Postgraduate Course: Individual and Collective Agency (MSc) (PHIL11041)
Course Outline
School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | The course will introduce students to current research on the topic of agency and its implications for ethics.
The course will be divided into three parts:
- The first part will focus on issues in individual agency
- The second part will consider what it is to be an agent more generally, how there can be collective agency and the contrast between individual and collective agency
- The third part will examine some implications for ethics, particularly the location of moral responsibility.
Shared with UG Course U03439 Individual & Collective Agency. |
Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, students will be able to:
- analyse the problems that decision theory poses for individual agents and grasp some of the proposed solutions
- compare and contrast agency at different levels
- understand the connection between agency and ethics
- be familiar with a variety of research methodologies from decision theory and ethics
- synthesise literature in decision theory and ethics
- bring analytic and critical tools to bear in reading and writing about current topics of research on agency
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | agency ethics |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr David Mccarthy
Tel:
Email: david.mccarthy@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lynsey Buchanan
Tel: (0131 6)51 5002
Email: Lynsey.Buchanan@ed.ac.uk |
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