Metaethics

This course is part of specialisation (verdiepingspakket) Ethics and Politics.

For students who study LAS and TCS and take this course as part of their major, a mandatory preparation is required. See https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/. Metaethics is an advanced subject in philosophy, requiring knowledge of developments in normative ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and metaphysics. This course is not open to students who have not taken an introduction to ethics. As preparation, we recommend also taking courses in normative ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Metaethics is about what people do and commit to when they make moral judgements and try to justify them. In other words, it is the area of ethics that concerns itself with the semantic, ontological, psychological and epistemological dimensions of moral statements. This module is a general introduction to metaethics. Students will become familiar with metaethical terminology, the most prominent metaethical positions, and central texts and arguments that have defined the field.

At the end of the course, students will be able to

1. read primary and secondary metaethical literature independently, and to reconstruct and comment on the central arguments in this literature;
2. distinguish central positions and define the technical terminology in contemporary metaethics, including moral semantics, moral ontology, moral epistemology and moral psychology;
3. formulate a focused research question in metaethics and generate a well-structured written paper in which a position is defended or critiqued;
4. describe and explain the most important advantages and shortcomings of central positions in metaethics, both orally and in writing;
5. create an independent line of argumentation in favor of (or against) positions in metaethics or any of its sub-disciplines;
6. explain and discuss the practical importance, or lack thereof, of positions in metaethics.

This course is part of the specialisation (verdiepingspakket) Ethics and Politics, which consists of the following four courses: History of ethics/Politics (blok 1), normative ethics (blok 2), meta-ethics (blok 3), contemporary political philosophy (blok 4). In meta-ethics, the following skills are trained: oral presentation and discussion of philosophical ideas and arguments in a seminar setting, structured and reasoned presentation of philosophical ideas and arguments in writing. This course is taught in English.body { font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial } table { font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial }

Je moet voldoen aan de volgende eisen

• Ingeschreven voor een opleiding van de faculteit Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen
• Alle onderstaande cursussen zijn behaald
• Inleiding ethiek (FI1V19001)

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