This course is not currently conducted!
Erasmus code: 07.2
ECTS credits:
unknown
Language:
English
Organized by:
Institute of Ecology and Bioethics
Science and Ethics after Darwin WF-OB-POLLEScEt
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
Subject level
advanced
Learning outcome code/codes
OB2_W02
OB2_W12
OB2_U09
OB2_U13
OB2_K07
Assessment criteria
Students are required to write a philosophical essay on the topics of the course
Bibliography
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
Additional information
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