The Foundations of Ethics
Good and Evil Angels Struggling
William Blake
Special Note:
The first meeting of this course will be held from 7:00 pm - 9:45 pm
on Wednesday, September 5 in the Seminar Room of the Philosophy Department (ninth floor of MHB).
Regular Meetings: LA1 304 • 7:00 pm - 9:45 pm Thursdays
Texts:
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G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica, Revised Edition. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993 [1903].
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W. D. Ross, The Right and the Good. New York: Oxford UP or Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, [1930].
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The Foundations of Ethics, ed. Russ Shafer-Landau and Terence Cuneo. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Reading
Schedule (exam due-dates are in boldface):
| Sep |
5 |
Introduction to Problems |
| Sep |
13 |
Moore, Principia Ethica, pp. 53-110 |
| Sep |
20 |
Moore, Principia Ethica, pp. 111-160 |
| Sep |
27 |
Moore, Principia Ethica, pp. 192-273 |
| Oct |
4 |
Ross, The Right and the Good, pp. 1-47 |
| Oct |
11 |
Ross, The Right and the Good, pp. 65-141 |
| Oct |
18 |
Ayer, "Critique of Ethics and Theology"
Stevenson, "The Nature of Ethical Disagreement" |
| Oct |
25 |
[California Conference in Early Modern Philosophy] |
| Oct / Nov |
1 |
Gibbard, "The Reasons of a Living Being"
Blackburn, "How to be an Ethical Anti-Realist"
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| Nov |
8 |
Mackie, "The Subjectivity of Values"
Joyce, "The Myth of Morality" |
| Nov |
15 |
Foot, "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives"
Williams, "Internal and External Reasons" |
| Nov |
x |
Read: Railton, "Moral Realism"
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| Nov |
29 |
Boyd, "How to be a Moral Realist"
Horgan and Timmons, "New Wave Moral Realism Meets Moral Twin Earth" |
| Dec |
6 |
Harman, "Ethics and Observation"
Sturgeon, "Moral Explanations"
Shafer Landau, "Ethics as Philosophy" |
| Dec |
13 |
Korsgaard, "The Authority of Reflection"
Firth, "The Ideal Observer" |
Please note: This
schedule is subject to revision;
please continue to check this
website for updates.
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