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Ethics seminar
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Introduction
Week 1: The role of intuitions in ethical theory
Week 2: The value of moral testimony
Week 3: Non-naturalism and supervenience
Week 4: Particularism, holism, and ethical principles
Week 5: The aggregation of harms and benefits
Week 6: Does it matter for its own sake how benefits are distributed?
Week 7: Population ethics
Week 8: How should we act given moral uncertainty?
Ethics seminar
Week 4: Particularism, holism, and ethical principles
Key readings
Jonathan Dancy (1993)
Moral reasons
(Blackwell), pp. 60-71.
Margaret Olivia Little (2000).
Moral generalities revisited
. In Hooker and Little, eds.
Moral particularism
(OUP), pp. 276-304
Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge (2005)
What does holism have to do with moral particularism?
Ratio
18, 93-103.
Further reading
Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge (2008)
Preempting principles: recent debates in moral particularism
.
Philosophy Compass
3, 1177-1192.
Jonathan Dancy (2004)
Ethics without principles
. (OUP)
Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge (2006)
Principled ethics: generalism as a regulative ideal
. (OUP)
Brad Hooker and Margaret Olivia Little, eds. (2000)
Moral particularism
. (OUP)
Mark Lance, Matjaz Potrc, and Vojko Strahovnik, eds. (2007)
Challenging moral particularism
.
(Routledge)
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