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Introduction to Metaethics (B)

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Beschreibung

It seems that people disagree about a whole range of moral issues - from concrete cases like animal testing to abstract problems like the right basic moral principles. How can we make sense of this? Are there moral facts to which we can refer? What sort of facts would they be? Can moral statements be true or false? Or are moral judgments rather expressions of subjective feelings? Is "You were wrong to lie to me" just the same as "You lied to me", said with emotional disapproval?
Can we be relativists, so that everyone should act according to the moral principles they find plausible? Would this mean that we cannot argue against someone whose principles make lying no problem at all?

Metaethics is about questions like these. The course is at an elementary level. We will start with chapters from
Andrew Fisher: Metaethics. An Introduction.
The book is available online in the library.
This will introduce us to the main questions and positions in the field.
We will then look at some specific issues in more detail.

The emphasis will be on collective discussion of the issues. Therefore, participants should be present on a regular basis. The exact requirements of the seminar will be discussed at the first meeting.

The course lasts 4 hours and is worth 8 credits. We will have a regular coffee break together :-)

The course is formally divided into Part A and Part B in order to fit into the philosophy module of the bachelor's programme. 4 credit points can be used for the compulsory optional philosophy module and 4 for the free optional module. The two parts (8-10 and 10-12) can only be taken together, the separation is purely formal.

Weitere Angaben

Ort: 93/E07
Zeiten: Fr. 10:00 - 12:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Freitag, 14.04.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Ort: 93/E07
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)

Studienbereiche

  • Cognitive Science > Bachelor-Programm
  • Cognitive Science > Master-Programm

Past and Forthcoming Events

Publications

  • Asymptotics of a time-bounded cylinder model, with N. Aschenbruck and S. Bussmann, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964822000420
  • The method of cumulants for the normal approximation, with S. Jansen and K. Schubert, Probability Surveys 2022, Vol. 19, 185-270, https://doi.org/10.1214/22-PS7
  • Sedentary Random Waypoint, with C. Betken, arXiv:2009.02941
  • The Impact of Bit Errors on Intra-Session Network Coding with Heterogeneous Packet Lengths, with B. Schütz, N. Aschenbruck, S. Bussmann and M. Juhnke-Kubitzke, Proc. of the 45th IEEE LCN Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking LCN, virtually hosted in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 16–19, 2020.
  • Stationarity for the Small World in Motion Mobility Model, with Nils Aschenbruck, Christian Heiden und Matthias Schwamborn, MSWIM '19: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Nov 25-29, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1145/3345768.3355935
  • Crossing Numbers and Stress of Random Graphs, with Markus Chimani and Matthias Reitzner, In Proceedings 26th International Symposium, GD 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 255--268, 2018 available here and for an extended journal version here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07558
  • Fluctuations in a general preferential attachment model via Stein's method, with Carina Betken and Marcel Ortgiese, Random Structures & algorithms, vol.55, no.4, 2019 available here
  • Connection times in large ad-hoc mobile networks, Bernoulli, vol.22, no.4, 2143--2176, 2016 available here
    with Gabriel Faraud, Wolfgang König
  • The random disc thrower problem, Proceedings of the 90th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, 59-78, 2013  available here with T. van der Aalst, D. Denteneer, M. Hong Duong, R. J. Kang, M. Keane, J. Kool, I. Kryven, T. Meyfroyt, T. Müller, G. Regts, J. Tomczyk
  • Edge fluctuations of eigenvalues of Wigner matrices, High Dimensional Probability VI: the Banff volume, Progress in Probability, vol.66, 261-275, Springer, Basel, 2013 available here
    with Peter Eichelsbacher
  • Moderate deviations for the determinant of Wigner matrices, Dedicated to Friedrich Götze on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Limit Theorems in Probability, Statistics and Number Theory, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol.42, 253-275, 2013, available here
    with Peter Eichelsbacher
  • Moderate deviations for the eigenvalue counting function of Wigner matrices, ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 10 (1), 27-44, 2013, available here
    with Peter Eichelsbacher
  • Moderate deviations via cumulants, Journal of Theor. Probability, 2012, available here
    with Peter Eichelsbacher
  • Moments of recurrence times for Markov chains, Electronic Comm. Probab., 16(28), 296-303, 2011, available here
    with Frank Aurzada, Marcel Ortgiese, Michael Scheutzow
  • Moderate deviations in a random graph and for the spectrum of Bernoulli random matrices, Electronic Journal of Probability, Vol. 14, Paper no. 92, 2636-2656, 2009, available here
    with Peter Eichelsbacher
  • Perpendicular transport of charged particles in slab turbulence: recovery of diffusion for realistic wave-spectra?, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 35, 025202, 2008
    with Andreas Shalchi
  • Velocity correlation functions of charged test particles, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 34, 859, 2007
    with Andreas Shalchi

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