What should and shouldn't you do? What governs your decision-making process and why? Readings and discussions from this course will address these questions along with topics such as ethics and morals. (Image courtesy of Daniel Oines on flickr. License CC BY.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Justin Khoo
Prof. Jack Spencer
MIT Course Number
24.502
As Taught In
Fall 2014
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Description
This is a class about 'ought' and ought—you can think of it as a class in philosophy of language and metaphysics in which the focus is the ethical sphere. Some of the questions that we will broach include: How should we give a semantics for 'ought' generally? Is there anything special about the ethical 'ought'? Is there anything that you ethically ought to do, e.g., give to charity or refrain from stealing?