At the end of the semester, sudents will have obtained knowledge of Moore's "open question" and the "naturalistic fallacy".
They will have become familiar with moral realism, moral anti-realism and quasi-realism.
They will have reflected on:
-the nature of action-guiding language,
-the ontological status of moral properties and values,
-the objectivity of moral judgements,
-moral motivation, and moral emotions.
They will have compared and contrasted:
-the methodology of the natural sciences and morality,
-factual judgements and moral judgements,
-scientific observation and moral observation.
They will have written a paper on one of these topics and conducted a discussion section on one of the articles we will have read in class.