Ethics

(V83. 004)
NYU Summer 08, Second Session
Monday-Thursday, 3:30-5:05pm

Colin Marshall, Instructor
Email: crm281 (at) nyu (dot) edu
Office: 409 in 5 Washington Place (in the Philosophy Department).
Office hours: Monday 1:30-3:30, and by appointment

Course materials

• Ethical Theory, edited by Louis Pojman.
• Moral Discourse and Practice, edited by Darwall, Gibbard and Railton.
• A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, by Robert Kane.

• Philosophical Ethics, by Darwall.

Syllabus and assignments

Syllabus

Counter-example homework for 7/1

An example answer (by me) to a problem like the ones on the problem set

A problem set from another class that got an 'A'. The answers are a little on the long side, but it should give you some ideas of what I'm after.

A general guide to reconstructing arguments.

Problem set #1 (due Monday the 7th, 11am)

Problem set #2 (due Monday the 14th, 11am)

Problem set #3 (due Monday the 21th, 11am)

Problem set #4 (due Monday the 28th, 11am)

Study guide for final

Handouts

Links

• Consequentialism
• Deontological ethics
• Evolution
• Free will
• Kant's moral philosophy
• Metaethics
• Mill and Mill's moral and political philosophy
• Empirical approaches to moral psychology
• Sartre