tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45631092269397215492024-03-19T22:16:52.591+03:30Clayton LittlejohnClayton Littlejohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05596200828134402805noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4563109226939721549.post-85653698280799909672019-09-20T02:33:00.000+04:302019-09-20T04:32:53.370+04:30Readings for Ethics I (4aana002)<div id="yui_3_17_2_1_1568930077141_130" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span id="yui_3_17_2_1_1568930077141_129" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you are looking for additional readings (as you should be!), you can find good overviews for most topics in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Their articles also provide you with helpful references for additional readings. The starred selections ('*') are the ones that will be the focus of discussion in seminars, but lectures will cover some material not covered in the starred readings (e.g., to provide important context, background, or critical perspective) and will not cover everything in the starred readings. The main readings are the kinds of things that you should master for the purposes of exams and/or essays. The recommended readings are recommended for anyone interested in pursuing some issue further than we can cover in lectures or seminars.</span></div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
</div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week 1. Death</span></b></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Epicurus and Lucretius - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wx1wj9i6i49y4ti/EpicurusLucretius.pdf?dl=0">Selections</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Robert Nozick - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/lkgbnemm6gzfdx0/Nozick%20Experience%20Machine%20.pdf?dl=0">The Experience Machine</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fred Feldman - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/tq9hd8jiggq2koa/Feldman%20Puzzles%20About%20the%20Evil%20of%20Death.pdf?dl=0">Some Puzzles about the Evil of Death</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Week 2. Consequentialism: Foundational Issues</b></span></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* John Stuart Mill - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmnomh4nsd6v1ny/Mill%20Utilitarianism.pdf?dl=0">Utilitarianism</a> Chapter 4 [It is worth reading the whole chapter, but the proof of the principle of utility should be the main focus.]</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* G.E. Moore - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2oxt2ki9puybjg/Moore%20Principia%20Ethica%20%28Passages%29.pdf?dl=0">Principia Ethica</a> (Sections 17, 89-91, 103)</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Derek Parfit, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vtf6gavab8dbwta/Parfit%20-%20what%20makes%20someones%20life%20best.pdf?dl=0">Reasons and Persons</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Susan Wolf</span></div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week 3. Consequentialism: Criticisms </span></b></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Philippa Foot, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/jz0pjlfapgoolha/foot%20-%20euthanasia.pdf?dl=0">Euthanasia</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Aquinas, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3064.htm#article7" style="color: #0a2d50; text-decoration-line: none;">Of Killing</a> (Just read 'Article 7. Whether it is lawful to kill a man in self-defense?')</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mangan, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/3x58mud4p0c34kh/Mangan%20Double%20Effect.pdf?dl=0" style="color: #0a2d50; text-decoration-line: none;">An Historical Analysis of the Principle of Double Effect</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Warren Quinn, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2265475?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents" style="color: #0a2d50; text-decoration-line: none;">Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: The Doctrine of Double Effect</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recommended</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">James Rachels - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/64kw9f501m88dcg/Rachels%20-%20Euthanasia.pdf?dl=0">Active and Passive Euthanasia</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bernard Williams - <i><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/k3aq2x9gf1qi6vp/Williams%20consequentialism%20integrity.pdf?dl=0">Utilitarianism: For and Against</a></i></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Judith Thomson, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/233919?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents">Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week 4. Consequentialism: Further Critical Discussions</span></b></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Philippa Foot, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8emy89teokhxyjz/Foot%20-%20Utilitarianism%20and%20the%20Virtues.pdf?dl=0">Utilitarianism and the Virtues</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Alastair Norcross, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/jw4j93ct9bf75lv/Norcross%20Two%20Dogmas.pdf?dl=0">Two Dogmas of Deontology</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recommended</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Peter Vallentyne, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/zpw2zcyymes16hm/Vallentyne%20-%20Against%20MAC.pdf?dl=0">Against Maximizing Act Consequentialism</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week 5. Kantian Ethics</span></b></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Immanuel Kant, <i><a href="https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1785.pdf" style="color: #0a2d50; text-decoration-line: none;">Groundwork</a></i></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<div style="color: #555555;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Japa Pallikkathayil - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/znub58htxs3cke5/Pallikkathayil%20Kant%20Morality%20Politics.pdf?dl=0">Deriving Morality from Politics: Rethinking the Formula of Humanity</a></span></div>
<div style="color: #555555;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: #555555;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: #555555;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recommended</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #555555;">Nandi Theunissen - </span><span style="color: #555555;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/oy1fy01kqxl69aw/theunissen%20-%20plain%20good.pdf?dl=0">Must We Be Just Plain Good? On Regress Arguments for the Value of Humanity</a></span></span><br />
