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Department
of Humanities
Spring 2009
HU2701: Logic and Critical Thinking
Course Policies
Tentative
Course Schedule revised 2/9/09
Logic and Critical
Thinking: A Preview
Analyzing
Arguments
Deductive and Inductive Arguments: Validity,
Soundness, Strength, Cogency
Argument Forms, Proving Invalidity via the Counterexample
Method
Old Exam 1
Extended Arguments
Exam 1: Answers
Fallacies: Formal and Informal
Some Common Informal Fallacies
Quiz 3 questions
Old Exam 2
HU3710: Engineering Ethics
Ethics
Questionnaire
Larry Hinman's
Ethics Site
Theories of
Obligation; Absolutism, Relativism, Subjectivism
Nonconsequentialist Theories: Prima
Facie Duties Theories
Consequentialist Theories, Theories of
Intrinsic Value
Non-consequentialist Theories:
Respect-for-Persons Theories
Kant's Theory of Obligation
Nonconsequentialist Theories: Moral
Rights Theories
Virtue Ethics
Moral Responsibility: Individual and
Collective
Line-drawing
1914 ASCE Code of Engineering Ethics
Contemporary Codes of Engineering Ethics
Florman's Criticisms of First Fundamental Canon
Old Exam 1
Study Questions for Exam 1
HU3711: Biomedical Ethics
Tentative
Class Schedule revised 2/10/09
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
American
Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics
Principles of Medical
Ethics
Establishing
the Patient-Physician Relationship
Fundamental
Elements of the Patient-Physician
Relationship
Informed
Consent
Surrogate
Decision-Making
Abortion
Mandatory
Parental Consent to Abortion
Withholding
or Withdrawing Life-sustaining Medical
Treatment
Euthanasia
Physician-assisted
Suicide