Apr 06, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PHIL 450 - Ethical Theory



Explores questions of the morality of human conduct and character through the study of major ethical theories such as deontology, virtue ethics, and consequentialism.  Topics may include moral considerability, harms, moral responsibility, duties, effective altruism, moral complicity, and meta-ethics.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: One previous philosophy course and Junior or Senior standing.
Notes: Satisfies Humanities Requirement. This course is crosslisted with PHIL 650. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.