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 Two 

Princeton Seminar 7: Ethical Sentimentalism

Monday 29 August 2016

Justin D'Arms "Two Arguments for Sentimentalism" in Philosophical Issues 2005

Princeton Seminar 8: Ethical Sentimentalism

Tuesday 30 August 2016

Simon Blackburn "Must We Weep for Sentimentalism?" in Contemporary Debates in Metaethics, James Dreier (ed) Wiley-Blackwell 2006 

Princeton Seminar 9: Ethical Sentimentalism

Wednesday 31 August 2016

Peter Railton "Just How Do the Passions Rule?" in Passions and Projections, Robert Johnson and Michael Smith (eds) OUP 2015

Princeton Seminar 10: Ethical Sentimentalism

Saturday 3 September 2016

Nomy Arpaly and Timothy Schroeder "Deliberation and Acting for Reasons" in Philosophical Review 2012

Princeton Seminar 11: Ethical Sentimentalism

Sunday 4 September 2016

Karen Jones "Emotional Rationality as Practical Rationality" in Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women. Cheshire Calhoun (ed) OUP 2004 

Princeton Seminar 12: Ethical Sentimentalism

Monday 5 September 2016

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