Introduction to Ethics

Introduction to Ethics - Spinoza, Kant - An
Experimental Moral perspective
(introductory/intermediate levels):

This class is a review of key philosophical
issues in ethics and meta-ethics in both
historical and conceptual perspectives. Starting
with Plato and Aristotle and moving to Spinoza
and Kant, the course examines ethical questions
by contrasting traditional analysis of moral
categories with more current approaches of both
phenomenological approach and Experimental Moral
Philosophy. Questions concerning judgments,
normativity, essentialism, emotivism and
naturalism in ethics are probed through an
experimental approach that re-describes the
psychological (first person perspective) through
a philosophical grounding of epistemological
'internalism' through simulative psychological
experiments.


Students should expect to spend approx. $100 on
books and supplies.