Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
Conklin Hall, Room 430
Phone:  973/353-5498
Fax:      973/353-5733
http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ephilos1

INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY (3 cr.)
62:730:103:B6:94392
EVE: 5/26-7/2
TTh 6:00-9:30
CONNERNY    CONKLIN 446

Introduction, for beginners, to central philosophical problems, primarily in the Western tradition, including such topics as morality, truth, knowledge, mind, reality, and the existence of God.

CURRENT MORAL & SOCIAL ISSUES (3 cr.)
21:730:105:B1:92669
DAY: 5/26-7/2
MTWTh 8:15-10:00
MULLLAN          CONKLIN 352

62:730:105:H6:92666
EVE: 7/6-8/12
MW 6:00-9:30
MCCROSSIN      CONKLIN 451

Examines such issues as sexual morality and abortion, capital punishment, sexism, racism and affirmative action, censorship, privacy, drug abuse and drug laws, economic distribution and justice, and consumption and scarcity of natural resources.

CRITICAL THINKING (3 cr.)
62:730:107:B6:91653
EVE: 5/26-7/2
MW 6:00-9:45
BUECHNER    CONKLIN 424

Develops and improves fundamental skills of clear, coherent, and critical thinking, speaking, and writing. Aims to foster confidence in the student's ability to solve problems by reasoning. Emphasizes rules of critical reasoning and techniques for applying them to real-world problems in science, management, law, aesthetics, and politics.

INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS (3 cr.)
62:730:112:B6:92667
EVE: 5/26-7/2
MW 6:00-9:45
BUCKLAND    CONKLIN 348

Principal ethical theories, primarily in the Western philosophical tradition, advanced by theorists from Plato to 20th-century philosophers.

INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC (3 cr.)
21:730:201:B1:92661
DAY: 5/26-7/2
MTWTh 10:15-12:00
DEMARCO    CONKLIN 424

62:730:201:B6:91889
EVE: 5/26-7/2
TTh 6:00-9:30
BUECHNER     CONKLIN 237

62:730:201:H6:91395
EVE: 7/6-8/12
TTh 6:00-9:45
KANG              CONKLIN 424

Introduction to the concepts of valid reasoning and proof in modern logic. Approaches may include diagramming and pictorial representation.

EXISTENTIALISM & CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY (3 cr.)
21:730:208:H1:94468 (CANCELLED)
DAY: 7/6-8/12
MTWTh 1:00-2:45
MULLAN       CONKLIN 446

The philosophical roots and dimensions of existentialism and its relations with phenomenology and the contemporary continental tradition; works by Kierkegaard, Nietzche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Habermas, and Derrida.

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (3 cr.)
62:730:227:H6:94471 (CANCELLED)
EVE: 7/6-8/12
MW 6:00-9:30
KANG     CONKLIN 238

Major controversies over the nature of religious belief, the "logic" of religious language, and the justification of religious claims; contemporary and traditional positions considered, but primary emphasis given to those aspects of religion open to rational argument.

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (3 cr.)
21:730:245:H1:94469 (CANCELLED)
DAY: 7/6-8/12
MTWTh 10:15-12:00
MULLAN    CONKLIN 446

Major controversies over the nature of religious belief, the "logic" of religious language, and the justification of religious claims; contemporary and traditional positions considered, but primary emphasis given to those aspects of religion open to rational argument.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS (3 cr.)
21:730:251:B1:92663
DAY: 5/26-7/2
MTWTh 1:00-2:45
DE MARCO     CONKLIN 424

62:730:251:H6:94470
EVE: 7/6-8/12
TTh 6:00-9:45
DE MARCO     CONKLIN 448

Ways of thinking about moral issues that arise in business and the professions: conflicts of interest and obligation, professional responsibility, whistle-blowing and loyalty, corporate social responsibility, dealing with local practices overseas, corporate culture, employees' rights, and the moral status of capitalism and other economic systems.

SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: JUST WAR THEORY (3 cr.)
21:730:328:T1:94393
DAY: 5/26-8/12
SATURDAY 9:00-1:00
LASSITER    CONKLIN 238

The interrelationship of the state, law, and morality; examination of the interdependence of ideology and political obligation; the equivocal meanings of liberty, rights, and justice; major approaches such as Social Contract Theory and Marxism.

INDIVIDUAL STUDY IN PHILOSOPHY (BA cr.)
21:730:441:T1:92543
5/26-8/12
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