ETHICAL
RATIONALISM VS ETHICAL SENTIMENTALISM: PART ONE
Thomas
Schmidt and Michael Smith
OVERVIEW
Ethical Rationalism vs Ethical Sentimentalism is
a two-part graduate course (or "Hauptseminar"),
taught by Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Michael Smith
(Princeton University). One part will be on ethical rationalism, and it will
take place in Berlin in mid-June 2016. The second part will be on ethical
sentimentalism, and it will take place in Princeton at the end of August and
beginning of September 2016.
SYLLABUS
FOR PART ONE
Humboldt Seminar
1: Ethical Rationalism
Wednesday
15 June 2015
Thomas M. Scanlon "Reasons
Fundamentalism" and "Metaphysical
Objections" in Being
Realistic About Reasons 2014
Humboldt Seminar 2: Ethical Rationalism
Thursday
16 June 2015
Tristram McPherson "Against quietist normative realism" in Philosophical Studies 2011
Humboldt Seminar 3: Ethical Rationalism
Friday 17
June 2015
Niko Kolodny "Aims as Reasons" in Reasons and Recognition, Wallace et al (eds) OUP 2011
Humboldt Seminar 5: Ethical Rationalism
Tuesday
21 June 2015
Michael Smith "Scanlon on Desire
and the Explanation of Action" in Reasons and Recognition, Wallace et al (eds)
OUP 2011
Humboldt Seminar 6: Ethical Rationalism
Wednesday
22 June 2015
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