Specific Skills Achieved

Upon completion of this course, all students should be able to

1. demonstrate basic skills of Internet research.
2. distinguish clearly among factual, attitudinal, and verbal disputes in ethics,
3. construct premisses and conclusions for inductive arguments,
4. identify the common fallacies in ethical reasoning,
5. evaluate various types of ethical theories,
6. identify the differences between a sound ethical theory and a persuasive ethical theory.
7. understand some of the common mistakes made in business, medical, and ecological, and environmental ethics as taught in other disciplines, and
8. understand some of the limitations of current theories of ethics and metaethics.