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PHIL 246 Normative Ethics Units: 3.00
This course will explore central themes in late-20th- and 21st-century normative ethics. Possible topics include moral theory and anti-theory, conceptions of rights, conceptions of wronging, the doctrines of double effect and doing and allowing, aggregation, the scope of our duty to aid, and nonidentity and its permutations.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 2 or above) or (6.0 units of PHIL).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Integrate content from the course readings and in-class discussions to produce a portfolio of written work that reveals an increasingly sophisticated understanding of normative ethics (in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition) that approximately tracks the progression of the course in real time.
- Communicate their assimilation of a reasonable subset of the course readings and in-class discussions via organized, cogent prose.
- Support and enhance the learning of their peers via oral contributions to discussions, active listening, or other means provided or required by the syllabus.
- Reconstruct arguments from the philosophical texts being studied and raise interpretive questions about or accurately targeted objections to those arguments, in written or oral forms as required by the syllabus, at a lower-intermediate level.