PHIL 511

Spring 2011 All Classes

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Seminar Ethical Theory

Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Intensive study of problems in ethical theory.

Approved for letter grading when offered for 4 hours; approved for S/U grading when offered for 2 hours - only available for Stage 3 Philosophy PhD students. May be repeated in the same term. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor for non-philosophy graduate students.

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PHIL 511 class schedule data for spring 2011
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	54444	Lecture-Discussion	1MM	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	402 Gregory Hall	Moore, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 2 hours Section Info: TOPIC: Free Will and Determination. The seminar this semester will focus on the free will/ determinism debates, of which there are two: (1) Are human behaviors and the choices behind them as caused by factors themselves unchosen as are macro-sized natural phenomena? And (2) does it matter to moral responsibility and to legal liability (in the law of crimes particularly) whether choice and behavior is free of being caused in this way? Can we, for example, fairly be held responsible and blamable if we could not have chosen to do otherwise? We will focus on contemporary approaches to these issues in philosophy such as Gary Watson, Harry Frankfurt, Robert Kane, Jay Wallace, John Martin Fischer, Daniel Dennett, and Alfred Mele. We will also survey whether anything in the contemporary neuroscience literature, such as the experimental work of Benjamen Libet and Daniel Wegner, changes the terms of these philosophical debates. Two short papers will be required for the seminar; there will be no exam.
	54443	Lecture-Discussion	MM	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	402 Gregory Hall	Moore, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: TOPIC: Free Will and Determination. The seminar this semester will focus on the free will/ determinism debates, of which there are two: (1) Are human behaviors and the choices behind them as caused by factors themselves unchosen as are macro-sized natural phenomena? And (2) does it matter to moral responsibility and to legal liability (in the law of crimes particularly) whether choice and behavior is free of being caused in this way? Can we, for example, fairly be held responsible and blamable if we could not have chosen to do otherwise? We will focus on contemporary approaches to these issues in philosophy such as Gary Watson, Harry Frankfurt, Robert Kane, Jay Wallace, John Martin Fischer, Daniel Dennett, and Alfred Mele. We will also survey whether anything in the contemporary neuroscience literature, such as the experimental work of Benjamen Libet and Daniel Wegner, changes the terms of these philosophical debates. Two short papers will be required for the seminar; there will be no exam.