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  • PHIL 3390: Tech & Design Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course surveys issues in the ethics of technology and design. How do technologies transform our lives and communities? What new ethical problems might arise from emerging technologies? How might values and biases become embedded in technologies and the built environment? How might specific technologies further oppression ' or resist it? Discussion may include the ethical dimensions of issues such as: algorithmic bias; creating and training AI; data collection; genetic modification; video game design; surveillance; data-assisted policing; automation; performance enhancing drugs; transhumanism; and the interaction of technology and issues in gender, race, and sexuality. The course is intended both for students in philosophy and ethics and for students involved in creating and designing such technologies.
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  • PHIL 3400: Mind, Lang, Reality

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Exploration of issues in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Topics include causation, determinism, the nature of consciousness, and the relation of language to thought and the world.
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  • PHIL 3440: Cognitive Science

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field studying the human mind. Related fields include philosophy, psychology, computer science, neuroscience, and linguistics. This course introduces students to the basic issues in the field and the contributions made by each discipline, especially philosophy of mind. The course can be used as a capstone for the cognitive science minor.
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  • PHIL 3500: Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Philosophical approaches to the nature of right and wrong, moral obligation, the source of moral rights and duties, ultimate moral values, etc.
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  • PHIL 3510: Business/Prof Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Moral issues in business such as justification of market allocation, problem of public goods, duties to consumers and employees, advertising, secrecy, and truth justifications for governmental regulation. Satisfies business ethics requirement for Management, David Eccles School of Business.
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  • PHIL 3520: Bioethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Moral issues arising out of advances in biological knowledge and technology, e.g., concerning behavior modification, genetic engineering, euthanasia, abortion, transplants, rights of patients.
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  • PHIL 3530: Environmental Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Basic theories of environmental ethics, issues in environmental ethics (e.g., wilderness/species preservation, animal rights, pollution control, development vs. preservation) distributive justice in relation to the environment.
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  • PHIL 3570: Research Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Scientific research has become an international, collaborative, well- and widely-financed industry. This reality of modern research raises a variety of ethical issues and questions: Who will be listed as an author on collaborative research, and how will the names be ordered? Can research sponsored by private corporations be trusted as being as reliable as federally-funded research? Can a researcher balance the conflict of interest between seeking scientific truth and seeking potential profit? To what extent is scientific research shaped by political, economic, socio-religious, and/or institutional pressures? To what extent can/does science shape politics, economics, socio-religious worldviews, and/or institutions? How can humans or non-human animals be ethically incorporated into research? When does relying on the previous research of others become plagiarism? A professional researcher will likely encounter one or all of these issues. In this course we will look closely at these sorts of topics, and the philosophical and ethical issues that surround science as a social, and human institution.
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  • PHIL 3600: Phil Of Religion

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Principal problems in the philosophy of religion and solutions proposed by classical and contemporary philosophers.
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  • PHIL 3700: Political Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Major political philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Marx; important political concepts such as liberty, democracy, and justice.
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