PHIL 362.001 – Contemporary Ethical Theory

Instructor: Russ Shafer-Landau. This course meets MW 3:35 – 4:50 p.m. in CW 103.

This course will cover several fundamental questions in ethics–the justification for being moral, the nature of value, the proper standard(s) of right conduct, the question of whether (and in what sense) ethics can be objective, and the nature and possibility of moral responsibility.

Prerequisite: at least 1 PHIL course.