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    This document outlines the schedule and required readings for a course on moral epistemology. It includes 12 weekly topics: 1) Introduction, 2) Reflective Equilibrium, 3) Credibility of Reflective Equilibrium, 4) Moral Intuitionism, 5) Moral Perception, 6) Experimental Challenges, 7) more on Experimental Challenges, 8) more challenges, 9) Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, 10) more on that topic, 11) Moral Testimony, 12) more on Moral Testimony. Each week lists 1-3 required readings and sometimes recommended additional readings related to that topic in moral epistemology.

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    This document outlines the schedule and required readings for a course on moral epistemology. It includes 12 weekly topics: 1) Introduction, 2) Reflective Equilibrium, 3) Credibility of Reflective Equilibrium, 4) Moral Intuitionism, 5) Moral Perception, 6) Experimental Challenges, 7) more on Experimental Challenges, 8) more challenges, 9) Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, 10) more on that topic, 11) Moral Testimony, 12) more on Moral Testimony. Each week lists 1-3 required readings and sometimes recommended additional readings related to that topic in moral epistemology.

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    This document outlines the schedule and required readings for a course on moral epistemology. It includes 12 weekly topics: 1) Introduction, 2) Reflective Equilibrium, 3) Credibility of Reflective Equilibrium, 4) Moral Intuitionism, 5) Moral Perception, 6) Experimental Challenges, 7) more on Experimental Challenges, 8) more challenges, 9) Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, 10) more on that topic, 11) Moral Testimony, 12) more on Moral Testimony. Each week lists 1-3 required readings and sometimes recommended additional readings related to that topic in moral epistemology.

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    This document outlines the schedule and required readings for a course on moral epistemology. It includes 12 weekly topics: 1) Introduction, 2) Reflective Equilibrium, 3) Credibility of Reflective Equilibrium, 4) Moral Intuitionism, 5) Moral Perception, 6) Experimental Challenges, 7) more on Experimental Challenges, 8) more challenges, 9) Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, 10) more on that topic, 11) Moral Testimony, 12) more on Moral Testimony. Each week lists 1-3 required readings and sometimes recommended additional readings related to that topic in moral epistemology.

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    Some textbooks and other recommended general sources:

     The online Stanford Enyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/


     Miller, Alex. An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics. Polity, 2003
     Zimmerman, Aaron. Moral Epistemology. New Problems of Philosophy. New York:
    Routledge, 2010.
     Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, and Mark Timmons. Moral Knowledge? New Readings in
    Moral Epistemology. Oxford University Press, 1996.

    COURSE SCHEDULE AND READINGS


    The readings listed below are mandatory unless specifically noted as recommended

    Week 1: 16 January
    Introduction: The Problem of Moral Knowledge
    - Mackie, J. L., selection from Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, 1977.
    - Harman, G “Ethics and Observation” from The Nature of Morality, 1977.
    - Jones, Karen. “Moral Epistemology.” In The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy,
    edited by Frank Jackson and Michael Smith, 63–85. Oxford University Press, 2005.

    Week 2: 23 January
    Reflective Equilibrium: Narrow and Wide
    - Daniels, Norman. “Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Theory Acceptance in Ethics.” The Journal
    of Philosophy 76, no. 5 (May 1979): 256–282.
    Recommended:
    - Scanlon, Thomas M. “Rawls on Justification.” In The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, 139–167.
    Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

    Week 3: 30 January
    Reflective Equilibrium and Credibility
    - Kelly, Thomas, and Sarah McGrath. “Is Reflective Equilibrium Enough?” Philosophical
    Perspectives 24, no. 1 (2010): 325–359.

    Week 4: 6 February
    Moral Intuitionism
    - Audi, Robert. “Intuitionism, Pluralism, and the Foundations of Ethics.” In Moral Knowledge?,
    edited by Walter Sinnot-Armstrong and Mark Timmons, 101–36. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
    1996.

    Week 5: 13 February
    Moral Perception
    - Cowan, Robert. “Perceptual Intuitionism.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Online
    First 2013.

    Week 6: 20 February
    Experimental Challenges
    - Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter. “Moral Intuitionism Meets Empirical Psychology.” In Metaethics
    After Moore, edited by Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons, 339–365. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
    2006.

    Week 7: 27 February
    Experimental Challenges (contd.)
    - Greene, Joshua D. “The Secret Joke of Kant’s Soul.” In Moral Psychology: Vol. 3. The
    Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Disease, and Development, edited by Walter Sinnot-
    Armstrong, 35–79, 2007.

    Week 8: 6 March
    Experimental Challenges (contd.)
    - Berker, Selim. “The Normative Insignificance of Neuroscience.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 37,
    no. 4 (2009): 293–329.
    Recommended:
    - Greene, “Notes on 'The Normative Insignificance of Neuroscience' by Selim Berker”

    Week 9: 13 March
    Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
    - Street, Sharon. “A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value.” Philosophical Studies 127,
    no. 1 (January 2006): 109–166.
    Recommended:
    - Joyce, Richard. “Metaethics and the Empirical Sciences.” Philosophical Explorations 9 (March
    2006): 133–148.

    Week 10: 20 March


    Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (contd.)
    - Kahane, Guy. “Evolutionary Debunking Arguments.” Noûs 45, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 103–125.
    Recommended:
    - Enoch, David. “The Epistemological Challenge to Metanormative Realism: How Best to
    Understand It, and How to Cope with It.” Philosophical Studies 148, no. 3 (April 1, 2010): 413–
    438.

    Week 11: 27 March


    Moral Testimony
    - Driver, Julia. “Autonomy and the Asymmetry Problem for Moral Expertise.” Philosophical
    Studies 128, no. 3 (April 1, 2006): 619–644.
    Recommended:
    - Hills, Alison. “Moral Testimony and Moral Epistemology.” Ethics 120, no. 1 (October 1, 2009):
    94–127.

    Week 12: 3 Apr


    Moral Testimony (contd.)
    - Enoch, David. “A Defense of Moral Deference,” Forthcoming in Journal of Philosophy.
    Recommended:
    - McGrath, Sarah. “Skepticism about Moral Expertise as a Puzzle for Moral Realism.” Journal of
    Philosophy 108, no. 3 (2011): 111.

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