PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moral Relativism, Moral Skepticism, Feminist Ethics
6 Apr 2015
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Mid-term long answer questions that require 2 paragraphs. Who or what counts in ethics, what has moral standing? (embryos). What duties do we have in our society that may or may not be autonomous. It asks questions about social sciences, and sciences, but philosophers do not apply them (scientific method). Rigorous arguments logical arguments, sound arguments, reason to pose and answer questions that relate to other disciplines/ domains. Rationally defend opinions argumentation goal in class. Compelling case (how to support opinions to get reasonable argument. A collections of claims [speech acts utterance to portray as it is true despite if it is true or not] Claims adhere to order logical reasoning sound arguments. Premises and conclusion [premises are supportive to conclusion inference btwn premise and conclusion] Premise 1: if r is a cat, r is a mammal = claim. Conclusion: r is a mammal = valid argument. Validity form of arguments, valid if, given the premises the conclusion must follow.
