20 courses with the subject PHIL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Credit(s) Offered: once every two years The course serves as an introduction to the problems, methods and goals of classical and contemporary Western philosophy. Emphasis is placed upon how these differ from and relate to other fields of human knowledge.
Credit(s) Offered: every esmester The course introduces students to the nature of logical and critical thinking. Topics include: basic logical concepts, language and definition, informal fallacies, categorical propositions and syllogisms in Aristotelian and Boolean logic, arguments in ordinary language, and symbolic logic.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This course seeks to trace the origin and development of major educational theories and their contemporary implications.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Medical Ethics addresses ethical questions that arise in the context of medical research and practice. Topics may include the ethics of abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, cloning, animal experimentation, and the just distribution of health care resources. Students will be introduced to several of the most important ethical theories and principles in the Western philosophical tradition, which will provide the student with a theoretical framework for critically reflecting on these important contemporary ethical issues.
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course introduces students to the foundational issues in environmental ethics and the philosophical tools for working through these issues. Students will also reflect on a number of important contemporary issues in environmental ethics, most notably climate change, which many believe is the most exigent ethical (and political) crisis of our time.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years The problems and methods of human knowledge are explored. Theories are presented in the light of idealism, realism, pragmatism and existentialism.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years The course presents a study of American philosophical thought from the Colonial period to the present.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course examines the nature of values and morality. Ethical theory will be applied to such controversial moral issues as criminal punishment and the death penalty, abortion, euthanasia and suicide, privacy, the ethical treatment of animals, environmental ethics, poverty and the distribution of wealth, prejudice and discrimination, affirmative action, civil disobedience, and war.
Credit(s) Offered: annually The course is a critical examination of some major ethical theories in classical and contemporary philosophy including Aristotle’s perfectionism, Kant’s deontological ethics, Bentham and Mill’s utilitarianism, and social-contract theory. Students are introduced to the nature of ethical thinking and reasoning.
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course explores human nature and personhood from the perspectives of philosophy, Eastern and Western religion, and the behavioral sciences. Major thinkers from Plato and Aristotle to the present day are covered.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This course explores the nature of beauty and aesthetic experience, especially as embodied in the fine arts. Topics include the nature of art and aesthetic experience, the basis of aesthetic evaluation and criticism, and the place of art within contemporary society.
Credit(s) Offered: every spring Scientific and Philosophical Study of Consciousness will provide the opportunity to develop a deeper appreciation of the nature of consciousness. Students will examine consciousness from such theoretical perspectives as functionalism, eliminative materialism, cognitivism and biological naturalism. The strengths and shortcomings of those perspectives will be critically evaluated as students study such topics as the mind-body problem, intentionality, perception and action, and freedom of the will. This understanding will help students to evaluate philosophical and psychological theories of mind, understand and question their own implicit assumptions about the nature of mind and behavior, and deepen their own understanding of human nature. Cross-listed with PSY 3010
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This course examines the nature of religious experience and the problem of God’s existence as seen in classical Western theism and process philosophy. Differences between Western and Eastern religion, and between religion and science are discussed.
Credit(s) Offered: annually This course studies the principal world religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism. Emphasis is placed on their basic tenets and insights into spiritual values.
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The course examines the various political and social ideas in the history of philosophy beginning with Plato and ending with Rawls, Nozick, and Communitarianism.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than every two years The course analyzes the methods and goals of the physical sciences, how they differ from the social sciences, and the philosophic problems encountered in scientific pursuits.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than every two years Origins, development, and contemporary application of Marx’s thought are explored. The course attempts to provide an understanding of society and history by a philosophy rooted in dialectical thinking and the economic conditions of life.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than every two years The course analyzes the concept of love as employed in the social and moral philosophies of various classical and contemporary thinkers.
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than every two years The first objective of the course is to develop proficiency in the identification and analysis of ethical issues as they arise in business. The second objective is to acquaint the student with some specific ethical problems currently faced by businessmen and women: whistle-blowing, discrimination, truth in advertising, product safety and the environment. Both theoretical and actual cases are studied as well as current ethical theories.
Credit(s) The Independent Study is open to students who have permission of the supervising instructor and the department chairperson. Course of study, meetings and credit are arranged with approval.
Source: Fitchburg State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
