Study of ethical problems in our dealings with the rest of nature and of how they relate to ethics in general. Representative topics include the basis of ethics, nature and intrinsic value, duties to future generations, economics and the environment, rare species, animal rights, ethics and agriculture, energy doctrine. Examines ethical dilemmas facing modern medicine. Topics may include controversies surrounding death, reproductive technologies, abortion, allocation of resources, the concept of disease, the doctor-patient relationship, and medical research. Interdisciplinary course focused on the architectural profession and the practices of design, building, and other processes in a social and business context.
Consideration is given to both general moral principles and particular case studies.
Examines some of the predominant attempts to understand art in ancient and modern philosophy and also considers a variety of contemporary views and controversies about the nature, meaning, value, and future of art. Critical examination of philosophical and scientific theories of mental phenomena and of the relationship between mental and material phenomena. Theories of Mind-Body Dualism, Monism, Functionalism, Eliminative and Reductive Materialism, Connectionism, and the status of folk psychology versus cognitive neuroscience are studied. Introduction to the basic concepts of modern symbolic logic, including the symbolization of statements and arguments and the techniques of formal proof. Examines controversial questions in artificial intelligence and the Computational Theory of Mind.