Science and Ethics after Darwin
Informacje ogólne
Kod przedmiotu: | WF-OB-POLLEScEt |
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: |
07.2
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Nazwa przedmiotu: | Science and Ethics after Darwin |
Jednostka: | Instytut Ekologii i Bioetyki |
Grupy: | |
Punkty ECTS i inne: |
(brak)
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Język prowadzenia: | angielski |
Poziom przedmiotu: | zaawansowany |
Symbol/Symbole kierunkowe efektów uczenia się: | OB2_W02 OB2_W12 OB2_U09 OB2_U13 OB2_K07 |
Skrócony opis: |
Darwin’s theory and its contemporary development into the so called “modern synthesis” are the most powerful and comprehensive tool of understanding the living world, human beings included. Darwinism consequences regard not only our scientific picture of the world, but they extend to the whole of human thinking. Placing human moral life into the evolutionary picture helps a naturalistic comprehension both of the genealogy of ethics and of the human moral psychology. The course will present a general picture of Darwin’s theory and will explore its fallouts for the philosophical analysis of ethics. In particular, discussion will focus on ethological research about non human proto-moral behaviors and neuroscientific evidence about human moral psychology. |
Pełny opis: |
The course includes the following issues: 1. Darwin and Darwinism: an overview 2. Darwin and Ethics: from Darwin to Sociobiology 3. Ethology and ethics 4. Neuroethics 5. Darwinism and normative ethics |
Literatura: |
F. De Waal, Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved, Princeton U.P., Princeton (NJ), 2006 N. Levy, Neuroethics. Challenges for the 21st Century, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 2007 |
Metody i kryteria oceniania: |
Students are required to write a philosophical essay on the topics of the course |
Właścicielem praw autorskich jest Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie.