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For most students, it’s more profitable to learn a little more about each of three areas of practical philosophy than to learn a whole lot more about just one area. That’s the idea behind the "mixed bag" character of this course.
All the topics we will be looking at are important and worth knowing about. Which topics we will pick might depend to some extent on the participants, interests; if you would like to articulate such an interest (for example, something related to your MA thesis or your "Examensarbeit") and suggest that it be taken into account, please do so by sending me an e-mail before March 20th, 2016.
My current plan is that we treat at least the following two areas:
- Self-Other Asymmetries in Ethics See, e.g., Ted Sider, "Asymmetry and Self-Sacrifice", Philosophical Studies 70 (1993), pp. 117-32
- What Is It for Something to Be a Normative Reason to Do Something? See, e.g., Jonas Olson, "The Metaphysics of Reasons", forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity, ed. by D. Star
We’ll decide about the rest as we go along.
Since there will be few or no classroom presentations, it is vital for the sessions that everybody be prepared and able to contribute. Please take part in this course only if you are willing to plough through the texts for each session and talk about them in the sessions: to summarize them, to ask and answer questions about them, etc.
Credit points: there will be a written exam in the final session, consisting of one question from each of the areas we covered. While the course itself is in English, each participant can choose whether to write her or his exam in German or English.
We will meet on the following eight Tuesdays: April 26 (not a logistical quickie – we’ll do the full 180 minutes); May 10 and 31; June 7 and 21; July 12 and 19 and 26 (final session, written exam).
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