2020 Fall

PHILOS 290 001 - SEM 001

Seminar

Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Morality

Seth Yalcin

Aug 26, 2020 - Dec 11, 2020

12:00 pm - 01:59 pm

Internet/Online

Class #:17626

Units: 3

Instruction Mode: Remote Instruction

Offered through Philosophy

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Hours & Workload

7 hours of outside work hours per week, and 2 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

Course Catalog Description

Advanced study in various fields of philosophy. Topics will vary from semester to semester.

The seminar will look at recent work on the evolution of capacities for moral agency and their development in individual humans, combining both philosophical and empirical perspectives on these issues. Authors to be discussed include Allen Buchanen, Margaret Gilbert, Chris Korsgaard, Philip Pettit, and Jay Wallace (on the philosophy side) and Jan Engelmann, Michael Tomasello, and Frans de Waal (on the psychology side).