Courses
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- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Offered: Fall Winter
Covers major approaches to universal morality and codes of ethics. This course prepares students to bring a theoretical perspective to the moral dilemmas discussed in the applied ethics courses (PL 181 through PL 186).
- Offered: Every third semester, contact department for timing.
An examination of issues such as the moral justification of the free market system, the ethics of advertising, employee rights and responsibilities, sexual harassment in the workplace, the moral responsibilities of the corporation and ethical issues of international business.
- Offered: Every third semester, contact department for timing.
An examination of such issues as protecting the right to privacy in the computer age, property rights in computer software, hacker ethics, determining responsibility for computer unreliability and freedom of expression on the Internet.
- Offered: Contact department.
A study of the great philosophers of the past and their exploration of moral judgments, moral virtues, moral knowledge, moral rationality, moral practice and strength of will.
- Offered: Every third semester.
An examination of issues such as legislating morality, pornography, plea bargaining, capital punishment, the legalization of drugs, ethics of punishment and ethics of police work.
- Offered: Every third semester, contact department for timing.
An examination of issues such as abortion, euthanasia, the use of humans in medical experiments, justice in the distribution of health care, informed consent, the role and responsibilities of doctors and nurses, genetic engineering, mental illness and involuntary commitment.
- Offered: Contact department.
An examination of issues such as contemporary theories of justice, the search for objective moral standards in a multicultural world and the interconnection between science and ethics.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Offered: Every other winter, even years
- Offered: Every other fall, odd years
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Offered: Winter
- Offered: Contact department
May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
- Offered: Every third semester, contact department for timing.
- Prerequisites: EN 211 with a grade of "C" or better or HON 102 and HON 112 and sophomore standing.
An evaluation of personal conduct in relation to political, social and economic systems. Classical and modern texts are used to examine concepts such as individual rights, social duty, authority of the state, social justice and anarchy, and to evaluate the ends of social organization.
- Offered: Contact department
- Offered: Every third semester, contact department for timing.
- Prerequisites: EN 211 with a grade of "C" or better or HON 102 and HON 112 and sophomore standing.
Study of European philosophies of human existence, tracing the developments up to the end of the 20th century.
- Offered: Every third semester, contact department for timing.
Pursuit of an understanding of the sources, nature, validity and significance of human knowledge. Epistemology examines the form of cognition, the problem of other minds, probability and induction, rationalism, British empiricism from Locke to Russell, logical empiricism and pragmatism.
- Offered: Contact department
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission.
May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
- Offered: Contact department
- Prerequisites: Junior standing, at least one philosophy course and approval of the instructor.