Showkat Ali

TEACHING

Philosophical Study Skills (aka Tutorials)                                                                                                                         “Dying & Killing”                                                                                                                                                                                     First-year undergraduate module providing students with the opportunity for focused exploration of metaphysical and ethical issues related to death. Topics include the badness of death, immortality, assisted suicide, eating animals, and killing in war. View the syllabus here, and teaching evaluation forms here and here.

Normative Ethics                                                                                                                                                            “Consequentialism, Contractualism and Virtue Ethics”                                                                                                                            Advanced module providing MA and undergraduate students with the opportunity for focused exploration of the three main views in contemporary normative ethics. View the syllabus here.

Philosophical Study Skills (aka Tutorials)                                                                                                                               “Morality”                                                                                                                                                                                               First-year undergraduate module providing students with the opportunity for focused exploration of foundational issues in moral philosophy. Topics include relativism, subjectivism, utilitarianism, and the doctrine of double effect. View the syllabus here.

Introduction to Moral Philosophy                                                                                                                                     “Hume & Kant”                                                                                                                                                                                         Introduction to central themes in moral philosophy through the examination of two key historical texts; David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature and Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.