Credit and Assessment PHIL 20011 carries 20 credit points. Essays should be written on the questions set below, unless you have agreed a different question in advance with your seminar tutor. The course is assessed by a three-hour unseen examination which requires students to answer three questions out of eight set.
Students also receive formative feedback on their essays and seminar performance.
The full and definitive statement of criteria for award of credit and assessment, and deadlines for essays, are contained in the department's undergraduate student handbook. The main goal of this course is to examine the structure of commonsense morality and to ask whether it is defensible. Understand the difficulties with nonideal moral theory. Understand and evaluate consequentialist challenges to commonsense morality. Understand and evaluate criticisms of consequentialism.