Module Details

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Title FRONTIERS OF ETHICS
Code PHIL302
Coordinator Prof SA Hailwood
Philosophy
Hailwood@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2018-19 Level 6 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims

To consider conceptual and ethical issues arising from matters of global concern, such as international justice, humanitarian intervention and the environmental crisis.

To consider arguments and assumptions underlying a range of claims concerning such issues as disability, global citizenship, climate change and the ethical status of nature.

To examine difficulties for traditional philosophical approaches raised by such issues and recent theoretical developments relevant to them.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to distinguish between some of the main concepts involved in philosophical debates arising from matters of current global concern.

Students will be able to distinguish between different ways of understanding  concepts in philosophical debates arising from from matters of global concern.

Students will be able to explain and evaluate some of the main theories in debates about matters of disability, global justice, just war, environmental justice and environmental ethics.

Students will be able to analyse concepts and arguments relating to current ethical issues.

Students will be able to identify philosophical assumptions underlying ethical claims.

Students will be able to structure a philosophical discussion of current ethical issues.
Students will be able to speak with confidence and clarity on current ethical issues.
Students will be able to explain details of texts shaping current philosophical debates about matters of global concern.

Students will be able to articulate and defend positions in current philosophical debates about matters of global concern.

Students will be able to write coherently and rigorously about abstract philosophical issues raised by current ethical controversies.

Syllabus

Animals and ecological justice.
Anthropocentrism, dualism and nature.
Climate and future generations.
Ethics, disabilities and capabilities.
Global citizenship and international justice.
Humanitarian intervention.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Lecture - 11 x 1 hour lectures, 1 per week

Support material including lecture summaries and/or slides will be available on VITAL

Seminar - 11 x 1 hour seminars

At least one, but no more than two, students will normally give an assessed presentation in each seminar, except for week one.


Teaching Schedule

  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 11
11 x 1 hour lectures, 1 per week
11
11 x 1 hour seminars
        22
Timetable (if known) Support material including lecture summaries and/or slides will be available on VITAL
 
At least one, but no more than two, students will normally give an assessed presentation in each seminar, except for week one.
 
         
Private Study 128
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment

EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
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Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
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CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
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Practical Assessment  10-15 minute present  10  No reassessment opportunity    Presentation There is no reassessment opportunity,  
Coursework  3,500 word essay  90  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Essay Notes (applying to all assessments) Assessed presentation (10%). Presentations occur in seminars and are assessed by the seminar tutor. Due to the nature of the task it is not possible for assessed presentations to be marked anonymously or to provide a reassessment opportunity. Essay (90%). Students will receive formative feedback on draft essay plans (one page A4).  

Recommended Texts

Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.
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