Topics in Ethics & Pol Philosophy

(4 Credits)

Seminar on different topics in ethics and political philosophy, varying regularly. Some of the following topics (as well as others of research interest to the instructor and students) may be considered: the nature of moral obligations and rights; the nature of normative reasons, normative powers, and other normative phenomena; theories of justice; theories of political legitimacy, authority, and obligations; theories of freedom and obstacles to freedom.