20th-Century Ethical Philosophy and the Analytic/Continental Divide

Undergraduate

The beginning of the twentieth century saw a sharp split between analytical ethical philosophy (mostly metaethics) and phenomenological approaches in continental Europe. We study these two traditions, interactions between them, and what followed throughout the twentieth century. Among the philosophers we study are G. E. Moore, W. D. Ross, Franz Brentano, Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, R. M. Hare, John Rawls, T. M. Scanlon, Alasdair MacIntyre, J. L. Mackie, Christine Korsgaard, and Charles Mills. Prior work in ethical philosophy is advised. HU T 7pm-8:55pm