Elective (Applied Ethics)

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: The goal of the course is deepening and significant expanding of knowledge from certain fields of applied ethics for PhD students who are focused on studies in ethics and who will write their doctoral theses in the field of ethics.

Course description: The course focuses, by the choice of candidates, on a detailed examination of certain specific areas of applied ethics, i.e. bioethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, political ethics, computer ethics, ethics of care, sexual ethics, and so on. Topic of the course should be chosen in a way that it could be helpful for student and her work on doctoral thesis if the candidate chooses work in applied rather than theoretical ethics and, of course, the course should be based on the quality world literature. For each particular area of applied ethics independent literature and special syllabus are formed, with course structure that corresponds to the specific content of the particular field of applied ethics.

Learning Outcomes: Students should master the knowledge sufficient for competence in a particular area of applied ethics (such as business ethics, computer ethics, environmental ethics, journalistic ethics, etc.).

Literature/Reading:

• Literatura zavisi od toga koja oblast primenjene etike se bira, i sastoji se od najkvalitetnijih svetskih tekstova u toj oblasti (Bioetika, Poslovna etika, Ekološka etika, Kompjuterska etika, etc
• G. Pens, Klasični slučajevi medicinske etike
• Singer, Prakička etika
• Dž. R. Dežarden, Ekološka etika
• D. Džonson, Uvod u kompjutersku etiku
• J. Babić, Moral i nase vreme, 12-14.