Students are expected to be able to articulate and discuss several major ethical 
theories and identify proponents of various theories.  Students should also be able 
to articulate reasons relevant for the evaluation of ethical theories and to write 
clearly and cogently about these theories.

Topics covered in this course will include some of the following:

This course will normally cover some of the following Ethical theories: 
utilitarianism, emotivism, expressivism, realism, relativism, Kantian ethics, 
intuitionism, virtue ethics, contractarianism, divine command theory, error theory. 

The course is sometimes structured around a selection of topics in ethical theory 
including:
Ethics and practical reasoning 
Contemporary ethical theories 
Deontological Theories v. Teleological Theories
Geneology of values
Game theory and Value theory
Practical Ethical Choice
The History of Ethics 
Evolutionary theories of value

Normally, works of some of the following philosophers will be read and discussed: 
Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Seneca, Epictetus, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, 
Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche,  Mill, Sidgwick, Moore, A.J. Ayer, Charles Stevenson, 
Bernard Williams,   John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas Scanlon, Derek Parfit, 
Christine Korsgaard, Barbara Herman, Martha Nussbaum, Claudia Card.