Overview Of Week 3: What We Will Be Reading, Discussing, and Learning

In Week 3 of our class, our main focus will be on the discussions, analyses, and criticisms that MacIntyre provides of using appeals to social sciences, broadly speaking (to include managerial expertise), in an effort to provide or reconstruct some sort of shared and effective approach to moral life, inquiry, and decision-making.



We will be referencing the following

  • After Virtue, chapter 7: "Fact", Explanation, and Expertise
  • After Virtue, chapter 8: The Character of Generalization in Social Science and their Lack of Predictive Power
  • "Hegel On Faces And Skulls"

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