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• PHIL 122: Contemporary Moral Issues

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Examines attempts to answer foundational questions of ethics, including the following. Why should we be moral? What do morally correct actions have in common? Are there objective moral standards, or are moral codes relative to individual societies? Does morality require religion? Diverse moral theories will be applied to contemporary debates and controversies, such as environmental ethics, abortion, capital punishment, affirmative action, and animal rights. Readings will draw on historical and contemporary figures.
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• PHIL 130: Introduction to Biomedical Ethics

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Introduces ethical issues in medicine and health care, such as patient autonomy and surrogatedecision making; death, dying, and end of life care; reproductive ethics; justice and allocation ofhealth care resources; global health, poverty, and development; public health ethics; and ethicsof emerging medical technologies
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• PHIL 221: Symbolic Logic I

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Introduces students to the study of formal patterns of good reasoning. Topics include symbolizing English sentences in an artificial language, distinguishing between the semantics and syntax of that language, and learning to test for logical properties and relations using semantic methods (truth-tables, models) and syntactic methods (derivations). Students with an interest in computer science and mathematics will find the material of particular interest and use.
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• PHIL 240: Philosophy and the Good Life

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Examines philosophical attempts to say what it means to live a good life. Is living a good life simply about maximizing the pleasure one experiences? Does a good life require religious faith? Is being virtuous essential to living a good life? Historical thinkers considered in this course may include Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Laozi, Augustine, Aquinas, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Russell. Contemporary philosophical work on happiness informed by empirical research may also be considered.
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• PHIL 270: Ethics and the Environment

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Applies ethical theory to environmental issues, including resource depletion, animal rights, biotic endangerment, environmental degradation, climate change, and environmental justice. Considers arguments by which human-caused environmental destruction is intrinsically wrong, wrong independently of human interests and purposes, and arguments for environmental policies by which the following are granted rights, interests, or inherent value: non-human animals, all living things, all natural things, biotic communities, and ecosystems. Also considers arguments that environmental policies cannot be applied globally without injustice to humans, including poor and indigenous peoples.
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• PHIL 320: Ethical Theory

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Examines historical and contemporary work on fundamental issues in ethical theory, with an emphasis on the three major approaches in normative ethics: consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. Also explores select topics in contemporary metaethics, such as the meaning of moral discourse, the possibility of moral knowledge, and the nature of reasons and moral motivation.
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• PHIL 323: Political Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Through an examination of Ancient, Modern, and contemporary political thought, the course will introduce students to the key issues of political philosophy: the justification of government authority, the role of the government in the just distribution of wealth in society, the nature of equality, the nature and importance of individual liberty and rights, the connections between race, gender, and political power, and the question of the universal applicability of concepts fundamental to European and American political philosophy in light of increasing globalization.
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• PHIL 324: Ancient Greek Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Explores the foundations of Western Philosophy through examination of important philosophers of the Ancient period, such as the Pre-Socratic philosphers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Topics may include the nature of the physical universe, Plato's theory of Forms, the nature of happiness, and the possibility of mortality.
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• PHIL 325: Early Modern European Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Study of exemplary philosophical texts from the late 16th through the late 18th century. Figures may include Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Berkeley, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant. Explores such topics as the nature of matter and the emerging scientific challenge to Church and Ancient authority.
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• PHIL 326: Existentialism

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Examines Existentialism as a philosophical movement, one that rejects both traditional religious and overly reductive, scientific conceptions of human existence. As an alternative, existentialist philosophers share the project of trying to articulate a conception of an authentic, meaningful life outside of the parameters of these approaches. Readings are drawn from major thinkers in this movement, including Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus.
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