Summer II 2012 :: Cont' Moral Issues :: Phr-102-701
Assignments
Click the links above for the course syllabus and course outline.
All page numbers, unless indicated otherwise, refer to the text required for this course.
Week 6
- Audio Intro to the Week Available Soon
- Stephan Nathanson Can Terrorism Be Morally Justified?
- Lecture on Nathanson Click
- David Luban The War on Terror and Human Rights
- Notes on Luban Click
Week 5
- Audio Intro to the Week Available Soon
- John Stuart Mill On Liberty (excerpt) pp. 224 - 227
- Notes on Mill Click
- Helen Longino Pornography, Oppression and Freedom
- Mark Wicclair Feminism, Pornography, Censorship
- Thomas Szasz The Ethics of Addiction
- Ethan Nadelman The Case for Legalization
- James Q. Wilson Against Legalization
Week 4
- Audio Intro to the Week Available Soon
- Thomas Nagel Moral Luck
- Igor Primoratz A Life for a Life, pp. 125 - 131
- Notes on Primoratz Click
- Stephan Nathanson An Eye for an Eye, pp. 132 - 137
- Notes on Nathanson Click
- Louis Pojman Deterrence and the Death Penalty pp. 138-143
- Notes: Pojman Click
- Jeffrey Reiman Commonsense & the DP, pp. 143-149
- Notes on Reiman Click
- John Stuart Mill On Liberty (excerpt) pp. 224 - 227
- Notes on Mill Click
Week 3
- Audio Intro to the Week Available Soon
- Michael Tooley Abortion and Infanticide
- Notes on Tooley Click
- Judith Jarvis Thomson A Defense of Abortion (in the text)
- Notes on Thomson Click
- Peter Singer All Animals are Equal (text)
- Notes on Singer Click
- Tom Regan The Case for Animal Rights
- Notes on Regan Click
Week 2
- Audio Intro to the Week Available Soon
- Reading: Abortion Dialogue, Ch. 1-4
- Notes Chapter 1
- Notes Chapter 2
- Notes Chapter 3
- Notes Chapter 4
- Lynn Rudder Baker When Do Persons Begin?
- Lecture on Baker Click
- Reading: Michael Tooley Abortion and Infanticide
Week 1
- Audio Intro to the Week Available Soon
- Reading Morality and Religion
- Reading Cultural Relativism
