Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Philosophy
- Code
- BA-ERA-IPH-S-6
- Title
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 6
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- General aim of the course The course addresses some topical issues in contemporary philososophy, one of which will be discussed during each session. Grading will be based on in-class (Teams) activity and a short presentation (which should also be submitted via email at the end of the semester). Required readings 1. Introduction; Patrick Lin: Why ethics matters for autonomous driving https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-662-45854-9_4.pdf 2. Ronald de Sousa: Love and reasons http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~sousa/LOVE%20REASON%20GOLDIE.pdf 3. Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State, and Utopia (excerpt) https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3160/Nozick1.pdf 4. James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil1100/Rachels.pdf 5. William P. Smith, Deborah L. Kidder: You’ve Been Tagged https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0007681310000625 6. Bernard Williams: Moral luck https://bibliotecamathom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/williams_-_moral_luck.pdf 7. William James: What is an Emotion? https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/emotion.htm 8. Alfred Mele and Joshua Shepherd: Situationism and Agency https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2463220 9. Harry Frankfurt: On bullshit https://www5.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf 10. Anca Gheaus: The goods of work (other than money) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299443783_The_Goods_of_Wor k_Other_Than_Money 11. Peter Singer: Famine, affluence, and morality http://personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/teaching/mm/articles/Singer_1972Famine.pdf 12. Harry Frankfurt: Freedom of the Will and the Concept of the Person http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~schopra/Persons/Frankfurt.pdf
- Course content