Chris Blake-Turner

Moral problems surrounding medical practice, biomedical research, and health policy. Students will develop and use moral reasoning skills to navigate complex issues surrounding the provision of healthcare and medical practice. Topics may include physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, human and animal experimentation, euthanasia, cloning, reproductive rights, etc. A special emphasis will be placed on the impact of health policy and medical decision-making on marginalized persons, communities, and populations.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

Propositional logic and predicate logic with identity. Formal analysis of language. May not be used for degree credit with PHIL 3003.

Propositional logic and predicate logic with identity, as well as the formal analysis of language. This includes: understanding and applying common fallacies and irrational techniques of persuasion, formulating proper definitions, looking at the functions of language, analyzing patterns of explanation, and comparing and contrasting informal and formal reasoning. Practical criticism and the development of everyday arguments are also a key part of this course. Previously offered as PHIL 4303. May not be used for degree credit with PHIL 5003.Prerequisite(s): PHIL 1313 or consent of instructor.

Recent approaches to the theory of knowledge. Origin and justification of belief and certainty, roles of the senses and the mind, and the nature of truth.Prerequisite(s): PHIL 3213 or PHIL 3113 or PHIL 4983.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

This course introduces students to the history and development of philosophy with a special focus on ethics and contemporary moral arguments. By studying great philosophical works, this class enables students to think a critical manner about their own ideas and beliefs concerning philosophical problems and important issues that affect our lives. The goal of the course is to aid students in examining multiple perspectives on sometimes controversial topics, evaluate and assess articles on these topics, and allow students to form their own arguments on these issues.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

This course introduces students to the history and development of philosophy with a special focus on ethics and contemporary moral arguments. By studying great philosophical works, this class enables students to think a critical manner about their own ideas and beliefs concerning philosophical problems and important issues that affect our lives. The goal of the course is to aid students in examining multiple perspectives on sometimes controversial topics, evaluate and assess articles on these topics, and allow students to form their own arguments on these issues.

Propositional logic and predicate logic with identity. Formal analysis of language. May not be used for degree credit with PHIL 3003.

Propositional logic and predicate logic with identity, as well as the formal analysis of language. This includes: understanding and applying common fallacies and irrational techniques of persuasion, formulating proper definitions, looking at the functions of language, analyzing patterns of explanation, and comparing and contrasting informal and formal reasoning. Practical criticism and the development of everyday arguments are also a key part of this course. Previously offered as PHIL 4303. May not be used for degree credit with PHIL 5003.

Supervised individual work on a thesis for a master's degree.Offered for variable credit, 1-6credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.

This course introduces students to the history and development of philosophy with a special focus on ethics and contemporary moral arguments. By studying great philosophical works, this class enables students to think a critical manner about their own ideas and beliefs concerning philosophical problems and important issues that affect our lives. The goal of the course is to aid students in examining multiple perspectives on sometimes controversial topics, evaluate and assess articles on these topics, and allow students to form their own arguments on these issues.

A survey of the development of the philosophy of language, including works of philosophers such as Frege, Wittgenstein, Russell, Strawson, Searle, Donnellan, Grice, and Kripke. May not be used for degree credit with PHIL 5543.Prerequisite(s): PHIL 1313 or PHIL 3003.

A survey of the development of the philosophy of language, including works of philosophers such as Frege, Wittgenstein, Russell, Strawson, Searle, Donnellan, Grice, and Kripke. May not be used for degree credit with PHIL 4543.Prerequisite(s): PHIL 5003 or consent of instructor.

This course surveys topics in epistemology, a branch of philosophy that asks the following types of questions. What can we know? How do we come to know it? What value does knowing have for our lives? We will also survey questions in metaphysics, a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of reality. For example, are properties like redness just as real as things like tables and chairs? What is a person? What does contemporary science say about what the world is made up of? May not be used for degree credit with PHIL 5983.Prerequisite(s): 12 credit hours of philosophy.

Propositional logic and predicate logic with identity. Formal analysis of language. May not be used for degree credit with PHIL 3003.

Propositional logic and predicate logic with identity. Formal analysis of language. Previously offered as PHIL 4303. May not be used for degree credit with PHIL 5003.

Recent approaches to the theory of knowledge. Origin and justification of belief and certainty, roles of the senses and the mind, and the nature of truth.Prerequisite(s): PHIL 3213 or PHIL 3113 or PHIL 4983.

Introduction to selected views of living a meaningful life in light of morality, social values, truth and freedom.