PHIL 250: Making Moral Decisions

This course introduces students to moral reasoning and to a variety of influential ethical theories. Students reflect upon their own moral assumptions as well as how various ethical concepts and theories challenge, strengthen, or alter those assumptions. Students are also led to evaluate culturally derived conventions and laws, distinguishing these from genuine moral claims. To practice moral decision making, students analyze and resolve a range of moral case problems, justifying their solutions by carefully reasoned arguments that appeal to key ethical principles and theories. Case problems explore moral issues arising from everyday personal experience, as well as from current social problems.