Date to be discussed

Reading

Wednesday, Sept.6

Introductory session

Friday, Sept.8

Classes cancelled for convocation

Monday, Sept.11

Rachels and Pellegrino on euthanasia, Applied Ethics, pp.166-183

Wednesday, Sept.13

Mill, Utilitarianism, to bottom of p.17

Friday, Sept.15

Mill, Utilitarianism, to p.26 (End of Chapter 2)

Monday, Sept.18

Mill, Utilitarianism, to p.41 (Chapters 3 and 4)

Wednesday, Sept.20

No new reading, small group discussion project in class today

Friday, Sept.22

Kant in Applied Ethics, pp.22-29

Monday, Sept.26

Kant in Applied Ethics, pp.29-37

Wednesday, Sept.27

Rawls in Applied Ethics, pp.38-49, concentrate on the last section

Friday, Sept.29

No new reading, small group discussion project in class today

Monday, Oct.2

Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapter 5

Wednesday, Oct.4

Intro to chapter on capital punishment in Applied Ethics, pp.238-247 and article by Bedau pp.248-259

Friday, Oct.6

Articles by van den Haag (pp.260-265) and Primoratz (pp.284-294) in Applied Ethics

Monday, Oct.9

Amsterdam in Applied Ethics, pp.277-283

Wednesday, Oct.11

Singer and Hardin in Applied Ethics, pp.358-380

Friday, Oct.13

Van Wyk in Applied Ethics, pp.381-390

Monday, Oct.16

Hospers, in Applied Ethics, pp. 311-322

Wednesday, Oct.18

Govier, in Applied Ethics, pp. 328-341

Friday, Oct.20

Rawls in Applied Ethics, pp. 38-44 (skip the last section of this selection) plus more Rawls in a handout, online here; notes on Rawls here and here

Monday, Oct.23

Review  - 1st paper due

Wednesday, Oct.25

Mid-term Exam - list of potential test questions

Friday, Oct.27

No class – Midterm Break

Monday, Oct.30

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book I

Wednesday, Nov.1

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book II

Friday, Nov.3

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book III and Book IV (as much as you can stand)

Monday, Nov.6

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book VI 

Wednesday, Nov.8

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book X

Friday, Nov.10

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX

Monday, Nov.13

Discussion project on virtues; Philippa Foot, Virtues and Vices in Applied Ethics  

Wednesday, Nov.15

Alan Soble, Philosophy of Sexuality, sections 6 ("Sexual Perversion") through 13 (Natural Law vs. Liberal Ethics) online here; Levin in Applied Ethics, pp.675-680 

Friday, Nov.17

Monday, Nov.20

Wednesday, Nov.22

Friday, Nov.24

No class

Monday, Nov.27

Wednesday, Nov.29

Friday, Dec.1

Monday, Dec.4

Introduction to Chapter 8 pp.539-540 and Mill in Applied Ethics, pp.550-558

Wednesday, Dec.6

Introduction to Chapter 8 pp.541-546 and Lynn , in Applied Ethics, pp. 559-568

Friday, Dec.8

Gastil, in Applied Ethics, pp. 569-579.  2nd paper due 

Monday, Dec.11

Langton, in Applied Ethics, pp.602-625

Wednesday, Dec.13

Lawrence , in Applied Ethics, pp.639-652

Friday, Dec. 15

Review

Monday, Dec.18, 10-12

Final Exam Possible exam questions