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  • PHIL 102: Critical Thinking

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Provides the tools of critical thinking, including how to spot, analyze, and dissect arguments and how to construct strong or valid arguments of one's own. Examines logical fallacies and cognitive biases that undermine good reasoning as they appear in the context of everyday life, such as advertising, media, pundits, politicians, and more. Designed for all students at any level.
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  • PHIL 201: Deductive Logic

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Examines forms of argumentation and formal reasoning, including categorical syllogisms and propositional logic. Logic is a fundamental tool of philosophical inquiry. It is necessary for legal reasoning, foundational to mathematics and computer science, and important in linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, This course provides an introduction to symbolic notation and the use of truth tables, and is useful for students taking the LSAT.
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  • PHIL 203: Business Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Surveys major approaches to ethical decision making in business contexts, including consequentialism, deontology, libertarianism, egalitarianism, and stakeholder and stockholder theories. Moral concepts are applied to evaluate individuals' conduct, corporations, and economic systems. Pursue answers to questions such as, What obligations, if any, do corporations have to their customers? Are their moral limits on advertising? Is exploitation wrong? If so, why?
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  • PHIL 204: Environ Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Examines, compares, and contrasts major theories in environmental ethics: anthropocentrism, moral extensionism, ecocentrism, and ecofeminism. Explores the meaning of significant concepts such as "nature," "sustainability," and "food" in light of the application of theory to real world environmental issues such as climate change, food insecurity, and species extinction. Considers policy implications, nationally and globally.
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  • PHIL 205: Medical Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Surveys major approaches to ethical decision making in medical contexts, including consequentialism, deontology, and principalism. Investigates moral issues such as human experimentation, death and dying, medical care and its distribution, genetic engineering, and the definition of health and illness. Emphasis is placed on philosophical problems that arise in the practice of medicine.
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  • PHIL 210: Ancient Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Explores the ideas and arguments of Ancient Greek thinkers such as the pre-Socratics, Plato, and Aristotle as well as their influence on the history of philosophy. Themes include the nature of reality, the character of the universe, the possibility of knowledge, what counts as beauty, and the pursuit of the good life. The course will also compare and contrast differences among Ancient Greek thinkers and the impact of their ideas on contemporary philosophy.
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  • PHIL 221: Cont Moral Problems

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Investigates the ethics of various major contemporary (and perennial) moral problems: abortion and the rights of the fetus; pornography and its control; crime and its punishment; obedience to laws; discrimination based on race and sex; decision-making procedures; social justice; drugs, suicide, and euthanasia; freedom and its limits.
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  • PHIL 222: Phil and Pop Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Using a variety of contemporary examples and case studies from American popular culture (which may change from one course offering to the next) the course will introduce students to perennial problems in Philosophy and demonstrate Philosophy's relevance & application in the mainstream popular culture. Course emphasizes development in critical thought and evaluation, analysis, and communication skills.
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  • PHIL 223: Philosophy of Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Introduces the basic problems of religion, such as the nature of religion, religious language, the relationship between faith and reason, varieties of theism and atheism, proofs for and against the existence of God, the knowledge of God, religious pluralism, immortality, miracles, mysticism, and the problem of evil. Also examines religious beliefs, theories, and practices with the aim of clarifying, examining, and evaluating the central ideas and theories in both Western and Eastern religions.
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  • PHIL 302: Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Introduces the basics of ethical theorizing and describes how such theories may be critically evaluated. Surveys major ethical theories including egoism (psychological and ethical), divine command theory, natural law theory, cultural relativism, consequentialism, Kantianism, social contract theory, and virtue ethics. Additionally, the three major theories of well-being are presented and critically analyzed.
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