PHIL-P 342 PROBLEMS OF ETHICS (3 CR.)
May concentrate on a single large issue (e.g., whether utilitarianism is an adequate ethical theory), or several more or less independent issues (e.g., the nature of goodness, the relation of good to ought, the objectivity of moral judgments, moral responsibility, moral emotions, concepts of virtue, cultural conflicts of value, the nature of moral discourse).
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Fall 2024
| Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEC | 3 | 30185 | Closed | 11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | TR | I 232 | Sussman D |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 30185: Total Seats: 26 / Available: 0 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Topic: Truth and value
Can there be objective facts about what is good, right, or important? Many philosophers think that such facts would be incompatible with any respectably naturalistic understanding of reality. Supposedly, value facts would be metaphysically "queer" in a way that would prevent them from ever being objects of knowledge or sources of motivation for us. Our central question will be whether and in what ways truth and knowledge about what's good would have to be different from truth and knowledge about anything else. Must value-claims be defensible in anything like the way that scientific claims are? How are the natural features of a situation related to its moral qualities? What is the connection between something being good, and our being disposed to care about it?
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