Philosophy
Philosophy – Master’s Degree 2014
Recommended Year of Study: 1
Recommended Semester: 1
ECTS Credits Allocated: 10.00
Metaethics
Status: optional Recommended Year of Study: 1
Recommended Semester: 1
ECTS Credits Allocated: 10.00
Pre-requisites: None
Course objectives: Introducing the history of metaethics. Introducing contemporary metaethical issues that have been the subject of the debates of the late 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.
Course description: History of debate on naturalistic fallacy – from G.E. Moore to the present. Traditional and contemporary cognitivism (neonaturalism and neointuitionism). Traditional and contemporary non-cognitivism. "New" realism. Quasi-realism. Theory of institutional facts. Elements of moral epistemology.
Learning Outcomes: Students should acquire knowledge about the major directions in metaethics – cognitivism (descriptivism) and anticognitivism (non-descriptivism) and they should be able to find connections between metaethical theories and other related disciplines.
Literature/Reading:
- J. Babić, “Serlova teorija govornih akata i jeste-treba pitanje, Filozofske studije IX (1977).
- Č. Stivenson, “Priroda etičkog razilaženja”, Ideje 3-4/1979
- Č. Stivenson, “Ubeđivačke definicije”, Treći program, zima 1977.
- S. Stojanović, Savremena meta-etika, gl. 1-3, 5-11 i Zaključak.
- Jovan Babić, "Metaetika", Teorija 1-2/2006
- W. D. Hudson, Modern Moral Philosophy
- W.D. Hudson, A Century of Moral Philosophy
- A. Miller, An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics, gl. 1-6, 8
- Hare, R.M.,Freedom and Reason
- W.D Hudson, The Is-Ought Question
- Hare, R. M., Language of Morals