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  • PHIL 5400: Metaphysics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Focused study of some of the traditional problems and contemporary treatments of issues in metaphysics. Topics may include questions of identity conditions, individuation, causation and determinism, and essence and necessity. For juniors and seniors. Recommended Prerequisite: PHIL 3012, 3300, 3310, 3350, 3400, 3440, 3600, 3370, 4380.
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  • PHIL 5450: Philosophy of Mind

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Survey of traditional and contemporary problems of the mind and its relation to the body. Topics may include the problem of other minds, personal identity, mental causation, dualism, physicalism, and some of the challenges consciousness and self-awareness raise for physicalism. For juniors and seniors. Recommended Prerequisite: PHIL 3012, 3300, 3310, 3350, 3400, 3440, 3600, 3370, 4380.
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  • PHIL 5480: Philosophy of Language

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Survey of traditional and contemporary problems related to language. Topics may include how language refers to the world, how thoughts get mental content, the difference between what is said and what is communicated, demonstratives, indexicals, and self-reference. For juniors and seniors. Recommended Prerequisite: PHIL 3012, 3300, 3310, 3350, 3400, 3440, 3600, 3370, 4380.
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  • PHIL 5500: Contemp Ethical Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Contemporary treatment of problems of ethics including the justification of moral beliefs, as well as a consideration of some particular moral theories or concepts. For juniors and seniors. Recommended Prerequisite: PHIL 3011, 3500, 3510, 3520, 3530, 3700, 3710, 3720, 3730, 3800, 3820, 4540.
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  • PHIL 5510: Applied Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Theoretical foundations of applied ethics. Ethical and meta-ethical theories and their application to professional and individual decision-making. The rational basis of moral judgments and policies in social and professional contexts. For juniors and seniors. Recommended Prerequisite: PHIL 3011, 3500, 3510, 3520, 3530, 3700, 3710, 3720, 3730, 3800, 3820, 4540.
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  • PHIL 5520: Advanced Bioethics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Advanced topics in bioethics. For juniors and seniors. Recommended Prerequisite: PHIL 3011, 3500, 3510, 3520, 3530, 3700, 3710, 3720, 3730, 3800, 3820, 4540.
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  • PHIL 5530: Environmental Phil

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Survey and analysis of historical and contemporary concepts used in discussions about the environment. Topics may include exceptionalism, constructivism, preservationism, and inherent value, as well as issues associated with such terms as 'environment', 'nature', 'wilderness', 'ecology', and 'natural resource'. Recommended Prerequisite: PHIL 3011, 3500, 3510, 3520, 3530, 3700, 3710, 3720, 3730, 3800, 3820, 4540.
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  • PHIL 5540: Hydrotopia

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Aridity is the defining physical feature of the American West, and the soci-political ecology of the West can only be understood in relationship to this feature. From the outset, inhabitants of the West was motivated by a utopian vision that focused on transforming the region into a new Eden: a hydraulic society made possible through engineering. Today, however, the inhabitants of the West are being forced to re-examine and re-consummate their relationship to both the water resources available to them and the technologies that can be used to manipulate those resources. By investigating the cultural context in which the West was originally settled and how that context changed to bring us where we are today, we will try to understand where this new relationship might be taking us.
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  • PHIL 5700: Adv Politcl Phil

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Rigorous examination of theoretical bases of views concerning justice, liberty, equality, democracy, and grounds of political obligation. Material drawn from such classical figures as Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, and Marx, as well as from contemporary writers such as Rawls and Nozick. For juniors and seniors. Recommended Prerequisite: PHIL 3011, 3500, 3510, 3520, 3530, 3700, 3710, 3720, 3730, 3800, 3820, 4540.
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  • PHIL 5710: Int'l Human Rights

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Theories about the nature and basis of international human rights; moral and legal approaches to human rights; defenses and criticisms of the idea that rights are universal; multiculturalism and human rights; global justice and human rights. Recommended Prerequisite: PHIL 3011, 3500, 3510, 3520, 3530, 3700, 3710, 3720, 3730, 3800, 3820, 4540.
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