Twentieth-Century Ethics

David Solomon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and the founding W.P. and H.B. White director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and has held academic positions at Boston University, Baylor University, and Oxford University. Professor Solomon's main research interests are contemporary moral theory and medical ethics.

Course Number 043

Twelve 30-minute lectures

1. Introduction and 19th-Century Ethics
2. G. E. Moore and Intuitionism
3. Emotivism and Non-Cognitivism
4. Recovering the World
5. Metaethics and Normative Theory
6. John Rawls: Reviving Kant
7. The New Consequentialism
8. Rediscovering Virtue
9. After Virtue
10. Anti-Theory
11. The Applied Ethics Revolution
12. Whither Ethics?