43 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.
Introduces and develops the skills involved in reasoning effectively about experience, and being able to distinguish strong arguments from weak ones.
This course introduces the aims and some of the various methods, traditions and styles of Philosophy, including reading and discussion of some primary philosophical texts.
An introduction to the fundamental concepts of symbolic logic: argument, validity, soundness, provability, completeness, consistency, decidability, entailment, logical equivalence, logical truth, logical contradiction. Covers truth-functional connectives, rules of formation and translation, and rules of inference. Proof techniques studied include natural deduction, truth-tables, and/or truth-trees.
Concentrates on syntax and semantics of quantification. Formation principles include A, E, I, and O statements (and square of opposition), domain of discourse, quantifier scope, multiple quantification, relations, and identity. Proof mechanics covered include natural deduction, instantiation, semantic tableaux, and possible-world counterexamples.
This course will introduce the basic concepts and principles of ethical reasoning as applied to the widest variety of practical circumstances and contexts. Students will learn how to think about what ethics is, the nature of obligations and rights, how to recognize ethical problems, what it means to respond to them reasonably and how to think about their own and others' ethical perspectives and values.
This variable topics course introduces one or more traditions and styles of philosophy that have not directly arisen from Classical Greco-Roman Antiquity. The class may involve reading and discussion of texts from various genres.
Studies theories about philosophical issues arising in sport, in areas including its personal, social, aesthetic, and political dimensions.
Studies theories about the nature of reality and philosophical issues such as the nature of time, mind, personal identity, and free will.
Studies central works that have shaped Western Philosophy and culture from the Ancient Greek era and its legacy.
Studies central works that have shaped Western Philosophy and culture from the Renaissance through the late Nineteenth Century.
Studies central works that have had important impacts upon Western Philosophy and culture from the Twentieth Century through the present.
In this course we will study philosophical problems surrounding the nature of time. We will consider questions like, "Does the present exist?"; "Does time have a direction?"; "Are events pre-determined?"; "Is time travel possible?"; etc. Students will read and discuss treatments of these issues in philosophy, literature, and film.
This course introduces the student to a critical analysis of the fundamental concepts, principles, and assumptions of mathematics. Included will be a consideration of the reality of mathematical “objects” (numbers, sets, functions), the nature of mathematical knowledge, the relationship between logic and mathematics, and other topics which may include the discussion of mathematical concepts of continuity and infinity.
Studies theories about knowledge that bear upon philosophical issues concerned with the nature and status of knowledge claims as expressed in concepts like belief, truth, and justification.
Studies theories about art and the nature of beauty that bear on philosophical issues concerned with artistic production, performance, and perception, such as arise in activities like painting, sculpture, film literature, music, and dance.
Studies theories about human social and political life that bear on philosophical issues such as the nature and scope of justice, the legitimacy of states, and the relationship between democracy, civil rights, and civil disobedience.
Studies theories about human conduct which bear upon the rightness and wrongness of actions, and the goodness and badness of ends, including the nature, scope, purposes, and varieties of moral and ethical theories.
This course investigates sexual activity and desire, and the morality of sexual behavior. It also examines various types of love and their links with sexuality. Figures studied include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Kierkegaard, Freud and Foucault. Topics include marriage, prostitution, pornography, homosexuality, perversion, rape, intentionality, irreplaceability, unconditionality, reciprocity, and exclusivity.
The relation between Christianity and Judaism is one of the most misunderstood in the history of thought. Christianity is often considered to be diametrically opposed to Judaism, to be a rejection of the Judaic worldview. Indeed, prominent thinkers in the history of Christianity, such as Martin Luther, have reinforced this position. Yet Christianity was originally a development within Judaism, a sect, so to speak, of Judaism. The earliest Christians were Jewish followers of a Jewish leader and conceived of themselves as faithful Jews. So how did the two religions come to be viewed as opposed? Do elements of Judaism remain as part of the foundation of the new faith of Christianity? Where do the two faiths converge and where do they diverge? This course endeavors to answer these important questions.
Study of such moral issues as truth-telling, puffery, and lying in business communications; employer-employee relations; obligations to customers; obligations to foreign populations; and government contracts.
Ethical analysis of current laws and legislation aimed at regulating speech in the context of mass communications (radio, television and film).
Ethical analyses of current laws and pending legislation aimed at regulating computer use as well as Internet practices and content.
