Possible topics
- moral explanation (Harman, Sturgeon, etc.)
- non-Humean motivation (Nagel, McDowell, etc.)
- Australian rules metaethics (Smith, Jackson, etc.)
- add your own!!!
Week 1 (Jan 8-12)
Probably we'll do nothing this week.
Week 2 (Jan 15-19)
Topic: supervenience as a challenge to realism
- Blackburn, "Supervenience Revisited"
- Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism, Ch. 4, pp. 84-89
- Bloomfield, Moral Reality, Ch.1, pp. 48-55
Week 3 (Jan 22-26)
Topic (cont): supervenience as a challenge to realism
- Dreier, "The Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism"
- McNaughton & Rawling, "Naturalism and Normativity"
- Zangwill, "Moral Supervenience"
Week 4 (Jan 29 - Feb 2)
Topic: Frege-Geach embedding problems
- Blackburn, chapter 6, Spreading the Word
- Gibbard, chapter 5, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings
- Dreier, "Expressivist Embeddings and Minimalist Truth"
- others
Week 5 (Feb 5-9)
Week 6 (Feb 12-16)
Week 7 (Feb 19-23)
Week 8 (Feb 26 - Mar 2)
Week 9 (Mar 5-9)
Spring Break
We'll probably "go wild" this week.
Week 10 (Mar 19-23)
Week 11 (Mar 26-30)
Week 12 (Apr 2-6)
Week 13 (Apr 9-13)
Week 14 (Apr 16-20)
Week 15 (Apr 23-27)
Week 16 (Apr 30 - May 4)