<div style="color: #555555;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Reading Week (We will not have lectures, seminars, or revision hours/office hours)</span></b></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week 6. Animals</span></b></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Immanuel Kant - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/4r40q0lgreacl0o/Kant%20Duties%20to%20Animals.pdf?dl=0">Lectures on Ethics</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Alastair Norcross, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wuw4vi6vzo7pwwm/norcross%20puppies%20pigs.pdf?dl=0">Puppies, Pigs, and People</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recommended</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Peter Singer, "All Animals are Equal" [Good to refer to because it is a classic in the field, but the important argument is the marginal cases argument and you can find that in the Norcross reading. The Norcross reading is much more entertaining and it touches on some important questions about responsibility that we’ll discuss in the lecture.]</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Carolina Sartorio, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ntnwmgiumm1haf/norcross%20puppies%20pigs%20people.pdf?dl=0" style="color: #0a2d50; text-decoration-line: none;">How to be Responsible for Something without Causing It</a>. [Recommended for those interested in link between moral responsibility and causation.]</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jonathan Glover, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4106873" style="color: #0a2d50; text-decoration-line: none;">It Makes No Difference Whether or Not I Do It</a>. [Recommended for those interested in link between moral responsibility and causation.]</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mary Anne Warren, <a href="https://academic.oup.com/monist/article-abstract/57/1/43/1063803?redirectedFrom=fulltext" style="color: #0a2d50; text-decoration-line: none;">On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion</a>. [Recommended for those interested in moral status.]</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555;" /></span>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
</div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week 7. Pluralism and Particularism</span></b></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* W.D. Ross - <i><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xz1d2bv6cntduvf/Ross%20Right%20acts%20right.pdf?dl=0">The Right and the Good</a></i></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Jonathan Dancy - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/65g28gco6m95vwg/dancy%20particularism%20morally%20relevant.pdf?dl=0">Ethical Particularism and Morally Relevant Properties</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week 8. Duties of Beneficence</span></b></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Peter Singer - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/3s8ag63kv0l6sbl/Singer%20-%20Famine%20Affluence%20Morality.pdf?dl=0">Famine, Affluence, and Morality</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Onora Nell - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vijbhy03h9clxrw/Nell%20-%20Lifeboat%20Earth.pdf?dl=0">Lifeboat Earth</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recommended</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fiona Woollard, <i>Doing and Allowing Harm</i></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week 9. Abortion</span></b></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Don Marquis - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/38znw2pq0v94jfb/Marquis%20Abortion.pdf?dl=0">Why Abortion is Immoral</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Judith Thomson - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1afn6qj1e6rozj5/thomson%20defense%20abortion.pdf?dl=0">A Defence of Abortion</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recommended</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mary Anne Warren - <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27902294">On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion</a></span></div>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 3.08rem; margin: 10px 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><b>Week 10. Freedom and Determinism</b></span></h3>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Peter van Inwagen - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/w1dirbggl9b69lb/van%20Inwagen%20Incompatibility%20FW%20and%20Det.pdf?dl=0">The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* Harry Frankfurt - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/hvner7v3x3dtftr/Frankfurt%20-%20Alternate%20Poss.pdf?dl=0">Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maria Alvarez - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/22je6uxl7n74vck/Alvarez%20-%20Alterate%20Possibilities.pdf?dl=0">Actions, Thought-Experiments, and 'The Principle of Alternate Possibilities'</a></span><br />
<b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></b>
<b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">On Formative Essays</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Formative Essay Questions - Please choose one of these questions for your formative essay. The essays should focus on the specifics of particular arguments but shows a good understanding of additional readings from the module and show some signs of further research. (It would be a good idea to consult the undergraduate marking criteria before you begin your essay so that you can think about what to include (and what to omit) in order to get the kind of mark that you want.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Please state and critically evaluate the strongest argument for the claim that death cannot be bad for the one who dies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Should we believe that an act is right iff it promotes the greatest happiness for the greatest number? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. How, if it all, do the agent's intentions matter to morality?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. Does the difference between doing something and allowing something to happen matter to morality?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. Explain and evaluate Foot's criticisms of consequentialism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. Should we follow the categorical imperative when the consequences of doing so would be bad for all of us?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What does it mean to say that all animals are equal? What, if anything, does this claim about moral status tell us about our obligations as individual consumers concerning animals?</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8. Explain and evaluate Ross's argument for pluralism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9. Explain and evaluate Singer's argument for the claim that we ought to do what is in our power to prevent bad things from happening to others unless doing so requires us to sacrifice something of comparable moral significance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">10. The moral permissibility of abortion is determined entirely by the moral status of the foetus. Discuss. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">11. If we live in a deterministic universe, we are never responsible for our actions. Discuss. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Clayton Littlejohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05596200828134402805noreply@blogger.com