Objective
Utilize basic tools of deductive and inductive logic and critical thinking in order to classify and evaluate arguments.
Objective
Define basic concepts employed in biomedical ethics
Objective
Evaluate rival ethical frameworks such as utilitarianism, Kantianism, and virtue ethics, and apply principles drawn from each framework to problems in biomedical ethics
Objective
Identify biomedical moral issues that affect us as patients, citizens, and health care professionals, discuss these issues courteously but critically, interpret passages of philosophical writing carefully, appraise the positions defended therein, and develop their own responses to them
Objective
Compose a thesis defense paper, in which a view is stated, clarified, and supported, and objections to the view are listed and defended against
Objective
Clarify some of their own beliefs and justify some of their basic values by implementing the methods and skills that they have developed in this course