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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This will be a seminar on classic and contemporary work on central topics in ethics. The first third of the course will focus on metaethics: we will examine the meaning of moral claims and ask whether there is any sense in which moral principles are objectively valid. The second third of the course will focus on normative ethics: what makes
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- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
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The seminar will explore the phenomenon of a priori knowledge. We'll consider some notable attempts to account for a priori knowledge in the history of philosophy (e.g., by Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Kant), some influential critiques of the notion; we will end by considering some contemporary approaches to the a priori.
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- descartes
- hume
- kant
- leibniz
- locke
- hume and the positivists
- history of philosophy
File: 24-231-fall-2009.zip
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: 24-805-spring-2005.zip
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- linguistics and philosophy
- a priori knowledge
- plato
- descartes
- hume
- kant
- leibniz
- locke
- hume and the positivists
- history of philosophy
File: MIT24_231F09_paper3.pdf
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Inherited Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_paper1.pdf
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Inherited Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_paper4.pdf
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Inherited Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_paper2.pdf
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_lec05.pdf
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_lec15.pdf
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_lec03.pdf
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_lec17.pdf
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- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_lec09.pdf
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_lec12.pdf
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_lec25.pdf
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
File: MIT24_231F09_lec14.pdf
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ethics
- euthyphro
- plato
- goodness
- non-naturalism
- g. e. moore
- non-cognitivism
- alfred jules ayer
- david brink
- cognitivism
- gilbert harman
- nicholas sturgeon
- observation
- morality
- moral relativism
- philippa foot
- david lyons
- incoherence
- ethical relativism
- john stuart mill
- utilitarianism
- robert nozick
- derek parfit
- alastair norcro
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