PY4635 Contemporary Moral Theory

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be confirmed.

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Module coordinator

Prof T G Pummer

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Module Staff

Professor T Pummer, Professor T Mulgan

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Module description

This module aims to provide a critical appreciation of the main contemporary moral theories. It provides an in-depth examination of consequentialism - the view that one should always act so as to bring about the most good - as well as objections to the view and its main alternatives: e.g., Aristotelianism, feminist ethics, Kantianism.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

1 or more essays to a total of 7,000 words

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2 hour Lecture, 1 x 1 hour Seminar