Siena Heights University
PHILOSOPHY
PHI 110 LOGIC 3 An examination of the standards of sound argumentation , both inductive and deductive , including argument structure , classical categorical logic , modern truth-functional logic , informal fallacies , and the role of language in argumentation . Prerequisite : None Course is offered : WI 2017 , FA 2017
PHI 201 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY 3 An introduction to the major areas of philosophy , including metaphysics , epistemology , and ethics , with an emphasis on philosophical problems relating to human existence . Prerequisite : None Liberal Arts : Philosophy Course is offered : Uncertain
PHI 210 SYMBOLIC LOGIC 3 A thorough treatment of sentential and predicate logic , including translations , truth tables , proofs , truth trees , logical paradoxes , and other philosophical issues relating to logic . Prerequisite : None Course is offered : WI 2018
PHI 220 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS 3 An introduction to the major philosophical theories of ethics , including those of Aristotle , Aquinas , Kant , and Mill , with some application of these theories to contemporary moral problems . Prerequisite : None Liberal Arts : Philosophy Course is offered : FA Every Year
PHI 260 INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 3 A historical introduction to issues concerning the nature of the state , the proper extent of state power , the duties owed by citizens to the state and to other citizens , and the appropriate goals of state activity . Potential sources include Plato , Aristotle , St . Augustine , Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , Jean Jacques Rousseau , John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx . Prerequisite : None Course is offered : Uncertain
PHI 320 SOCIAL ETHICS 3 An application of the major philosophical theories of ethics to contemporary moral problems , especially those problems which confront us on the societal level . Prerequisite : ENG102 Liberal Arts : Philosophy Course is offered : WI Every Year
PHI 329 TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION 3 This class will inquire into the profound and subtle ways technology has changed human life by looking at both the natural and human environments . The course will wrestle with the complex and too-little-asked question of what is meant by technological progress . This course is offered out of the belief that our society has not yet learned to direct its technology instead of letting its technology direct it . Prerequisite : None Liberal Arts : Philosophy Course is offered : At one or more Siena Heights degree completion centers , as well as in a blended online format , but may not be available on the Adrian campus
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