PHIL 8310 is also offered in Spring 2024
PHIL 8310 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2023 | PHIL 8310 Section 001: Seminar: Moral Philosophy (65489)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Walter W Heller Hall 731
- Enrollment Status:
Open (1 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Concepts/problems relating to ethical discourse. prereq: 4310 or 4320 or 4330 or instr consent
- Class Description:
- The seminar topic for Spring 2018 will be: Valuing Persons. It is a dogma of contemporary moral philosophy that each person possesses an unconditional value that merits respect; respecting others thus is a morally mandated mode of valuing persons. In what, however does such a mode of valuing persons consist? How does it relate to other modes of both valuing and *dis*valuing persons? Do modes of valuing persons grounded in their compliance (or flouting) of deontic standards (e.g., their status as a wrongdoer) exhaust the morally significant range of valuing/disvaluing attitudes? Or in valuing persons as we morally should, must we likewise attend to their compliance (or flouting) of non-deontic (e.g., aretaic) standards, as well? This course will be conducted as an advanced research seminar into these topics, culminating in each student offering a mock conference presentation and producing a (potentially) publishable research paper. Core readings will be drawn from contemporary philosophers and the instructor's forthcoming manuscript, supplemented by readings suggested by students' independent research.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Graduate students in philosophy.
- Learning Objectives:
Seminar participants will:
· Become familiar with arguments and approaches to the topic as it is treated
· Present their research on the topic, and
· Produce a significant body of written work on the topic.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65489/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 May 2017
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