Overview

Ethical Rationalism vs Ethical Sentimentalism is a two-part graduate course (or "Hauptseminar"), taught by Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Michael Smith (Princeton University). One part will be on ethical rationalism, and it will take place in Berlin in mid-June 2016. The second part will be on ethical sentimentalism, and it will take place in Princeton at the end of August and beginning of September 2016.

Syllabus for Part One 

Humboldt Seminar 1: Ethical Rationalism

Wednesday 15 June 2015

Thomas M. Scanlon "Reasons Fundamentalism" and "Metaphysical Objections" in Being Realistic About Reasons 2014

Humboldt Seminar 2: Ethical Rationalism

Thursday 16 June 2015

Tristram McPherson "Against quietist normative realism" in Philosophical Studies 2011

Humboldt Seminar 3: Ethical Rationalism

Friday 17 June 2015

Christine Korsgaard "The Activity of Reason" in Reasons and Recognition, Wallace et al (eds) OUP 2011

Humboldt Seminar 4: Ethical Rationalism

Monday 20 June 2015

Niko Kolodny "Aims as Reasons" in Reasons and Recognition, Wallace et al (eds) OUP 2011

Humboldt Seminar 5: Ethical Rationalism

Tuesday 21 June 2015

Michael Smith "Scanlon on Desire and the Explanation of Action" in Reasons and Recognition, Wallace et al (eds) OUP 2011

Humboldt Seminar 6: Ethical Rationalism

Wednesday 22 June 2015

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