Course Description
Introduction to Ethics, PHILOS 4
Enrollment and waitlists for Fall Quarter 2019 are CLOSED.
Selected topics from the history of ethics, e.g., the nature of the good life and the moral justification of conduct.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, Philosophy
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Course Equivalence: UCD PHI 024
General Education: AH.
UC Irvine:
General Education: IV
Major Requirement: elective for Philosophy Majors/Minors
UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
Course Equivalence: UCR PHIL 3 - ETHICS AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
UC San Diego:
General Education: TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC/AS; Sixth - 1 NAHR; Muir: 1 course in a Humanities theme in "Philosophical Perspectives", Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Humanities
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Course Equivalence: UCSB Philosophy 4
General Education: Area E - Culture and Thought
UC Santa Cruz:
Course Equivalence: PHIL 22
General Education: CC
Course Creator
Duncan Pritchard
Duncan Pritchard is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. He works mainly in epistemology. He is the author of Epistemic Luck (Oxford UP, 2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (co-authored, Oxford UP, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (Oxford UP, 2012), and Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing (Princeton UP, 2015). His most recent book is Skepticism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Duncan Pritchard is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. He works mainly in epistemology. He is the author of Epistemic Luck (Oxford UP, 2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (co-authored, Oxford UP, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (Oxford UP, 2012), and Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing (Princeton UP, 2015). His most recent book is ...Duncan Pritchard is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. He works mainly in epistemology. He is the author of Epistemic Luck (Oxford UP, 2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (co-authored, Oxford UP, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (Oxford UP, 2012), and Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing (Princeton UP, 2015). His most recent book is Skepticism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019).
