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Syllabus & Addendum
Guide on Reading Philosophy
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Schedule
| Date | Topic | Work Due |
| Introduction Week | ||
| 8/31 | Introduction to Course and Each Other | |
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CRITICAL THINKING |
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| 9/4 | How To construct and Evaluate Arguments | |
| 9/7 | How To construct and Evaluate Arguments | LOG 1 (instructions: for each question in 7-1 & 7-2, only say if its explanation or argument and why???) |
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META-ETHICS & DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS |
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| 9/11 | Trying Out The Sword (Midgley) | |
| 9/14 | Critique of Ethics (Ayer) NOTES | LOG 2 |
| 9/18 | Euthyphro (Plato) | |
| 9/21 | God and Objective Morality Craig and Armstrong NOTES | |
| 9/25 | Ethical Egoism (Rachels) | |
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NORMATIVE ETHICS |
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| 9/28 | Utilitarianism (Mill)Notes | LOG 3 |
| 10/2 | The Experience Machine… & other thought Experiments (Nozick) | |
| 10/5 | Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Singer) NOTES | |
| 10/9 | Midterm REVIEW | MIDTERM |
| 10/11 | Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals (Kant) | LOG 4 |
| 10/16 | Cont’d | |
| 10/19 | Nature of Ethics (Aristotle) | |
| 10/23 | Cont’d | |
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MORAL RESPONSIBILITY |
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| 10/26 | Impossibility of Moral Responsibility (Strawson) | NOTES |
| 10/30 | Criminal Omissions: A European Perspective (Gómez-Aller ) | LOG 5 |
| 11/2 | Insanity Cases and Arguments IN CLASS: ETHICS DEBATE (No Reading Assignment) |
Paper Idea: Text “83930” and Topic Idea to “37607”. You will receive a message it has been received. |
| 11/6 | NO CLASS | NO CLASS | |
| 11/9 | Deterrent Punishment and Respect For Persons (Hoskins) | NOTES | |
| 11/13 | The Moral Worth of Retribution (Moore) (Kant) Just Say No to Retribution (Edward Rubin) |
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| 11/16 | Restitution: A New Paradigm of Criminal Justice | ||
| 11/20 | The Therapeutic Model (Wasserstorm) Imprisonment and Reform (Angela Davis) |
LOG 6 (DAVIS READING) | |
| 11/23 | NO CLASS | NO CLASS | |
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A LOOK AT PUNISHMENTS |
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| 11/27 | What do Alternative Sanctions Mean? (Kahan)
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Choose Only 1 Reading to Read | |
| 11/30 | The Prison Industrial Complex (Angela Davis) | ||
| 12/4 | Abolitionist Alternatives (Angela Davis) In Class Debate |
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| 12/10-15 | FINAL EXAM | FINAL EXAM IS MORAL DEFENSE PAPER |
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