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Undergraduate Module Descriptor

PHL2012: Social Philosophy

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

One 90 minute lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight. Lectures provide you with a broad overview of the core philosophical issues and the problems they raise; they cover more ground than is possible in tutorials, and are designed to establish a context in which to think about the issues discussed in tutorials. A specific reading is assigned, and you are provided with a list of key issues to identify and discuss for each tutorial. Texts are carefully chosen as classic exemplars of the core course themes.

1. Freedom & determinism / moral agency & responsibility.

2. Collective responsibility?

3. The Marxian view of morality.

4. & 5. Social context and moral ignorance.

6. & 7. Social change and moral agency: the case of slavery, abolition and emancipation.

8. Inequality, functional importance and incentives.

9. Personal/political agency & collective responsibility (1): Rich egalitarianism?

10. Personal/political agency & collective responsibility (2): Duties to alleviate absolute poverty?

11. Moral saintliness & the demandingness of morality.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

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