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Looking at a handful of topics in a course can be at least as fruitful for students as looking at one and the same topic for an entire term. In that spirit, let’s read a selection of papers on a variety of important issues in metaethics, normative ethics, and the theory of practical reason. There is plenty of good stuff out there, and it should be fun and rewarding to plunge into it.
The plan for each session is to discuss a paper that we have all fully ploughed through in preparation, so that everybody arrives ready to summarize it and to lead us through the paper and its arguments. Please attend this course only if you’re prepared to take part in this practice.
The proposed texts will be made available on the page that this course has in Moodle (the electronic learning platform of the Philosophy Department), and so will be information about credit points and other technicalities. The canonical way to acquire credit points in this course is to write a term paper.
Note that the first meeting of this course (Tue 16 April) will be of full length, not just a logistical quickie; we’ll start philosophizing without a text.
Students of Economics, Finance and Philosophy: you are very welcome in this course provided you have already passed the exam of the "Grundvorlesung Ethik". If not, please do not attend; this is an advanced course, unsuitable for beginners. |
