The Philosophy Department at Ohio University offers an online course on sex and love—where students learn what love is and 10 issues about sex, love and their interrelations—as well as two other courses.
PHIL 3320 Philosophy of Sex and Love ONLINE
Class #2471 | Full Summer Session
Description: In this philosophical and evaluative investigation into the subject of sexual love and Western morality, topics include roles and relations between sexes, abortion, monogamy, sexual perversion, homosexuality, promiscuity, adultery, the semantics of sex, etc.
PHIL 1010 Fundamentals of Philosophy
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #2473 | First Summer Session
Description: This course is a survey of selected basic problems, concepts, and methods in philosophy.
PHIL 12oo Principles of Reasoning
Tier I Quantitative Skills
Class #2472 | First Summer Session
Class #2474 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course covers basic concepts of logic and techniques for judging validity of arguments introduced. A system for symbolizing arguments and deriving conclusions from premises is employed. Some of the following topics also are covered: informal fallacies in reasoning, syllogistic or Aristotelian logic; Venn diagrams, and truth tables.
PHIL 1300 Introduction to Ethics
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #2477 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course is a discussion of classic and/or modern philosophical views of human values, ideals, and morality. It provides an introductory survey of some main problems, concepts, and results of ethics, including selected philosophers of past and present.
PHIL 2160 Philosophy of Science Survey ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #2467 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course is a nontechnical survey of types, testing, and credibility of hypotheses; methods of experimental inquiry; measurement; and laws, theories and their role in explanation, concept formation.
PHIL 2600 Philosophy of Religion
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #5781 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course covers problems in the nature of religion, existence and the nature of God; problem of evil, immortality, and religious language.
PHIL 3200 Symbolic Logic I ONLINE
Class #2469 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course covers the techniques of modern symbolic logic.
PHIL 3310 Moral Problems in Medicine
Class #5481 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course is a philosophical investigation of complex moral problems engendered by modern medicine, e.g., death with dignity, human experimentation, allocation of scarce medical resources, birth defects, killing or letting die, informed consent, etc. Basic philosophical concepts underlying these problems are explored, including autonomy, coercion, normality, naturalness, rights, justice, responsibility, personhood, etc.
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