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Semester 1

Applied Ethics (PHIL10017)

Course Website

http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk

Subject

Philosophy

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must have completed at least 3 Philosophy courses at grade B or above; we will only consider University/College level courses. **Please see Additional Restrictions below**

Course Summary

Applied ethics covers a wide range of topics and issues. In general, it concerns the close consideration of cases, actual or possible, with regard to particular ethical issues and problems. Sometimes applied ethics proceeds by applying particular normative ethical theories to these cases, and sometimes the cases and ethical issues raised are considered more directly. Year-on-year the precise focus of the course may change. Examples of Specific areas of applied ethics include medical ethics, bioethics, environmental ethics, ethics of technology, business ethics, engineering ethics, and personal relationships.

Course Description

Applied ethics examines ethical issues that arise within a wide range of contexts (medical, financial/business, social, technological, personal, legal, environmental). Examples of areas that we may consider particular issues from include climate change, data ethics, robot ethics, bioethics and personal relationships. We explore these issues from the perspective of philosophical ethics, analyzing the problems and critically evaluating various possible solutions.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on a Philosophy exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in only one 3rd year Philosophy course each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in additional courses from this subject area will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the September Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the extremely limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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