Among the topics typically covered are fallacies, syllogisms, causal hypotheses, logic diagrams, argument analysis, and truth-functional reasoning. A course on reasoning skills. Grades are based on three noncumulative tests. A variable title course. Advanced consideration of one or more ethical theories or theoretical issues about the nature and status of ethics.
Morality is a bit mysterious.
We all have moral convictions, but we often have trouble justifying them, and we frequently disagree over them. Readings are from classical and contemporary sources, e.g., the works of David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, W. D. Ross, A. J. Ayer, Ruth Benedict, Philippa Foot, J. L. Mackie, Gilbert Harman, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Grades are based on papers, tests, and class participation.