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Course module: FRRMV16003
FRRMV16003
Core Readings in Practical Philosophy
Course info
Course codeFRRMV16003
EC5
Course goals
By focusing on a range of key texts in practical philosophy, this course serves to advance participants’ ability to engage in a sustained, critical, and systematic manner with pivotal texts in the fields of ethical theory, political philosophy, normative ethics, philosophical anthropology, and/or moral psychology and to develop an independent point of view on the philosophical issues raised in these texts. Students become familiar with the “state of the art” in several aspects of the field, especially as it relates to current research being done in the Utrecht department and recently published in leading philosophy journals. They also engage with meta-philosophical issues relating to the relationship between the mutual implications between ethical theory, relevant empirical studies, and the details of the practical contexts that give rise to normative concerns.
Content
An examination of key texts in theoretical philosophy, including  pivotal texts in the fields of ethical theory, political philosophy, normative ethics, philosophical anthropology, and/or moral psychology.

Enrollment is limited to (and required for) first-year students in the RMA Philosophy programme.

The course concludes with a symposium in which students give a presentation of their final paper. 
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