260046 The Nature of Moral Judgment. From Intuition to Reason and Back Again (GradS) (SoSe 2019)

What are moral judgments — and are they any good? In this course, we will address these and other questions with the tools of recent empirically informed metaethics and moral psychology. We will take a look at the respective roles reasoning, emotion and intuition play in moral judgment, how reliable moral judgments are, or how and when reflection should override moral intuition. With this in hand, we will consider whether moral cognition improves over time. Does the evidence from moral psychology suggest that our moral values converge upon a universal moral code? And if so, what are the metaethical implications of this convergence? Finally, are there any limits to moral progress and development? And to what extent are those limits determined by the evolved constraints of our moral psychology?

Die Veranstaltung ist zugleich als Vorbereitung für die „Bielefelder Masterclass“ mit Prof. Hanno Sauer (Utrecht) gedacht, die vom 4.-6. Juni 2019 stattfinden wird. Die Seminardiskussionen sollen primär auf Englisch stattfinden; Wortbeiträge auf Deutsch sind jedoch auch jederzeit möglich.