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 Sasquatch I 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?