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| PHIL 40300 - Moral Psych & Climate Change |
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3.0 | LEC 3 3.0 |
3.0 | DIS 0 3.0 |
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Philosophy Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the structure, thesis statement, and main lines of argumentation in written work of philosophers and psychologists, and also to analyze the arguments by breaking them down into their component parts, and formulating their own objections. 2. Discuss a wide variety of issues and sources surrounding moral psychology, from philosophers, psychologists, biologists, economists and anthropologists; they will develop this ability by summarizing and commenting on the assigned readings in weekly blog posts. 3. Compare the threat raised by climate change to other existential threats by reporting on the way different kinds of threats are processed cognitively. 4. Appraise the strengths and weaknesses of different strategies for addressing climate change, as assessed from the point of view of the state of the art understanding of human cognition and moral motivation; they will write a research paper that assesses the pros and cons of such strategies. 5. Identify common cognitive blind spots, predictable irrationalities, and motivational hurdles, and will be able to use this to appreciate the scope of the collective action problems associated with climate change; they will develop these skills by reading academic texts devoted to these issues. |
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