Provides critical reflection on the nature of engineering and technology and on the ethical obligations and responsibilities unique to the engineering profession. Topics include the social responsibilities of engineering, the nature of professionalism, professional autonomy, whistleblowing, conflicts of interest, organizational (dis)obedience, the ethics of risk assessment, and the place and purpose of engineering codes of ethics.
Examines ethical theories and their application to architecture; the ethics of architectural space and place; the logic of ethical reasoning applied to the practice of architecture; professional ethics and the social responsibility of architects; the ethics of safety and risk in the production of architectural structures; sustainable environmental architectural design.
As researchers produce new knowledge in neuroscience and apply that knowledge to technologies for repairing, altering, and enhancing the functioning of brains, societies and individuals confront ethical dilemmas. These often relate to traditional concerns of bioethics, including autonomy in medical decision making and justice in the distribution of novel techniques and technologies. However, emerging neuroscientific knowledge also complicates dominant approaches in bioethics, demanding sustained attention in its own right. This class will address key topics in neuroethics, including the ethical implications of new ways of understanding, visualizing, and measuring brain activity, the social and political consequences of new forms of medical intervention and neuroenhancement, and accommodating neurodiversity.
Studies moral issues related to health and disease, patients' rights and professional responsibilities, informed consent, abortion, euthanasia, and biomedical research.
This course focuses on the application of ethical theories and principles to organizational systems and decision-making. Emphasis will be placed on how ethical principles affect and are applied to organizational policy-making, leadership behavior, systems of communication, technology use, and other systems of organization.
An introduction to various ethical issues in sports and sports management, such as leadership and coaching; gender and racial equity in sports; fair play and cheating; violence and competition; commercialization of sports; the relation of sports to cultural value systems; ethics of technology and sports performance.
Studies ethical issues in the policies and practices of criminal justice, and theories that bear upon issues such as the relationship of law to justice, the definition of crime, the use of deception and coercion in law enforcement, and the purposes and varieties of criminal punishment.
Offers an introduction to the ethical tensions of our age, globally construed. May address such issues as terrorism, genocide, religious exclusivism, nuclear proliferation, the regulation of the Internet, as well as culturally competing notions of right and wrong, and good and bad.
This course examines ethical questions about human relations with the nonhuman world. These questions will be informed by assessing sustainable practices, indigenous ways of life, environmental movements, and such issues as biodiversity loss and global climate change.
Studies ecological issues from a philosophical standpoint stressing the implications of scientific and technological developments as they affect people's lives and choices.
Studies technology from a philosophical standpoint stressing its role in shaping human existence and values, considering issues such as the control and distribution of information, housing and city planning, automation, and the uses of technology in medicine.
Examines the ideas of medicine, disease, and health from a philosophical perspective. Examines such concepts as gender, mental-illness, mind-body unity, aging and physical perfection as derived from both Eastern and Western traditions. Current health policy alternative treatment practices are also discussed.
Studies natural scientific theory-construction and investigative methods from a philosophical standpoint, considering issues such as the nature and scope of experimental method, and the history and justification of theory change.
Studies philosophical issues such as the concept of the self, the nature and course of evil, the nature and scope of free will, and ideals in living as they appear in significant works of literature.
This course addresses philosophical issues in the law. Topics include the meaning of "law," the nature and logic of legal (in contrast to moral) concepts and principles, and competing conceptions of law (Natural Law, Positivism, Realism, Rights-Based, etc.). Authors may include Plato, Mill, Rawls, Hart, Dworkin and others.
Studies various aspects of religious belief and experience from a philosophical standpoint, considering issues such as the definition and existence of God, the nature and course of evil, and the relationship between faith and reason in a religious life.
Development of doctrines, theories, arguments and problems associated with one or more philosophical schools (or movements). Schools (or movements) may include Pythagoreanism, Platonism, Epicureanism, or recently, Positivism, Pragmatism, and Existentialism.
Study of the works of a major philosopher such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, etc.
Individual supervision. Selection of research topic for the senior argumentative essay; collection and analysis of hard-copy and electronic research material; construction of bibliography. Initial thesis formulation and drafting of argument sketch.
Supervised construction of the main and supporting arguments of the senior essay involving drafting and re-drafting of the prose statement.
Individual Supervision. Defense of the senior essay thesis before the philosophy faculty and fellow senior philosophy majors. Written replies to main criticisms as determined by the faculty supervisor. Final submission of senior essay.
Source: Drexel University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
