Fall '21 Course Offerings

This Fall, the Ethics Lab team is offering two courses: Introduction to Ethics and Social Media & Democracy. Below are more details on each class, along with course registration numbers (CRNs) for students interested in registering.

Introduction to Ethics (PHIL-010)

What does it mean to say we have a right to something? How do we achieve moral repair when we have failed others — or they have failed us? What is human flourishing, and what values should we aspire to defend? How do we achieve a genuine moral reckoning on issues of race in America, and what does racial justice mean? How should we think about disabilities, and the radically different ways that human bodies and minds come in? This course will look at each of these issues, with ethical tools that can help us grapple with, tussle through, and advocate.

Social Media & Democracy (PHIL-110)

  • Taught by Ethics Lab Postdoctoral Fellow (TBD)

  • Class meets Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30pm–4:45pm in Ethics Lab (Healy 201)

  • Satisfies Georgetown Core requirement (Philosophy)

What is the relation between social media and democracy? What should we do as individuals, groups, societies about how social media has influenced democracy? This course will examine questions of truth, democracy, and politics in the age of social media by drawing on contemporary case studies and philosophical tools from ethics, political philosophy, and epistemology.

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