Beskrivning av kursen
November 10-13 and November 17, 2025. The course is a 7.5-ECTS course, equivalent to five weeks of full-time study, or 200 hours, but the teaching is condensed to five days.
The course is campus based, but the November 17 session can be given in hybrid format upon request.
The concept of exploitation plays an important role in our moral thought and discourse. It looms large in public and policy debates about practices such as “sweatshop” employment, gig work, commercial surrogacy, and organ markets. It is also central to social criticism, for instance in the socialist and feminist traditions. However, while charges of exploitation are common, their nature and normative significance remain unclear. This has inspired extensive recent debates in moral and political philosophy about the ethics of exploitation.
This course provides an in-depth overview of these debates. Questions to be addressed may include: What is exploitation? What distinguishes it from similar phenomena, such as coercion and domination? What, if anything, is morally wrong with exploiting people when they benefit from and consent to being exploited? Who, if anyone, is responsible for preventing or mitigating exploitative arrangements? How is exploitation related to structural injustice? These questions will be explored through careful of analysis of key contributions to exploitation theory together with discussions of putatively exploitative real-world practices.
Behörighet och urval
Förkunskapskrav
Grundläggande och särskild behörighet för utbildning på forskarnivå i enlighet med antagningsordningen och den allmänna studieplanen praktisk filosofi.
Urval
The course is open to students on PhD level in philosophy (or the equivalent) at all Swedish universities.
Kursplan
FP30110
Institution
Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori
Ämne
Humaniora
Typ av kurs
Områdeskurs
Sökord
filosofi, etik