Possible topics

• moral explanation (Harman, Sturgeon, etc.)
• non-Humean motivation (Nagel, McDowell, etc.)
• Australian rules metaethics (Smith, Jackson, etc.)
• add your own!!!

Week 1 (Jan 8-12)

Probably we'll do nothing this week.

Week 2 (Jan 15-19)

Topic: supervenience as a challenge to realism

• Blackburn, "Supervenience Revisited"
• Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism, Ch. 4, pp. 84-89
• Bloomfield, Moral Reality, Ch.1, pp. 48-55

Week 3 (Jan 22-26)

Topic (cont): supervenience as a challenge to realism

• Dreier, "The Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism"
• McNaughton & Rawling, "Naturalism and Normativity"
• Zangwill, "Moral Supervenience"

Week 4 (Jan 29 - Feb 2)

Topic: Frege-Geach embedding problems

• Blackburn, chapter 6, Spreading the Word
• Gibbard, chapter 5, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings
• Dreier, "Expressivist Embeddings and Minimalist Truth"
• others

Week 5 (Feb 5-9)

Week 6 (Feb 12-16)

Week 7 (Feb 19-23)

Week 8 (Feb 26 - Mar 2)

Week 9 (Mar 5-9)

Spring Break

We'll probably "go wild" this week.

Week 10 (Mar 19-23)

Week 11 (Mar 26-30)

Week 12 (Apr 2-6)

Week 13 (Apr 9-13)

Week 14 (Apr 16-20)

Week 15 (Apr 23-27)

Week 16 (Apr 30 - May 4)