This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. Students can take this course in any year of their studies.
This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. Students can take this course in any year of their studies.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 1 hour of lectures and 1 hour of classes in the ST. Structured activities during the reading week in the MT and LT. Revision workshops and tutorals in the ST. This course has reading weeks in week 6 of Michaelmas and Lent terms.
Students will be expected to produce 2 essays and 1 presentation in the MT and LT.
Literary texts: Bashevis Singer The Spinoza of Market Street; Franz Kafka? In The Penal Colony; Isabel Allende The Guest Teacher; Thomas Mann Death in Venice; Jorge-Luis?Borges? Blue Tigers;?Haruki? Murakami The Ice Man;?Jean-Paul Sartre The Wall;?Guy de Maupassant The Model;?Heinrich?B?ll To Work or not to Work;?Bessie Head A Power Struggle. ? Additional reading: Peter Singer and Renata Singer (eds.), The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004); Alex Voorhoeve, Conversations on Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2011); Luc Bovens, 'A response to Prelec', in: Oliver, Adam, (ed.) Behavioural Public Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Brian Stock, Ethics through Literature: Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture (Brandeis, 2008).
Exam (70%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (30%, 2500 words) in the LT.