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Department
of Humanities
Spring
2008
HU2701
Logic and Critical Thinking
Course Policies and Requirements
Logic and Critical Thinking: A Preview
Tentative Course Schedule
Analyzing Arguments,
Deductive Arguments: Validity
Inductive Arguments:
Strength, Cogency
Extended Arguments
Old Exam 1 (answers)
Introduction to
Propositional Logic
Tautologous,
Self-Contradictory, and Contingent Propositions
Relationships Among Propositions,
Validity/Invalidity via Truth Tables
Indirect Truth Tables,
Some Valid/Invalid Argument Forms
Old Exam 2 (answers)
Natural Deduction
Rules of Inference
More Rules of
Replacement, Conditional Proof
Indirect Proof
Old Exam 3 (answers)
Old Final Exam
HU3710 Engineering Ethics
Course Policies and Requirements
Ethics Questionnaire
Larry
Hinman's Ethics Site
Tentative Course Schedule – revised March
4, 2008
Theories of Obligation; Absolutism, Relativism,
Subjectivism
Consequentialist Theories, Theories of
Intrinsic Value
Non-consequentialist Theories: Divine Command,
Kant
Non-consequentialist Theories: prima
facie duties, moral rights
Virtue Ethics
Individual and Collective Obligation
Common, Personal, and Professional
Morality
Analyzing Cases
Sample Case Analysis
Line-Drawing
Codes of Engineering Ethics
1914 ASCE Code
Applying the
Codes
Florman's
Criticisms of the First Fundamental Canon
Honesty and
Dishonesty in Engineering
Course Paper Topics and Assignment
Old Exam 1
Study Questions for Exam 1
Intellectual Property, Expert
Witnessing
Conflicts of Interest
Safety: Assessing and Evaluating Risks
Safety: Risk Perception, the Respect-for-Persons
Standard,
Legal Liability
Organizational Disobedience and
Whistleblowing
Old Exam 2 (with
answers to Part I)
Study Questions for Exam 2
Enforcing and Promoting Engineering
Ethics
Final Exam
HU3711
Biomedical Ethics
Course Policies and Requirements
Ethics Questionnaire
Larry
Hinman's Ethics Site
Tentative Course Schedule
Theories of Obligation; Absolutism, Relativism,
Subjectivism
Consequentialist Theories, Theories of
Intrinsic Value
Non-consequentialist Theories: Divine Command,
Kant
Non-consequentialist Theories: prima
facie duties, moral rights
Virtue Ethics
Feminist Moral Theory
Casuistry in Ethics
Study Questions for First Exam
Old Exam 1
Case Discussion Initiators
Course Paper Assignment
Old Final Exam
Study Questions for Final Exam