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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to logic as a symbolic structure, distinct from natural languages like English, designed to extract from arguments expressed in a natural language only those features relevant to assessing their validity.
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3.00 Credits
Ethical inquiry through the discussion of actual ethical problems, such as abortion, homosexuality, and euthanasia, and the arguments that are used to resolve or clarify them; and through the investigation of general categories, such as person, choice, agency, presupposed in ethical principles from which the arguments derive. Prerequisite: One PHI course. (Writingintensive course)
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical discussion of ethical considerations arising from aspects of biological and medical research and medical practice. The course will examine issues of relevance to both the researcher and the medical professional, such as euthanasia, animal experimentation, abortion, and patients _ rights. Prerequisite: PHB 110 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3] Introduction to ethical theory as applied to organizations like businesses, governmental units, educational and service organizations. Discussion of whatever special characteristics of organizations may be ethically relevant. Consideration of the relations of organizations to society in general, to those they are intended to serve, to their individual components, and to other organizations, as well as the relationships of individuals to one another within an organization.
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3.00 Credits
A critical inquiry into classical and recent philosophical arguments concerning the existence of God, man's rational knowledge of God, monotheism, the nature of miracles, and similar questions. Among the writings to be considered are those of Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, James, Russell, Wittgenstein, Tillich, and Hartshorne. Prerequisite: PHI 110.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a critical analysis of the concept of sex and love, particularly as it has developed in the Western philosophic tradition. It explores sex and love as a defining element of human life, even in that "all too human" desire to step beyond ourselves. The role of sex and love is explored through various themes, like the acquisition of knowledge (as an ideal of truth), its place within religious life, and its stakes in ethical and political community. Students gain an understanding of determinate theoretical methods, like phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and critical social theory. Prerequisite: PHI 110 or GS 100.
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3.00 Credits
A study of classical and recent philosophical positions concerning language, art, and other forms of symbolic expression, including such issues as creativity, linguistic relativity or universality, and the common as well as distinct features of forms of symbolic expression. Prerequisite: One PHI course. (Writing-intensive course)
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3.00 Credits
An intensive inquiry into Native American values, epistemologies, concepts of identity and community, responsibility, and the environment. Content varies from semester to semester. This structure allows us to offer a number of particular courses, focusing on the worldviews of Native people. Students can study the Lakota/Dakota, Pueblo, Hopi, Navaho, Apache, Iroquois, or Pequot worldviews. Since Native cultures are intimately connected with place, every appropriate attempt is made to have a travel component for these courses. Reservation visits are arranged for students to meet tribal elders and learn oral histories. Readings by Native American thinkers are required. These courses approach Native cultures on their terms and as they would like to have their worldviews understood. All courses are designed and executed in consultation with Native scholars or tribal elders.
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3.00 Credits
A study of classical and recent philosophical discussions of mind and nature, embracing such questions as the roles of perception and imagination in the human experience of nature, space, and time, the relation between human and animal, natural and artificial intelligence, and between human purposes and environment. Prerequisite: One PHI course. (Writing-intensive course)
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys issues in the philosophy of science. We will examine the nature of scientific method and the role of inductive reasoning in developing scientific hypotheses, theories, and laws. The course will also explore the notion of explanation in the natural sciences and the social sciences. Prerequisite: PHI 110 or permission of instructor.
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