Postgraduate Course: Normative Theory MSc (PHIL11062)
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 | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course provides a systematic comparison of some of the major normative traditions. The course looks at what exactly these traditions agree and disagree about.
Shared with UG course PHIL10078 Normative Theory
For courses co-taught with undergraduate students and with no remaining undergraduate spaces left, a maximum of 8 MSc students can join the course. Priority will be given to MSc students who wish to take the course for credit on a first come first served basis after matriculation. |
| Course description |
The topic list is as follows:
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Consequentialism
Week 3: Kant's Ethics
Week 4: Contractualism
Week 5: Virtue Ethics
Week 6: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Week 7: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Week 8: Normative Explanation
Week 9: Normative Explanation
Week 10: Particularism
Week 11: Particularism
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 8 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One 2500 word essay
Essay deadline: Thursday 21st April 2016 by 12 noon.
Word limit: 2500 words maximum (excluding references)
Return deadline: Friday 13th May 2016 |
| Feedback |
- students will have the option to submit an essay plan (a plan of what they will write for their assessed essay).
- students will have the opportunity to meet with Dr Roberts to discuss both these pieces of formative work.
- Students have the opportunity to submit a formative essay by week 6 deadline on Turnitin via Learn. The essay cannot be draft of summative essay but it can be on the same topic.
Formative essay deadline: Thursday 25th February 2016 by 12 noon
Return deadline: Friday 18th March 2016 |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- learn about the main normative ethical approaches
- see how they have been, and could be, applied to practical ethical questions.
- understand how and why they support similar and different verdicts.
- read classic works in ethics
- think about difficult practical questions and be able to defend one¿s view.
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Reading List
Week 1: Introduction
Bernard Williams 'Socrates' Question' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Chapter one.
Week 2: Consequentialism
J. S. Mill Utilitarianism (chapter 3 optional)
Week 3: Kant's Ethics
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, (Chapter one and chapter two)
Week 4: Contractualism
T. Scanlon 'The Structure of Contractualism' in What We Owe To Each Other.
Week 5: Virtue Ethics
John McDowell 'Virtue and Reason' The Monist 62 (3):331-350 (1979)
Week 6: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy I
Bernard Williams, Chapters two and three of his Ethics and the Limits and Philosophy
Week 7: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy II
Bernard Williams, Chapters four and five of his Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Week 8: Normative Explanation
Mark Schroeder, 'Cudworth and Normative Explanations'
Week 9: Normative Explanation
H. A. Prichard 'Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?'
Week 10: Particularism
Jonathan Dancy 'What are the Options' Chapter one of his Ethics without Principles
Week 11: Particularism
Jonathan Dancy 'Holism and its Consequences' Chapter five of his Ethics without Principles
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
Please see Learn page |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
The course will be taught by Dr Debbie Roberts.
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Deborah Roberts
Tel: (0131 6)51 5171
Email: D.Roberts@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lynsey Buchanan
Tel: (0131 6)51 5002
Email: Lynsey.Buchanan@ed.ac.uk |
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