PHILOSOPHY OF MORAL EDUCATION

PHILOS 549

Major themes of moral philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle to Bentham and Mill, with critical study of outstanding works.

EDPOL/PHILOS 545

Examination and analysis of conceptions of teaching and learning in classical philosophical works and in contemporary literature in the philosophy of education.

EDPOL 147

Examines a variety of ethical questions in education, including: What justifies educating people, in the first place? What does equity in education require? Who has the proper authority to make decisions about education? Introduces analytic tools that educational ethicists use to investigate foundational and applied questions. Understand and evaluate major views on a range of such foundational and applied issues in educational ethics.

EDPOL/PHILOS 540

Examines significant disagreements about educational justice-about the very concept of educational justice; about the most plausible substantive account of educational justice and the way that an ideal of equality bears on it; and about what kinds of policies the most plausible account of educational justice would require in circumstances like our own. Introduces tools that contemporary moral and political philosophers use to investigate those questions. Understand and evaluate efforts to resolve those questions.

PHILOS 341

A philosophical study of some of the major moral issues in contemporary society, such as those concerning abortion, euthanasia, punishment, property, politics, sex, nuclear disarmament, and world hunger.