Courses/Subjects in Ethics, Human Rights & Institutions Stream
Application Information for Exchange Students
The following courses/subjects are provisional and may be subject to change:
Ethics
Applied Ethics
Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy
Political Ideas
Dissertation
Special SubjectOther available courses/subjects to make up the balance of your full-time load may be found on the University's website at www.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/admissns.htm
Course/Subject Name: Ethics
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see Note 2Course/Subject id: PHIL213 Level: For 2nd or 3rd year students Pre-requisites: Some 1st year philosophy Start Date: October or January End Date: December or June Contact Hours: 1 lecture plus 1 seminar (1 hour) per week ECTS Weighting: 8 ECTS credits Course/Subject Outline: This course provides an introduction to the central issues of moral philosophy, encompassing meta-ethics, normative ethics and moral psychology, and the study of primary texts, including classical authors and contemporary writings. Central topics discussion concerned skepticism about moral motivation, evolutionary approaches to ethics, the role of reason and sentiment in ethics, normative ethics approaches such as consequentialism and metaethical positions such as emotivism. Assessment: 1 x 2,500 word essay + 2 hour exam (half year) Reading: Peter Singer (ed) A Companion to Ethics
Hobbes, Leviathan
Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
JS Mill, UtilitarianismCourse/Subject Name: Course/Subject id: PHIL223 Level: For 2nd or 3rd year students Pre-requisites: Some 1st year philosophy Start Date: October or January End Date: December or June Contact Hours: 1 lecture plus 1 seminar (1 hour) per week ECTS Weighting: 8 ECTS credits Course/Subject Outline: This course introduces students to some of the key debates in applied ethics. It begins by exploring the whole idea of "applied ethics" and problems associated with this terminology. The course then examines central issues in applied ethics, including biotechnology, animal ethics, the environment, and aspects of the ethics of life and death (including abortion and euthanasia). Assessment: 1 x 2,500 word essay + 2 hour exam (half year) Reading: Hugh Lafollete (ed) Ethics in Practice
Raymond Frey, Kit Wellman (eds) A Companion to Applied EthicsCourse/Subject Name: Course/Subject id: PHIL228 Level: For 2nd or 3rd year students Pre-requisites: Some 1st year philosophy Start Date: October or January End Date: December or June Contact Hours: 1 lecture plus 1 seminar (1 hour) per week ECTS Weighting: 8 ECTS credits Course/Subject Outline: This course focuses on key issues in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy including Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche and Foucault. The approach taken is philosophical rather than historical and involves examining critically their claims and arguments about such matters as the existence and nature of human freedom, the critique of morality and its relationship to power; alienation and human labor, and the possibility of mutual recognition and community. Assessment: 1 x 2,500 word essay + 2 hour exam (half year) Reading: Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality
Foucault, Discipline and PunishCourse/Subject Name: Political Ideas (taught in the Politics Department)
see Note 2Course/Subject id: POL303 Level: For 3r year students Pre-requisites: Some 2nd year philosophy Start Date: October or January End Date: December or June Contact Hours: 1 lecture plus 1 seminar (1 hour) per week ECTS Weighting: 8 ECTS credits Course/Subject Outline: This course is analytical rather than historical in character and examines some of the basic concepts of social and political thought such as justice, equality, freedom, rights, democracy, etc, giving attention to the varying ways in which these are interpreted in the work of contemporary political philosophers such as Rawls, Nozick and others. Assessment: 1 x 2,500 word essay + 2 hour exam (half year) Reading: MH Brighouse, Justice
S Mulhall and A Swift, Liberals and Communitarians (Second Edition)
Rawls, A Theory of JusticeCourse/Subject Name: Dissertation Course/Subject id: PHIL353 Level: For 3rd year students Pre-requisites: Some 2nd year philosophy or political theory Start Date: October or January End Date: January or April Contact Hours: Individual supervision ECTS Weighting: 16 ECTS credits (10,000 word dissertation)
8 ECTS credits (5,000 word dissertation)Course/Subject Outline: On any topic as agreed with the supervising member of staff. The shorter dissertation is usual for visiting students, but exceptionally we may allow candidates to undertake the longer dissertation over one term. Assessment: Dissertation of either 5,000 or 10,000 words Reading: [Depends on perticular topic] Course/Subject Name: Special Subject Course/Subject id: PHIL351 Level: For 3rd year students Pre-requisites: Some 2nd year philosophy or political theory Start Date: October or January End Date: January or April Contact Hours: 2 hour seminar per week over 10 weeks ECTS Weighting: 8 ECTS credits Course/Subject Outline: Various special subjects are offered by staff each year. Over ten weeks a particular topic or text is explored in seminar discussion. Relevant past topics have included: Philosophy of Law; Rawls; Kant's Critique of Practical Reason; Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality; Hannah Arendt. Assessment: 5,000 word essay, or 4,000 word essay plus seminar preparation tasks Reading: [Depends on particular subject] Note 1: PHIL213, PHIL223 and PHIL228 are usually offered every other year. At present it is planned to offer PHIL213 in 2007-08, and we expect to offer PHIL223 and PHIL228 in 2008-09
Note 2: Ethics, Applied Ethics, Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy, and Political Ideas are all run as full year courses for home students, from October to June. Visiting students take either the first term or second term of the course, depending on the timing of their visit. Each term lasts ten weeks: Michaelmas terms begins in early October and ends in mid-December, with exams by special arrangement for visiting students only; Lent term begins in early to mid January and runs to mid to late March, with exams in May and June.
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