Contemporary Moral Problems

Michael McKenna
Mondays 1 PM - 4 PM
January 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, March 14, 21, 28, April 4, and 11, 2022
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Contemporary Moral Problems

Spring 2022
In Session
Mondays
1 PM - 4 PM
January 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, March 14, 21, 28, April 4, and 11, 2022

Location: 

Main Campus

Tuition: 

$265

Attend In Person OR Online!
See Below for full details about our new Hybrid courses

This course is devoted to applying a range of competing moral theories to contemporary moral problems like euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, world famine, the moral basis for and limits to war (just-war theory), the nature and wrongness of racism and sexism, the proper aims of genetic enhancement and cloning, immigration policy, the moral status of nonhuman animals, and abortion. We will cover between eight and ten different topics, reading articles on these topics by some of the world’s leading contemporary philosophers.

NEW - Hybrid Course Format

  • All classes will be delivered both in person and online via live video streaming. Students will enroll in their preferred format during registration.
  • In person classes will be held in the Rubel Room at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center (1508 E Helen St, Tucson, AZ 85721). Enrollment for in person classes is limited by classroom capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. All students attending on campus will observe the relevant University of Arizona policies designed to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 (more information here). Students who enroll to attend in person will also have complete online access to the course including all class recordings.   
  • Online students may attend all classes via live video streaming and will be able to participate in all course Q&A sessions with the professor in real time. Students may also access class recordings for a limited time to assist those who may not be able to attend the live class times. Online access will be password protected and only available to enrolled students.

Registration Will Open Online:
Monday, November 22, 2021 at 8 AM (AZ Time)

Required Reading: 

  • Timmons, Mark, editor. Disputed Moral Issues : A Reader. Fourth ed., Oxford University Press, 2017.

Meet Your Professor

Professor
Department of Philosophy

MICHAEL MCKENNA writes and teaches primarily on the related topics of free will and moral responsibility, but more generally in issues of metaphysics, ethics, action theory, and philosophical psychology. He arrived in Arizona in 2010 and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1993.

Location

Poetry Center
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States
Located on the SE corner of Helen Street and Vine Avenue, one block north of Speedway and three blocks west of Campbell Ave.

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