• PHIL 1500: The Examined College Life: Education and Its Ends

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  This course examines various views on the purpose and value of university education, especially liberal education. Questions about human nature, human happiness, and the common good will be explored to help contextualize the question of education and its ends.
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• PHIL 2200: Deductive Logic

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Study of deductive arguments and techniques for evaluating their validity, including construction of proofs. Recognizing formal fallacies in reasoning. Symbolizing English sentences and arguments to make their meanings precise. Propositional logic. Study of quantifiers and relations. Prerequisite: MATH 1030 or MATH 1050 or higher mathematics class, AP Calculus AB score of 3 or higher, or STAT 1040 or STAT 1045 or STAT 1080 or higher statistics class
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• PHIL 2400: Ethics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Study of judgments concerning what is good or bad, right or wrong. How judgments are justified and related to action. Relativism, subjectivism, absolutism, freedom, and responsibility.
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• PHIL 2600: Introduction to Philosophy of Religions

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Explores the importance of spirituality for human life. First half of this course looks at the role of myth, symbolism and ritual as found in ancient religion. Second half of this class looks at the transition from polytheism to monotheism and the effect it has had on human nature. Some time will be dedicated to the understanding of Native American, Eastern and alternative religions.
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• PHIL 2988: Special Problems

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Individual work approved by instructor. Time and credit to be arranged. Repeatable for credit.
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• PHIL 3010: Survey of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  This course is a survey of core philosophical theories developed over the ancient and medieval periods (500 BCE to 1500 CE). Figures may include the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Augustine, Averroes, Avicenna, Aquinas, and Maimonides.
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• PHIL 3020: Survey of Modern Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  This course surveys core philosophical theories developed from 1500-1900. Figures may include the early moderns (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke); the moderns (Hume, Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant, Hegel); and some thinkers from the end of the modern era (Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche).
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• PHIL 3500: Healthcare Ethics (DHA)

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  This course raises and explores ethical questions surrounding the availability of healthcare and difficult topics that arise in caring for people, including problems of consent, competency, confidentiality, euthanasia, abortion, and the requirements of justice.
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• PHIL 3520: Business Ethics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Key issues in business, including: foreign bribery, corporate responsibility, corporate culture, ethical theories, justice, and preferential treatment.
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• PHIL 3530: Environmental Ethics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Key issues in the treatment of nature, such as: the value of wilderness, animal rights, comparative views of nature, and moral issues in economic approaches to the wilderness.
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