FF:PH0188 Empirical Ethics - Course Information
PH0188 Experimental and Empirical Ethics
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Radim Bělohrad, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Radim Brázda, Dr. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová - Timetable
- Tue 15:00–15:45 C11
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-PH) (5)
- Philosophy (programme FF, M-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, M-PH)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH) (2)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-MA)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-SS) (2)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to describe and explain the most recent trends in the research in morality in the field of empirical sciences. They will be able to explain new methods in the research and the contribution of disciplines such as neuroscience, cognitive science and psychology, primatology, experimental philosophy to the exploration of the phenomenon. They will be able to assess the relevance of empirical approach to normative issues.
- Syllabus
- Introduction: new trends in the research of morality - the role of empirical sciences;
- neuroscience/philosophy: Sam Harris
- neuroscience/philosophy: Joshua Greene
- social psychology: Johathan Haidt
- psychology/cognitive science: Paul Bloom
- primatology: Frans de Waal
- neurophilosophy: Patricia Churchland
- experimental philosophy: Joshua Knobe
- Literature
- HARRIS, Sam. The moral landscape : how science can determine human values. 1st Free press hardcover ed. New York: Free, 2010, 291 s. ISBN 9781439171219. info
- Moral psychology. Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2008, xix, 569. ISBN 9780262693554. info
- Moral psychology. Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2008, xviii, 585. ISBN 9780262693578. info
- Moral psychology. Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2008, xíx, 583. ISBN 9780262693547. info
- HAIDT, Jonathan. The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgement. 2001, 20 pp. Psychological Review, 108/4, 814-834. ISSN 0033-295X. info
- DARWIN, Charles. The origin of species : by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Edited by J. W. Burrow. London: Penguin Books, 1968, 476 s. ISBN 0140432051. info
- DARWIN, Charles. Výraz emocí u člověka a u zvířat. Edited by Vladimír Tardy, Translated by Josef Král - Václav Příhoda. Vyd. české 1. Praha: Československá akademie věd, 1964, 280 s. info
- Teaching methods
- lecture
- Assessment methods
- final test, min 60 percent
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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