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HEALTH CARE ETHICS: D ISTRIBUTING SCARCE RESOURCES How health care should be distributed . What we mean by equality when people have widely differin g needs; the meaning and justification of a 'right' to heahh care; conflicts between rights and efficiency; how to deter mine the value of life, and health insurance; dilem mas between preventive and curative care; how to allocate scarce, immediately life-saving resources. Not for p hi losophy core requirement unless paired with 225 . n ( 1 ) 393 PHILOSOPHY O F REUGION Classical and contemporary views of traditional relig ious problems: the existence of God, religious experi ence, revelation, immortality, and others . 11 (4)
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395 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE The general character, fundamental concepts, meth ods, and significance of modern science: some atten tion to s p ecific areas of science; physical, biological, social; the imp lications of science and scientific methodology for ethical, aesthetic, and religious values. I aly (4) 427 PHILOSOPHY AND CURRENT PROBLEMS A reading a nd discussion course conducted by one or more staff members. Students will read i n topica l areas of current interest in which p hilosophical litera ture has been developed for comparison and a nalysis. Topics envisioned are such as free enterprise, ecology and environment, a ffirmative action and discrimina tion, public and p rivate education, democratic plu ralism and the problem of a uthority . (4)
435 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY Topic to be announced at the time the course is of fered, normally some aspect of contemporary philoso phy. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. aly (4) 491 , 492 INDEPENDENT READING AND RESEARCH Prerequisite: departmental consent. I II ( 1 -4) 493 SENIOR I NDEPEND ENT STUDY Preparation for a comprehensive senior examina tion and the writin g of a major research paper. Preparation of the research p aper constitutes two-thirds of the course; reading for the comprehensive examination the remaining third. Paper due November 1 or March 1 5; examination to be taken by December 1 or April 20. For philoso p hy majors onl y . Prerequisite: at least 4 courses in philosophy. I I I (4)
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Philosophical Issues: Philosophy and Religious Sects Moral Philosophy Science and Religion Morality and War Health Care Ethics III
433 ADVANCED LOGIC Development of a n understanding of the nature of the relationships among formal logic, mathematics, a nd scientific method, and develop ment of more ad vanced problem-solving skill in variolls formal sys tems. Focus on philosophical issues raised by formal semantics for first order and modal logics, the relation ships among logic, set theory a nd mathematics, and the traditional problem o f scientific induction. (4)
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