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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 8: How should we act given moral uncertainty?
Key readings
Andrew Sepielli,
Moral uncertainty
, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jacob Ross,
Rejecting ethical deflationism
,
Ethics
, vol. 116, no. 4 (July 2006), pp. 742–768.
William MacAskill,
The infectiousness of nihilism
,
Ethics
, vol. 123, no. 3 (April, 2013), pp. 508-520.
Further reading
Ted Lockhart,
Moral Uncertainty and Its Consequences
, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
William MacAskill,
Normative Uncertainty
, 2014
Brian Weatherson,
Running risks morally
,
Philosophical Studies
, vol. 167, no. 1, (January, 2014), pp. 141-163.
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