Jurisprudence Introduction to the Philosophy of Law at University of Surrey, Guildford
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Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
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English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
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The Syllabus
- Getting started
- Introduction to Week 1
- Introduction to strong and weak natural law
- Classic legal positivism
- Modern legal positivism
- Reviewing the theories
- Introduction to Week 2
- Neuroscientific evidence and philosophical issues of mind and brain
- Law and insanity
- Murder and sleepwalking
- Addiction and responsibility
- Child killers
- Review of Week 2
- Introduction to Week 3
- The puzzle of inadvertent actions
- The moral and legal responses to responsibility for inadvertent actions
- Week 3 review
- Introduction to Week 4
- Exploring normative reasoning
- Two types of normative reasoning
- Consequentialist reasoning and the law
- Contract law: which promises should be contracts?
- Week 4 review
- Introduction to Week 5
- Consent and law and morality
- The problem(s) of sexual harassment
- Course review
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