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PHIL 3320

Contemporary Ethical Theory

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Critical study of modern ethical theories, their views on the nature of morality and the justification of moral claims. Topics may include utilitarianism, libertarianism, communitarianism, egoism, neo-Kantianism, virtue ethics, social contract ethics, feminist ethics, and moral rights.

2024

Topics

  • Submission of Discussion Questions begins.
  • Hooker, B. (2000) Ideal Code, Real World; A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality.
  • Nozick, R. (2013), Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Basic Books (1974). pp. 3-35
  • 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
  • Basic Income, Philosophy & Public Affairs 20(2): 101-131.
  • 88-105.
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  • pp. 18-32.
  • Routledge. Part Three, Chapter Four. pp. 101-124
  • Routledge. Part Three, Chapter Five. pp. 125-155
  • Young, Iris Marion. (1990) Justice and the Politics of Difference.
  • Practice, ed. George Hull. Lexington Books.
  • 2016.
  • Hartmann, H. (1979). The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More
  • Progressive Union. Capital & Class 3(2):1-33.
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  • Allen and Eduardo Mendieta.
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Readings

  • 1 Final Exam Date: There will be no final examination in this course. Instead, an oral examination will take place during class time on April 2, 4, and 9. The scope of the examination will encompass the topics of
  • Drop Course Policy: The final day for withdrawal from Winter semester courses is March 15.
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Readings

  • J.L. Mackie, excerpt handout, from Ethics (London: Penguin, 1977), “The Subjectivity of Values”
  • Mary Midgley, “Trying out one’s New Sword” (also to be handed out in class)
  • Brad Hooker, “Rule-Consequentialism” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (free online)
  • Jesse Prinz, excerpt from The Emotional Construction of Morals (OUP 2007), online @ CU Libr.
  • Brad Hooker, Ideal Code, Real World (OUP 2000), online @ CU Library
  • Derek Parfit, On What Matters (OUP 2011), online @ CU Library (excerpts TBA)
  • Charles Goodman, Consequences of Compassion (esp. ch. 2), online @ CU Library
  • Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (available @ library reserves)

Prerequisites & course information

Precludes additional credit for PHIL 2102. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 2020 or PHIL 2101 or permission of the department. Lectures three hours a week.

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