PHIL UN3716

Not much. Honestly, I was disappointed by this course.

I learned some of the basics of the philosophy of ethics from the point of view of a limited number of philosophers, many of whom were already represented in the Core Curriculum and many of whom had some personal or professional relationship to our professor.

Focus on issues of moral responsibility, agency, and personal identity as they relate to ethics. Course started with a brief historical survey before getting in to contemporary issues.

I learned about different ways to think about moral responsibility and the scope of it. We covered different ethical theories (Kantian deontology, egoism, and utilitarianism) and the grounds for each in terms of metaphysical conceptions of personal identity.

A lot about responsibility and ways of thinking about it

How responsibility interacts with different ethical views and how the ethical views respond to each other with respect to individuals, agents, and group responsibility.

The Course focused on moral responsibility. This was NOT advertised in the Vergil description or in any materials/announcement before the class began. It is labeled as "Topics in Ethics" but this title is quite misleading -- this was not a survey of different ethical topics. We were pigeonholed into discussing one concept, responsibility, the entire time.

Midterm was very harshly graded and we were not prepared, and I never felt like going to class was worth it.

I truly enjoyed this course and learning from Professor Rovane. I think this was a good opportunity to sort out some of what I think about moral responsibility and personal identity.

Grading was strict and Professor not lenient. Responsibility was too narrow of a topic to feel particularly fulfilled in an ethics class.