202738 VO Ethics in Different Fields
winter semester 2021/2022 | Last update: 03.11.2021 | Place course on memo listThe aim is to enable students to understand arguments in applied ethics and to critically assess them.
We will be dealing mainly with four topics: Biomedical Ethics, Media Ethics, Environmental Ethics, and Animal Ethics. We will discuss which principles should be used in order to decide moral questions in these areas.
Lecture inputs and discussion.
Written exam.
Fenner, Dagmar (2010): Einführung in die Angewandte Ethik.
Singer, Peter (2011): Practical Ethics.
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This course is organized in cooperation with the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Brixen. Please note that for admission you have to be a registered student of the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Brixen (incl. tuition fee), additionally to the admission requirements of the University of Innsbruck. More information on the admission in Brixen: http://www.hs-itb.it/de/hochschulstudium/philosophie-studieren-in-brixen.html.
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