Racial Disagreement

May not be taken concurrently with course 122C. Exploration of why people disagree, and cannot agree to disagree, and how they might come to an agreement. The approach is applied and empirical with use of case studies, student game play, and in-class simulations. Covers normative disagreement between and within ethical frameworks: utilitarianism, rights, justice-fairness, and virtue ethics; and within utilitarianism (for example, effective altruism versus effective accelerationism). Study of theories of disagreement such as evolutionary psychology, cultural theory, world values, systems theory, and the nature of belief systems in the mass public and among experts. Exploration of different types of disagreement: moral; political and party-political; religious and spiritual; between men and women; intracultural and cross-cultural; generational; expert-expert and expert-lay; insider-outsider, center-periphery, cosmopolitan-parochial, and urban-rural; premodern, modern, and anti-modern; scientific and conspiratorial; and meta-ethical.

Letter grading.