field of epistemology. Skeptical and realist positions will be assessed by analyzing internal and external accounts of knowledge (including coherence, foundation, naturalized, and reliablist theories). The connection between epistemology and artificial intelligence will also be examined. Three credit hours.
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Prerequisite: PHIL 2320 and PHIL 1310 or consent of instructor. Examination of the methods, presuppositions, and implications of empirical science. Special emphasis will be given to the metaphysical assumptions that ground the scientific enterprise, and the interface between the pursuit of science and the moral interests of society. Three credit hours.
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This course will focus on philosophical issues relevant to one or more of the following topic areas: philosophical issues in literature and film, theories of drama and performance, the politics of narrative, and recent hermeneutical theory.
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Prerequisite: PHIL 1310, PHIL 2320, or instructor consent. This course will examine the writings of early modern philosophers (including Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant) and their influence on nineteenth century philosophers (including Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard). Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL 1310, or PHIL 2320, or instructor consent (granted on the basis of similar preparation). This course investigates American, British and/or continental European philosophy after the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on selected major figures, works, or themes.
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Prerequisite: PHIL 1310, PHIL 2320, or instructor consent. Analysis of ethical issues in medicine affecting patients, health-care workers, and the public. Materials drawn from medical, legal, philosophical, and psychiatric sources, addressing such issues as euthanasia, abortion, assisted suicide, involuntary commitment, resource distribution, AIDS, and health insurance. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHIL 1310, or PHIL 2320, or instructor consent (granted on the basis of similar preparation). This course examines some fundamental issues in 20th- 21st century ethical theory. In addition to exploring recent defenses and criticisms of leading normative theories, the course focuses on recent work in meta-ethics-inparticular, debates about moral realism and non-realism.
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