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Are moral standards relative to cultures and/or moral frameworks? Are there incompatible or non-comparable ways of thinking about the world that are somehow equally good? Is science getting closer to the truth? Is rationality--the notion of a good reason to believe something--relative to cultural norms? What are selves? Is there a coherent
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- linguistics and philosophy
- relativism
- moral standards
- science
- truth
- rationality
- cultural norms
- thomas kuhn
- karl popper
- gilbert harman
- judith thomson
- derek parfit
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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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- 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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