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3.00 Credits
An exploration of ethical issues pertinent to the environment, for example: obligations to future generations; the question of animal rights; endangered species; pesticides and pollution; energy technologies; depletion of resources; and global justice and ocean resources. Consideration of the pertinent obligations of individuals, businesses, and government.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of selected ethical issues in the field of governmental service, such as: campaign promises; welfare programs; taxation; overstepping the limits of the office; lying; whistle-blowing; and an examination of ethical issues in international politics, especially the morality of war, the promotion of human rights, and problems of international distributive justice.
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3.00 Credits
Normative ethics applied to moral questions of war and peace, such as: Can war ever be justified? If so, what are the moral constraints upon the conduct of war? How can peace be attained? What do pacifists and others offer as non-violent alternatives to armed conflict? Other topics might include: terrorism, humanitarian interventions, nuclear warfare and deterrence, and war crimes.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to such topics in moral theory as: ethical relativism, deontological and consequentialist approaches to morality; and ethical egoism. Among the specific moral issues in education usually considered are preferential admissions policies, student-teacher confidentiality, the morality of grading, honesty and deception in educational contexts, and the allocation of scarce educational resources.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the rights, responsibilities and social role of the professional engineer. Topics may include: conflicts of interest; the moral status of organizational loyalty; public safety and risk assessment; reproductive engineering and human dignity; preventing environmental destruction; "whistle-blowing"; defective product liability; engineers and corporate power; engineers and government; and codes of conduct and standards of professional competence. Case studies may include: military and commercial airplanes; automobiles; public buildings; nuclear plants; weapons research; computers and confidentiality; and the use and abuse of new technologies.
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3.00 Credits
Discrimination in employment, the persistence of sex segregation in the labor force, the feminization of poverty, and the implementation of policies designed to minimize gender-based career and economic differences and to improve the economic status of women-such as affirmative action-raise a number of ethical as well as economic questions. This course surveys ethical theory and considers the application of ethical principles to issues concerning the economic status of women and related gender-based issues, including the position of women in business and the professions.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major theories of ethics and selected moral concepts. Topics to be examined will include: the nature and grounds of morality; ethical relativism; egoism and altruism; utilitarianism; Kant's deontological ethics; Aristotle and virtue ethics, rights, and justice. In addition, we may consider issues of the role of gender and race in ethical theory. (Offered Fall semesters)
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on symbolization, syntax, semantics, and derivations for predicate logic. It will include some metatheory such as soundness and completeness proofs.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines inferences and forms of reasoning whose conclusion is claimed to go beyond the information provided by the premises-for example, predictive inferences, analogical reasoning, statistical generalizations, causal inferences, scientific confirmation, probabilistic reasoning, and justifications of behavior as rational. Various conceptual puzzles concerning inductive inference and reasoning, and case studies of its empirical and moral applications may be considered.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers first-order logic with special emphasis on meaning, truth, and proofs. The course utilizes a text and computer software developed at the Center for the Study of Logic and Information ( Stanford University ).
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