Science and Ethics after Darwin WF-FI-POLLEScE-PCE
The course includes the following issues:
1. Darwin and Darwinism: an overview
2. Darwin and Ethics: from Darwin to Sociobiology
3. Ethology and ethics
4. Neuroethics
5. Darwinism and normative ethics
Poziom przedmiotu
Symbol/Symbole kierunkowe efektów uczenia się
Efekty kształcenia
Knowledge – knowledge of a naturalistic comprehension of the genealogy of ethics and of the human moral psychology and Darwin’s theory’s fallouts for the philosophical analysis of ethics.
Skills – openness towards some differing interpretations regarding the origins of ethics and moral psychology combined with the recognition of Darwin’s evolutionary theory contribution in that field.
Competence - the ability to perceive and adequately interpret various approaches to the issue of genealogy of ethics and psychology of morality and to comprehend especially the “modern synthesis” approach.
Literatura
F. De Waal, Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved, Princeton U.P., Princeton (NJ), 2006
N. Levy, Neuroethics. Challenges for the 21st Century, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 2007
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