PHL 360 - Contemporary Ethics

Institution:

Rider University

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Description:

3 credits Explores recent and contemporary approaches to ethics, value-theory, and normative discourse. Such problems as the meaning and cognitive status of value-judgments, the relation between fact and value, the relativity of values, and how value-beliefs can be justified are considered. Such philosophers as Dewey, G.E. Moore, C.L. Stevenson, C.I. Lewis, and R.M. Hare are read and discussed.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rider.edu

Phone Number:

(609) 896-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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