MORAL PHILOSOPHY – Moral Cognitivism

Point / Explain / Criticism / Rejoinder
Moral Cog
God independent transcendent moral truth
The Forms
Moral knowledge
Moral elitism
Weakness of Will
Natural facts (including Happiness and flourishing)
Open question
Is/Ought gap
Relational properties
Secondary Quslities
How is moral knowledge possible?
How can you justify moral action?
How can you justify moral action?

MORAL PHILOSOPHY – Denial of Moral Truth

Point / Explain / Criticism / Rejoinder
Descritpive relativism
Normative relativism
Emotivism – Ayer
Emotivism – Stevenson
Prescriptivism
Can we value what we like
Can we judge others
Can we tolerate others
Can we make moral progress
Can we make moral mistakes

MORAL PHILOSOPHY – Decision making process

Point / Explain / Criticism / Rejoinder
Utilitarianism
Act Utilitiarianism
Rule utilitiarianism
Preference utilitiarianism
Deontology
Kant
Motivation for action
Practical wisdom/Virtue theory
Golden mean

MORAL PHILOSOPHY – Applied: Abortion

Type / Response
What is the key issue? (i.e. clash over rights)
Act Utilitarianism
Rule Utilitarianism
Preference Utilitarianism
Deontology
Virtue theory

MORAL PHILOSOPHY – Applied: Euthanasia

Type / Response
What is the key issue? (i.e. clash over rights)
Act Utilitarianism
Rule Utilitarianism
Preference Utilitarianism
Deontology
Virtue theory

MORAL PHILOSOPHY – Applied: Non-human animals

Type / Response
What is the key issue? (i.e. clash over rights)
Act Utilitarianism
Rule Utilitarianism
Preference Utilitarianism
Deontology
Virtue theory

MORAL PHILOSOPHY: The Environment

Type / Response
What is the key issue? (i.e. clash over rights)
Act Utilitarianism
Rule Utilitarianism
Preference Utilitarianism
Deontology
Virtue theory

MORAL PHILOSOPHY – Applied: Poverty

Type / Response
What is the key issue? (i.e. clash over rights)
Act Utilitarianism
Rule Utilitarianism
Preference Utilitarianism
Deontology
Virtue theory

Philosophy of Religion – Arguments for the existence of God

Point / Explain / Criticism / Rejoinder
Cosmological: Cause/Kalam
Cosmological: Contingency
Cosmological: Swinburne
Cosmological: Science
Experience: Direct experience
Experience: William James
Experience: Other religions
Experience: Freud
AFEG: Ontological
AFEG: Cosmological
AFEG: Epistemological

Philosophy of Religion – Reason and Faith

Point / Explain / Criticism / Rejoinder
Special kind of cognitive state: Aquinas
Special kind of cognitive state: Plantinga
Attitude/Commitment:
William James
Attitude/Commitment:
Kierkegaard
Faith = reasonable?
Pascal’s Wager
Objections to Pascal’s Wager

Philosophy of Religion – Miracles

Point / Explain / Criticism / Rejoinder
Definitions: Religious Sig
Definitions: Caused by God
Definitions: transgression of laws of nature
Significance within Religion
Competing religious experience claims in different religions
Competing religious experience claims and Hume
Religious Pluralism
Hume, miracles and sceptics

Philosophy of Religion – Making sense of religion

Point / Explain / Criticism / Rejoinder
Verificationism: Logical Positivism
Verificationism: Falsification
What is the aim of religious language
Forms of life: language games
Forms of life and life
Forms of life and Philips
Social sciences and intellectual approaches (animism etc)
Social function
Emotion and social sciences
Durkheim and religion
Problem of meaning
Explained away?