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| 0618-4058-01 | Research seminar: Moral psychology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Both philosophers and psychologists have long been fascinated by how our capacity to make judgments, reach decisions, and perform actions is exercised in the moral domain. In this seminar, students will have the opportunity to examine different theories concerning the mental mechanisms at play in various moral and normative contexts, such as weakness of will, addiction, compulsion, self-deception, egoism vs. altruism, character vs. situationism, and so on. Students will be able to choose whether to focus (partly) on the empirical-psychological research on these questions, and will be referred to relevant literature.
The seminar will mostly be conducted as a series of one-on-one tutorials. After the first group meeting (which students are strongly encouraged to attend), where the topics and structure of the seminar will be explained, students will prepare short essays on topics of their choice. The essays will be discussed in the tutorials, and will form the basis for the final mark.
The seminar will mostly be conducted as a series of one-on-one tutorials. After the first group meeting (which students are strongly encouraged to attend), where the topics and structure of the seminar will be explained, students will prepare short essays on topics of their choice. The essays will be discussed in the tutorials, and will form the basis for the final mark.