Moral Reasoning

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will cover recent philosophical work on moral reasoning. That is to say, it will address a set of connected topics that lie in the space in between moral theory (which concerns what we ought, morally, to do) and moral metaphysics (which deals with the nature of the truth-conditions, if any, for statements about what we ought, morally, do do). We will focus on basic features of how we should go about figuring out what we ought to do. Part of the course will be devoted to exploring this intermediate status of the topic (by considering the concept of moral reasoning) and part will simply take this intermediate topic for granted (by considering moral reasoning of various types).