Fall 2017
Graduate Seminar in Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Metaethics
This course will review contemporary work in ethics and metaethics by philosophers like McDowell, Nussbaum, Thompson, and Hursthouse. We'll look at criticisms of the Neo-Aristotelian naturalistic program that question its ability to account for accurate first-order normative constraints, fail to account for metanormative features such as normative authority and reason-givingness, and commit themselves to implausible or scientifically disreputable biological accounts.
Symbolic Logic, PHIL 4040
PHIL 405 introduces students into the formal study of argument form and analysis by introducing truth-function sentential logic and first-order predicate logic. We will use truth tables to establish models of sentential logic and prove equivalences and entailment relations between sentences. We will study a natural deduction system that will allow us to establish inferential rules and prove entailment and theorems of our first-order predicate logic. This course will use a version of an open access logic textbook, forallX, adapted for this course.
Past
Graduate Seminar in Metaethics (Spring '16)
Philosophy of Law, PHIL 3430 (Fall '14, Spring '15, Fall '15, Fall '16, Spring '17)
Introduction to Ethics (Fall '16, Spring '17)
Logic for PreProfessionals, PHIL 4070 (Spring '15)
Introduction to Philosophy, PHIL 1050 (Fall '15)
Please feel free to email me for syllabi and reading lists.
Graduate Seminar in Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Metaethics
This course will review contemporary work in ethics and metaethics by philosophers like McDowell, Nussbaum, Thompson, and Hursthouse. We'll look at criticisms of the Neo-Aristotelian naturalistic program that question its ability to account for accurate first-order normative constraints, fail to account for metanormative features such as normative authority and reason-givingness, and commit themselves to implausible or scientifically disreputable biological accounts.
Symbolic Logic, PHIL 4040
PHIL 405 introduces students into the formal study of argument form and analysis by introducing truth-function sentential logic and first-order predicate logic. We will use truth tables to establish models of sentential logic and prove equivalences and entailment relations between sentences. We will study a natural deduction system that will allow us to establish inferential rules and prove entailment and theorems of our first-order predicate logic. This course will use a version of an open access logic textbook, forallX, adapted for this course.
Past
Graduate Seminar in Metaethics (Spring '16)
Philosophy of Law, PHIL 3430 (Fall '14, Spring '15, Fall '15, Fall '16, Spring '17)
Introduction to Ethics (Fall '16, Spring '17)
Logic for PreProfessionals, PHIL 4070 (Spring '15)
Introduction to Philosophy, PHIL 1050 (Fall '15)
Please feel free to email me for syllabi and reading lists.
